About FrauCloud

Senior cloud architecture & AI engineering · Richmond, VA

I am a senior software engineer and cloud architect. I’ve spent well over a decade building distributed, cloud-native systems — first as an enterprise cloud architect, then as an independent consultant, and most recently with a deep focus on AI-driven applications and LLM-powered workflows.

The approach is simple: senior, hands-on, and honest. You work directly with me, the person doing the architecture and the code — no layers of account managers, no junior team learning on your budget, and no slide deck where a working diagram would do.

What that looks like in practice

  • Deep, practical experience across AWS and Azure — two clouds done properly rather than a shallow tour of all of them.
  • A track record of migrations and modernizations that ship incrementally instead of betting the company on a big-bang rewrite.
  • A genuine knack for cost optimization — finding the spend that isn’t earning its keep and quietly handing money back.
  • Current, production-grade work on AI & LLM systems: orchestration, retrieval, real-time interaction, and multimedia pipelines.

Why “FrauCloud”?

Frau is German for “woman” or “Mrs.”, so FrauCloud is Mrs. Cloud. I grew up in Germany, and cloud computing and AI are what I’ve built my career around.