Senior Infrastructure & Backend Architect

A senior engineer and infrastructure architect with 20+ years of experience building high-concurrency data pipelines to bare-metal server clusters. Has held corporate VP roles at JPMorgan Chase leading teams managing over 100,000 servers and founded a consulting firm, Theta 42. Seeks early-stage startup environments for fast pivots and building from whiteboard to production. Offers real-world leadership and mentorship, having led development teams, run a tech consulting firm, and taught Python/Django with a 90% job placement rate. Possesses deep infrastructure and backend roots, understanding networking, hypervisors, and storage layers (Proxmox, LXC, ZFS) beyond cloud abstractions. Pragmatic in AI execution, actively building local AI pipelines, structured tool-use interfaces, and agentic RAG infrastructure, focusing on implementing local models (Ollama/vLLM) to solve business problems. Looking for a seasoned technical leader to anchor backend, architect infrastructure, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with code.