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My lucky career - PC, Internet, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, InfoSec, and now AI. Bootstrapped Agentic AI Project. SME / Founder www.calendarinvite.com and the Calendar Invite Server for AWS Marketplace. A packaged software product for millions of customers on AWS serverless stack for 100's of Calendar Invite Use Cases using Agentic AI. SME/ Founder Arnie McKinnis, SME for the Calendar Specification, Front End, and Product Packaging, AI Use Cases, and Pubudu Milan, CTO and SME for AWS Infrastructure, AWS Senior Architect, AWS Networking Architect, DevOps, Agentic AI, and Unit Testing for AI installations. 2026 AI Native Start-up Advisor for Synnepha. SEED ROUND. A Deep Tech startup in a seed round for developing Agentic AI Agents for FinOps with 2 technology SME's of 30 years in Big Data and Kubernetes. Philip Hyde and Todd Grayson.
Founder. www.calendarinvite.com (Industry Site) and www.31events.com (Product Site). The Calendar Invite Server communicates with GUI's, Crawlers, and Agents to build workflows for sending, tracking, and updating calendar invites using AWS SES and our automation hot sauce. See our Calendar Invite Server AWS product site at - https://31events.com
Business Architect Advisor. Working with the Leadership team on market positioning, offering, and GTM for the GENAI community: Anthropic, Open AI, Hugging Face, and the Emerging LLM stack. Using proprietary algorithms, Soteria Intelligence blends Natural Language Processing (NLP), image recognition, sentiment analysis, and LLMs developed for specific industries.
Organize, publish, and promote the AI Newsletter to build a new media presence. Site is launched under Substack -https://www.aieatsworld.com AIEATJOB.com, AIEATAI.com,AIEATLAW.com, AIEATCODE.com
In the seed stage and onto A Round. Autonomous Agents using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). Powered by proprietary, well-trained SLMs and agentic telemetry, our CHOPs platform continuously optimizes workloads, capacity, and cost across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. https://synnepha.substack.com/
Business Architect. As a practitioner leader, I supported FinOps across a matrix. I worked with Cloud Operations, Field Sales, CFO, and Solutions Architects to deliver financial and technical optimization services while shaping an operations P&L with the leadership team. My Business Architect role was to develop FinOps as a service for partners and enterprise customers that was easy to understand. I have FinOps experience in large customer accounts with DevOps and SecOps pipelines of over $100M in a direct sales and channel model. Cost analysis experience in EMR, SnowFlake, Spark, DataBricks, and Kubernetes-optimized environments using Karpenter with Kubecost and Spot Instances. Product Experience with AWS Cost Optimization Catalog, AWS Well-Architected Delivery, AWS Cost Intelligence Dashboards, Intel Granulate for Compute Optimization, Zesty Disk for EBS Saving, ProsperOps for advanced Arbitrages, KubeCost for Kubernetes Accounting, Cloud Custodian and Cloud Fix for Waste Management Automation. FinOps.org Practitioner Certified. AWS Cloud Financial Management Certified. Customer experiences in understanding Enterprise Discount Programs, Private Pricing Agreements, and Enterprise support contracts and how they affect the P&L and decision-making from the Hyper Scalers.