Hi, I'm Shaun Prince

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25+ years building production systems at scale. Co-founded two companies that were acquired. Currently building AI-powered products at SolidRusT Networks. Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and ML platform engineering.

25+ Years Experience
2 Companies Acquired
3 AI Products
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About Me

Hi, I'm Shaun Prince

Principal Solutions Architect and AI Platform Engineer with over 25 years of experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale. I co-founded two technology companies that were acquired (TriNimbus → Rackspace; Technical Fusion Canada → Cognizant). Currently building AI-powered products as Founder & CEO of SolidRusT Networks, including MyAshes.ai, AmiNex.ai, and BuildUS.net.

AI Infrastructure

Building production ML systems with vLLM, RAG, and multi-agent architectures

Kubernetes Expert

12-node cluster with GPU support, FluxCD GitOps, and comprehensive monitoring

Full-Stack Development

React, TypeScript, Python, Rust - from frontend to systems programming

Skills & Expertise

Languages

Python Expert
TypeScript / JavaScript Expert
Rust Advanced
Go Intermediate

Cloud & DevOps

Kubernetes Expert
Docker Expert
FluxCD / GitOps Expert
AWS / Cloud Advanced

AI & ML

vLLM / LiteLLM Expert
RAG Systems Expert
LangChain / Agents Advanced
Vector Databases Advanced

Technologies I Work With

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Developer / Cloud Architect

OpenBet

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Global sports betting platform. Drove architectural alignment and cloud migration across distributed teams.

  • Led AWS lift-and-shift migration using Terraform, Jenkins, deploying Java/Spring Boot across EC2, ECS, and EKS
  • Architected production Kafka cluster on AWS MSK with dynamic Route53 DNS across multiple locations
  • Built AWS EKS / API Gateway / CloudFlare IaC platform for player account management
AWS EKS Terraform Kafka/MSK Java Jenkins

Founder & CEO

SolidRusT Networks

- Present

AI-focused software incubator and hybrid-cloud lab. Building AI products and production infrastructure. Co-founded two companies under this brand that were acquired.

  • Building 3 AI products: MyAshes.ai, AmiNex.ai, BuildUS.net
  • Operating autonomous AI agent ("Sentry") managing a live game server
  • Co-founded TriNimbus (AWS Premier Partner) — acquired by Rackspace/Onica
  • Co-founded Technical Fusion Canada — acquired through Momentus → SoftVision → Cognizant
vLLM Kubernetes Python Terraform Talos Linux

DevOps Engineer / Product Owner, ML Platform

REEF

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Designed and operated the ML platform that moved data scientists from local workstations to scalable cloud infrastructure.

  • Owned ML Operations platform: Airflow, Spark, MLflow, AWS Sagemaker
  • Built AWS EKS cluster from scratch with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD
  • Grafana dashboards for model performance insights and forecasts
AWS EKS Airflow MLflow Sagemaker Spark

Senior DevOps Engineer, Project Lead

Cognizant Softvision (for Levi Strauss & Co.)

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ML application environments for Levi Strauss & Co., specializing in Data Science, Analytics, and AI.

  • Architected recommender engine on Kubernetes with Amazon RedShift
  • GPU-accelerated pipelines with AWS Batch, EMR, Sagemaker, Nvidia Docker
  • All projects from concept to production using Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes
PyTorch TensorFlow Sagemaker RedShift Kubernetes

Lead DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect

Onica (formerly TriNimbus — co-founded)

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Co-founded TriNimbus, grew it into Canada's top AWS consultancy with Premier Partner status. Acquired by Rackspace via Onica.

  • Key clients: PointClickCare, BC Hydro, Vancouver Airport Authority (YVR)
  • CI/CD pipelines, VMware-to-AWS migrations, Docker/Kubernetes architecture
AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Cloudera

Sr. Technical Analyst / InfoSec Analyst

BCLC

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Part of the team that launched playnow.com — Canada's first legal online casino. Managed Cisco/VMware/Oracle infrastructure, security stack, and CI/CD pipelines.

Cisco VMware Oracle Security

Earlier Career

CommWave, Shaw, Radial Engineering & more

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Hosting infrastructure for Lululemon, Tim Hortons, ICBC, 7-Eleven, and BCCDC. Led Canada's first wireless broadband launch at Shaw. Additional roles at Xerris (Senior Cloud Architect), TuGo Insurance, Lendesk, Cloudreach, Vivonet/Infor, and Absolute Software.

Linux Cisco VMware AWS

Featured Projects

SolidRusT AI Platform

Production AI inference platform with vLLM, LiteLLM, and Claude integration. Serves multiple consumer applications with automatic failover.

Python Kubernetes vLLM FastAPI

Aidiant AI Council

Multi-agent AI system with 234 council members across 11 categories. Features RAG, tool-enabled agents, and democratic deliberation.

TypeScript React RAG Agents

MyAshes.ai

AI-powered game assistant for Ashes of Creation. Features RAG-based knowledge retrieval and natural language interaction.

React Python RAG Vector DB

PAM Platform

API key management, Stripe billing integration, and user authentication. GraphQL API with React console.

Python GraphQL Stripe PostgreSQL

GitHub Activity

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31+ Public Repos
50+ Total Stars
20+ Total Forks
50+ Followers

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Case Studies

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SolidRusT AI Platform

Production AI Inference at Scale

Problem

Building a cost-effective, high-availability AI inference platform for multiple consumer applications.

Solution

Kubernetes-based platform with vLLM, automatic failover to Claude, and unified API gateway.

Results

99.9% Uptime
90% Cost Reduction
5 Apps Served

Tech Stack

Kubernetes vLLM FluxCD Python

Kubernetes Infrastructure

Production-Grade GPU Cluster

Problem

Need for reliable, GPU-enabled infrastructure to run AI workloads with zero-downtime deployments.

Solution

12-node cluster with FluxCD GitOps, comprehensive monitoring, and NVMe-backed NFS storage.

Results

12 Nodes
63 Deployments
60GB GPU VRAM

Tech Stack

K8s FluxCD Prometheus NVIDIA

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I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities

Location

Vancouver, BC, Canada