# Devon Fulcher

> Software Engineer at dbt labs

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/devonfulcher

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II, AI @ dbt Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
Built a custom ReAct agent with MCP integration to enable conversational analytics engineering.

Developed an internal agent builder to allow domain experts to create agents independently.

Deployed a remote MCP server with proxied tools for improved latency and security.

Drove AI community engagement through technical presentations & documentation, prompting consultation, OSS contributions, and AI tooling adoption, reaching 120+ internal users.

Regularly met with strategic partners and customers across the AI industry to drive collaboration and industry insight.

### Senior Software Engineer, AI @ dbt Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
Advocated for the creation of the AI team and was a founding member.

Led development of an open-source MCP server, achieving 11,000+ monthly downloads.

Designed and implemented a complete RAG pipeline with pgvector, enabling 1,000+ chunk embeddings per day with advanced enrichment, reconciliation, and retrieval.

Partnered directly with the CEO to deliver a POC demo for a frontier AI lab under a tight deadline.

Implemented an AI evaluation test suite, including text-to-SQL compilation assertions.

### Senior Software Engineer, Semantic Layer @ dbt Labs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Deployed an LLM-powered resource generation service with structured outputs and post-processing, achieving 10× user adoption in 5 months.

Won company hackathon with a RAG-based SQL generation project that became a released product feature.

Researched metadata embedding strategies to optimize RAG retrieval parameters.

### Software Engineer, Semantic Layer @ dbt Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Implemented a high-throughput multi-database SQL transpiler proxy and JDBC to Arrow Flight SQL translation service.

Developed a SQL parser to sanitize custom dialect to enable secure multi-tenant execution.

Built SQL-to-Semantic Layer compilation engine using Apache Calcite, enabling BI dashboards to reliably run a custom SQL dialect.

### Software Engineer @ Teleport
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Built distributed WebSocket & Web3-based client authentication for Golang microservices and internal web app

Created Golang APIs for the user-simulator & rideshare dispatching microservices

Independently developed React & Next.js user mapping software with the MapBox API

Developed an agent-based tokenomics simulation in Python with the cadCad library

### Software Engineer @ Kheiron Medical
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Managed AWS environment for data engineering and analysis of over 1 million records and files for an FDA clinical trial

Developed an algorithm to automatically label 330,000+ records with a 98% true positive and 99% true negative rate

Lead client-facing system integration and automation as the company’s first US-based software engineer for the company’s first commercial customer

Spearheaded machine learning outcomes research for publication in industry-leading conference

### Software Engineer @ WellSky
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
Developed cloud-based full-stack microservices with Scrum/Agile practices and an automated deployment pipeline

Built a reactive dashboard with Angular that uses data visualization to track the health of services in different pipeline environments to improve DevOps and Continuous Delivery

Developed a blockchain-based healthcare application in Solidity for a company-hosted hackathon

### Software Engineer Intern @ WellSky
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Computer Science Tutor @ Southwestern University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Georgetown, Texas, United States
Helped teach syntax fundamentals, programming logic, object-oriented design, and coding conventions

### Machine Learning Summer Research Assistant @ Southwestern University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Georgetown, TX
Implemented evolutionary algorithms, novel convolutional neural network architectures, reinforcement learning, and feature learning which achieved high scores in A.I.-driven video games

Administered 100+ experiments, many on a large computer cluster, to analyze the effects of various hyperparameters

Won 4th place in the poster session of The CCSC Conference for this work

### Computer & Computer Component Sales Associate @ Fry's Electronics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Designed specialty computers for use cases such as machine learning and blockchain development


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Southwestern University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Computer Science
Austin Community College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/devonfulcher

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Last updated: 2026-03-29