Ethan Catzel | Fractional Infrastructure Engineer | Contact Me
Software Infrastructure expertise to help you save money with simple
systems, improve developer productivity with automations, and reduce
product latency by fixing bottlenecks and increasing reliability.
> Why
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At pre-seed to Series A, value comes from initial high-impact work with
ongoing optimisations. Not 40+ hrs/wk.
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AI isn't there yet. Overengineering is their default and they lack
context of your entire system.
> Past Work
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SimConverse | 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.
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Canopy Study | 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.
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Canva | 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.
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Deloitte | 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.
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Bloxian | 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.
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