Jason Curiano

Software Engineer

Contact

jason@curiano.io
(203) 403-7179
Brooklyn, NY

Professional Experience

Sr. Software Engineer, Alloy

Sept 2024 – Present

Alloy is a global end-to-end identity risk solution that helps banks and fintechs automate and manage their decisions for onboarding, ongoing fraud & AML monitoring, and credit underwriting.

  • Built a data ingestion and transformation platform end-to-end — enabling decisioning on millions of financial transactions daily — converting a manual, professional services-style ETL process into a self-serve product feature
  • Pioneered LLM-assisted coding practices across product engineering, building internal tools that surfaced the right context to accelerate developer workflows
  • Founded and led Alloy’s Observability guild, setting eng-wide instrumentation standards that improved visibility of app performance, and gave product teams repeatable patterns to detect latency and find issues faster

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Alloy

Sept 2022 – Sept 2024
  • Used my AWS expertise to work closely with product engineering teams to adopt new services that unlocked product capabilities, all while keeping cloud costs in check as the platform scaled
  • Built and maintained repeatable, auto-monitored infrastructure building blocks that enabled faster time-to-market and demand-based scaling for latency-critical applications

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer, Datto Inc

Jan 2020 – Sept 2022

Datto provides enterprise-grade software including cloud backup, endpoint management, email-based threat detection, and CRM tools to businesses around the world.

  • Led a greenfield Kubernetes (EKS) deployment on AWS, building a cloud-native platform from scratch and helping drive the company’s shift to microservices and containerization, all while simultaneously standing up a greenfield on-prem OpenStack private cloud
  • Designed, authored, and released code written in Python to automate operational tasks

Sr. Manager – Corporate IT, Datto Inc

Feb 2017 – Nov 2019
  • Reported directly to CIO and CISO to define the Enterprise technology roadmap, and implemented company wide security objectives relating to SOC 2 Type II
  • Scoped and drove the project to implement modern SSO at Datto, unifying authentication API-based user provisioning functionality across hundreds of applications and 1000+ employees.

Sr. Engineer – Corporate Systems, Datto Inc

Feb 2016 – Feb 2017
  • Engineered Datto’s internal platform, including identity and directory services, device management, and automated provisioning workflows, with a focus on making systems that employees actually loved using, not just tolerated

Education

Western Connecticut State University, BBA Information Systems
Bachelors Degree in Information Systems (MIS) + Option in Information Security

Languages, Technologies & Tools

LanguagesJavascript, Typescript, Python, Shell, TerraformTechnologiesNode.js, Postgres, Linux, AWS (EKS, RDS, IAM, S3, etc), Kubernetes, HelmObservabilityMetrics, Tracing, Logging (Datadog, Sentry, OpenSearch)ToolsGit, CircleCI, Claude Code, MCP servers, Cursor