PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT & AI DELIVERY LEAD AT ALPHABYTE AI
Mitchell Makos
Principal Architect & AI Delivery Lead · Alphabyte Solutions Inc.
Tampa, Florida, USA
Mitchell is a senior platform architect and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience shipping production systems at enterprise scale — from IBM Cloud Garage to Hertz, NCR, Fidelity, Royal Bank of Canada, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Erie Insurance.
At Alphabyte, Mitchell leads Claude platform engineering and infrastructure delivery. He designs the agentic systems, custom MCP servers, and governed AI environments that mid-market organizations run in production — connecting their existing tools, knowledge bases, and cloud infrastructure into Claude workflows their teams actually use.
Credentials & Education
Degree
Bachelor of Arts, Healthcare Management
Bachelor of Arts
Institution
Hope College
Holland, Michigan, USA
Key Coursework
Healthcare Management · Business Administration · Operations
Career Timeline
2026 — Present
Principal Architect & AI Delivery Lead
Alphabyte Solutions Inc.
2020 — Present
Founder & Principal Architect
Makos Tech Solutions
2018 — 2020
Team Lead
IBM Cloud Garage
2016 — 2018
GBS Engineer
IBM Global Business Services
Areas of Expertise
- Multi-Agent Orchestration
- Claude Platform Engineering
- MCP Server Design
- Context Engineering
- AWS / Azure / GCP
- TypeScript & Node.js
- Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code
- Kubernetes & Docker
- GraphQL
- Event-Driven Architecture
Notable Achievements & Recognition
Articles by Mitchell
Data & Infrastructure
Private LLM vs Claude Enterprise: A Decision Framework
Private LLM vs Claude Enterprise depends on whether your data constraint is regulatory or preferential. Most mid-market companies do not need on-premise.
May 1, 2026
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Data & Infrastructure
How to Build a Custom MCP Server for Your Business
How to build a custom MCP server that connects Claude to your business systems. Architecture, auth patterns, governance, and what to deploy first.
March 24, 2026
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Alphabyte AI
The Claude-focused practice of Alphabyte Solutions. Mid-market AI from the ground up — citizen development, executive enablement, MCP integration, and autonomous agents.