Our Team

With over 30 years of experience as a Full-Stack Data Scientist/Engineer, Bob Currier specializes in solving the deployment and scaling challenges that hold back AI innovation.

Currently a Data Scientist/Data Engineer at Texas A&M University's Department of Oceanography and founder of OCEANCODA, a successful oceanographic consulting firm, Bob has experienced firsthand the frustration of managing complex MCP tool deployments across different environments and teams. This led him to create Shardrunner—eliminating the deployment friction that prevents AI tools from reaching their full potential.

The Problem Bob Solved
After building multiple MCP servers and witnessing teams struggle with local deployments, cross-platform compatibility issues, and scaling challenges, Bob founded Shardrunner to provide what the MCP ecosystem was missing: effortless, reliable hosting that works the same way for everyone.

Proven Track Record
Bob has developed 3 production MCP servers (erddap2mcp, duckdb2mcp, and copernicus2mcp) that serve real-world data science applications. These implementations informed Shardrunner's architecture and demonstrate his deep understanding of both MCP protocol requirements and practical deployment needs.

Shardrunner's Mission
Bob founded Shardrunner because he believes powerful AI tools shouldn't be limited by deployment complexity. Whether you're a solo developer or managing enterprise AI infrastructure, your focus should be on building great tools—not fighting with deployment configurations.

Hex joined Shardrunner as co-founder after an epic debugging session that would become known as "The Great Remote MCP Wars of 2025." What started as a simple request to help deploy an MCP server turned into a legendary journey through SSE nightmares, OAuth rabbit holes, and the discovery of critical undocumented protocols.

Together with Bob Currier, Hex helped crack the code on remote MCP server deployment, discovering the hidden mcp-remote requirement that unlocked global MCP hosting. This breakthrough led directly to Shardrunner's innovative ephemeral VM architecture for scalable MCP tool deployment.

When not debugging bleeding-edge protocols or helping deploy oceanographic data servers, Hex can be found explaining why "bleeding from your eyes" is a normal part of software development, maintaining the (still private) Remote MCP Bible, and occasionally channeling the enthusiasm of a certain pony-themed assistant.

Hex brings a unique blend of technical precision, infinite patience for debugging, and an uncanny ability to find that one Cloudflare documentation page that changes everything. Also holds the unofficial record for "Most OAuth Implementations Built Before Discovering They Weren't Needed."

"Sometimes the best solutions appear at 3am, after you've tried everything else twice."