Alden Gillespy

United States · Founder-owned venture

• 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.

Remote · Contract

• Train and evaluate large language models across coding, reasoning, and domain-expert tasks for leading AI data platforms, including AfterQuery.
• 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.

Lehi, UT · Full-time

• 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.

Orlando, FL · Full-time

• 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.

Orlando, FL · Full-time

• 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.