Available for select consulting engagements

I turn cloud complexity into working software.

I’m David, a cloud and AI engineering consultant. I help ambitious teams modernize infrastructure, remove delivery bottlenecks, and take AI systems from prototype to production.

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David SpearmanAtlanta, GA · Remote
What you can hire me for

Senior engineering leverage, exactly where you need it.

I work with teams that have a meaningful technical problem, a real deadline, and no appetite for solutions that look good in a deck but fail in production.

01 / CLOUD

Cloud systems that cost less and fail less.

Architecture, modernization, and hands-on implementation for AWS workloads.

  • AWS architecture reviews
  • Kubernetes platforms
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Reliability & cost
02 / AUTOMATION

Delivery pipelines your team can trust.

I remove the manual work between an idea and a stable release.

  • CI/CD design and repair
  • Python automation
  • Platform engineering
  • Developer experience
03 / APPLIED AI

AI that graduates from demo to product.

Grounded, secure AI systems built for real users and workflows.

  • RAG systems
  • Agent workflows
  • Self-hosted inference
  • Production architecture
Selected outcomes

Receipts, not résumé filler.

Architecture decisions connected to business outcomes: faster systems, smaller bills, calmer operations.

PerformancePythonAWS

Turned a 90-second API wait into a five-second response.

Reworked the data path with parallel processing and more intentional compute.

90sbefore optimization
~5safter optimization
FinOpsArchitecture

Cut annual cloud spend from $1,790 to $360.

Matched infrastructure to the workload instead of accepting the default footprint.

$1,430saved every year
80%lower annual cost
How we work

A senior partner, without the consulting theater.

Step 01

Find the constraint

Define the outcome and identify the highest-leverage technical risk.

Step 02

Make the path visible

A practical plan with tradeoffs, milestones, and a clear definition of done.

Step 03

Build alongside your team

I design and implement—not just advise.

Step 04

Leave it better

Documentation, automation, and knowledge transfer are included.

Things I build

Production instincts, applied to new ideas.

Applied AI work combining software engineering, infrastructure, and product thinking.

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Autonomous Newsletter Agent

A controlled agent workflow that researches, drafts, reviews, and publishes.

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Market Intelligence Dashboard

Turning noisy market data into timely, decision-ready signals.

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Resume Matching Engine

AI-assisted candidate-to-role comparison with useful fit context.

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AWSKubernetesTerraformPythonFlaskTypeScriptDockerCircleCIPostgreSQLSnowflakeRAGAgent Systems

Have a hard problem? Good.

Send me the problem, the constraint, and what success looks like. I’ll respond with a useful next step.

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