We Got the place surrounded!
2nd Place at Canada DevOps CoP Hackathon for GenAI!
What if I told you we built a CLI tool that can deploy multiple GenAI Agents on Kubernetes clusters - in less than 24 hours? Would you believe me? Honestly, I’m still questioning that decision myself. The Null-Pointers, my dream team - Siddharth Lamba, George Farag, Martin Pham, Hassan Elbaytam, and I - were definitely living in productive delusion when we pitched this idea.
But we did it.
Presenting Paragon AI - built on a GenAI-as-a-Service architecture. Think of it as Terraform for GenAI agents. In just three terminal commands, you can spin up default or custom agents with the configuration of your choice, auto-generate Docker images, and deploy them to Kubernetes clusters - scalable and reproducible from your CLI.
We saved 50+ hours of manual programming and cut down 80% of ClickOps usually needed to deploy GenAI agents. I’ve shared a small clip that showcases our hack (because yes, you need to see it to believe it). And the cherry on top? We secured 2nd place - Runner-up at the Canada DevOps Community of Practice Hackathon for GenAI!
With constant collaboration between our team and mentors, we’re excited to announce that Paragon AI will be open-sourced soon. You’ll be able to deploy GenAI agents across any cloud provider, just like spinning up resources with Terraform. Your terminal. Your Cloud Provider.
Huge thank you to Adam Shaldam for connecting us with the GTA edition of the Hackathon. To our mentor and biggest cheerleader, Professor AlaaAldin (Aladdin) AlRadhi , and Kanwarpreet Singh - thank you for fueling our chaos with guidance.
The community at the hackathon was buzzing with innovation and kindness. The best part? Sheridan dominated the leaderboard - 3 teams in the Top 4:
Runner-up (that’s us!)
Most Impactful
Most Innovative
Don’t stop until it’s done. Building in a community is a cheat code. Find your tribe, stay delusional enough to dream big, and bold enough to build it. Who knows - you might just start an open-source movement one day.
Thanks for sticking around to read this blurb :)