David KovachSR. FULL-STACK AI ENGINEER & DEVELOPER · RALEIGH-DURHAM
Taking on new projects now

The output of a full team.
Without the overhead of one.

I design and build software end to end: web and mobile apps, full-stack platforms, and the AI systems that make them smarter. Concept to production, one source, at a pace a full team can't match.

  • Web & mobile apps
  • Full-stack platforms
  • AI agents & automation
  • Machine learning & models
  • RAG & knowledge systems
  • Computer vision
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What I do

You bring the idea.
I build all of it.

Full products and the systems behind them, designed and built end to end. For startups shipping a first version, businesses modernizing what they already run, and teams that need senior capacity for a defined stretch.

AI Agents & Automation

Agents that read a request, pull the right knowledge, and execute the actual workflow through secure integrations. Multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph and LlamaIndex.

AGENTS · TOOL-CALLING · ORCHESTRATION

RAG & Knowledge Systems

Answers grounded in your own documents and data, not the model's guesses. Chunking, embeddings, reranking, and confidence gating so the output holds up.

RAG · VECTOR SEARCH · GROUNDING

Custom Web & App Builds

Full applications in React, TypeScript, and Python, designed and shipped end to end. MVPs, internal tools, and customer-facing products that go live.

REACT · PYTHON · FULL-STACK

LLM Integration for Your Product

Add chat, intelligent search, or document processing to a product you already have, with the guardrails and evaluation that keep it from embarrassing you.

LLM APIs · GUARDRAILS · EVALS

Product Design & UX

Twenty years of designing interfaces people actually use. Accessible, Section 508-aware builds, and Figma-to-code workflows that kill design drift.

UX · ACCESSIBILITY · DESIGN-TO-CODE
THAI

Fractional Senior Engineer

Drop a senior builder into your team for a sprint or a quarter. I ship real work and leave you something your engineers can maintain.

EMBEDDED · CONSULTING · DELIVERY

Recent work

Passionate builds. Obsessive delivery.

Every application, system, and platform I deliver runs through customized CI/CD (continuous integration, delivery and code deployment), so your project or work or product and the code behind any of it is automatically tested and safely released at each release or revision. Problems get caught before they ever reach production or your users, and what you pay me for is stable, tested, and ready.

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Agentic RAG Platform

ARCHITECT & AI ENGINEER

A tiered agentic RAG system spanning retrieval, tool-routing, and a full agentic loop, with reranking, confidence gating, and cost-aware model routing.

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AI Grading Platform

ARCHITECT · AI · PRODUCT

A full sports-card marketplace with an LLM computer-vision pipeline, algorithmic scoring, and a natural-language admin that replaces forms with plain typing.

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Multi-Agent Sales Intelligence

ARCHITECT & AI ENGINEER

A five-agent system that compresses 60–90 minutes of manual research into under a minute, with live data pulled through secure integrations.

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THAI, an Open Agent Protocol

CREATOR & SPEC AUTHOR

An open-source accountability protocol for multi-agent AI systems, governing how memory, state, and human actions coordinate across frameworks.

Who you're hiring

Strategy, design, and engineering, aligned because it comes from one source

I have delivered for startups and for Fortune 100 companies including IBM, SAP, HPE, Citibank, and Bank of America. I shape the logic, the data model, and the interface together, then write the code that ships them. One person who owns the outcome means less translation, less overhead, and a result you can put in front of customers sooner.

20+ years building software Fortune 100 & startup delivery Claude Code daily since 2023 Design Thinking, LUMA Institute Raleigh-Durham based, remote-ready

Let's build it

Tell me what you're building

My calendar books a few months out, so reaching out early is worth it, even for work that starts later. Send me the shape of the project and I will tell you straight whether I am the right person to build it.