Comment by phernandez

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