# Backends that survive prod. AI features with evals, not vibes. - Canonical: https://ansezz.com/ - Markdown: https://ansezz.com/index.md - Description: Senior backend, software architect, and AI engineer. 14+ years shipping Laravel SaaS, Shopify Plus apps, and AI features — Claude, MCP, RAG, agentic systems. Senior Lead Engineer · 14+ yrs · Remote since 2014 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. Open for scoped builds — MVP, AI sprint, Shopify app, architecture audit [Let's work together](https://ansezz.com/contact/) [Book a 15-min call](https://calendar.app.google/x1eeuSb9UuMGF4pD9) [See work →](https://ansezz.com/work/) ▸ Daily stack - Laravel - Anthropic Claude - Model Context Protocol - Shopify Plus - pgvector ▸ trading-card.dev LIVE ![Ansezz comic hero: yellow robot with Laravel card snapped center](https://ansezz.com/home/hero-loop-c6135384-poster.webp) - GMT+8 Time zone - 2014 Remote since - ≤24h Reply ▸ Now shipping Productionizing agentic commerce, MCP servers, and RAG pipelines on Laravel + Shopify. ▸ First step Free 15-min intro call. Honest yes or no. 14+ Years shipping 60+ Production builds 3 Continents served ∞ Bugs squashed 01 ## Four lanes. Let's work together on any of them. Scoped, time-boxed, senior. Pick one, or stack two. - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=saas) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=shopify) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=ai) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=architecture) 02 ## 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. [Let's work together](https://ansezz.com/contact/) - [MVP Build (4-12 weeks) From whiteboard to production. Auth, multi-tenancy, billing, dashboards, deployment. Laravel + your stack. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=mvp) - [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](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=ai) - [Shopify Plus App Public or private app — embedded admin, billing, webhooks, App Bridge, GraphQL, billing, Shopify Functions. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=shopify) - [Architecture Audit A senior set of eyes on your stack, before you scale. Code, schema, infra, deployment, risk. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=audit) [Full scope, deliverables and how the engagement runs →](https://ansezz.com/services/) 03 ## Shipped for. ▸ A slice of live brands & platforms I've built and shipped - [I Inked Shop ↗ Apparel + lifestyle DTC](https://www.inkedshop.com/) - [P Pure Craft CBD ↗ CBD DTC w/ age-gate + compliance](https://pure-craft-cbd.myshopify.com/) - [F Freestyle USA ↗ Watches + lifestyle goods](https://www.freestyleusa.com/) - [N Neven Eyewear ↗ Sunglasses + Rx flow](https://neveneyewear.com/) - [N Naví Eyewear ↗ Prescription eyewear](https://navieyewear.com/) - [M Mike Tyson Store ↗ Celebrity DTC, spike-ready](https://miketyson.com/) - [P Protect App ↗ Shipping protection at checkout](https://apps.shopify.com/protect-app) - [M Medi1 ↗ Radio + live stream](https://www.medi1.com/) - [E Edigrains ↗ Content-creation SaaS](https://edigrains.mobiletic.com/) - [T Tekency ↗ Agency portal](https://tekency.com/) [See all work](https://ansezz.com/work/) ▸ 60+ production builds total 04 ## From the trenches. Notes on Laravel internals, AI agent design, Shopify Plus, and the occasional hot take. No fluff. [All posts →](https://ansezz.com/blog/) - [Shopify Sep 25, 2026 Migrate Storefront MCP carts to UCP Cart MCP Storefront MCP get_cart and update_cart on /api/mcp are deprecated. Move agents to UCP Cart MCP at /api/ucp/mcp with create, get, update, and cancel. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/migrate-storefront-mcp-cart-to-ucp/) - [Architecture Sep 20, 2026 MCP first is the new mobile first Mobile first made every screen work on a phone. MCP first makes every product capability work for an AI agent: tools, skills, and permissions before the human UI. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-first-is-the-new-mobile-first/) - [Laravel Sep 18, 2026 MCP 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. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-auth-audit-logging-laravel/) 05 ## Free tools. 