Senior Lead Engineer · 14+ 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
14+
Years shipping
60+
Production builds
3
Continents served
∞
Bugs squashed
Four lanes. Let's work together on 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
See AI work
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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 architecture
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.
▸ Start this package
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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.
▸ Start this package
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Shopify Plus App
Public or private app — embedded admin, billing, webhooks, App Bridge, GraphQL, billing, Shopify Functions.
▸ Start this package
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Architecture Audit
A senior set of eyes on your stack, before you scale. Code, schema, infra, deployment, risk.
▸ Start this package
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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LaravelMCP auth and audit logging in a Laravel SaaS
An MCP server on Laravel is only as safe as its tenancy boundary. Scoped tool auth, request-bound actor context, and an audit log you can actually read at 3am.
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AITrust is not a QA strategy: test AI code too
AI code is 95% syntactically clean and fails security tests 45% of the time. Half of agentic PRs ship no tests. The verification pipeline I run instead.
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ShopifyBuilding secure agentic commerce on Shopify in 2026
How agentic commerce on Shopify stays safe: UCP negotiation, an MCP governance layer, scoped credentials, signed requests, and human approval at checkout.
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▸ Social
Find me elsewhere.
Production logs, shipping notes, contrarian takes — Laravel, Shopify, AI. Plus RSS and JSON feeds if you'd rather subscribe.
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Engineering threads.
Shipping logs and hot takes, posted as they happen.
Open profile →
▸ Operating principle
Ship the thing. Then make it unfair.
Production-ready, observable, opinionated. Backed by tests, types, and 12 years of remote-only scar tissue.