AI Workflow Engineer | Shipping autonomous content factories & agentic dev teams on sovereign infrastructure
70+ videos live across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X with zero manual intervention
Production System (Live Now):
- 85-90% local inference – no API dependency hell
- Full pipeline: n8n → ComfyUI → Remotion → Chatterbox-TTS → Postiz
- Running 24/7 from Pretoria on Xeon E3 + RTX 3090
→ [Personal Dashboard](Personal Development Roadmap) (Business hours GMT+2)
Business Impact: Scaled content production from 0 to 70+ pieces while eliminating $500+/month in API costs
Senior-level development pipeline with zero external dependencies:
- OpenSpec enforcement for consistency
- Automated drift detection & PR-Agent reviews
- Human-in-the-loop gates for critical decisions
- Single script deployment
Impact: What took 3 days now takes 3 hours. Code quality improved, human bottlenecks eliminated.
- 30-Day PDF Journal Generator: CLI shipped, frontend 85% complete
- Hummingbot Trading Manager: Autonomous trading orchestration
- Family Finance Tracker: Bank statement parsing + budget automation
The Problem: Companies want AI agents but can't afford the cloud bills, data leakage risks, or API rate limits.
My Solution: Production-grade agentic systems that run locally, privately, and profitably.
- ✅ Sovereignty: Your data never leaves your infrastructure
- ✅ Cost Control: 85-90% local = 90% cost reduction vs. cloud APIs
- ✅ Compliance: POPIA/GDPR-ready by default
- ✅ Reliability: No rate limits, no API downtime
Daily Operations:
Docker • n8n • ComfyUI • Remotion • Chatterbox-TTS • Postiz
Nginx • Postgres • Redis • Claude API (10% of workload)
Hardware: Xeon E3 • 64GB RAM • RTX 3090 (all running from Pretoria)
Expertise:
- Agentic Workflows & Multi-Agent Orchestration
- LLMOps & Prompt Engineering (ReAct, Reflexion, ToT, PAL)
- Local/Sovereign AI Architecture
- Cost Optimization & Compliance Engineering
- Jan 2025: Zero AI experience
- Dec 2025: Shipping 70+ autonomous content pieces, running multi-agent dev teams, building CrewAI production systems
Speed matters. Results matter more.
Open to collaborations on:
- Production-grade agentic systems
- Privacy-first AI infrastructure
- Autonomous workflow automation
- Ethical AI that actually respects data sovereignty
Ideal fit: Fast-moving teams solving hard problems that require local inference, cost control, and zero compromise on privacy.
Based in Pretoria, South Africa (yes, same city as Elon – the coincidence keeps me ambitious).
Running production AI systems from my garage. Proving you don't need SF rent or cloud budgets to ship world-class AI.
If you're tackling problems where data sovereignty, cost control, and production reliability aren't negotiable – let's talk.
→ Realandworks.com → [Linked-In]
Status: Open to challenging projects | Prefer: High-impact, fast-moving teams | Remote-first