~ whoami
ved dave
I'm a software engineer and AI consultant.
▸ building truvai labs — deployed AI & software studio
$ cat about-me.md
I'm a Software Engineer, Founder, and Photographer based between Seattle and New York City.
I run my own engineering consultancy firm where I help early stage startups and small businesses scale out their vision with AI and technology. I was formerly at Microsoft building out agentic QA testing pipelines and core backend infra for the Dynamics 365. I also created a customer-personalized event operations platform for indie event hosts and organizers.
My expertise spans applied AI, full stack development, and solution/forward deployed engineering. Please explore my portfolio to learn more about me and my work :)
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forward deployed engineer — ama earth group
sept 2026 → oct 2026founding team
- Standardized execution paths and evals to improve consistency for their signature AI tool "Mycel".
founder / consultant — truvai labs
apr 2026 → presentdeployed ai and software studio
- Engineering consultancy firm. Notable technical engagements and products:
founder — liventful
apr 2026 → aug 2026- Building a mobile-first event operations platform for independent event hosts.
software engineer — microsoft
aug 2022 → mar 2026dynamics 365 crm, omnichannel messaging
- Deployed QA testing agents to achieve 100% backend API E2E test coverage (400+ test cases) across the Omnichannel org — reduced QA costs by 70% and improved service reliability to 4 nines.
$ ls ~/projects
view all →$ cat photography.md
open gallery →10+ years behind the lens — the real, the raw, and the beautiful. Book a shoot via @daves.shoots, or see more about my photography.