Joshua Damon
About

Founder-engineer.
Systems thinker.

Founder-engineer and technical leader focused on AI infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, and secure backend architecture. I build and scale production-grade mobile and backend systems used by thousands of users across consumer and healthcare platforms.

Founder of NestleAI and engineering lead at Hippo Education. Strong background in React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, observability, distributed systems, AI platform architecture, and secure infrastructure engineering.

TypeScriptReact NativeNode.jsGoPythonPostgreSQLMongoDBFirebaseDocker
Philosophy

How I think about engineering

Security is structural

I don't add security on top — I design systems where insecure states are hard to express. Threat modeling comes before the first line of code.

Distributed by default

The interesting problems are always distributed. I think in terms of failure modes, consistency models, and what happens at partition.

Reliability is a feature

SLOs are commitments, not aspirations. Observability is the prerequisite to reliability. I build systems I'd trust to run while I sleep.

Products need to ship

Technical correctness doesn't matter if nothing reaches users. I balance engineering depth with delivery velocity — deliberately.

Experience

Career timeline

2024Now

Founder & Lead Engineer — NestleAI

NestleAI

Founded and built an AI-powered parenting platform. Designed production mobile apps and backend infrastructure with AI workflows, notifications, analytics, and cloud-based content systems. Leading ongoing evolution toward distributed services, observability tooling, and secure AI architecture.

FounderAI InfrastructureReact Native
2022Now

Mobile Engineering Lead — Hippo Education

Hippo Education

Lead engineering for large-scale production React Native iOS and Android apps used by medical professionals nationwide. Drive technical architecture, platform stability, release strategy, and AI-assisted engineering workflows across a complex production platform.

Mobile EngineeringReact NativeHealthcare
2021

Full Stack Engineer — ListedB

ListedB

Designed and developed scalable frontend, backend, and middleware systems for a production social platform. Built backend APIs, real-time messaging with GetStream, analytics integrations, and authentication flows using Node.js and MongoDB.

Full StackNode.jsReal-Time Systems
2021

Full Stack Engineer — LikeNow

LikeNow

Built and launched a production cross-platform mobile application from scratch using React Native and Expo. Architected backend systems for authentication, geolocation, messaging, notifications, and real-time communication.

React NativeExpoBackend Systems
Get in touch

Let's build something significant.

Whether you're scaling AI infrastructure, hardening a backend, or architecting a new platform — I'm interested in problems that matter at scale.

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