Michael C.

AI & Full-Stack Web App Developer | Django, Flask, LLM/RAG, IoT

You need software that works the first time, ships on schedule, and doesn't require you to babysit the developer. That's what you get here. Most of my work has the same shape. A business outgrew its spreadsheets, shared inboxes, and someone's memory, and now needs a real web application — scheduling, dispatch, records, customer portals, admin dashboards, role-based access, reporting. Django or Flask on PostgreSQL, structured to maintain for years instead of to demo once. Increasingly that application needs AI inside it, and most of what gets sold as AI work is a chatbot bolted onto a website. What I build acts on your own data: retrieval pipelines over your documents, extraction that pulls structured fields out of scanned PDFs and flags what it isn't sure about, and agents that do work instead of answering questions. I've built a document knowledge base for an inspection company, clinical-indicator extraction from scanned referral documents for a home health agency, and a pipeline I built and run that parses thousands of government solicitation PDFs every month. Published AI researcher (arXiv:2602.16760) with original work on privacy-preserving LLM inference. Where I'm unusual: when the application has to talk to the physical world, I don't hand it off. I've built the sensor side too — a pressure-cycling test system with live data and calibration, a paint booth monitoring suite, a wireless conveyor counter, a cellular RS-232 bridge, and a commercial instrumentation product I built and still sell. Most developers stop at the API. Most integrators stop at the dashboard. If your project crosses that line, you don't need two vendors and a meeting between them. And you get a developer who thinks like a business owner, because that's what I was for 16 years. I ran a multi-state industrial services company — $2M+ annual revenue, 40 employees, 10 field units. I understand deadlines, stakeholders, P&L impact, and what "done" actually means. You won't need to chase me for updates or explain why something matters to your business. What I've shipped Web applications and backends: a carrier dispatch platform with real-time tracking, a field-services booking system with city-level lead attribution, a management suite for a backflow-testing company, an operations suite for a home health agency, and a $16,900 Python web application delivered at 5 stars over 260 hours. Currently building an on-premises records platform with multi-state search across about a million sensitive documents and zero cloud dependency. AI in production: a pgvector document knowledge base with multimodal PDF parsing and grounded question answering, OCR plus LLM extraction of clinical indicators from scanned hospice referral documents, construction-plan extraction pulling steel member specs off architectural drawings, and my own agent infrastructure — vector memory, task routing, tool use — that I run daily and build client systems on. Industrial and field systems: pressure-cycling test automation, automotive paint booth monitoring, real-time conveyor counting, WITS data streaming, and mobile field-inspection apps with photo capture, GPS, and offline sync. Data and automation: high-volume fault-tolerant extraction with Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and Playwright — proxy rotation, session management, pipelines that still run months later. Why clients stay • No handholding. You describe the problem. I deliver the solution, flag risks early, and communicate proactively. • Business owner mindset. Your budget, timeline, and ROI matter to me, not just the code. • One developer, whole stack. Sensors, backend, database, frontend, AI — no coordination overhead and nobody to blame. • Written weekly updates. You always know where the project stands without asking. • Top Rated Plus, about 75% repeat business. Clients come back, which is the only metric that can't be gamed. Industries: Manufacturing, Healthcare, Legal, Transportation/Logistics, Financial, Construction, Automotive, Property Services, Government/Defense Contracting. Tell me what you're building. You'll get an honest assessment of fit — and if it's a match, you'll get it delivered. US-based and highly responsive.