Alan De Vaney.

Alan De Vaney / Software engineer

Applied AI you can verify.
Backend systems you can rely on.

Software engineer building production software and data systems. I spent five years owning the reporting platform for a 16-program agency. Today I build AI applications where calculations, citations and model decisions can be inspected and tested.

Selected engineering work

Each case study shows the problem and how the software solves it.

All 4 case studies

Professional experience

From reporting for program staff to independent applied AI work.

Mar 2021 - Mar 2026

Data & IT Manager

Friendship Shelter / Data platform engineering, reporting infrastructure and team leadership

Cut federal, state and local funder reports from two to three days of manual assembly to on demand by moving the calculations into version-controlled Python, so a rerun reproduces the same number.

2014 - 2021

Owner and Web Developer

Jellyfish Development

Ran a one-person web shop for local businesses and a youth-golf nonprofit (PHP, JavaScript, three.js).

Full experience and skills

Open to engineering roles

Let's talk about your team.

I'm available for applied AI and backend roles. Remote or Orange County hybrid.

alandevaney@gmail.com