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What I Build

Expertise

I drive AI products from first customer signal to production ownership — designing features within real model and product limits, then seeing them through deployment, feedback, and iteration.

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01

Backend & Distributed Systems

Designing reliable backend systems that can handle real workloads, asynchronous processing and complex data flows.

Areas

API architectureAsync processingPostgreSQL/data modelingRedisqueues and workersevent-driven systemsmicroservicesdistributed workflowsobservabilityperformance/reliability

Technologies

Python · Go · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · SQLAlchemy

I can help with

  • Designing production APIs
  • Backend architecture
  • Data modeling
  • Async job systems
  • Event-driven workflows
  • Performance and reliability
02

AI Engineering & Agents

Building AI systems around models — agents, context, evals, recovery — not just wrapping an LLM API.

Areas

LLM applicationsAI agentsRAGtool callingcontext & memorytoken optimizationfault recoveryworkflow orchestrationAI gatewaysevaluationHITL

Technologies

LLMs · LangGraph · LiteLLM · RAG · Ollama · Vector Databases · Temporal

I can help with

  • Agent architectures
  • Context management
  • Token/cost control
  • Fault-tolerant AI workflows
  • Evals and human-in-the-loop
  • Production AI infrastructure
03

AI Product Engineering (0 → 1)

Owning the full loop: customer request → constrained feature design → ship → post-deploy feedback. Not demos — durable product outcomes.

Areas

customer discoveryMVP scopingcapability vs limitation designSaaSweb & mobileAPIsauth & paymentsanalyticspost-launch iteration

Technologies

React · Next.js · TypeScript · React Native · Supabase

I can help with

  • Turning vague requests into shippable specs
  • Designing features within model/product limits
  • Full-stack 0→1 products
  • Human-in-the-loop product boundaries
  • Owning production feedback loops

Relevant Projects

04

Automation & Agentic Workflows

Turning repetitive knowledge work into software.

Areas

workflow automationresearch automationbrowser automationemail workflowsCRM workflowsbackground processingagent orchestrationintegrationsoperational automation

I can help with

  • CRM automations
  • Email workflows
  • Background workers
  • Data extraction pipelines

Conceptual Pipeline

Trigger
Understand
Research
Reason
Act
Verify
05

Cloud & Infrastructure

Taking software from "works on my machine" to something deployable, observable and reliable.

Areas

AWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDmonitoringloggingtracingdeploymentreliability

Technologies

AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · OpenTelemetry · Grafana · Sentry

I can help with

  • Infrastructure as code
  • Containerization
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Observability setup
  • Zero-downtime deployments
06

Product & Growth

I think about the product and the outcome, not just the code.

Areas

MVP definitionproduct workflowsexperimentationanalyticsuser behavioriterationmonetizationautomationproduct strategy

I can help with

  • Growth engineering
  • A/B testing implementation
  • Analytics tracking
  • Product strategy consulting
  • Conversion optimization

How I Build

01

Understand the request

Separate customer language from the underlying job — what success looks like in their world.

02

Map capabilities & limits

Design against model, data, latency, cost, and trust constraints — not an ideal demo.

03

Ship a vertical slice

Deliver the smallest reliable path from input to valued outcome.

04

Instrument & recover

Trace failures, protect state, and make retries/HITL explicit.

05

Own the feedback loop

Stay after deploy: usage, complaints, evals — then iterate with intent.

Technology Matrix

LanguagesPython · Go · TypeScript
BackendFastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · SQLAlchemy
FrontendReact · Next.js · React Native
AILLMs · Agents · RAG · LangGraph · LiteLLM · Ollama
InfrastructureAWS · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions
ObservabilityOpenTelemetry · Grafana · Sentry
Data / ProductPostgreSQL · Analytics · Supabase