David Rector

Platform & Cloud Architect

I design, secure, and scale enterprise platforms on .NET and Azure — and lately, the AI systems layered on top of them.

Castle Rock, Colorado

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About

I'm a platform and cloud architect with 14+ years designing, securing, and scaling enterprise systems on .NET and Azure. My work sits where distributed system architecture meets the unglamorous realities of cloud infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD — the parts that decide whether a platform holds up in production or quietly falls over.

Lately that's meant operationalizing AI and LLM capabilities inside enterprise platforms and the engineering workflows around them: enterprise search and conversational chat on Azure AI Foundry, LLM-driven content migration at scale, AI-assisted review wired into GitHub. Less demo, more production.

The rest of the job is translation — turning business strategy into architecture standards, delivery roadmaps, and systems a team can actually maintain after I've moved on.

  • Architect Azure platforms end to end — infrastructure, service architecture, identity, and security patterns — running in large-scale production with standard 200ms response times.
  • Operationalize AI/LLM capabilities across client platforms and engineering workflows, from Azure AI Foundry search and chat to LLM-driven content-migration automation.
  • Define CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code strategy on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, cutting release cycle times by 60% while improving deployment reliability.
  • Partner with product and executive stakeholders to turn business initiatives into platform architecture and multi-year delivery roadmaps.

Expertise

Architecture
& Strategy
System architecture Cloud architecture Security architecture Event-driven architecture Domain-driven design Scalability & HA
AI Engineering
LLM integration (.NET / Azure) AI-assisted development LLM process automation Prompt design Agentic coding tools
Cloud & DevOps
Azure App Services Azure Functions Service Bus / Event Grid Entra ID / B2C Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Docker
Languages
& Frameworks
C# .NET 6 / 7 / 8 Entity Framework Core Node.js TypeScript
Data
SQL Server Cosmos DB Redis Query optimization
Security
OAuth 2.0 JWT authentication RBAC OWASP
Frontend
React Angular TypeScript
Practices
Agile / Scrum Code review Integration testing Mentorship

Credentials

University of Kentucky B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics Graduated May 2012
Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate · Microsoft Certified Professional

Experience

2023 — PRESENT

Senior Solution Lead · BlueModus

Denver, CO · Platform & Cloud Architecture

Azure.NETEntra IDAzure AI FoundryAzure DevOpsKentico / Xperience
  • Architect and deliver Azure-based enterprise web platforms for multiple clients, owning cloud infrastructure design, service architecture, and production reliability at scale.
  • Design modular .NET and Azure service architectures — caching layers, background processing, API services — holding standard response times at 200ms.
  • Design cloud security architecture: Entra ID integration, RBAC, and OAuth2/JWT authentication across enterprise platforms.
  • Establish engineering standards — architecture documentation, ADRs, code review practices — adopted across project teams.
  • Guided an enterprise client's adoption of an in-house AI framework for site search and conversational chat, built on Azure AI Foundry.
  • Designed LLM-driven post-migration content automation for a large Kentico 13 → Xperience platform migration.
  • Automated GitHub workflows with AI-assisted PR review plus Dependabot and Checkov scans, orchestrating mid-sprint fixes and coordinated releases.

2022 — 2023

Senior Consultant · RDA

Lexington, KY

.NETAzure

2020 — 2022

Development Lead · Caroogo

Louisville, KY

Azure.NETReactAzure DevOpsScrum
  • Led five backend developers and an offshore React team, coordinating priorities and removing blockers to hold sprint and project milestones.
  • Balanced 50% hands-on development with Scrum leadership — sprint planning, standups, retrospectives.
  • Designed and implemented large-scale APIs spanning dozens of Azure services and third-party vendors, powering an end-to-end car-buying wizard.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, standardizing infrastructure provisioning across internal backend and offshore frontend teams.

2018 — 2020

Senior Developer → Web Development Lead · BlueModus

Lexington, KY (remote) / Denver, CO

.NETKenticoPowerShellCaching
  • Built and maintained CMS platforms at scale — RILA.org, ASBMB.org, CarboCeramics.com — serving hundreds of thousands of users from a shared proprietary codebase.
  • Developed a PowerShell scaffolding library that cut client onboarding overhead across new projects.
  • Designed a dynamic page-caching framework delivering sub-200ms page loads at scale.

2017 — 2018

Senior Software Developer · Kindred

Louisville, KY

Azure WebJobsQueuesC#xUnit
  • Refactored a proof of concept into a scalable architecture on Azure WebJobs and Queues, establishing a common logging architecture across services.
  • Implemented an automated testing strategy — 1,200+ tests at 85% coverage — significantly reducing production defects.
  • Mentored junior engineers and contributed architectural improvements across the platform.

2015 — 2017

Senior Developer / Team Lead · Computer Services Inc.

Lexington, KY

.NETSQL ServerAgileCompliance
  • Led a development team through full SDLC across enterprise projects in a 100+ developer shared codebase.
  • Established agile practices and code quality standards, improving delivery consistency and software reliability.
  • Enforced secure, compliant development practices within banking systems to meet regulatory and audit requirements.

2012 — 2015

.NET / ASP.NET Developer · Veridocs

Lexington, KY

C#SQL ServerWPF
  • Developed casino patron management and identification software for Fortune 500 clients using C#, SQL Server, and WPF.
  • Leveraged proprietary image processing to read IDs and enable fast, accurate customer processing.

Contact

Currently Senior Solution Lead at BlueModus. Always glad to talk about platform architecture, Azure at scale, or what it actually takes to get an LLM feature into production.