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 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
Joseph did a great job assessing our needs on this questions. He also looked at our system and then validated that our RDS instance in this case had plenty of head room so that we go ahead and increase the max connections. Which was just what we needed.
lunar.app · Aug 2026
What I'm writing
DynamoDB: What Most Teams Get Wrong Before They Write a Lin…
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