# Vincent Vais — Software Consulting

> Full-stack software engineer and independent consultant based in Austin, Texas. Ships web products, LLM and RAG features, architecture, and automation. Works remotely with clients worldwide.

## Summary

- Name: Vincent Vais
- Role: Senior software engineer (day job at an ecommerce platform) and independent consultant on the side
- Location: Austin, TX — remote-friendly, any timezone
- Experience: 6+ years shipping web products in production
- Contact: vincentvais17@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-vais-b05196193/
- Product co-build: Thinkupsocial — education advisor marketplace (https://thinkupsocial.com/)

## Services (what I help with)

- Product engineering — web apps, APIs, full-stack delivery
- Architecture and strategy — reviews, technology selection, scoping workshops
- AI and automation — LLM integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), internal tools, workflow automation
- Cloud and DevOps — AWS, GCP, CI/CD, reliability
- MVP sprints — focused builds for early products
- Team support — code review, pair programming, coaching

## Selected outcomes (representative)

- Shipped relevance-based full-text search that lifted user retention by 20%
- Led three engineers on an image resizing service that cut latency for digital assets
- Full-stack features that helped grow a streaming-style product to 60,000+ customers in its first year
- Built a Netflix-style collaborative filtering recommendation engine
- Python SEO automation that saved a marketing team roughly $20,000 per year in manual work
- Currently integrating LLM-powered product features with RAG

## Tech stack (typical)

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, TDD

## How to hire

Email vincentvais17@gmail.com or use the contact form on the website. Reply within one business day.

## Human-readable website

https://vincentvais.com/

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