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Infrastructure expertise that lets you keep burn low, ship features faster, and build products users love.
At pre-seed to Series A, the real value comes from high-impact setup work and ongoing optimizations, not 40 hours/week of maintenance. Someone who understands how networking, databases, deployments, and monitoring fit together can deliver massive value in focused bursts.
Infrastructure requires understanding your business goals, constraints, and how your entire system fits together—context LLMs don't have. They over-engineer by default instead of making the right tradeoffs for your stage.
Most startups burn unnecessary cash on poorly architected infrastructure. I’ll review and redesign your systems to be simple and cost-efficient.
Your engineers shouldn't waste half their day fighting infrastructure. I’ll set up systems that let them focus on shipping product.
Slow and broken products lose customers. I'll find and fix bottlenecks in your infrastructure and product so your users get a fast, reliable experience.
Built streaming conversational AI infrastructure with globally hosted in-house ML models. Reduced AWS costs by 56% and improved latency by 30% through custom GPU infrastructure and intelligent autoscaling.
Co-founded an EdTech startup (raised $1.1M) and led a team of 4 engineers, architecting infrastructure that let us pivot quickly and ship features daily.
Built release tooling and deployment infrastructure that enabled product engineers to deploy daily with confidence, respond to incidents immediately, and ship features without depending on platform teams
Automated infrastructure deployments across multiple AWS accounts, eliminating manual setup and reducing deployment time from days to hours. Built reusable templates that enabled consistent, production-ready environments at the push of a button.
Created automated infrastructure for an online learning platform, deploying isolated development environments for each student at scale. Enabled hands-on blockchain education without complex local setup.