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
Latest Articles
See all →I don’t play any instruments, but now I can compose a full song from scratch
How I turn an idea into lyrics, a song and a music video with generative AI tools, and why it is so much fun.
Your Staff Reads 500 Reports a Minute. You Can Only Handle Five.
WAR ROOM is a real-time strategy game that shows what happens when AI agents take on the reading and the human keeps the deciding, and five lessons about agentic AI that transfer to any operation.
I Built Six AI Copilots for a Fighter Jet
What a browser arcade game taught me about agentic AI, and the pattern I would use anywhere a human has seconds to act.
Featured Projects
See all →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.
Crewstrike
Fast arcade fighter jet game in the browser: fly the mission, dodge missiles, hit the target, while an AI crew watches your gauges and tells you what matters.
War Room
Real-time browser strategy game about multi-agent command and control: seven AI staff agents flood you with reports, and ATLAS, your Chief of Staff, boils them down to five. Built on Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Workers AI.
Live Transcriber
A native Android real-time transcription app with online-first speech recognition, offline fallback, and local transcript history.
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.
Go No Go
A multiplayer rocket launch control room where AI agents and humans share one mission but not every secret, built to show how enterprise team agents work
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.