Gabriel Velazquez

Canadian companies are making Claude decisions right now. Most are doing it without anyone who has deployed this technology at scale, and the gap between the organizations that learn to use it and the ones that do not will compound quickly.

Gabriel Velazquez founded Antfluent after two years leading Anthropic's go-to-market at Amazon Web Services: first as AWS's first Solutions Architect focused entirely on Anthropic, then as its go-to-market strategy lead. He grew that business by orders of magnitude, supported every Claude launch that reached enterprise customers on AWS, and built its global technical guild of Claude specialists. He also built the go-to-market for Claude Code and designed its production guidance, since adopted by over 1,200 companies.

Before Claude, Gabriel worked at TELUS during the 4G rollout, at Apple on channel programs, and led the first core banking migration of a Canadian credit union to cloud infrastructure. These are not adjacent roles. They are the same work: find where a new technology genuinely changes what is possible, and build the bridge between that technology and the people who need to use it.

The thesis behind Antfluent is simple. Claude is a new operating system for the business. Proficiency matters. Smaller Canadian organizations have an unfair advantage available to them right now, and the ones that invest in their people will take it.

He left AWS to bring that knowledge home.

Gabriel is based in Vancouver and teaches in Toronto, Victoria, and Montreal.