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Oct 2025 - Present
Founder & Principal Engineer
Smata Systems LLC
Mitchellville, MD
Architected production AWS infrastructure using ECS Fargate, ALB across 6 AZs, RDS MySQL, Route 53, and ACM SSL/TLS, serving live users at smatasystems.com. Built a full-stack financial management SaaS with 9 integrated tools, integrating OpenAI GPT-4 and Anthropic Claude for AI-powered financial insights with real-time streaming responses. Implemented Stripe Checkout and Plaid OAuth for secure bank connections with automated transaction import.
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2014 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
United States Census Bureau
Suitland, MD
Designed and built CATR (Centurion Automated Ticket Runner), an agentic AI system using Python, FastAPI, and the Claude API that autonomously monitors GitHub Enterprise for issues, classifies them via LLM-based NLP, and executes resolution workflows — eliminating manual intervention on routine developer requests. Architected and maintained CI/CD pipelines enabling rapid, stable deployments across QA, staging, and production; migrated legacy monolithic applications to Docker-based microservices on AWS GovCloud.
2014 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
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2015 - 2020
Systems Architect
SAUCE Concierge Services, LLC
Mitchellville, MD
Served as Full-Stack Developer and Systems Architect, directing IT strategy and implementing LAMP-stack applications (Linux, Apache, Python, MySQL). Migrated on-prem systems to AWS EC2, increasing uptime; built Django web applications hosted on AWS with Cloudflare CDN for improved delivery.
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2011 - 2014
Systems Software Engineer
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD
Developed automated data pipeline tools for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); served as lead developer on RESTful web services integrating Python and Java for NASA imaging systems.
2011 - 2014
Systems Software Engineer
about me
I am a Full Stack Developer, DevOps Engineer, and Founder building scalable software, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered systems.
Founder & Principal Engineer at Smata Systems LLC, where I architect production AWS infrastructure and build AI-integrated financial SaaS products. Strong background in AWS cloud architecture (ECS Fargate, EC2, RDS, S3), CI/CD pipeline automation, Docker containerization, and LLM integration using OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Currently also serving as Senior Software Engineer at the U.S. Census Bureau, where I built CATR — an agentic AI system that autonomously resolves developer tickets using the Claude API.
phone
202-552-1779
info@robdavisjr.com
website
www.robdavisjr.com
