Anthony Paquet
I help engineering leaders ship faster, cut costs, become secure and compliant.
Builder & Engineering Leader, results in weeks, not quarters. No long-term contracts required.
Anthony Paquet
AI & Cloud Architect | Engineering Leader
I design and scale secure, cost-efficient cloud systems and take products from 0→1 to enterprise scale. Deep FinOps work cuts cloud spend, and a DevSecOps approach helps teams ship faster without sacrificing security. The result is resilient infrastructure that holds up under real load and keeps costs down.
Knowledge is the ultimate wealth. The more you share, the more it grows. I believe in continuous learning and empowering others through expertise.
Agent in the loop.
I talk to AI from my phone. It turns my intent into a plan, keeps the useful context with the task, then builds and verifies the result on its own. I remove blockers so every loop is as short as possible, from local implementation to customer feedback. The same approach connects engineering, infrastructure, and go-to-market.
- 01Speak. I give AI the intent, context, and outcome I want, by voice.
- 02Plan. AI turns the request into a concrete plan, tasks, acceptance criteria, and expected evidence.
- 03Unblock. Access, data, environments, tests, and previews are ready so it can act without waiting.
- 04Design. The business domain leads. Ports and adapters keep tools, models, and clouds replaceable.
- 05Build. AI builds the first useful slice and opens the sub-loops it needs.
- 06Iterate. It works locally against the plan: run, observe, fix, and repeat, with context attached to the task.
- 07Test. Each domain is checked with unit tests, BDD, and controls matched to the risk.
- 08Review. A second scheduled task, on another model, cross-validates the result and flags gaps before release.
- 09Ship. Depending on the use case, we ship to one customer, a beta cohort, or everyone. Versions can coexist when needed.
- 10Learn. Real usage and customer feedback show what works, what blocks, and what creates value.
- 11Improve. The agent updates the product, the plan, and the offer from evidence, not assumptions.
- 12Repeat. We start again with context, learning, and access already in place, making the next loop shorter.
Consulting · engineering leadership.
Flexible engagement models with clear outcomes. From 0→1 to enterprise scale. Results in weeks, not quarters.
AI Infrastructure • LLM Security • Agents & Evals
Take AI from demo to dependable. Infrastructure, security, evals, and agent engineering for teams shipping real AI products.
AI Infrastructure & Eval Platforms
Production-grade infrastructure for AI agents and model evaluation. Isolated sandboxes, GPU cost control, and the platform engineering behind reliable AI products.
AI / LLM Security & Governance
Ship AI to production safely with LLM gateways, PII protection, prompt-injection controls, and the audit trails that pass SOC 2.
AI Adoption & Agent Engineering
Turn AI from a demo into a dependable system with agent design, evals, and tooling that move real business outcomes.
How we work together
All engagements include clearly defined scope and deliverables. Flexible pricing models, fixed-price or hourly, to fit your needs. We’ll discuss your specific requirements and provide a tailored proposal.
Proven results: FinOps clients typically see 5 to 10x ROI within 12 months. Compliance fast-tracks save 3 to 6 months vs DIY approaches.
Send the outcome you need and the constraints you have. I answer in French or English.
Experience
Proven outcomes across cloud, security, and infrastructure.
Nota is a marketplace for notarial acts across Québec. Clients post the act they need, the date they want to sign and the price they offer. Every request appears on a public calendar, and notaries take the ones that fit their schedule. Posting a date is free.
- Founded Nota to modernize the Quebec notary industry, an underserved, paper-heavy space overdue for software built around how notaries actually work.
- Run every function of the company as its sole operator, orchestrating AI agents built on the latest models from Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI and xAI.
- Each department has its own AI agent for marketing, go-to-market, sales and engineering, coordinated through my orchestration.
Senior Cloud & Security Architect
Bespoke Labsvia a.team (contract)
Mountain View, California
Series A-funded RL lab that powers the greatest models.
- Built an eval-sandbox platform running AI-agent workloads in isolated Firecracker microVMs, with snapshot and restore that survives Spot preemption.
- Authored RL tasks, grading rubrics, and evals on Horizon, the core platform, modeling the tool environments and reward logic agents are scored against.
- Made key contributions to Horizon, the core RL platform, across rubrics, tasks, and evals.
- Cut cloud spend 30% and led SOC 2 and security compliance for the platform.
