John Valai
Co-founder & CTO at PikaScale Systems
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Valai is a Co-founder and CTO with 20+ years blending software and hardware expertise, now focused on architecting compound AI applications for EdTech that integrate LLMs into production-grade systems. He brings a systems-engineering mindset to full-stack delivery—TypeScript/React frontends, Python/Go APIs, and cloud-native infra on AWS/Azure—while explicitly closing the loop between intent, evaluation, and results. His work spans embedded audio hardware and mixed-signal design through to scalable SaaS, data visualisation and hybrid retrieval RAG pipelines combining vectors, keywords and knowledge graphs. He prioritises engineering rigor and AI safety, building automated evals, guardrails and input sanitisation to prevent prompt injection and protect user data. A hands-on founder, he balances rapid prototyping of real-time streaming UIs with production concerns like low-latency APIs, unified Postgres relational/vector storage and developer automation in Python/Go. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines deep technical range with a people-first approach to governance, recruitment and company culture.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Cybernetics, MEng Cybernetics at University of Reading
English, German, French, Persian
Github Skills (148)
icon-pack10
scroll10
file-browser10
material-components10
autocomplete10
workspace10
logos10
microsoft-azure10
automation10
publish10
mouse10
visual-studio10
branding10
file-upload10
resumable10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jv-k/jv-k
Jan 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:21 releases, 149 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
jv-k/bb15-footswitch
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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