| SEEKING WORK | Austin, TX | Remote (US-based clients preferred) Senior/Staff/Principal Software Engineer with 20+ years building scalable SaaS platforms. Recently built Basic Memory (basicmemory.com) - an AI-powered knowledge management platform from concept to 2,000+ GitHub stars and 56 paying customers in 6 months. What I do: - Full-stack SaaS platform architecture and implementation - Python/FastAPI backends, modern frontend (React/Vue/TypeScript) - Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform) - Event-driven systems, microservices, API design - LLM integration and AI-powered workflows - Technical leadership and team mentorship Recent work: - Built complete MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementation - one of the first production deployments - Multi-tenant SaaS with per-tenant isolation (Fly.io, PostgreSQL, Redis) - OAuth authentication + billing infrastructure (Stripe, WorkOS) - Semantic knowledge graph with full-text search - Cross-platform sync architecture (web, desktop, mobile) Available for: - Architecture consulting and technical leadership - Platform development (0->1 or scaling existing systems) - AI/LLM integration projects - Team augmentation for Python/cloud infrastructure work Rate: $200-250/hour depending on project scope Contact: paul@basicmachines.co | GitHub: github.com/basicmachines-co |