Head of Engineering & Founding Engineer
CREE8
West Hollywood, California
CREE8 streamlines cloud adoption, easing creator workflows through centralization, efficiency, and automation. It empowers creative teams to fully leverage cloud-native capabilities by simplifying complex processes.
- Built and led a team of 10 senior SRE, DevOps, and Full-Stack engineers to deploy enterprise-grade cloud solutions.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II and TPN Gold certifications within 6 months by implementing AI-driven compliance automation workflows.
- Optimized multi-cloud operations, cutting costs by 60% across AWS, GCP, and Azure through FinOps practices and architecture improvements.
- Pioneered camera-to-cloud workflows, improving content ingestion and collaboration among 50+ distributed creative teams.
- Accelerated iteration speed by 40%, strengthened system security, and boosted resilience by adopting AI and DevSecOps practices.
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Videotron
Québec, Canada
Led DevOps for websites and streaming. Deployed tools, analyzed metrics, implemented scalable infrastructure, and enhanced security, ensuring resilience and reliability.
- Led DevOps for Videotron websites and streaming platforms.
- Deployed tooling and analyzed metrics to improve delivery and reliability.
- Implemented scalable infrastructure and hardened security for resilience.
Senior Cloud Engineer | Contractor
Banque Fairstone
Montréal, Canada
Led multi-region, multi-account disaster recovery on AWS and integrated monitoring tools for resilience.
- Led multi-region, multi-account disaster recovery on AWS.
- Integrated monitoring tools to strengthen resilience and reliability.
Senior Cloud Engineer | Contractor
SSENSE
Montréal, Canada
Implemented a loyalty system via Talon One integration, synchronizing historical and real-time data for reliable, efficient data exchange with internal systems.
- Implemented a loyalty system through Talon One integration.
- Synchronized historical and real-time data for reliable exchange with internal systems.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Dormakaba Americas
Montréal, Canada
Led design of a public API enabling third-party integration with Dormakaba. Built an abstraction layer simplifying lock configuration, enhancing client usability and developer experience in smart access deployment.
- Led design of a public API enabling third-party integration with Dormakaba.
- Built an abstraction layer that simplified lock configuration and improved client usability.
- Improved developer experience for smart access deployment.
Cloud Software Developer
Vanderlande
Québec, Canada
Developed the PAX Divesting Assistant, a self-service app enhancing airport checkpoint efficiency by allowing passengers to handle divestment independently. This reduces agent reliance and boosts automation, improving security and operations.
- Developed the PAX Divesting Assistant, a self-service app that lets passengers handle divestment independently.
- Reduced agent reliance and increased automation, improving checkpoint security and operations.
Software Developer
Vanderlande
Québec, Canada
Developed a decentralized software optimizing luggage throughput at airport checkpoints. Deployed globally, enhancing luggage processing efficiency and improving passenger experience and operational performance.
- Developed decentralized software optimizing luggage throughput at airport checkpoints.
- Deployed globally, improving luggage processing efficiency and passenger experience.
Software Developer
PetalMD
Québec, Canada
Developed a secure cloud platform enabling healthcare to orchestrate real-time patient care, boosting efficiency, streamlining processes, and improving outcomes.
- Developed a secure cloud platform for healthcare to orchestrate real-time patient care.
- Improved efficiency and streamlined clinical processes.
Software Developer and DevOps
CGI, National Defense
Québec, Canada
Worked on a suite of services that help the military plan and make decisions.
- Worked on a suite of services helping the military plan and make decisions.
- Contributed across development and DevOps for secure delivery.
Co-Founder and CTO
Logicale
Québec, Canada
Software company designing and developing custom web applications.
- Co-founded a software company building custom web applications.
- Led technical direction and delivery for client projects.
Certifications · education.
AWS Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Developer, Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Education
Computer Science
Cégep Garneau
2008 to 2011
Québec, Canada
Languages
Ideas I build into products.
Independent projects at the intersection of useful software, human interaction, and entrepreneurship.
A public calendar where clients across Québec post their notarial act, date and price, and notaries pick the requests that fit.
Document intelligence for structuring Québec legal searches into useful, exportable data.
Exploring a new interface between people and technology through voice, movement, and our senses.
Your senses.Your data.Your choice.
An independent studio building vertical SaaS platforms on a shared technical foundation.
Framed art prints of the places people love, from bridges and mountains to lakes and coastlines, drawn from real data. My agent loop creates the shop without human interaction, with checkout hosted by Stripe.
Keep the world close.