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Joseph Allam

Joseph Allam

Cloud Architect II

Deep in databases. Building with AI.

Databases have been my craft for a long time — long before the cloud, and deep into it across AWS and GCP. I know what breaks, what costs too much, and what needs rethinking before it hurts. I also know how to bring AI into the work: into how databases are designed, operated, and accessed by the intelligent systems being built on top of them.

  • RDS
  • Aurora
  • Cloud SQL
  • AlloyDB
  • Redshift
  • DynamoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • In-memory
  • AWS Bedrock

My Certifications

  • AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

    AWS (last renewed/obtained: Aug 14, 2023)

    Expires Aug 14, 2026

  • AWS Certified Database – Specialty

    AWS (last renewed/obtained: Apr 27, 2024)

    Expires Apr 27, 2027

  • Google Cloud AlloyDB Partner Ambassador

    Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 6, 2024)

    Expires Jul 2, 2035

  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer

    Google (last renewed/obtained: Oct 25, 2024)

    Expires Oct 25, 2026

  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

    Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 20, 2024)

    Expires Dec 20, 2026

  • Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer

    Google (last renewed/obtained: Dec 10, 2025)

    Expires Dec 10, 2027

  • Other Google (e.g. badges and non-Certification accomplishments

    Google (last renewed/obtained: Feb 16, 2026)

    Expires Feb 16, 2027

  • Other Certificate

    Other (last renewed/obtained: Sep 11, 2015)

    Expires Dec 31, 2026

What my customers say

5.0/ 5across 19 reviews customers left for me in the last 90 days

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