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AI infrastructure and platform engineer. Founder of Systemics.

I build the platforms underneath production AI: Kubernetes foundations, GitOps delivery, LLM serving and RAG pipelines, and the cost controls that keep all of it sustainable. As founder of Systemics I design sovereign AI infrastructure for organizations that cannot hand their data to someone else's cloud.

Experience

Founder, Systemics

2024 - Present

Sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated industries: readiness assessments, private LLM deployments, and fractional platform architecture.

  • Designed and delivered production AI platforms on client-owned infrastructure.
  • Built the Systemics Score readiness assessment and the delivery methodology behind client engagements.
  • Advisory and diligence work on AI architecture, data sovereignty, and platform cost.

Senior AI Infrastructure / Platform Engineer, Previous employers

Years building and operating the internal platforms that product and ML teams ship on.

  • Ran Kubernetes fleets with ArgoCD GitOps, external-dns, and Argo Workflows for batch and ML pipelines.
  • Built LLM platform architecture: model serving, RAG pipelines, and retrieval infrastructure.
  • Introduced DataHub for data discovery and governance across platform teams.
  • Led cloud cost optimization and FinOps practice: visibility, allocation, and real reduction.
  • Designed Temporal-based orchestration for long-running, fault-tolerant workflows.
  • Shipped edge and serverless systems on AWS and Cloudflare Workers.

Skills

AI Platforms

  • LLM platform architecture
  • RAG pipelines
  • Model serving
  • Agent workflows
  • Evaluation and observability

Infrastructure & GitOps

  • Kubernetes
  • ArgoCD
  • Argo Workflows
  • external-dns
  • Temporal

Data

  • DataHub
  • Data governance
  • Pipeline orchestration

Cloud & Edge

  • AWS
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Serverless
  • CDN and edge compute

FinOps

  • Cloud cost optimization
  • Cost allocation and showback
  • GPU spend control

Contact

Get in touch.

Platform questions, collaboration, or a second pair of eyes on an AI infrastructure decision. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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