Senior Software Engineer & Platform Builder · 12+ years · Barbados (Remote)

Software engineer building production LLM pipelines and the platforms around them. My background is PHP, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures for global platforms serving millions of users. My current work is applied AI: multi-provider model routing chosen on benchmarked accuracy and cost.

Ask the AI assistant on alleyne.dev about my experience. Every answer is grounded in my actual work history.

• Receipt Tracker: AI-powered receipt scanner tuned for Barbados retailers. Photograph a receipt from PriceSmart, Massy, or Chefette and get every line item extracted, categorised, and tracked.
• Banking in BIM: Financial comparison platform for the Barbados market covering credit cards, bank accounts, travel cards, and credit union products.
• GlobalRemote: Remote job board with interview-process, geographic-eligibility, and salary transparency on every listing.
• Proposal Workflow: n8n automation generating client proposals with vision and language models. Reduced turnaround from days to hours.

Pay-per-event ATS job scrapers on the Apify Store. Each filters by department/team and recency before storing, so you only pay for the jobs you keep. Source is MIT-licensed on GitHub.

• Greenhouse Job Scraper · Apify: department filtering for Greenhouse boards.
• Ashby Job Scraper · Apify: team filtering and applicant location eligibility for Ashby boards.
• Lever Job Scraper · Apify: department and team filtering for Lever boards.

• Languages: PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python
• Platforms: WordPress, React, Node.js, Cloudflare Workers
• Infrastructure: Docker, n8n, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
• AI: Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI model families; vision/OCR pipelines; benchmark-driven model routing
• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare D1

• WordPress.com Internationalization team: improved localization features for a platform serving 409+ million monthly readers across 120+ languages
• Northern Light Group: built enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 research portals
• AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree (Udacity)
• Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree (Udacity)
• Former Kubernetes CKA/CKAD and Google Cloud Engineer certifications

• Portfolio: alleyne.dev
• Blog: blog.alleyne.dev
• LinkedIn: damienalleyne

Distance runner, astronomy enthusiast, language learner (Japanese and Chinese, beginner).

_{Building AI-powered personal finance tools for Barbados. Open to senior backend, full-stack, and applied AI opportunities.}