Senior Lead Engineer · 12+ yrs · Remote since 2014
Backends that survive prod. AI features with evals, not vibes.
Senior Lead Backend Engineer, Software Architect, and AI Engineer. Production Laravel SaaS, Shopify Plus apps, and AI features — Claude, MCP, RAG — for founders, agencies, and product teams.
▸ Daily stack
- Laravel
- Anthropic Claude
- Model Context Protocol
- Shopify Plus
- pgvector
12+
Years shipping
60+
Production builds
3
Continents served
∞
Bugs squashed
Four lanes. Hire me for any of them.
Scoped, time-boxed, senior. Pick one — or stack two.
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▸ Lane 01
Laravel SaaS that scales
Multi-tenant B2B platforms, Octane workers, Horizon queues, Filament admins, idempotency, event sourcing, observability. Production-ready from day one.
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- Octane
- Filament
- Horizon
See builds
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▸ Lane 02
Shopify Plus apps
Public + private apps, App Bridge admin UI, GraphQL Admin & Catalog API, billing, webhooks, protected customer data, Shopify Functions, agentic commerce.
- Remix
- GraphQL Admin
- App Bridge
- Polaris
- Functions
See apps
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▸ Lane 03
AI engineering
Anthropic Claude + MCP servers, OpenAI SDK, RAG on pgvector, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses. Pragmatic AI that ships, not vibes.
- Claude API
- MCP
- RAG
- pgvector
- Evals
Read the posts
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▸ Lane 04
Architecture & leadership
Tech lead, fractional CTO, architecture reviews, hiring, mentorship. Senior engineers in a shipping mindset, not a tech-debt spiral.
- Clean Arch
- DDD
- TDD
- Audits
- Mentorship
Talk to me
Engagements I say yes to.
Scoped, time-boxed, and senior. Pick a lane below, or describe a hybrid — I'll tell you honestly if it's a fit.
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MVP Build (4-12 weeks)
From whiteboard to production. Auth, multi-tenancy, billing, dashboards, deployment. Laravel + your stack.
- Architecture & schema design
- Auth + RBAC + tenancy
- Stripe / Paddle billing
- CI/CD + zero-downtime deploy
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AI Integration Sprint (2-4 weeks)
Add real AI to an existing product. Claude, MCP, RAG, agents, with evals — not a demo, a feature.
- Claude API + tool use
- MCP server build
- RAG on pgvector + hybrid search
- Eval harness + cost guardrails
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Shopify Plus App
Public or private app — embedded admin, billing, webhooks, App Bridge, GraphQL, billing, Shopify Functions.
- Embedded admin (App Bridge)
- Billing + dunning + analytics
- Catalog / Orders / Customer APIs
- Protected customer data review
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Architecture Audit
A senior set of eyes on your stack, before you scale. Code, schema, infra, deployment, risk.
- 1-week deep audit
- Risk + cost report
- 12-week remediation plan
- Optional pair-programming follow-up
Shipped for.
▸ A slice of live brands & platforms I've built and shipped
- I Inked Shop ↗ Apparel + lifestyle DTC
- P Pure Craft CBD ↗ CBD DTC w/ age-gate + compliance
- F Freestyle USA ↗ Watches + lifestyle goods
- N Neven Eyewear ↗ Sunglasses + Rx flow
- N Naví Eyewear ↗ Prescription eyewear
- M Mike Tyson Store ↗ Celebrity DTC, spike-ready
- P Protect App ↗ Shipping protection at checkout
- M Medi1 ↗ Radio + live stream
- E Edigrains ↗ Content-creation SaaS
- T Tekency ↗ Agency portal
▸ 60+ production builds total
From the trenches.
Notes on Laravel internals, AI agent design, Shopify Plus, and the occasional hot take. No fluff.
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AIMachine learning vs generative AI
Machine Learning predicts; Generative AI creates. The discriminative-vs-generative split decides your architecture, infra, and monthly cloud bill.
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ShopifyHow agentic commerce changes building on Shopify
Agentic commerce is reshaping how you build Shopify. The shift from human-centric themes to agent-ready infrastructure: Catalog, UCP, and MCP.
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AI7 mistakes wrecking your production RAG stack
Naive chunking, no reranker, embedding drift, latency blowups — the structural mistakes that wreck a production RAG stack, and the fixes that ship.
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▸ Social
Live from the feed.
Production logs, shipping notes, contrarian takes — Laravel, Shopify, AI. Real-time on X.
▸ X · @ansezz
Real-time timeline.
Engineering threads, shipping logs, hot takes — auto-pulled live.
Open profile →
▸ Operating principle
Ship the thing. Then make it unfair.
Production-ready, observable, opinionated. Backed by tests, types, and ten years of remote-only scar tissue.