Damien Alleyne
Senior Software Engineer & Platform Builder
Building AI-powered tools and scalable systems
Building AI-powered tools and scalable systems
Have a question about my experience, skills, or fit for a role? Every answer is grounded in my actual work history.
AI-powered receipt scanner built for Bajan stores. Photograph a receipt from PriceSmart, Massy, or Chefette and get every line item extracted, categorised, and tracked automatically.
Remote job board with interview-process, geographic-eligibility, and salary transparency on every listing.
Financial comparison platform for Barbados market. Migrated from WordPress to Next.js with automated verification workflows.
A scheduled Make automation for a consulting client: it reads their calendar and tasks, runs them through an LLM, and sends a daily priority brief, running in the client's own workspace.
Software engineer with 12+ years experience across platform engineering and applied AI. Delivered enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 research portals (Northern Light) and spent three years on WordPress.com's Internationalization team, improving localization features for a platform serving 409+ million monthly readers across 120+ languages. Now building production LLM systems: a receipt-scanning budget app and a salary-transparent job board with real users, alongside a personal LLM-scored job pipeline, routing across Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI models on benchmarked accuracy and cost.
Open to discussing projects, collaborations, and technical partnerships.