I join your team.
As your lead engineer, paid by the hour. I own the architecture, bring agents and automation into how your team builds, ship features and raise the quality of the whole app. When it runs on its own, I leave.
Paid by the hour
VAI Soft Lab · Agentic AI architect · Sydney
A one-person studio that uses AI fully and openly: agent systems do the heavy work, I design, lead and review. From an idea to a full app, a build, fix or finish of your app, or agents and automation inside your team. I lead every project myself, from start to finish.
How I can help
As your lead engineer, paid by the hour. I own the architecture, bring agents and automation into how your team builds, ship features and raise the quality of the whole app. When it runs on its own, I leave.
Paid by the hour
From an idea to a full app, an AI feature inside your product, or a half-built app that needs finishing (including apps built with AI tools). First we define the scope together: the job, how I help and how long it takes. Then you get the time and the price. Any technology you want.
Scope first, then time and price
How it works
Two steps. VAI Cortex turns everything you give me into a blueprint you agree to. VAI Development, my agent team led by me, builds the real app from it. I lead every project myself, from start to finish.
Collects everything about your project. Keeps learning as we go.
Cortex writes it. You read it in plain language.
Nothing is built before this.
My agent team builds it. I lead it.
Everything about your project goes in: meeting notes, documents, requirements, Slack messages, emails, PDFs. Cortex keeps learning as the project goes on, and turns it all into a brief, a requirement pack and a design: the blueprint. You read it, you agree, and only then we build. No surprises later.
My agent team turns the agreed blueprint into the real app. I lead it. A project manager agent runs the pipeline; designer, lead engineer and QA agents shape the work; developer agents write the code, the tests and the documentation. I design the solution, lead the project from start to finish, run the tests and try the app myself. You get lead-engineer quality, faster and for less.
Proof
About me
16+ years building software: from junior developer to CTO, then lead engineer roles in Malaysia and Australia. Today I am an agentic AI architect and lead AI engineer in Sydney: I have led 30+ developers into AI engineering, and I design the agent pipelines that turn requirements into working apps. Over a year of daily Claude Code work. Four Anthropic certificates in building with Claude.
VAI Soft Lab is a one-person studio. I use AI fully and I say so: agent systems do the heavy work, I design, lead and review, and I take full responsibility for what I ship. That is how you get best-practice software of the highest quality, faster and for less.
I work in any technology you want. My deepest hands-on stack is React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript and Node, with .NET, GraphQL, PostgreSQL and AWS behind it. Domains I know well: ticketing, finance and loans, healthcare, property, construction, B2B software, user onboarding. I work in English, in the Sydney time zone.