Gradient Methods partners with scaling companies to design, architect, and ship production AI systems and cloud-native platforms, from strategy through working code.
From generative AI systems to resilient distributed architectures, we solve the hard problems that unlock growth.
Get your team from experimenting with AI to running it in production. Set up tools like Claude Code across your org. Move beyond one-off API calls to coordinated fleets of AI agents. Build evaluation pipelines so you actually know when a model is ready to ship.
Migrate a monolith to serverless without breaking production. Cut your AWS bill by 40% with targeted cost optimization. Stand up event-driven pipelines that handle millions of transactions. Design infrastructure-as-code so your deploys are repeatable and boring.
Shave milliseconds off a trading platform's order path. Design for five-nines availability when downtime means regulatory exposure. Build resilience into payment systems so failures are graceful, not catastrophic. Stress-test architectures before your users do.
Not just advice. Hands-on engineering leadership that ships production code and builds sustainable teams.
Hire your first two engineering leads. Define the technical interview process. Navigate a board conversation about AI investment. Make the build-vs-buy decision with someone who's done it dozens of times. Senior technical leadership, without the full-time executive cost.
This is a code-first practice. Review your pull requests. Pair with your engineers on a hard integration. Write the proof-of-concept, then help your team take it to production. 15+ years of shipping across startups, enterprises, and federal agencies.
Build an ultra-low-latency crypto exchange. Design compliance-aware AI systems for financial services. Architect secure wallet infrastructure. Specialized experience where reliability, compliance, and performance are table stakes.
Define your code standards and engineering principles. Write the technical documentation your team actually needs. Build the on-call rotation and incident response process. Create the mechanisms that let a 10-person team operate like a 50-person one.
"Josh helped us make our first senior engineering hire and set up the interview process. That foundation shaped every hire after. We went from struggling to close the right candidates to building a team we're proud of."
"We brought Josh in to scale our cloud foundation. He designed the infrastructure so that our recent launch day was a non-event, with no scaling issues or firefighting."
"Joshua understands how to get AI tools into the hands of engineers in a way that actually sticks. He rolled out an AI-assisted development workflow across our team, with real productivity gains within weeks."
Whether you need a fractional CTO, an AI strategy, or hands-on engineering, let's talk.
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