Independent Software Engineer — Freelance, Open Source & AI Training
Aug 2025 – present
Deliberate hybrid of sabbatical and freelance work — remote from Southeast Asia.
- Freelance: real-estate website dhome88 — Next.js 15 (App Router), 6 locales (next-intl), Google Sheets backend as a low-cost CMS
- AI content pipeline (n8n, self-hosted): end-to-end from topic discovery (trend APIs, LLM scoring) through article generation to publishing (GitHub Actions → GitHub Pages), incl. SEO automation and research grounding against generic AI copy — links under Projects
- Real-time data pipelines for financial market data (Rust/TypeScript): 24/7 operation on my own server, LLM fallback chains, cost/latency optimization
- Open source: Rust CLI fork with a supply-chain review workflow; game modding in C# (see Projects)
- Intensive training: agent orchestration, LLM ops, context engineering; certified blockchain bootcamp (Metana, Jan – May 2025)
