giovanni 
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| giovanni@pw:~$ whoami                                |
| senior backend / ai platform engineer                |
| backend engineer building ai infra nobody asked for  |
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| giovanni@pw:~$ cat currently_building.txt            |
| cortex - ai support copilot, rag + citations         |
| canopy - eu-first git deploy platform                |
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| giovanni@pw:~$ cat previously.txt                    |
| forest - bootstrapped to 1,000+ users, acquired      |
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| giovanni@pw:~$ _                                     |
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giovanni

Senior Backend / AI Platform Engineer with ~8 years of experience building production systems, developer platforms, and AI infrastructure. Founder of Canopy and Cortex . Previously co-built Forest , a developer hosting platform that scaled to 1,000+ users and 10,000+ deployments before being acquired.

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Taking on a limited number of engagements: hardening deploy pipelines, fixing production reliability issues, and backend/infra work for small teams running their own hosting or AI infrastructure. Day-rate or retainer, not hourly bidding.

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Founder / Software Engineer at The Canopy Corporation, working across backend, AI tooling, analytics infrastructure, and identity integrations. See the full work history .

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