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Joshua Damon

Founder-engineer and technical leader focused on AI infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, and secure backend architecture.

I build and scale production-grade mobile and backend systems across consumer and healthcare platforms, with a focus on reliability, observability, cloud-connected architecture, and secure AI-powered experiences.


Current Focus

  • AI Infrastructure
  • Distributed Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Secure Backend Architecture
  • Observability & Reliability
  • Cloud-Native Systems
  • AI Security Engineering

Core Stack

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, SQL
Backend & Data: Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, REST APIs
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure
Systems: Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Platform Reliability
AI & Security: AI Platform Architecture, Secure AI Systems, RBAC, AuthN/AuthZ
Frontend: React Native, React, Expo, Mobile Architecture


Featured Systems & Projects

NestleAI — Founder & Lead Engineer

Production AI platform for modern parenting
Stack: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AI integrations
Website: nestleai.app
App Store: NestleAI

NestleAI is an AI-powered parenting platform designed to support modern families through daily tracking, memories, insights, reminders, and personalized guidance.

Engineering Focus

  • Built a production AI platform using React Native and Expo for iOS and Android.
  • Architected backend systems with Node.js and PostgreSQL.
  • Integrated AI workflows, analytics, notifications, authentication, and cloud services.
  • Designed scalable backend architecture supporting intelligent user experiences and real-time platform behavior.
  • Current infrastructure focus includes observability, AI workflow reliability, secure platform design, and scalable backend services.

Hippo Education — Mobile Platform Engineering Lead

Large-scale healthcare education platform used by medical professionals nationwide
Stack: React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, CI/CD, Analytics, Cloud Services
Play Store: Hippo Education

Hippo Education is a production medical education platform supporting courses, quizzes, user profiles, progress tracking, content delivery, and CME-based learning experiences.

Engineering Focus

  • Lead engineering initiatives for large-scale production platforms.
  • Drive technical architecture, platform stability, release strategy, and long-term maintainability.
  • Collaborate with backend systems, authentication services, analytics tooling, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Contribute to platform engineering decisions involving CI/CD, observability, production debugging, performance, and release automation.
  • Support secure application architecture and high-availability user experiences.

ListedB — Full Stack Engineer

Production social booking platform for beauty and wellness services
Stack: React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Firebase, GetStream, Segment

ListedB is a social booking platform supporting user profiles, service discovery, messaging, booking workflows, analytics, and real-time user engagement.

Engineering Focus

  • Designed and developed scalable frontend, backend, and middleware systems.
  • Built backend APIs, authentication flows, analytics integrations, and real-time messaging.
  • Contributed to architecture decisions involving scalability, platform performance, distributed communication, and production reliability.
  • Worked across frontend architecture, backend services, deployments, and operational debugging.


LikeNow — Full Stack Engineer

Cross-platform marketplace application built from the ground up
Stack: React Native, Expo, Firebase, Node.js, Real-Time Messaging

LikeNow connects local contractors and customers through real-time communication, geolocation, reviews, notifications, and service workflows.

Engineering Focus

  • Built and launched a production-ready cross-platform mobile application from scratch.
  • Architected backend systems supporting authentication, geolocation, messaging, notifications, reviews, and real-time communication.
  • Worked with cloud-connected services and backend integrations to support scalable user experiences.
  • Managed deployments, release cycles, debugging, and operational maintenance.


Infrastructure Lab

This section will track focused systems and infrastructure projects as I continue building deeper AI infrastructure and platform engineering work.

Coming Soon

  • AI Gateway Platform
    Multi-provider AI gateway with model routing, auth, rate limiting, usage tracking, streaming responses, retries, and observability.

  • Distributed Job Queue System
    Go-based worker system with retries, dead-letter queues, metrics, logging, and Redis/PostgreSQL persistence.

  • Observability Stack
    Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, structured logging, dashboards, tracing, and alerting for production-style services.

  • Secure AI Agent Platform
    Tool execution boundaries, RBAC, audit logging, policy enforcement, sandboxing concepts, and secure AI workflow design.


Writing & Notes

I write about the systems layer behind modern AI products, including infrastructure, observability, security, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

Featured Topics

  • Security Considerations for AI Agents
  • Why AI Systems Are Becoming Infrastructure
  • Observability for AI-Powered Products
  • Building Secure AI Workflows
  • Distributed Systems Lessons from Production Apps
  • Platform Engineering for Intelligent Systems

Engineering Philosophy

I care about building systems that are:

  • Reliable in production
  • Observable under failure
  • Secure by design
  • Scalable as usage grows
  • Maintainable over time
  • Useful to real people

My goal is to operate at the intersection of AI infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, and security while continuing to build production systems that solve real-world problems.


Connect

LinkedIn: LinkedIn
GitHub: GitHub
Portfolio: Coming soon
NestleAI: nestleai.app

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