Builder → AI Agents, Open Source, AI-First Businesses
Building the future with AI. 9+ years of engineering experience, now focused on AI agents, open source infrastructure, and AI-native products.
Building AI agents, open source tools, and AI-first businesses. Deeply invested in AI research, agentic systems, and infrastructure for the AI era. Combining entrepreneurial background with technical expertise to ship products that matter.
2026: AI-native products, open source contributions, agentic AI research
- $20K MRR Chrome extension for Amazon automation
- $28M+ NFT project sales generated
- 487+ automated WordPress pages (90% content creation reduction)
- $50K-100K annual SEO value delivered
- 100/100 PageSpeed scores achieved
- LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models
- Agentic Systems: LangChain, AutoGPT, custom agent frameworks
- AI Infrastructure: Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate), RAG systems, embeddings
- AI/ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, fine-tuning, prompt engineering
- Languages: Typescript, Python, PHP, JavaScript
- Frontend: React 19, Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS, GSAP, Vite
- Backend: FASTAPI, SQL, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Websockets
- WordPress: Custom themes/plugins, ACF Pro
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible
- Platforms: AWS, GCP, bare-metal homelab
- Tools: Git, CI/CD, Monitoring (Prometheus), Linux (NeoVim, Tmux)
Enterprise WordPress platform for multi-location HVAC business.
- 487+ dynamically generated service pages
- 100/100 PageSpeed score
- Self-hosted infrastructure (full DevOps experience)
Next.js 15 platform showcasing full-stack expertise.
- Blog with all my wins and loses
📈 Professional Journey
Digital Age Marketing Group - WordPress Developer
- 20+ custom WordPress themes and plugins
- PHP 7+ and modern development workflows
- High-converting WordPress websites (100% satisfaction)
- 40% repeat business rate
- Amazon Dropshipping automation tool hit $20K MRR
- First major entrepreneurial success
- $28M+ NFT project sales
- Burnout → spiritual sabbatical
- Traveled: Peru, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, India
- Built AI products, learned LLMs and RAG systems
- Realized: AI is the future, invest time where it matters
- Self-hosted family HVAC business (complete DevOps stack)
- Built infrastructure for AI/ML workloads in homelab
- Deep dive into agent frameworks, vector databases, RAG systems
- Systemized knowledge with Zettelkasten
- Building AI agents and agentic systems
- Open source contributions to AI tooling
- AI-first products and businesses
- Research at the intersection of AI and human productivity
📚 Learning Resources
- Building AI Applications (various)
- Hands-On Machine Learning (Aurélien Géron)
- Deep Learning (Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville)
- Research papers on agents, RAG, and LLMs
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
- Site Reliability Engineering (Google SRE books)
- How Linux Works
- Team Topologies
- Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
- $100M Offers (Alex Hormozi)
- Atomic Habits (James Clear)
- The Mom Test
🤝 FAQ
What are you working on? AI agents, open source AI tooling, and AI-first businesses. I'm building practical AI systems that solve real problems.
Are you available for hire? Open to interesting opportunities in AI/ML, product engineering, and founding teams. Remote-friendly.
What's your approach to AI? Pragmatic and hands-on. I ship products, not just research papers. Focus on AI that provides tangible value—agents that automate workflows, RAG systems that surface knowledge, and tools that augment human capability.
What unique perspective do you bring? Entrepreneurial background ($20K MRR product, $28M+ NFT sales) + 9 years engineering = I build AI products that actually work and can scale. Full-stack experience means I can ship end-to-end AI applications.
What's your experience with AI/ML? LLMs since 2022, built RAG systems, worked with vector databases, implemented agentic workflows. Currently diving deeper into agent architectures, fine-tuning, and open-source AI infrastructure.
- Email: thekelvinperez@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/TheKelvinPerez
- Twitter: @TheKelvinPerez
- Portfolio: kelvinperez.com
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Last updated: January 2026