Brad Anthony / AI-Native Design Engineer

    I design the interfacebetween people, systemsand intelligence.

    15+ years designing and engineering production web systems — now combining product thinking, interface design, frontend architecture and AI into intelligent digital experiences.

    • Design systems
    • AI products
    • Agentic interfaces
    • Web platforms
    • Technical leadership
    Explore selected systems

    Available for selected embedded, fractional and AI-native product engagements.

    What are you trying to build?

    Selected systems

    Evidence, not thumbnails.

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    01AI retrieval platform

    Poseidon

    Grounded search and evaluation infrastructure for a European tech team.

    Retrieval console interface showing a query, ranked passages with citations and an evaluation metrics panel
    Role
    System architecture, retrieval design, evaluation tooling, frontend
    Disciplines
    Intelligence · Engineering · Operations
    Technology
    TypeScript, Python, Postgres, pgvector, Hybrid search, LLM evaluation, React
    Read the case study
    02SDR knowledge agent

    Nereus

    Website knowledge base agent that lets SDRs answer live prospect questions with grounded, up-to-date answers.

    Knowledge agent interface showing a crawled site tree beside a grounded answer with source citations
    Role
    Product design, agent architecture, crawling and indexing pipeline, frontend
    Disciplines
    Intelligence · Design · Engineering
    Technology
    TypeScript, React, LLM orchestration, Web crawling, Semantic indexing, Retrieval
    Read the case study
    03Legal evidence agent

    Aegir

    Litigation evidence agent that classifies, tags, and triages case documents to dramatically speed up review workflows.

    Evidence review interface showing documents with classification tags, confidence scores and triage status
    Role
    System design, classification pipeline, review interface, frontend architecture
    Disciplines
    Intelligence · Engineering · Operations
    Technology
    TypeScript, Python, Document processing, LLM classification, Postgres, React
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    04Product engineering

    Yemaya

    End-to-end product build for a climate-monitoring startup — from schema to shipping.

    Climate monitoring dashboard with sensor time-series charts, a sensor map and a data pipeline panel
    Role
    Product strategy, data architecture, full-stack engineering, interface design
    Disciplines
    Strategy · Design · Engineering · Operations
    Technology
    TypeScript, React, Postgres, Time-series data, Sensor ingestion, Geospatial mapping
    Read the case study
    05Property matching agent

    Pontus

    Natural-language property matching that turns buyer demand into qualified leads and live market intelligence for agencies.

    Property matching interface with a natural-language buyer brief, matched listings and market intelligence charts
    Role
    Product design, matching architecture, search interface, engineering
    Disciplines
    Intelligence · Design · Engineering
    Technology
    TypeScript, React, Natural-language search, LLM extraction, Ranking, Postgres
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    06Legal workflow platform

    Oceanus

    Matter-scoped legal AI workflow suite where every action belongs to a matter, every output is a cited draft, and nothing ships without attorney approval.

    Legal workflow interface showing a matter list, a cited draft document and an attorney approval workflow
    Role
    Product strategy, system architecture, workflow and interface design, engineering
    Disciplines
    Strategy · Intelligence · Engineering · Operations
    Technology
    TypeScript, React, LLM orchestration, Retrieval, Citation grounding, Postgres
    Read the case study
    07Marketing site / interaction system

    This website

    A portfolio that claims fluency across design, engineering and AI has to prove it in its own interface, not in a list of skills.

    Role
    Strategy, design, frontend architecture, content, SEO, performance
    Disciplines
    Strategy · Design · Engineering · Intelligence · Operations
    Technology
    React 19, TypeScript, TanStack Start, Tailwind CSS v4, Motion, Canvas
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    Capabilities

    One operator. Multiple layers.

    Select a layer to see what it touches. The value is not any single layer — it is moving between them without a handoff losing the intent.

    The build system

    From ambiguity to production.

    The promise underneath every engagement: turning unclear problems into durable systems, then staying long enough to see what they reveal.

    1. 01

      Understand

      Interrogate the real problem, the constraints and who is affected before proposing anything.

    2. 02

      Model

      Map the system: entities, flows, states, edges. Ambiguity gets structure here or nowhere.

    3. 03

      Design

      Interface and information architecture, built on tokens and components rather than screens.

    4. 04

      Engineer

      Typed, accessible, performant frontend architecture — production code, not a prototype.

    5. 05

      Validate

      Real devices, real content, real edge cases. Accessibility and performance are acceptance criteria.

    6. 06

      Ship

      Deploy with the boring parts handled: metadata, analytics, caching, rollback, documentation.

    7. 07

      Observe

      Instrumentation and search visibility so behaviour is measured instead of assumed.

    8. 08

      Improve

      Feed what the system reveals back into the model. Durable systems are iterated, not finished.

    About

    Several professional lives, one instinct for systems.

    Several professional lives, all of them about systems. The pattern underneath — read the system, model it, make it usable — is what AI now multiplies.

    Before software

    Habitat biologist

    Field ecology trains you to read systems you did not design: interdependence, feedback loops, and the difference between a symptom and a cause.

