Dear Hiring Team,

There's something fitting about applying to Vercel as someone who's actually built with it. My projects — including Sweing, a Next.js-powered social platform with semantic search and AI embeddings, and Sunwatch, which now serves 45,000+ monthly requests — live on Vercel. I didn't just read the docs; I've navigated the edge cases, debugged cold starts, and felt firsthand why developer experience is worth obsessing over. That's the perspective I'd bring to your customers every day.

The Solutions Architect role sits at a crossroads I find genuinely exciting: translating deep technical understanding into outcomes that matter to both engineers and executives. My TypeScript-first background spans Remix, Next.js, Postgres, AI embeddings, and Cloudflare — the exact composable stack your enterprise customers are standardizing on. When I built Neuraly's Gemini-powered chatbot or engineered Sunwatch's backend validation system, I wasn't following tutorials; I was making architectural decisions and owning the consequences. That ownership mentality maps directly to running POCs, defining success criteria, and being the technical quarterback post-sale.

What I think gets undervalued in this kind of role is the human side. Five years in high-volume kitchen environments — coordinating across stations, maintaining quality under pressure, earning a 4.5-star rating — trained me to communicate crisply, keep calm when things go sideways, and genuinely care about the experience of the person on the other end. Switching fluently between a developer's implementation questions and an executive's ROI concerns? That's a skill I've been building longer than I realized.

Vercel is shaping what agentic infrastructure looks like for the next decade. I want to help enterprises actually land there — not just understand it in theory, but ship it in production.

I'd love to talk.

Jackson Gray