Cypress AI Developer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior AI developer in Cypress, Texas. An AI developer is an engineer who builds AI systems — not just integrating APIs, but training models, building eval harnesses, and shipping production workloads. Single-principal delivery, 25 years in computer science, U.S. Army veteran. Houston-anchored, Cypress buyers served remote with in-person discovery available.
Cypress as a buyer market for AI developer work
Bridgeland, Towne Lake, Fairfield, the U.S. 290 / Grand Parkway interchange, the Cypress Creek corridor — Cypress is the largest northwest-Houston suburb, anchored by one of the largest school districts in Texas (Cy-Fair ISD). The dominant verticals are energy operators in the northwest Houston footprint, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD-anchored education and youth-sports operators, mid-market service businesses along U.S. 290, healthcare practices along Barker Cypress.
What I ship as a Cypress AI Developer
Custom LLM systems, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA), agent workflows, eval harnesses, self-hosted deployment — not third-party API wrappers. The engagement shape adapts to which Cypress vertical the buyer operates in — energy operators in the northwest Houston footprint, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD-anchored education and youth-sports operators, mid-market service businesses along U.S. 290, healthcare practices along Barker Cypress each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a Cypress AI Developer
Buyers across energy operators in the northwest Houston footprint, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD-anchored education and youth-sports operators, mid-market service businesses along U.S. 290, healthcare practices along Barker Cypress. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across Cypress verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a Cypress engagement is scoped
Scoping call (free, 30 minutes). Written specification (1-2 weeks, paid). Two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each. Pest tests alongside features. Handover with runbook and 30-day post-launch support window. In-person discovery available in the Cypress metro on request.
The national AI developer page
The AI developer practice across the country, with the full scope detail, lives on the AI Developer for Hire page. This page is the Cypress-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, Cypress-anchored copy.
Are you available for Cypress engagements?
Yes — one engagement at a time, fully present. In-person discovery in the Cypress metro is available on request; day-to-day work is remote-friendly.
What is your hourly rate?
Bespoke, scoped per engagement, written into SOW before contract. Pricing depends on engagement shape — hourly retainer, fixed-scope project, or agency white-label all have different rate cards. The scoping call produces a written total before anything is signed.
Do you work with energy operators in the northwest Houston footprint buyers in Cypress?
Yes — that is one of the largest Cypress verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to energy operators in the northwest Houston footprint.
How is this different from the national AI developer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — Cypress-anchored. This page exists for buyers searching by city; the national page lives at /ai-developer with the full role scope detail.
Scope This Engagement
Single principal, plan first, working code on every checkpoint.
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