Christopher McNamara.Full-Stack / Applied AI Engineer.
I build and operate production AI, backend, and financial systems solo through my studio, Ormond Labs LLC: Python, FastAPI, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and daily agentic engineering workflows with Claude Code and Codex. Ormond Beach, Florida. Remote (US).
Built to run in production.
Not just in demos.
Financial-Operations Platform
Built and operate a production financial-operations platform for a private operator: ~$56M gross ledgered volume, 24,000+ transactions, 200+ API endpoints, 40+ database tables, backend-enforced RBAC. Reconciliation and audit infrastructure with immutable adjustment journals, scheduled auditors, drift detection, and fail-closed data imports.
Agentic Engineering System
A daily AI engineering workflow run against production repos: multi-model build and review roles, local RAG project memory, eval and review gates, and approval boundaries so destructive or money-impacting changes require explicit human confirmation.
Voice Assistant
An approval-gated voice assistant: voice in, transcription, intent, then explicit human approval before any action, with capability phases deliberately locked until safe to unlock. 41 tests plus a live smoke harness.
Aura
Built a multi-tenant AI content SaaS end-to-end: per-tenant auth, tiered billing, PostgreSQL schema and migrations, React/TypeScript frontend, provider-agnostic LLM routing with fallback chains, and cloud deploy.
Shipped Desktop Tools
Daily Planner (115 public CI-passing tests and a tagged release), Scrolly Polly Notely (99 CI-passing tests and 8 public releases), SubTracker, and CrewChief, whose private showcase is postponed while active development continues.
Reliable systems. Deliberate process.
End-to-end, in small teams or solo
Ambiguous product problem in, reliable production system out: backend, frontend, data, deploy, monitoring, and runbooks.
Reliability around AI output
Second-model review gates, evals, invariant checks, and human approval boundaries before risky actions.
Risk thinking from a prior life
Professional poker player for 15 years before software. Risk, EV, and downside planning show up directly in the systems I build.
Tools I ship with.
Hiring an engineer whose systems have to work? Let's talk.
Open to founding-engineer, applied AI, and full-stack roles. Remote (US). Email is the fastest way to reach me.