Let's build something real.

I build AI agent platforms and bare-metal infrastructure for a living — 10,600+ GitHub contributions in the last year alone. I'm looking to do more of it: as a technical co-founder, a forward deployed engineer, or the infrastructure lead at an early-stage AI or blockchain startup.

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What I'm looking for

Three types of engagement where I can make the most impact.

Equity partnership

Technical Co-Founder

Partnering with a non-technical or business-focused founder who has strong domain expertise, early traction, or a funded concept in AI, blockchain, or developer tooling.

Ideal fit

  • Pre-seed to Seed stage, equity-based partnership
  • AI-native products: agent platforms, autonomous workflows, LLM-powered tools
  • Blockchain infrastructure: DeFi, on-chain agents, RPC/node operations
  • Developer platforms and tooling
  • You have conviction about the problem — I'll build the machine that solves it

Full-stack architecture from day one. I've gone from raw idea to production platform multiple times. Promoted SE → CTO in 3 months at Coinmiles.

Negotiable

Forward Deployed Engineer

Senior engineering embedded directly with your team. I work inside your codebase and your infrastructure — owning architecture, writing code, reviewing PRs, and deploying alongside your engineers until the system runs without me.

What I typically own

  • Technical roadmap aligned to business milestones
  • Architecture decisions: build vs. buy, stack selection, scalability planning
  • Engineering hiring, onboarding, and process design
  • Infrastructure cost optimization — proven 60–80% reductions on cloud-to-bare-metal migrations
  • Investor-facing technical narratives for fundraising
  • Security posture, observability, and incident response
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Full-time remote

Infrastructure & Engineering Roles

Full-time remote roles at US-based startups where I can lead infrastructure, platform engineering, or AI systems teams. Most interested in early-to-growth-stage companies where I can have outsized impact.

Roles that fit

  • VP / Director of Infrastructure
  • Head of Platform Engineering
  • Infrastructure Engineering Manager
  • AI Systems / Agent Platform Lead
  • Principal Engineer, Infrastructure

Must-haves: Remote-friendly, building something technically ambitious, small-to-mid-size team where individual contributors still matter.

What I bring

20+ years shipping production systems. I've held every role on the infrastructure ladder: network engineer → DevOps → SRE → team lead → Head of Infra → CTO → founder.

years in production infra
20+
GitHub contributions (last year)
10,600+
daily requests managed
1B+
MCP tools integrated
60+
cost savings on migrations
60–80%
in 3 months at Coinmiles
SE→CTO
AI & agent systems
Multi-agent orchestration on our in-house agent platform, MCP server with 60+ tools, NATS-based inter-agent messaging. Model-agnostic: commercial LLM APIs and self-hosted open-weight models with hot-swapping. I build the infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable, observable, and production-grade.
Blockchain & Solana
Solana program development, on-chain trading agents, DeFi protocol integration. RPC infrastructure at scale — 50+ blockchain clients including validators and archival nodes. Low-latency systems where milliseconds matter.
Infrastructure & DevOps
Bare-metal Kubernetes on Talos Linux, ArgoCD GitOps, Cilium networking, zero-trust architecture. Led migrations from EC2/Docker Compose to fully GitOps Kubernetes across 16 global regions. Infrastructure that's secure by default and costs a fraction of cloud.
Platform engineering
Rust systems programming (Tokio, Axum, Serde), Go, TypeScript. Custom Kubernetes operators and CRDs, event-driven architectures. Replaced 15+ managed cloud services with self-hosted operators — CloudNative-PG, Strimzi Kafka, SeaweedFS, ClickHouse.
Observability & reliability
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Fluent-bit. Built self-healing systems with automated incident remediation — 9 alert types with agents that autonomously diagnose and fix failures. Migrated from DataDog to open-source stacks.
Team leadership
Led and reorganized 13 infrastructure engineers into specialized functional teams across 16 global regions. Regular 1:1s, mentorship, career development, and hiring. Built streamlined onboarding enabling new engineers to contribute from week one.

How I've done it

Same pattern every time: inherit a hard problem, build the solution, ship results.

CTO Platform

Founder & Architect

Problem
Early-stage startups can't afford full engineering teams, but need production-grade software infrastructure from day one.
What I did
Built a Cognitive Task Orchestrator deploying specialized AI agents — Rex (Orchestrator), Blaze (Implementer), Morgan (Architect), Sentinel (Security), Pixel (Frontend), Echo (QA) — across the full SDLC. Runs on bare-metal Kubernetes with Talos Linux, ArgoCD, Cilium, and a full observability stack. Custom MCP server with 60+ tools and a self-healing system with 9 automated remediation types.
Result
A multi-agent engineering platform replacing early engineering hires at 60–80% lower infrastructure cost than cloud. Open-sourced under AGPL-3.0.

Pocket Network

Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Problem
Decentralized RPC infrastructure serving 50+ blockchain networks needed to handle massive throughput with high reliability across a global footprint.
What I did
Promoted from Sr. DevOps Engineer to DevOps Team Lead to Head of Infrastructure within 12 months. Led migration from EC2/Docker Compose to GitOps with Kubernetes and ArgoCD across 16 global regions. Reorganized 13 engineers into specialized functional teams. Migrated from DataDog to VictoriaMetrics/Loki/Grafana.
Result
Infrastructure serving 1B+ daily requests. Significant cost reductions across compute and observability. A well-structured team that could operate independently.

Blocknative

Senior Reliability Engineer

Problem
Mixed systemd/unikernel architecture needed modernization to support high-performance blockchain gas estimation infrastructure.
What I did
Led strategic transformation achieving 100% Kubernetes adoption with ArgoCD-based GitOps. Deployed bare-metal Kubernetes on Latitude hardware with Cilium CNI. Built Gas Network infrastructure — a distributed oracle providing real-time gas price data across 35+ blockchain networks. Implemented nOPs and Kubecost for cost analysis.
Result
Fully containerized, GitOps-driven infrastructure with self-service developer workflows and a 40% cost reduction.

Currently building

5D Labs — an AI-native venture studio.

Let's talk.

30 minutes, no commitment. If there's a fit, we'll figure it out fast.

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Based in Victoria, BC. Open to remote roles with US-based companies.