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Eric SkogmanCloud & Inference Engineer

Building and operating the infrastructure behind production AI and distributed systems—from Kubernetes on bare metal to serverless inference at the edge.

Featured projects ↓ GitHub ↗ X / Writing ↗

Co-founder @ Flarebase

Antler Cohort 17

Founder University 10

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Featured Projects

Recent work in dexterous robotics, numerical optimization, computer vision, synthetic data, and production ML infrastructure.

ORCA robotic hand executing two Rubik's Cube flip-and-turn chains

Robotics · MuJoCo · Optimization · 2026

Rubik’s Cube Dexterity Without OpenAI-Scale Compute

Built a verified graph of deterministic motor programs for a 17-actuator robotic hand. Short CEM searches compile flips, turns, recoveries, and receiver-aware transitions into continuous contact-rich manipulation.

10 / 10turns completed

2,565continuous steps

24orientations

Read the article ↗

Synthetic face embedding research visualization

Computer vision · Synthetic data · 2025

Synthetic Face Embeddings: Research & Methodology

Created EigenFace, a face-embedding model trained entirely on generated identities, plus a controlled multi-terabyte dataset designed to reduce privacy risk and improve demographic coverage.

91%LFW accuracy

100%synthetic training

Multi-TBdataset

Read the article ↗ Model ↗ Dataset ↗

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Experience

Cloud, platform, and software engineering across AI infrastructure, blockchain networks, and products used by millions.

Flarebase

Dec 2024 — Present
Co-founder · Remote

Co-founder & CTO

Edge-native backend platform for real-time AI applications on Cloudflare

Architected a serverless platform targeting sub-50 ms global latency for inference and real-time AI workloads across Cloudflare’s edge network.
Built data and state primitives with Workers, Durable Objects, R2, D1, KV, PostgreSQL, Redis, and vector databases.
Selected for the Cloudflare Startup Program, securing more than $250K in infrastructure credits, and developed the company through Antler Singapore and Founder University.

Monad Foundation

Mar 2025 — Jan 2026
Senior contract · Remote

Senior DevOps Engineer

High-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 · core development backed by a $225M Paradigm-led round

Architected and operated Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal for blockchain workloads processing 1,000+ transactions per second.
Managed a hybrid fleet of bare-metal validators and AWS nodes with automated failover, disaster recovery, and end-to-end observability.
Improved testnet delivery by optimizing GitHub Actions pipelines, reducing deployment time by 60% while sustaining 99.95% uptime.

Antler

Sep 2024 — Dec 2024
Singapore · Cohort 17

Entrepreneur in Residence

Global early-stage VC investing from day zero through growth

Selected for Antler Singapore’s founder residency and validated Flarebase through customer discovery, competitive research, and product positioning.
Designed the initial edge-native architecture and converted market findings into a focused technical roadmap and go-to-market plan.

Founder University

Oct 2024 — Dec 2024
Remote · Cohort 10

Founder

12-week technology startup pre-accelerator run by LAUNCH

Advanced Flarebase’s product, scaling strategy, fundraising narrative, and investor readiness in a structured build-and-launch program.

Exodus

Mar 2021 — Jan 2024
Senior · Remote

Senior DevOps Engineer

NYSE American-listed self-custody crypto and payments platform used by millions

Operated multi-region AWS infrastructure serving 5M+ users with 99.98% availability across EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and Lambda.
Scaled 200+ microservices with Kubernetes and Argo CD, enabling zero-downtime releases and shortening release cycles by 70%.
Built platform tooling that improved developer productivity by 40%, cut cloud spend by 30%, and supported observability for more than 100 TB of logs per month.

Loom Network

Nov 2017 — Nov 2019
Software engineering

Software Engineer

Production multichain platform built to scale high-performance Ethereum applications

Built a staking dashboard and wallet that processed more than $5M in transactions for 10K+ active users.
Delivered production dApps on an early proof-of-stake sidechain at 500+ transactions per second, including a P2P ERC-721 marketplace.
Owned full-stack implementation across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Ethereum smart contracts, real-time matching, and on-chain settlement.

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“Eric performed his work with high precision, great quality, and strong focus on customer benefit. He shares his knowledge generously and has a great will to constantly learn more—a tremendous asset to any team.”

— John Wahlström, Team & Account Manager, Star Republic

“Eric’s unique combination of DevOps expertise and blockchain knowledge allowed us to deploy complex decentralized systems with confidence.”

— Phoorichet Thepdusith, Bluebik Group PLC

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Technical Skills

Primary platforms, infrastructure tooling, ML systems, languages, and reliability practices.

AWS Ecosystem — Advanced

EC2 · EKS · ECS · Lambda · RDS · S3 · CloudFront · VPC · IAM · Route 53 · CloudWatch · Systems Manager

Cloudflare Platform — Expert

Workers · Durable Objects · R2 · D1 · KV · Pages · CDN · DNS · WAF · Tunnel · Stream · Images

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Kubernetes · Bare metal · EKS · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Argo CD · Flux · GitOps · CI/CD

Infrastructure Management

Bare-metal servers · Cloud VMs · Hybrid cloud · Network architecture · Load balancing · Auto-scaling · Multi-region systems

Inference & ML Infrastructure

LLM serving · Vector databases · Embedding pipelines · Real-time inference · Edge AI · PyTorch · Computer vision · MLOps

Observability & Security

Grafana · Prometheus · ELK · Trivy · Snyk · OPA · DevSecOps · Incident response · Cost optimization · FinOps

Languages & Product

Python · Go · TypeScript · Ruby · React · Vue · Node.js · Rails · PostgreSQL · Redis

Machine Learning

LLMs · CNNs · Transformers · Custom model training · Vector embeddings · Synthetic data · YOLO · Reinforcement learning