Summary
Weyland Joyner is an experienced software engineer and founder with 11 years building cloud-native data platforms, real-time streaming systems, and AI-driven products. He has led architecture and implementation at Cloudreach—designing high-volume ingest pipelines on GCP and AWS, edge computing with Raspberry Pi and Greengrass, and serverless APIs—then moved into generative AI R&D and consulting through Mercer Street Labs. He blends hands-on system design with product-minded leadership, having served as technical lead on educational VR and AI projects and co-founded startups. Based in New York, he pairs an English literature background with deep technical fluency, often translating complex research into practical agentic workflows for coding and non-technical tasks. An intriguing through-line: he moves seamlessly between edge hardware, cloud data engineering, and cutting-edge AI, making him comfortable from Raspberry Pi prototypes to enterprise-scale analytics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature/Letters, English Language and Literature/Letters at Middlebury College