Davis Hochstatter

Forward Deployed Engineer · AI-Enabled Software & Data Engineer

About

Engineer first, AI-native in practice. For nearly five years I have been embedded with a Fortune 500 client as technical owner of a platform that routes tens to hundreds of millions of messages, building its data pipelines, APIs, and AI agents. I use Claude, Codex, and Cursor daily to move fast in any language, backed by SQL, backend fundamentals, and release discipline that keep that speed safe for production.

35M+daily emails on workflows I maintain
25%campaign processing efficiency gain
30%faster new-developer onboarding

Experience

Epsilon Data Management

Oct 2021 – Present

Senior Software Engineer · Embedded platform lead, Fortune 500 global hospitality client

  • Own a production platform at scale. Technical owner and escalation point for the client’s Adobe Campaign Classic instance, which routes tens to hundreds of millions of emails, SMS, and push messages across 10+ marketing initiatives.
  • Built AI agents to fill platform gaps. Agents that analyze prod and dev workflow XML to give Adobe Campaign, which lacks accessible version control, a Git-like state; plus a documentation agent for consistent docs.
  • AI-accelerated, guardrailed delivery. Use Claude, Codex, and Cursor daily across JavaScript, Java, Python, and SQL; review, QA gates, and release governance keep AI-assisted output production-grade.
  • End-to-end data engineering. Built workflows that ingest, transform (ETL), and push data to external platforms, optimizing the client’s Adobe infrastructure and feeding marketing analytics; maintain and enhance the workflows behind 35M+ daily emails, backed by extensive SQL analysis of campaign audience populations.
  • APIs and platform extensibility. Built APIs into Adobe Campaign so customers can interface with it (e.g., a pre-arrival survey) and data can be piped to external platforms; wrote custom JavaScript libraries that extend it.
  • Architecture and client partnership. Lead architecture for new marketing initiatives; steer non-technical stakeholders to best-practice designs, align other client vendors to the future-state platform, and explain risk and trade-offs to executives.
  • Lead and grow engineers. Lead the platform team, including offshore engineers; raised campaign processing efficiency 25% via complex data integrations and feature delivery; coach on Adobe Campaign, workflows, and data architecture.
  • Reliable releases, faster onboarding. Shipped 20+ production releases with zero critical incidents by maturing CI/CD, QA gates, and release governance in Azure DevOps; cut new-developer onboarding time 30% with better documentation.

Techson IP

Nov 2018 – Jul 2021

Chief of Staff, Administration · Austin, TX

Skills

AI-Enabled Engineering
Claude · Codex · Cursor · Copilot · AI agent development · AI-assisted coding, code review & documentation · Workflow automation
Backend, APIs & Full-Stack
JavaScript / Node.js / Express · Java · Python · REST API design & integration · Postman · Middleware · React · Vue · HTML/CSS
Data Engineering
SQL / PostgreSQL · ETL & data extraction · Integrations to external platforms · Audience analysis
Platform & DevOps
Adobe Campaign Classic · Azure DevOps · Azure · AWS · Git · CI/CD · Unix / Linux
Leadership
Architecture · Executive communication · Mentorship · Release governance · Technical writing

Education

Western Governors University

Expected Dec 2026

BS Software Engineering