José Troche
Principal Software Engineer & Technical Leader
Washington, DC Metro Area
Seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 20+ years of experience building cloud services, distributed systems, and AI-powered products. At Amazon I helped build AWS Ground Station and Amazon Inspector; today I drive engineering and enterprise architecture at AvalonBay Communities. Away from work I build drones, robots, and AI agents — and share what I learn here.
Top Skills
- Cloud Architecture (AWS)
- Distributed Systems
- Generative AI & Agents
- Enterprise Architecture
- Serverless & Cloudflare Workers
- Robotics & IoT
- Security Engineering
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
Career Highlights
Amazon Web Services
AWS Ground Station
Helped build AWS's fully managed satellite ground-station-as-a-service, letting customers command satellites and downlink data on demand.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Inspector
Contributed to Amazon's automated security assessment service for workloads running on AWS.
T-Sciences
iSpatial v3
Built a web-based geospatial visualization framework for interactive, real-time mapping applications.
AvalonBay Communities
Enterprise Architecture
Leading vendor-agnostic enterprise architecture and engineering initiatives for one of the largest REITs in the U.S.
Latest Articles
See all →Conduct Risk Radar: The Most Important Design Decision Was Keeping the AI Out of the Decision
How an AI system surfaces emerging patterns in public bank complaint data by letting statistics find the anomalies, confining the model to explaining them, and making a human commit first.
Floorcraft: A Floor Plan You Can Talk To, Where the AI Never Draws
How Floorcraft turns a sentence into a real, editable, dimensioned floor plan by letting the model read intent while a deterministic solver owns the geometry.
From Lyrics and a Song to a Finished Lyric Video, Without Touching an Editor
How an open-source pipeline turns a lyrics file and an audio track into a complete lyric video: story inference, syllable-level alignment, AI art per scene, and incremental re-rendering.
Featured Projects
See all →Conduct Risk Radar
Surfaces emerging conduct risk in public CFPB complaint data. Statistics rank the queue, a model only explains anomalies the arithmetic already found, every claim is checked against its cited source, and the analyst commits to a judgement before seeing what the model proposed.
Floorcraft
Type a sentence, get a real, editable, dimensioned floor plan. The AI only proposes structured edits; a deterministic solver in the browser owns the geometry — and an MCP server exposes the same engine to any agent.
Video Lyrics Creator
Turns a lyrics file and an audio track into a finished lyric video: it infers the storyline, times every lyric to the vocals, generates AI art per scene, adds motion and synced overlays, and renders with ffmpeg — rebuilding only what changed.
Invest Vitals
Invest Vitals is an AI-powered investment dashboard that helps long-term investors monitor portfolio health at a glance. It combines multi-timeframe performance, fundamentals, momentum, valuation, news, and AI insights to explain what changed—and why it matters.
Terra Pulse
Evidence-aware Earth intelligence dashboard that unifies live public signals for earthquakes, wildfires, storms, floods, volcanoes, air quality, and drought—with transparent context and AI-assisted explanations.
Product Forge AI
An AI-powered product-planning workspace that orchestrates specialized agents across market, product, UX, architecture, data, security, delivery, metrics, and risk, then validates and synthesizes their work into one coherent plan.