    Writing

    24 published strategy guides

    Long-form technical writing for players who needed to understand complex systems quickly. Structure, hierarchy and clarity, at volume.

    Discipline

    II Degree Taekwon-Do black belt

    Years of deliberate practice on fundamentals. It is the same instinct that makes design systems and typed architectures feel worth the effort.

    Working life

    15+ years remote, 26 countries

    Delivering production work across time zones and cultures, for teams that never shared a room.

    Global fieldwork · 26 countries

    Every project shaped by the room I was in

    Remote-first across six continents. Fifteen years of work in different time zones, different languages, and different definitions of ‘done’ — all of it in service of shipping durable web systems.

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    Countries
    0+
    Years remote
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    Continents
    AND
    Andorra
    BRA
    Brazil
    CAN
    Canada
    CHE
    Switzerland
    CHN
    China
    CRI
    Costa Rica
    DEU
    Germany
    DOM
    Dominican Rep.
    ESP
    Spain
    FRA
    France
    GBR
    United Kingdom
    HKG
    Hong Kong
    IDN
    Indonesia
    ITA
    Italy
    KOR
    South Korea
    MEX
    Mexico
    PRT
    Portugal
    QAT
    Qatar
    SCT
    Scotland
    SGP
    Singapore
    THA
    Thailand
    TWN
    Taiwan
    USA
    United States
    VAT
    Vatican City
    VNM
    Vietnam
    ZAF
    South Africa

    Stack

    Tools change. Capability compounds.

    Technology is implementation detail. The durable skill is knowing what system should exist.

    Build

    Interfaces that survive production.

    • React 19
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • CSS
    • Tailwind CSS v4
    • TanStack Start
    • TanStack Router
    • Vite
    • Radix UI
    • shadcn/ui

    Design

    Systems, not screens.

    • Figma
    • Design systems
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
    • Midjourney
    • Mapbox

    Intelligence

    AI that changes the outcome.

    • LLM APIs & AI SDKs
    • Prompt engineering
    • Context engineering
    • Agent development
    • ChatGPT
    • Claude
    • Gemini
    • Ollama
    • n8n
    • CrewAI
    • SS&C Blue Prism RPA
    • ElevenLabs

    Data

    Decisions grounded in evidence.

    • SQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • TanStack Query
    • Structured data
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Search Console
    • Screaming Frog

    Operate

    Systems that stay alive after launch.

    • Git
    • WordPress
    • NationBuilder
    • Kinsta
    • Supabase
    • Technical SEO
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Playwright
    • Vitest
    • ESLint

    Continuous learning

    37+ certifications, and still counting

    A running record of what I’ve been sharpening — automation, AI governance, prompt engineering, security, and the fundamentals that never stop mattering.

    AI, Automation & Governance

    • Robotic Process Automation Professional Certificate

      SS&C Blue Prism · 2026

    • The Startup/SMB Guide to Integrating and Managing AI Agents

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • Introduction to Conversational AI

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • RPA in Action: Use Cases to Inspire

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • Process Discovery for Robotic Process Automation

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • RPA, AI, and Cognitive Tech for Leaders

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • Intelligent Automation Foundations

      LinkedIn · 2026

    • Process Mining for Robotic Process Automation

      LinkedIn · 2026

    Prompt Engineering & Security

    • Prompt Engineering

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Prompt Engineering: Cloud Computing & IoT Hacking

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Prompt Engineering: Web Application & Database Hacking

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Generative AI for Scanning & Enumeration

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Generative AI for Malware & Social Engineering

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Generative AI for System Hacking

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Ethical Hacking & Generative AI Fusion

      Codecademy · 2025

    • Mobile Platform Security in the GenAI Era

      Codecademy · 2025

    UX, Cybersecurity & Web Development

    • Foundations of UX: Multidevice Design

      LinkedIn · 2016

    • Foundations of UX: Accessibility

      LinkedIn · 2016

    • Foundations of UX: Prototyping

      LinkedIn · 2016

    • UX Design Techniques: Overview

      LinkedIn · 2016

    • Foundations of Cybersecurity

      LinkedIn · 2016

    • JavaScript I–III

      Code School · 2015

    • MongoDB

      Code School · 2015

    • SQL I–II

      Code School · 2015

    Engagement

    Bring me the difficult part.

    01

    Embedded design engineering

    For teams building or rebuilding an important digital surface.

    I join as a single operator who can research, design, build and ship — removing the handoffs that usually slow the work down.

    02

    AI-native product & workflow

    For companies turning AI capability into actual usable systems.

    Interfaces, agents and automations grounded in real context, with clear boundaries on what the model is allowed to do.

    03

    Fractional technical leadership

    For organisations needing senior ownership without another executive hire.

    Architecture decisions, standards, vendor judgment and production accountability — at the depth the problem requires.

    Contact

    What are you trying to make possible?

    Tell me what you're building, what's stuck, or what you think could be better.

    Or write directly: hello@bradanthony.co