AI Automation Engineer & Technical Trainer

Build smarter.

20+ years in IT, 9+ years in Google Workspace and automation. I architect LLM-powered AI agents, self-hosted automation, and pipelines that save teams 15-20 hours a week.

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About

I'm a husband, father, builder, gym regular, lifelong tinkerer, and the engineer companies call when they want manual work to disappear.

Back Story.

My career started in the late 90s consulting on LAN and PABX rollouts for corporate and government clients. The work was unglamorous, but it taught me how to translate messy human requirements into systems that just work when nobody is watching.

Through the 2000s I spent a decade as an IT helpdesk trainer and LMS administrator, delivering hundreds of hours of instructor-led training on Windows, Office, and technical support workflows. Every system I build now, someone else has to operate, and the docs and onboarding matter just as much as the logic.

For the past nine years I've been a Google Workspace migration PM and technical trainer, coordinating tenant-to-tenant migrations for SMB clients, building and delivering training on Google AI tools like Gemini, NotebookLM, and Workspace Studio, and upskilling project managers moving into new types of work. Somewhere along the way I started writing automations to make the boring parts of my own job disappear.

Today I architect LLM-powered AI agents, self-hosted automation, multi-source dashboards, and full-stack applications, much of it built independently for clients who want 15-20 hours of manual work a week to simply disappear. I'm available for part-time roles, contract work, and consulting engagements, flexible across US and Australian business hours.

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Core capabilities

What I build.

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AI / LLM Integration

Gemini API, Claude API, RAG pipelines with ChromaDB, AI agent development in Node.js and Python, MCP server architecture.

02

Agent Platform Engineering

Reusable Copier templates for Claude Code agents, FastMCP servers, modular tool packs, multi-agent pipelines, GCP Secret Manager, Firestore, and Vertex AI integration.

03

Security & Hardening

8-pillar VPS audits, Docker container hardening, file-based secrets, non-root Postgres, eval-injection patches, incident response kill scripts, automated backups.

04

Full-Stack Development

Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Next.js, React, FastAPI, REST APIs. Web scraping with Puppeteer/Playwright. Production-grade applications.

05

Infrastructure

Docker, Traefik, PostgreSQL, Linux VPS hardening, Cloudflare, Postfix/Dovecot mail servers, PM2, CI/CD pipelines.

06

Workflow Automation

Apps Script, Google Cloud Workflows, Asana API integrations, and n8n. End-to-end pipelines that run without human intervention.

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Google Cloud & Workspace

Admin Console, tenant-to-tenant migrations, Document AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Apps Script automations for SMB clients.

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Training & L&D

Instructor-led delivery, curriculum design (ADDIE/Bloom's), onboarding programs, Google AI tool training for Gemini, NotebookLM, and Workspace Studio.

Career timeline

Where I've delivered.

Aug 2016 — Present
9+ years · Remote

Technical Trainer & Google Workspace Migration PM

  • Lead Google Workspace migration projects, coordinating tenant-to-tenant migrations, user provisioning, and data transfer for SMB clients
  • Built a command center dashboard (React + FastAPI) aggregating Asana, Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Drive with AI-powered priority ranking via Gemini
  • Automated training rollout in Asana: reduced deployment from 30 min to a 2-min one-click process with per-attendee subtask generation
  • Built an AI training content generator that transforms requirements into production-ready Google Slides, guides, cheat sheets, and assessments, cutting design time from 8 hours to 20 minutes
  • Developed a RAG knowledge base using ChromaDB + Gemini embeddings across 5 internal doc categories for semantic search
  • Architected a documentation scraping pipeline using Puppeteer to extract 10,000+ pages from Asana and Google Support into structured formats
  • Generate weekly traffic light reports aggregating 6 sources, reducing executive report compilation from 2 hours to 15 minutes
Aug 2016 — Jan 2022
Remote · US

Systems Engineer / Administrator

  • Managed IT infrastructure including hardware, software, and network assets for US clients
  • Proactively diagnosed and resolved system issues, preventing downtime and mitigating zero-day vulnerabilities
May 2006 — Feb 2016
10 years

IT Helpdesk Trainer / LMS Administrator

  • Delivered hundreds of hours of instructor-led training on Microsoft Windows, Office, and technical support workflows
  • Drove LMS compliance from baseline to 90% program goal through collaboration with team managers and operations
  • Developed curriculum materials and facilitation strategies; managed student transitions from training to production
1999 — 2004
5 years

General Manager / IT Consultant

  • Managed business operations and provided IT consultancy to corporate and government clients, designing solutions and coordinating LAN/PABX installations
Projects

What I've shipped.

