artifix

SEEKING WORK: Remote from EU.

I'm a senior technical specialist for startups. I offer assessment, planning, strategy, architecture, design, build, deploy and management services.

I have 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles. I tune my deliverables to exactly what the client needs. I don't do one-size-fits-all solutions. I know how to use AI intelligently, when it works and when it doesn't. I don't do vibe coding.

Some of the things I've done recently:

- Stealth startup: Agentic build of a v1 streaming service: production quality design, billing/analytics/reporting engines, PWA, catalog import, play tracking

- Publishing startup: Built a pipeline for automated translation, validation and generation of .indd documents for ebooks

- Fintech startup: Greenfield DevOps implementation (cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD) in a regulated environment

- Social media startup: ML pipeline for programmatic detection of social and music trends based on media plays

- Ecommerce startup: Designed an ML-powered analysis system to correlate search results and purchase behaviour

It kinda looks like it is all down: https://www.revolut.com/system-status/

AI is just a giant pattern recognition machine trained on human input, both the good, the mediocre and the bad.

I read today this ridiculous headline: "Anthropic warns AI models may soon self-replicate.".

Really. Yawn.

I guess gullible people who loved "I Robot" will believe it. I don't.

Any talk of "rogue", "intelligence", "replication" - whatever, is bull. If you believe that, you don't understand AI.

That's cool. Maybe not very cool, but cool. I like it. Is this you? The downside I think is that you'll freak out clients with autonomous agents that are working for vendors.

Let me put it to you this way: I don't trust vendors. I've worked with them on behalf of large clients. I know what they want. So how should I trust vendor agents?

Nonetheless I like the idea ...

Ok yes, that's cool. Is that what you are doing? Do you have a startup?

Thank you, well explained!

I'm not humble bragging. I do mean it. I've been called "the brain", "the goat" at clients. I can't help it ;)

I've been doing freelancing for 30 years. I no longer understand what is going on with this market, especially in the UK and EU. It has become impossible. So I wrote this article trying to understand it. I'd welcome any comments or perspectives from freelancers out there. Have you had these experiences or is it just me?

Duh, forgot the site in the copy/paste: https://www.artifixsolutions.com

SEEKING WORK: Remote from EU.

I'm a senior technical specialist for startups. I offer assessment, planning, strategy, architecture, design, build, deploy and management services.

I have 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles. I tune my deliverables to exactly what the client needs. I don't do one-size-fits-all solutions. I know how to use AI intelligently, when it works and when it doesn't. I don't do vibe coding.

Some of the things I've done recently:

- Stealth startup: Agentic build of a v1 streaming service: production quality design, billing/analytics/reporting engines, PWA, catalog import, play tracking

- Publishing startup: Built a pipeline for automated translation, validation and generation of .indd documents for ebooks

- Fintech startup: Greenfield DevOps implementation (cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD) in a regulated environment

- Social media startup: ML pipeline for programmatic detection of social and music trends based on media plays

- Ecommerce startup: Designed an ML-powered analysis system to correlate search results and purchase behaviour

SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Remote CET/US

Location: France

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, Claude/Codex/Cohere/LangChain, DevOps stack

Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202610.

Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com

A SENIOR TECHNICAL RESOURCE FOR STARTUPS

I make great ideas real. I'm a 5-time CTO with extensive hands-on technical experience in hundreds of technologies and paradigms across all of IT.

I can provide as much or as little help as you need:

  * Assessments & Audits 
  * Strategy & Planning
  * Architecture & Design
  * Build & Deploy
  * Interim Management (Fractional CTO)
  * Emergency Services

Some of my work:

  * Stealth startup: Agentic build of a v1 streaming service: production quality design, billing/analytics/reporting engines, PWA, catalog import, play tracking
  * Publishing startup: Built a pipeline for automated translation, validation and generation of .indd documents for ebooks
  * Fintech startup: Greenfield DevOps implementation (cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD) in a regulated environment  
  * Social media startup: ML pipeline for programmatic detection of social and music trends based on media plays
  * Ecommerce startup: Designed an ML-powered analysis system to correlate search results and purchase behaviour

I have an epub which says 2003 but then says also says 2015, so now I'm confused ;)

Wow; didn't know about this list but I've read quite a few of those on it. For sci-fi, Robert Heinlein and Ursula Le Guin are my absolute favorite authors. I've read all I could find of both authors. They have seen me through many train rides commuting to clients.

About to tackle Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner.

My wife just sent me a video of his: what I didn't know about central banking! TBH I'm shocked. Apparently we'd all be so much better if we had more local banks doing local lending to local businesses.

Explains a lot, actually, so I even mentioned him in an article I just wrote about my freelancing career. Now I know why the market has been increasingly impossible ...

It seems like they had a slight CRM problem ...

So ... when has the EU felt obligated to let the public know things?

Location: EU

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, Claude, Codex, Cohere, Voyage, Mistral, LangChain, LanceDB, LLaMA, Mistral, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible, GitHub, GitLab, Packer

Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202610.

Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com

I design, build and implement robust and fault-tolereant pipelines that make IT systems work - AI, DevOps Software Delivery, Data Engineering, Media, etc.

SAMPLE WORK:

  ** Stealth client: agentic-built streaming service using a pipeline of agents to produce production quality design, billing, analytics and reporting engines, PWA, catalog import, play tracking
  ** Publishing client: agentic pipeline for automated translation, validation and generation of InDesign documents for ebooks to be published on Amazon
  ** DeFi: agentic build of a DeFi notary service - smart contracts, API backend platform
  ** Fintech client: DevOps CI/CD and delivery pipelines in a regulated environment 
  ** IoT client: build, deploy pipelines for internal teams to delivery apps to a global PaaS 
  ** Media client: ML pipeline for programmatic detection of social and music trends based on media plays

Location: EU Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Agentic Engineering (Claude, Codex, Cohere, Voyage, Mistral, LangChain, LanceDB, LLaMA, Mistral), C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, DevOps tooling, ML/BigData/Search tooling ... and much more

Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202608. Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com

WHO: Technology Polymath. Agentic context & harness engineering.

WHAT: Whether human or AI built, I know how systems break. I build them so they don't. After three decades of battle-tested experience there isn't a failure mode I don't know how to fix. When it comes to AI, I design and architect systems using my own rigorous engineering approach that insures consistent delivery and drift control.

SAMPLE WORK:

  ** Recent agentic builds: 
    - multi-server streaming service (NodeJS, Typescript, Postgres, Claude Code, Codex, custom agentic harness)
    - DevOps deployment tooling (Terraform, CI/CD)
    - DevOps observability platform with RAG pipelines (InfluxDB, LangChain, Claude CodePython, NodeJS)
    - RAG ebook build pipeline for a publishing company (Cohere, OpenAI, Voyage, Mistral, LanceDB, LLaMA)
  ** API-enabled SaaS platform using Solana smart contracts (Rust, Codex)
  ** AI-built mobile & desktop app development (NodeJS, React, C++/QT)
  ** Azure architecture & DevOps for a banking compliance company
  ** Ethereum L1 packer-based automation 
  ** Global multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based PaaS cloud design and DevOps for an IoT data platform
  ** Custom architecture & development for startups and specialised cloud models

I work with companies and teams who honestly want to deliver the best product they can. I'm serious about my work and I work only with equally serious people. If you want systems built right the first time, I'm your guy.