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Charlton Davis

Rancho Cucamonga,CA

Summary

Senior Software Engineer and Founder with 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and real-time AI products. Led multi-team (30+ people) large scale projects at Amazon that improved global outbound latency by 80% and delivered over $100M in annual entitlement.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
08.2020 - 07.2025
  • Led the multi-team (30+ people) software design and development of Amazon's automated outbound shipping process, handling millions of transactions per day with 99.99% uptime, and saving hundreds of hours of manual work per week.
  • Architected, designed and led the development of high-performant microservices, and achieved a 0% fault rate in over 2 years of active deployment in mission-critical systems.
  • Led the organization's adoption and practical use of AI in development, with Amazon Q, going from ~5% adoption rate to over 80% in just under 2 months.
  • Worked directly with product managers, designers, and senior leadership to deliver promised features on time, saving over 100MM in annualized entitlement to stakeholders.
  • Mentored senior engineers across different team organizations, created a robust knowledge-sharing culture and improved cross-team productivity.

Lead Engineer, Founder & CEO

FirstShot.ai
02.2025 - Current
  • Created a profitable SaaS with over 500+ users
  • Realtime sub 400ms latency full speech-to-speech technical interview simulator
  • Designed a smart endpointing system enabling the AI to determine when to speak to achieve natural non-interrupting conversations from the AI.

Software Development Engineer

Western University of Health Sciences
08.2017 - 08.2018
  • Designed the AR app that received 1st place in the student education fair
  • Led the development of the first Augmented Reality textbook software for the university

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

California State Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA
01.2020

Skills

  • Python
  • Typescript
  • Java
  • React
  • Django
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Spring

Timeline

Lead Engineer, Founder & CEO

FirstShot.ai
02.2025 - Current

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
08.2020 - 07.2025

Software Development Engineer

Western University of Health Sciences
08.2017 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

California State Polytechnic University

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