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    "label": "Principal AI Engineer",
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    "url": "https://jeffkent.dev/",
    "summary": "Principal AI engineer who designs and runs AI agent teams that build, test and review production software. Started as a UI designer and still designs the products he ships. Remote, any time zone (US, EU or APAC hours). Open to: Full-time remote AI engineering roles (principal, staff or lead AI engineer, head of AI engineering), fractional AI engineering lead, agent fleet setup for a team, platform rebuild with an agent crew, product design lead for an app or website.",
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      "name": "Regulated crypto buy-and-sell company, Philippines",
      "position": "CTO and hands-on architect",
      "summary": "As CTO, rebuilt a 9-app regulated crypto platform with an AI agent team: about 4,000 approved changes in under six months, independent AI review on every change, 10+ long-running agents cut from 45+.",
      "url": "https://jeffkent.dev/case-studies/fintech/",
      "startDate": "2026"
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      "name": "A Southeast Asian video streaming service (movies, series, live TV and sports)",
      "position": "Lead engineer (sole engineer), contract",
      "summary": "As the sole engineer, directed AI agents to rebuild a streaming service's website, back office, APIs and native iOS and Android apps, with 600+ automated tests across the native apps.",
      "url": "https://jeffkent.dev/case-studies/streaming/",
      "startDate": "2026-08"
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    {
      "name": "Faceless short-form channels (food history and daily AI news) on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook",
      "position": "Sole builder, personal venture",
      "summary": "Built a three-agent video studio (director, executor, browser uploader) that wrote, rendered and scheduled 28 finished short-form episodes in about two weeks, each passing a 12- to 13-point QC.",
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        "Multi-agent orchestration",
        "Model routing by risk and cost",
        "LLM evaluation (evals)",
        "Prompt and context engineering",
        "Agent memory",
        "MCP",
        "AI code review",
        "Guardrails",
        "Human-in-the-loop approval",
        "AI cost optimization"
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        "Claude Code",
        "Anthropic API",
        "OpenAI Codex",
        "OpenAI API",
        "xAI Grok",
        "Open-weights models (DeepSeek, GLM) via Ollama"
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        "TypeScript",
        "Node.js (NestJS, Fastify)",
        "React",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Python",
        "Swift / SwiftUI",
        "Kotlin / Jetpack Compose",
        "Playwright"
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      "keywords": [
        "AWS (ECS, RDS, Cognito, Lambda)",
        "Terraform",
        "Cloudflare (Workers, D1)",
        "CI/CD"
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      "name": "Generative media",
      "keywords": [
        "ElevenLabs",
        "Kling video",
        "Remotion",
        "Blender",
        "ffmpeg",
        "Computer-use agents",
        "Speech model fine-tuning"
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      "name": "Product design",
      "keywords": [
        "UI and UX design",
        "Product flows",
        "Design systems",
        "Interaction and motion design",
        "iOS and web app design",
        "UI review for wording, spacing and states"
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      "name": "Domains",
      "keywords": [
        "Regulated fintech and crypto (wallets, KYC/AML, payments)",
        "Video streaming (players, DRM, ads)",
        "Media automation"
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