- Founded and lead an independent product studio, owning strategy, engineering, and delivery across a portfolio of SaaS, marketplace, media, and AI-agent products.
- Architect and ship full-stack applications end to end with TypeScript, React, Qwik, and Node.js, deployed on Cloudflare and AWS.
- Build agentic and AI-driven systems, including identity and payments infrastructure for agentic commerce and AI-assisted marketplace automation.
- Deliver freelance engineering and cloud consulting for external clients — WordPress and React platforms on AWS with Mocha.js and Chai.js QA automation and Amazon EC2 lifecycle tooling.
- Own product design, infrastructure, SEO, web performance, and accessibility across every brand in the portfolio.
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Alden Gillespy
Senior Software Engineer and Production Storyteller
Below is my complete professional background across software engineering, product work, and production roles. Each section highlights scope, operating context, measurable impact, and the decision patterns I used to move work from concept to durable delivery.
Summary
Full-stack software engineer with a production background, now founder of Radiant Ventures, where I build and operate an independent portfolio of web and AI products. I ship scalable applications across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure, train and evaluate large language models for leading AI platforms, and bring narrative clarity and cross-disciplinary execution to product and platform work.
Experience
Reverse-chronological roles focused on product delivery, reliability, and full-stack system ownership.
- Train and evaluate large language models across coding, reasoning, and domain-expert tasks for leading AI data platforms.
- Author, annotate, and rank model responses and training data against detailed rubrics to improve model quality, safety, and alignment.
- Produce high-quality code samples and technical evaluations used in RLHF and supervised fine-tuning pipelines.
- Apply senior software-engineering judgment to specialized annotation projects requiring expert-level technical review.
- Built and optimized high-traffic React and Redux experiences serving 20,000+ daily visitors, with emphasis on performance and accessibility.
- Led the end-to-end redesign of the DNA Test Activation flow with a mobile-first React UX that reduced friction and improved completion.
- Helped architect a high-performance Java service layer that streamlined critical workflows and removed costly operational inefficiencies.
- Reduced infrastructure overhead and processing time, supported traffic above 100,000 concurrent users, and contributed to millions in annual savings.
- Partnered with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
- Developed and maintained Node.js microservices supporting booking and content workflows for 1,000,000+ daily visitors.
- Built automation and unit tests with Mocha.js and Chai.js to strengthen QA coverage and release confidence.
- Created a JavaScript content-transformation pipeline for AMP-compliant pages, improving mobile load speeds and delivery consistency.
- Developed Node.js and RabbitMQ ingestion tooling to normalize disparate sources and reduce processing overhead.
- Helped transition services toward a Docker-first microservice architecture for more consistent deployments and scale.
- Built a LAMP-based platform with Apache Solr integration to deliver natural-language search capabilities for the flagship client.
- Developed and deployed a WordPress platform powered by Elasticsearch, improving search relevance, indexing quality, and performance.
Ventures & Products
Independent products I build and operate through Radiant Ventures.
Rotavox
Music scheduling and automation SaaS for radio, built to undercut and outclass legacy broadcast tools.
The BOLT
An active-rock Internet radio station and the flagship of ClubFM, my growing Internet radio network.
Memrey
A platform that reconstructs meaningful moments from your own digitized media so you can step back into them.
Wardroab
3D body modeling paired with an AI stylist for apparel and jewelry, aimed first at luxury fashion.
Selected Projects
Compact cross-disciplinary examples adapted from the longer engineering and production case studies.
Engineering
Rotavox
Founder & principal engineer
Built a rules-driven music scheduling and automation platform for radio, making disciplined programming affordable for the independent and Internet stations legacy broadcast tools ignore.
Engineering
Memrey
Founder & principal engineer
Designed a memory reconstruction platform that turns scattered personal media into coherent moments people can revisit, with trust and restraint driving the architecture.
Production
The BOLT (ClubFM)
Founder, programmer, and operator
Launched an active-rock Internet radio station and flagship of the ClubFM network — a real, listenable product that doubles as the live proving ground for Rotavox.
Skills
Engineering
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Redux
- Next.js
- Qwik
- Node.js
- PHP
- Java
- HTML/CSS
AI and applied ML
- LLM training and evaluation
- RLHF
- Data annotation
- Prompt engineering
- Agentic systems
- AI-assisted development
Systems and product
- REST API design
- Relational databases
- SQL and NoSQL
- Elasticsearch
- Apache Solr
- AWS
- Cloudflare
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Web performance
- SEO/SEM
- Accessibility
- Cross-functional collaboration
Production
- Visual storytelling
- Shot planning
- Camera operation
- Interview direction
- Editing
- Editorial pacing
- Lighting
- Color judgment
- Multi-format delivery
Education
B.S., Computer Science
University of Florida
2008 - 2012
Foundation in computer science theory and software engineering, including algorithms, systems programming, data structures, and web technologies.
A.S., Film & Video Production
Full Sail University
2005 - 2006
Training in cinematography, editing, lighting, color, and directing that continues to inform production work and audience-focused communication.
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