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Multi-Agent Pipeline

Training Asset Factory

Multi-agent training generator deployed to Cloud Run. Orchestrates research, designer, validator, and delivery agents to turn a topic brief into Slides, Facilitator Guide, Cheatsheet, and Assessment in one shot.

FastAPIGeminiCloud RunMulti-agent
Agent Platform

agent-template

Reusable Copier scaffold for spinning up Claude Code agents. FastMCP server boilerplate, modular tool packs, GCP Secret Manager + Firestore + Vertex AI bindings, voice profiles, and a ready-to-deploy CI/CD path.

CopierFastMCPPython 3.12GCP
AI Agent Platform

Command Center Dashboard

Unified executive dashboard that aggregates Asana tasks, Gmail, Google Calendar, Chat, and Drive activity into a single view. Gemini-powered AI ranks and prioritizes action items across all 6 data sources in real time.

ReactFastAPIGemini APIAsana API
SaaS Platform

Job Agent

Multi-user web app for job sourcing and AI proposal generation. Bookmarklet scrapes job platforms, Gemini analyzes matches against user expertise via RAG, and drafts customized proposals. Deployed on a hardened Ubuntu VPS.

Next.js 16React 19PostgreSQLGemini API
AI Gateway

OpenClaw AI Gateway

Zero-cost self-hosted AI gateway. Routes through OpenRouter with Telegram and Discord interfaces, agent-rey MCP server integration, systemd-injected secrets, hot-reloadable JSON config, and 6 scheduled cron jobs.

OpenRouterMCPTelegramsystemd
Infrastructure

Self-Hosted Mail Server

Production-grade self-hosted email server on Ubuntu 24.04, supporting secure communication for multiple custom domains. Full SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MTA-STS compliance, multi-domain SNI cert rotation, virtual mailboxes.

PostfixDovecotOpenDKIMMTA-STS
Products

What you can use.

Self-Hosted Mail Server

Skip the 2 weeks of delivery debugging. SPF, DKIM, DMARC plus hardened containers, MTA-STS, and a cert renewal runbook.

PostfixDovecotRoundcube

Self-Hosted Analytics

Production analytics in 5 minutes. No cookies, no GDPR banner, 2KB tracking script.

UmamiPostgreSQL

Traefik Reverse Proxy

Wildcard TLS, rate limiting, auto service discovery. Plus paste-ready middleware snippets from production.

Traefik v3Cloudflare DNS

Telegram Bot Framework

Production-grade Telegram bot. Watchdog, canary, daily restart, hash-pinned deps, hardened containers.

Python 3.12python-telegram-botDocker

Crypto Trading Bot Starter Kit

Momentum strategy with $0/day AI sentiment. Exit monitor, live dashboard, Binance integration, hardened containers.

Python 3.12CCXTOpenRouter

APIs (free tier available)

Crypto Market Intelligence API

Sentiment, technicals, and market signals in one endpoint.

View on RapidAPI

Screenshot & PDF Generator API

URL to screenshot or PDF in one API call.

View on RapidAPI
Credentials

Certifications.

Google Certified Administrator
Google Certified Deployment Specialist
Professional Certificate in Cloud Architecture with Google Cloud
VMware Technical Sales Professional, Data Center Virtualization
CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate)
Cisco Networking Academy Program, Foundation University
On the otherside

Outside of the terminal, I unwind with a few hours at the gym, self-hosting projects, Linux systems, motorcycling, and living that dad life on a quiet island in the Philippines.

Let's connect

Ready to talk?

Available for part-time remote roles, contract work, and consulting engagements. Flexible for US and Australian business hours.

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