34 small tools I built because I needed them. No signup. They run in your browser, except Agent Readiness Checker, which fetches the public URL you enter and stores nothing. [All tools →](https://ansezz.com/tools/) - [LLM Cost Calculator Estimate API spend across Claude, GPT and Gemini, with real prompt-cache read and write prices. See the monthly bill before you ship.](https://ansezz.com/tools/llm-cost-calculator/) - [RAG Chunk Splitter Split text into retrieval chunks — fixed, sentence, paragraph, or markdown-heading aware — and see every chunk's token count and overlap seam.](https://ansezz.com/tools/rag-chunk-splitter/) - [Shopify Webhook HMAC Verifier Check a webhook, app proxy or OAuth signature against your client secret, constant-time, in the browser. When it fails, it tells you the likely cause.](https://ansezz.com/tools/shopify-hmac-verifier/) - [Server Capacity Calculator Little's Law sizing: requests/sec × latency → workers you actually need. Includes the Erlang C queue math for what happens near full utilization.](https://ansezz.com/tools/capacity-calculator/) - [JSON to TypeScript & Zod Paste a JSON sample, get typed interfaces plus a Zod v4 schema — unions merged, optionals inferred, dates and emails detected.](https://ansezz.com/tools/json-to-typescript/) - [JWT Decoder Paste a JWT and read its header and payload — claims, algorithm, and expiry decoded in your browser. Decode-only; nothing is sent anywhere.](https://ansezz.com/tools/jwt-decoder/) ▸ Social ## Find me elsewhere. Production logs, shipping notes, contrarian takes: Laravel, Shopify, AI. Plus RSS and JSON feeds if you'd rather subscribe. [All the links →](https://ansezz.com/feed/) [Follow ▸ X · @ansezz Engineering threads. Shipping logs and hot takes, posted as they happen. Open profile →](https://x.com/ansezz) ▸ 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. ## Key links - [Let's work together](https://ansezz.com/contact/) - [Book a 15-min call](https://calendar.app.google/x1eeuSb9UuMGF4pD9) - [See work →](https://ansezz.com/work/) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=saas) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=shopify) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=ai) - [▸ 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](https://ansezz.com/work/?lane=architecture) - [MVP Build (4-12 weeks) From whiteboard to production. Auth, multi-tenancy, billing, dashboards, deployment. Laravel + your stack. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=mvp) - [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](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=ai) - [Shopify Plus App Public or private app — embedded admin, billing, webhooks, App Bridge, GraphQL, billing, Shopify Functions. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=shopify) - [Architecture Audit A senior set of eyes on your stack, before you scale. Code, schema, infra, deployment, risk. ▸ Start this package](https://ansezz.com/contact/?package=audit) - [Full scope, deliverables and how the engagement runs →](https://ansezz.com/services/) - [I Inked Shop ↗ Apparel + lifestyle DTC](https://www.inkedshop.com/) - [P Pure Craft CBD ↗ CBD DTC w/ age-gate + compliance](https://pure-craft-cbd.myshopify.com/) - [F Freestyle USA ↗ Watches + lifestyle goods](https://www.freestyleusa.com/) - [N Neven Eyewear ↗ Sunglasses + Rx flow](https://neveneyewear.com/) - [N Naví Eyewear ↗ Prescription eyewear](https://navieyewear.com/) - [M Mike Tyson Store ↗ Celebrity DTC, spike-ready](https://miketyson.com/) - [P Protect App ↗ Shipping protection at checkout](https://apps.shopify.com/protect-app) - [M Medi1 ↗ Radio + live stream](https://www.medi1.com/) - [E Edigrains ↗ Content-creation SaaS](https://edigrains.mobiletic.com/) - [T Tekency ↗ Agency portal](https://tekency.com/) - [All posts →](https://ansezz.com/blog/) - [Shopify Sep 25, 2026 Migrate Storefront MCP carts to UCP Cart MCP Storefront MCP get_cart and update_cart on /api/mcp are deprecated. Move agents to UCP Cart MCP at /api/ucp/mcp with create, get, update, and cancel. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/migrate-storefront-mcp-cart-to-ucp/) - [Architecture Sep 20, 2026 MCP first is the new mobile first Mobile first made every screen work on a phone. MCP first makes every product capability work for an AI agent: tools, skills, and permissions before the human UI. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-first-is-the-new-mobile-first/) - [Laravel Sep 18, 2026 MCP 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. Read post →](https://ansezz.com/blog/mcp-auth-audit-logging-laravel/) - [All tools →](https://ansezz.com/tools/) - [LLM Cost Calculator Estimate API spend across Claude, GPT and Gemini, with real prompt-cache read and write prices. See the monthly bill before you ship.](https://ansezz.com/tools/llm-cost-calculator/) - [RAG Chunk Splitter Split text into retrieval chunks — fixed, sentence, paragraph, or markdown-heading aware — and see every chunk's token count and overlap seam.](https://ansezz.com/tools/rag-chunk-splitter/) - [Shopify Webhook HMAC Verifier Check a webhook, app proxy or OAuth signature against your client secret, constant-time, in the browser. When it fails, it tells you the likely cause.](https://ansezz.com/tools/shopify-hmac-verifier/)