Senior AI Software Engineer

Madison Rickert is a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience shipping code to production. They are an experienced engineering leader, currently focused on agentic engineering, contributing to open-source MCP servers, building agent-first CLI tools, solving computer vision problems, and maintaining a library of agent skills. For the past five years, Madison was a partner and technical lead at a creative studio, and prior to that, a senior IC and fractional engineering lead for startups and nonprofits, working full-stack and mentoring teams. They have a strong background in business and personal finance, managing organizational finances and projects, and have open-source projects in agentic financial automation and investment management. Madison is also a working musician and Burning Man camp lead. They are pivoting back to senior IC engineering, seeking roles such as Senior SWE, FDE, Solutions Engineer, or Senior Backend Engineer, particularly in AI, video/film tech, audio/music tech, financial tools, realtime software, or business process automation.