Principal AI Agent & LLM Infrastructure Engineer

Seeking contract / fixed-scope work, not full-time. Specializes in AI agent systems that operate autonomously, including agent logic, GPU infrastructure, and guardrails. Demonstrates expertise with a live product, FerretOut, which processes Hacker News data 24/7 using open-source models. Offers services for unattended agent/automation builds, open-weight LLM serving (with quantization, batching, failover, and private inference for data-residency/HIPAA), voice agents for children/elderly (sub-second turns, guardrails), and high-volume data pipelines (ingest, enrich, classify). Works with a written scope document, 50% upfront payment, and async progress updates without meetings.