Cortex
2025–present · built solo · in production
AI infrastructure built so an answer stays attached to its evidence, and can refuse to answer at all.
Read the case studyI build the things software ships on.
Backend, Platform & AI Infrastructure Engineer
Deployment platforms and AI infrastructure. Currently Canopy Host and Cortex. This page is served by Forest, the Kubernetes execution substrate I wrote for them.
Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands hi@giovanni.pw Curriculum vitae
Selected work
Canopy Host & Forest
2024–present · built solo · closed beta
Connect a repository, push, and the platform detects the framework, builds it, and serves it over HTTPS, with per-stage logs, a diff view, and one-click rollback.
Read the case studyForest, 2019–2023
2019–2023 · co-built, three engineers · acquired
A developer hosting platform co-built from nothing with two other engineers and no outside money. Reached 1,000+ users and 10,000+ deployments before the product was acquired.
Read the case studyI occasionally write about infrastructure, software, and the things I learn building them. → blog.
Available for contract work
Hardening deploy pipelines, production incident response, and backend and infrastructure work for small teams running their own hosting or AI infrastructure. Day rate or retainer, not hourly bidding.
hi@giovanni.pw