José Troche
Principal Software Engineer & Technical Leader
Arlington, Virginia
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.
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Featured Projects
See all →Touchline 26
Real-time 2026 World Cup analytics command center: live win probabilities, xG race, Monte Carlo group simulations, and an interactive knockout path explorer — built entirely on Cloudflare's free tier.
Cosmic Neighborhood Explorer
An interactive 3D map of our stellar neighborhood — temperature-colored stars, proper-motion animation, and travel-time math — built with React Three Fiber and Cloudflare Workers.
Investor Agent
A daily paper-trading AI agent that scores a diversified ETF universe for momentum and trend strength, rebalances a multi-sleeve portfolio, and writes an explainable JSON report for every run.
Alexa Drone Pilot
Pilot a quadcopter with Alexa voice commands from an Amazon Echo — bridging voice AI and real-world robotics.
Google Glass AR.Drone Commander
A Google Glass application to fly an AR.Drone quadcopter with head gestures — an early exploration of wearable-controlled robotics.
Live Transcriber
Native Android real-time transcription app with online-first speech recognition, offline fallback, and local transcript history.
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Research
Applied research, prototypes, and experiments.
Videos
Recorded talks and video walkthroughs.
Presentations
Slide decks from talks and conferences.
Articles and posts published on LinkedIn.