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Rafael Lopes · Founder & Principal AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.
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Production AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Distributed LLM inference · AI efficiency · AI cost governance · Web performance · Core Web Vitals · Web performance for AI agents · Agent-readable web · Measuring how AI agents consume web content · Kubernetes · Argo CD · GitOps · Platform engineering · Site Reliability Engineering · Observability · Cloud cost reduction · AWS · Azure · Design systems · Terraform
Get your site agent-ready
AI agents now read the web for your users. The standards are free to learn — the hard part is strategy, doing it at scale, measuring it, and keeping it from rotting. That's the engagement, and I built the tooling that measures it.
What I help with
Strategy & prioritization
Which of the agent-readiness standards actually move the needle for your business, in what order, tied to revenue — not a checklist, a plan.
Implementation at scale
Rolling it out across a large site, inside your design system and CI, with governance — so it ships once and stays shipped, not a one-off script.
Measurement & accountability
Scoring where you stand today, wiring it into monitoring, and reporting the number moving over time — using the Core Agent Vitals tooling I built.
Keeping it from rotting
Sitemaps drift, llms.txt goes stale, a staging robots.txt ships to prod. I put guardrails in place so agent-readiness survives your next release.
Why me
Built Core Agent Vitals — the analyzer that scores how AI agents consume web pages (CRR, SSD, ARR, Token Cost, and more), including a transfer-accurate profiler and token-cost decomposition.
Independent contract engineering for a large retail platform: web performance and reliability — Core Web Vitals, real-user monitoring, and performance tied to business metrics.
Run a four-architecture homelab cluster (ARM · AMD ROCm · NVIDIA · Apple Silicon) with GitOps, distributed LLM inference, and a RAG pipeline — every layer built and operated solo.
Let's talk
Tell me your site and what you're trying to get out of AI-agent traffic, and I'll tell you where you stand and what's worth doing.