AI Development Advisor and Mentor

**Technical Advisor / AI Development Mentor Needed** I'm looking for a highly experienced technical professional to serve as an advisor and mentor as I build software products using modern AI development tools. I am not seeking a full-time developer or agency. I am looking for someone who can provide strategic guidance, review architecture decisions, answer technical questions, troubleshoot challenges, and help me accelerate my learning and execution. **Current Stack & Areas of Focus** I am primarily building with: * Claude Opus (prompting and agent design) * Cursor * n8n * Supabase * Git/GitHub * Twilio * Retell AI * Hostinger VPS and Linux deployments I am especially interested in guidance around: * Designing scalable AI agent architectures * Production-grade deployments * Database design and optimization * API integrations * Authentication and security * Observability, logging, and monitoring * Cost optimization * Reliability and fault tolerance * Supporting thousands of concurrent users * Moving from prototype to production The ideal advisor has hands-on experience building and operating systems at scale and can help identify architectural weaknesses before they become expensive problems. Areas of expertise I'm interested in: * Software architecture * AI and LLM applications * AI agents and workflows * Data engineering and pipelines * API integrations * Cloud infrastructure * Databases and vector databases * Product development best practices * Modern development tools and frameworks What I need: * Periodic consulting sessions * Architecture reviews * Technical feedback and recommendations * Best practices and "gotchas" * Help evaluating tools and technologies * Troubleshooting complex issues * Guidance that helps me become more effective and independent Ideal candidate: * Senior software engineer, data engineer, solutions architect, or AI consultant * Strong communication skills * Able to explain technical concepts clearly * Experience advising founders, product builders, or non-traditional developers * Comfortable working on an hourly basis Please include: 1. Your background and areas of expertise 2. Technologies and frameworks you work with most often 3. Examples of products or systems you've helped build 4. Your hourly rate 5. Why you'd be a good fit for this type of advisory relationship My goal is to move faster, avoid common mistakes, and develop stronger technical judgment while building products.