Donald Courtney
Principal AI Architect

I design systems
that think at scale

Architecting autonomous AI systems, enterprise data platforms, and intelligent infrastructure at Boggess Advisory Group — trusted advisors to Fortune 500 leadership in digital transformation and AI strategy.

AppStudio

Orchestration control plane for multi-service deployments. Manages container lifecycle, service dependency graphs, and infrastructure coordination across environments.

Spring Boot Java 21 PostgreSQL Docker
Forge

Multi-persona autonomous agent framework with persistent memory, self-scheduling cognitive cycles, behavioral drift detection, and continuous operation without human intervention.

Python PostgreSQL pgvector APScheduler
Ironwork Personal Project

Quality-gated reputation marketplace for tattoo artists. Escrow-backed bookings, portfolio verification, and a reputation engine that amplifies emerging talent through curation.

Spring Boot React Stripe Keycloak k8s
Atelier Personal Project

Precision color tooling for miniature painters. 769-paint catalog across four brands with spectral harmony analysis, collection gap detection, and cross-brand migration.

React TypeScript Vite
2025 — Present
AI Architect, Financial Systems Boggess Advisory Group F500 Advisory

Designing autonomous agent architectures and AI-powered analytics platforms for Fortune 500 digital transformation engagements.

2024 — 2025
Senior Software Engineer J.B. Hunt Transport Services Fortune 500

Core Loads team — the backbone of J.B. Hunt's internal platform. Distributed services, Kubernetes orchestration, Azure infrastructure at enterprise logistics scale.

2022 — 2024 Contract
Senior Java Developer PwC Fortune 500

Built a NiFi-based data orchestration platform managing document processing flows across all environments for PwC's internal documents core system.

2021 — 2022 Contract
Project Lead, Application Engineering Centene Corporation Fortune 500

Led the team building a tier-1 internal Kafka self-service portal — enabling teams across the org to provision and manage streaming infrastructure on GCP.

2021
Back End Developer Gravitee.io Startup

First US hire. Core contributor to the open-source Access Management platform, driving backend development and establishing the US business operation.

2020 — 2021
Senior Java Developer JPMorgan Chase & Co. Fortune 500

High-throughput financial platform engineering — distributed Java services on AWS, PostgreSQL infrastructure, systems design.

2018 — 2020 Contract
Senior Lead Java Developer Northwestern Mutual Fortune 500 via Boggess Technologies

Led the cloud migration lift-and-shift for financial services platforms — moving legacy systems to AWS with distributed architecture and modern messaging.

2017 — 2020
Senior Software Architect Boggess Technologies F500 Advisory

Architecture and delivery across client engagements — GCP/GKE infrastructure, distributed platforms, data systems for financial services.

I architect AI systems for enterprise clients navigating the distance between strategy and production. At Boggess Advisory Group, I lead the design and implementation of autonomous agent platforms, streaming data architectures, and ML-powered analytics for Fortune 500 organizations.

My work sits at the intersection of systems design and artificial intelligence — building infrastructure that doesn't just process data, but reasons about it, monitors itself, and operates continuously. I think in architectures, not features.

Outside of enterprise work, I build platforms that solve real problems — like Ironwork, a quality-gated marketplace connecting tattoo clients with verified artists through reputation-driven discovery and escrow-backed bookings.

Domains

  • Autonomous Agent Systems
  • Enterprise AI / ML
  • Streaming Data Platforms
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Digital Transformation

Stack

  • Python, Java 21, TypeScript
  • Spring Boot, React
  • PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • AWS, GCP
  • n8n, Synthflow
  • Keycloak