Richmond AI Developer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior AI developer in Richmond, 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, Richmond buyers served remote with in-person discovery available.
Richmond as a buyer market for AI developer work
Downtown Richmond, the Fort Bend County Courthouse complex, Pecan Grove, the U.S. 59 / Highway 90A corridor — Richmond is the Fort Bend County seat and the historic anchor of the area south-west of Houston. The dominant verticals are Fort Bend County government and county-services contractors, agriculture-adjacent businesses, Lamar Consolidated ISD education operators, mid-market service businesses on the U.S. 59 corridor.
What I ship as a Richmond 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 Richmond vertical the buyer operates in — Fort Bend County government and county-services contractors, agriculture-adjacent businesses, Lamar Consolidated ISD education operators, mid-market service businesses on the U.S. 59 corridor each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a Richmond AI Developer
Buyers across Fort Bend County government and county-services contractors, agriculture-adjacent businesses, Lamar Consolidated ISD education operators, mid-market service businesses on the U.S. 59 corridor. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across Richmond verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, Richmond-anchored copy.
Are you available for Richmond engagements?
Yes — one engagement at a time, fully present. In-person discovery in the Richmond 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 Fort Bend County government and county-services contractors buyers in Richmond?
Yes — that is one of the largest Richmond verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to Fort Bend County government and county-services contractors.
How is this different from the national AI developer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — Richmond-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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