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
From the trenches.
Notes on Laravel internals, AI agent design, Shopify Plus, and the occasional hot take. No fluff.
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ShopifyWhy agentic commerce will change the way you build Shopify stores
AI agents don't browse — they query. The shift from human-centric Shopify themes to agent-ready infrastructure: Shopify Catalog, UCP, Agentic Storefronts, MCP servers, and why structured data is the new CSS.
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AI7 mistakes you're making with your production RAG stack (and how to fix them)
Naive chunking, no reranker, embedding drift, latency blowups, vibe-checking — the seven structural mistakes that turn a slick RAG demo into a production nightmare, and the fixes that actually ship.
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ArchitectureScaling with RabbitMQ: why message brokers matter
Synchronous controllers are how monoliths die. RabbitMQ basics, exchanges and queues, the strangler pattern for going async, idempotent workers, and the Laravel queue setup I use to absorb 100k-row spikes without breaking the login page.
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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.
The newsletter no fluff.
One short email when I ship a post. Laravel internals, AI engineering notes, hot takes on Shopify Plus. No drip funnels, no upsells.