Hire a senior engineer who ships.
I'm Jesse Lopez — U.S. Navy veteran and principal engineer with 10+ years across AI, cloud, streaming at scale, and embedded hardware. Focused, fixed-scope work. Delivered fast, with low overhead.
AI Automation & Agents
You’re buying a working automation: an AI agent or MCP tool server wired into your stack that takes a manual workflow off a human’s plate — or a private RAG assistant that answers from your documents without them ever leaving your network.
- —Automate a repeatable workflow end-to-end
- —Private RAG over your own docs
- —AI features wired into your app
- ✓Deployed agent or RAG service running in your environment (cloud or on-prem)
- ✓Integrations wired and tested end-to-end against your real tools
- ✓Eval set + accuracy report on your top use cases
- ✓Runbook + recorded handoff walkthrough
- ✓30 days of post-launch fixes included
Cloud & DevOps
You’re buying a pipeline and infrastructure you can trust: push code and it builds, tests, deploys, and tells you when something breaks — with the whole setup captured as code you own.
- —Ship faster with automated deploys
- —Cut cloud spend
- —Infra as code you can maintain
- ✓CI/CD live: push → build → test → deploy, on your repos
- ✓Infrastructure captured as Terraform you own
- ✓Dashboards + alerts for the metrics that matter
- ✓Cost review with itemized savings found
- ✓Docs + handoff walkthrough
Full-Stack Builds & MVPs
You’re buying a shippable product: a production web app — frontend, backend, database, auth — deployed on your accounts and ready for real users, not a prototype that dies in a repo.
- —Launch an MVP in weeks
- —Modernize a legacy app
- —REST/GraphQL APIs that scale
- ✓App live on your domain and your accounts
- ✓Source repo with CI and tests on the critical paths
- ✓Auth, data model, and API documented
- ✓Mobile-responsive UI
- ✓2 weeks of post-launch fixes included
Embedded & Hardware
You’re buying working hardware: firmware that runs your device reliably, from prototype bring-up to a production-ready build — plus the toolchain and docs to maintain it without me.
- —Firmware for your device
- —Prototype to production PCB
- —Sensor + edge data pipelines
- ✓Firmware source + build toolchain you own
- ✓Board bring-up guide
- ✓Validation checklist / test-jig procedure
- ✓Schematic & BOM review notes
- ✓Field-update path documented
Fractional / Contract Engineering
You’re buying senior engineering hours with an owner’s mindset: architecture, hands-on delivery, unblocking, and mentoring — booked monthly, without recruiting overhead or a full-time salary.
- —Principal-level help, part-time
- —Unblock a stalled roadmap
- —Scale up without headcount
- ✓Agreed weekly hours + a living priorities doc
- ✓Written status update every week
- ✓Code & architecture reviews with actionable notes
- ✓Knowledge transfer as we go — no lock-in
Technical Advisory
You’re buying a decision: a senior second opinion with findings you can act on — an architecture review, an AI/cloud strategy, or a rescue plan for the thing that’s stuck.
- —De-risk a big decision
- —Audit before you scale
- —Get unstuck fast
- ✓Written findings report with prioritized recommendations
- ✓Risk register with mitigations
- ✓Live readout call + Q&A
- ✓A next-step plan you can execute without me
How it works
Free intro call
Tell me the problem and the outcome you need. 20–30 minutes, no pressure.
Fixed-scope proposal
A clear plan, timeline, and price — usually within a day or two.
Ship it
I build, keep you in the loop, and hand off clean, documented work.