Building systems for teams that last
I'm Paul Mikulskis—a senior engineer based in Boston with a decade of experience shipping production systems. I care about reliability, cost discipline, and making technology actually useful for teams.
The short version
I started my career at VMware working on availability systems and security infrastructure during their acquisition of Carbon Black. That's where I learned that reliability isn't a feature—it's the foundation.
At LogRocket, I shipped product and platform features that scaled to millions of sessions. At Flipside Crypto, I built data platforms and AI systems operating over trillions of rows with 50+ integrations across partners.
Now I help teams operationalize AI—not by adding chatbots, but by designing governed knowledge layers, agent workflows, and systems that actually work in production.
The journey
A decade of building, breaking, and learning.
AI Enablement & Advisory
Independent Consulting
Helping teams operationalize AI through domain memory design, agent workflows, and production-grade implementation.
Chief Technology Architect
Vers1onsvisit ↗
Built the engineering team from scratch. Established the operating model from founder alignment through an 8-person delivery cadence.
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- •Designed the Tensorial Rights Framework for composable rights/agreements→
- •Supported fundraising with delivery plans and risk registers
- •Transformed early-career developers into full-stack contributors
- •Implemented automated testing workflows and confident deployments
Staff Platform Engineer
Flipside Crypto
Lead architect on AI systems operating over 7+ trillion rows of data from 30+ partners, powering 50+ integrations.
- •Built Vertex: TypeScript aggregation + caching on Cloudflare Workers
- •Led cross-chain payments gateway with reconciliation and durability patterns
- •Contributed to Chainwalker: near-real-time blockchain retrieval in Go
- •Implemented durable fallback pathways with S3-backed stores
- •Partnered with leadership on cost/runway tradeoffs and vendor reviews
Backend Engineer
LogRocket
Shipped core product features across backend services and platform tooling, balancing velocity with reliability.
- •End-to-end work: Terraform/Helm/Docker, GraphQL APIs, user-facing components
- •Complex on-prem and enterprise installations including GCP deployments
- •Production issue diagnosis and operational runbook hardening
Site Reliability Engineer
VMware
Designed AWS infrastructure for an international security application with rigorous availability and security requirements.
- •Led operational coordination during the Carbon Black acquisition
- •Process consolidation helping merge teams and stabilize delivery
- •On-call readiness and incident response patterns
B.S. Computer Science
UMass Amherst
Advanced Systems Researcher. Built streaming/caching strategies for 360° video using neural networks.
- •Research contributed to IEEE INFOCOM 2021 submission
- •Python data pipelines and PyTorch prototypes
AI Enablement & Advisory
Independent Consulting
Chief Technology Architect
Vers1ons
Staff Platform Engineer
Flipside Crypto
Backend Engineer
LogRocket
Site Reliability Engineer
VMware
B.S. Computer Science
UMass Amherst
AI Enablement & Advisory
Helping teams operationalize AI through domain memory design, agent workflows, and production-grade implementation.
What I build
Not just AI—production systems across the stack.
A novel data structure for composable intellectual property rights. Enables programmable logic for music licensing agreements and automatic conflict detection.
Flipside Data Platform
End-to-end blockchain data infrastructure spanning ingestion, transformation, and serving. Near-real-time chain indexing in Go, edge-cached aggregation APIs on Cloudflare Workers, and ELT pipelines powering 50+ partner integrations across 7T+ rows.
AI-powered document search platform for researching the Epstein case files. Built and maintained solo from scratch—features semantic search, collaborative canvases, and shareable research workspaces.
Cross-Chain Payments
Multi-chain payments gateway with durable reconciliation, idempotent processing, and S3-backed fallback stores. Handles reward distributions and partner settlements with full auditability.
Type-safe TypeScript SDK for the OpenPlay Music API. Standardized music rights management and licensing workflows with strict runtime validation.
Real-time crypto market automation engine for algorithmic trading. Streams sub-second market data, evaluates user-defined rules against time-bucketed aggregates, and triggers webhooks when thresholds are met.
TradeCanny
AI-powered trading journal that helps traders identify behavioral patterns, track performance metrics, and receive personalized coaching. Features daily AI insights, radar diagnostics, and context-aware chat coaching.
Chrome extension and backend API for automated YouTube spam comment detection and removal. Features configurable scanning modes, smart filtering algorithms, and dry-run capabilities for safe bulk moderation.
Custom 50A/240V mining infrastructure with liquid cooling, DIN rail architecture, and physical automation—all designed and built from scratch. Python and TypeScript automation over IRC with Grafana dashboards for up to 10kW of home mining.
How I work
Embedded with your team. Built for production. Aligned to the quarter.
Embedded delivery
From zero-to-one to scale, I plug into your team's cadence—standups, PRs, and incident channels. Weekly demos, decision logs, and docs so ownership stays with your team—not dependent on me.
AI automation
When AI is the lever, I build governed retrieval, agent workflows, and integrations that do real work—triage, enrichment, reporting—operational, not experimental.
Operational durability
Observability, fallbacks, and runbooks ship with the first release. Idempotency, retries, and data durability are baseline constraints—so the system holds up when you're not looking.
Runway alignment
I tie architecture to unit economics: per-customer cost, vendor spend, and scaling curves. That makes quarterly goals concrete—and gives founders clean narratives for fundraising and diligence.
Off-hours
When I'm not building production systems.
Homelab
Running Kubernetes clusters, experimenting with edge computing, and breaking things on purpose.
Hardware
PLCs, Raspberry Pi projects, and anything that bridges software with the physical world.
Outdoors
Hiking, skiing, and riding my electric unicycle.