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Engineer · Operator · Founder

Kris
Steigerwald

"The best AI agency is one that eats its own cooking."

Kris Steigerwald

Built for Scale. Proven at Scale.

A veteran of high-scale engineering at Amazon and Capital One. Architecting systems that don't just solve problems, but define new paradigms in distributed computing and machine learning.

AWS Patent Holder Distributed Systems

The Core Stack

Deep Learning PyTorch
Cloud Infrastructure AWS Architect
Languages Rust · Swift · TS · Python
Ops Kubernetes
Velaru studio workspace

The Operator's Ethos

VELARU isn't a consultancy — it's a lab. Kris believes that to build AI for others, one must first build for themselves. This philosophy of "Eating your own cooking" ensures every solution is battle-tested in real-world environments before it reaches a client's hands.

Pragmatic Over Hyped

Prioritizing reliability and ROI over ephemeral AI trends.

Architectural Integrity

Building with the same rigor found in tier-1 cloud providers.