ahd-yoo-vat (everyone asks)
I'm Jon North (ex-NVIDIA, ex-Bridgewater, ex-Bloomberg), founder of Adiuvat.
I’m a Software Engineer with a passion for systems, whether built from tech, people, or both.
I lead projects from requirements gathering through development and into production/aftercare. Your goals will be my goals.
With over 20 years of experience ranging from contributor-to-single-app to managing multiple small teams owning hundreds of systems, serving multiple business stakeholders, I am ready to deal with project complexity at any level and provide the lift you need.
We can start small or tackle something ambitious - it’s your call. I’d love to help you build your dreams.
Certs
My preferred tech platform is AWS, due to its breadth of excellent services and world-leading reliability. I also work in Azure and GCP on request.
As a final note, you may have noticed I don’t talk much about LLMs or AI in this page. I view these technologies as much like any other in that they take in data and use compute to do useful work. I use them personally to get work done faster, too. I’d be delighted to solve your problems with them, like any other data engineering challenge. The principles don’t change.
Recent Projects
Realtime stats processing in a Redpanda+Golang+PyFlink+Databricks Kappa architecture for one of the top 3 major US sports leagues - raw data through ML models to the screen!
Portfolio construction process replatforming for a mid-size hedge fund
Engineering management for a unicorn in hypergrowth
Release process redesign + data mining for another unicorn
50-node market data ingest system for a crypto data early startup
Managing multiple small trading pipeline teams for a large hedge fund
Image similarity service (vector db + transforms) and chatroom for the largest LLM-based image generation platform
Realtime chain analytics and balance tracking for the only FDIC approved crypto-focused bank
Technologies
Languages:
Python, C/C++/C#, SQL, R, Perl, Bash, Go.
Frameworks/Technologies:
Everything AWS, everything Kafka and data, anything containerized, everything CICD - hopefully you get the point. We got it.
OS:
Linux or Windows. Unix is fine too.
Principles