Location: Barrington, IL (NW Chicago Suburb)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TypeScript/React/Next.js, Node/Python, Tailwind/R3F/D3, AWS Fargate/ECS/S3, WebSockets, Redis, Prisma, Postgres, Docker/Turborepo
Resume/CV: Resume | Portfolio
Website: https://chat.aicoalesce.com
Contact Info: andrew.simpson.ross@gmail.com
Led Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ migration to Vercel – featured in 2023 Ship keynote. Won stakeholder buy-in for Netlify->Vercel migration within 3 months of starting, and executed migration 2 months thereafter (extended Owner perms on Enterprise account). Result: 4× faster builds across 70+ geographies.
Currently: Building a scalable multi-provider, multi-model AI platform that’s not using Vercel’s AI SDK because my Fargate-hosted websocket server is persistent and I prefer first principles over abstractions:
- Overview: Hand-rolled SSE parsers for 2 (Vercel and xAI) of 6 providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Meta, Vercel) and support dozens of models. BYOK ft AES-256-GCM at-rest encryption
- Architecture: Persistent WebSocket server on AWS Fargate; WebSocket client via Next.js on Vercel
- Perf: ~40% faster p95 first-token latency via custom backpressure tuning
- Resumable streams: mTLS-Redis with typed event-driven architecture
- Document Transform Pipeline (non-PDFs): leveraging Adobe’s PDF APIs+Webhooks post-upload-pipeline completion; PDF as common post-processed ideal for model hand-off. Outlook: Gotenberg addition (via ECS Fargate) for more performant, reliable, and robust user-uploaded asset transforms
- Fun aside: grok-code-fast-1 and v0-1.5 models have nearly identical CoT (reasoning) patterns (other grok models that surface CoT tokens do not share this parallel at all)
Live at chat.aicoalesce.com | Code at GitHub - DopamineDriven/slipstream: byok multi-provider medium supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, Meta, & Vercel models (assets+text, img/video gen coming soon)
Also maintain @d0paminedriven/fs, @d0pamindriven/turbogen, @d0paminedriven/motion, and a handful of other packages