Senior software engineer & founder · Available for advisory and build work
I design and ship agentic infrastructure for solo founders and small teams. Same-day MVPs, four-instance n8n architectures, self-hosted AI content stacks. References: three of my own ventures run on systems I built.
tai@trendai.au · Book a 15-min discovery call
Self-hosted operating systems for one-person companies — multi-LLM kernels, persistent memory on Postgres + pgvector, doctrine-as-code, dual-vault secrets, monitoring + backup as first-class concerns. Built TrendAI OS to run three businesses in parallel.
Same-day MVPs on Next.js + Cloudflare Pages + D1, with Gemini OCR, Claude tool-use, and CF Access SSO. Idea-to-production measured in hours, not weeks. Reference: taikim-finance replaced a 3,997-row Excel log in one afternoon.
Four production n8n instances under one architectural doctrine — scheduler / automation / sandbox / lab, Postgres-backed, regression-monitored with 288 synthetic probes/day. Resumable-pipeline pattern with three-layer durability. Zero submissions lost in four months of production.
Self-built operating system for solo founders: 5+1 architecture layers — substrate (OCI + Cloudflare + Tailscale), multi-LLM reasoning kernel (Claude + Gemini + self-hosted Qwen), Postgres + Supabase memory, four n8n orchestration instances, Claude Code agent team, BUD operator cockpit. 116 components live in production. Solo-built over 8 months and documented as binding doctrines.
Live: trendai.au
Four-workflow n8n pipeline ingesting YouTube transcripts, articles, and inbound email. AI-summarised with Gemini 2.5 Flash, persisted to Supabase, surfaced in an Astro 5 reading UI. Shared Summarise+Save sub-workflow keeps it DRY. End-to-end in one engineer-week.
Live: tube.trendai.au
FastAPI gateway fronting ComfyUI/Flux (image), Kokoro TTS (voice), Mermaid CLI (diagrams), Podcastfy (multi-voice podcast), and PaddleOCR — all on one OCI ARM box, called by n8n via webhooks. Replaces roughly $200/month of SaaS APIs.
The operator dashboard for TOS: Cloudflare Pages + CF Access portal with eight modules — resource registry (121 items), sprint tracker, regression monitor, mobile-operator manual, weekly ops summaries, media library. Reads Supabase + Postgres; SSO-gated.
Claude 
Gemini 
Qwen / Ollama 
pgvector 
Next.js 
Astro 
React 
TypeScript 
Cloudflare 
Clerk 
Python 
FastAPI PostgreSQL 
Supabase 
Docker 
n8n 
Oracle Cloud Cloudflare 
Tailscale 
Caddy 
Linux 
Uptime Kuma 
Prometheus 
Grafana 
ntfy thin-host architecture · resumable-pipeline pattern · single-shared-Chrome browser automation · dual-vault secrets · doctrine-as-code. Build logs and architectural breakdowns published at trendmedia.au/trendai.
15 years across enterprise (Australian Taxation Office), offshore delivery leadership (Australia↔Vietnam), independent IT consulting, and operator roles in two of my own companies. Now consulting on agentic infrastructure and shipping production AI apps end-to-end.
Best for project conversations, advisory work, or anything that needs ~30 minutes of focused thought.