Lead Software Engineer and AI consultant. Early adopter of agentic engineering; leveraging it to maximize effectiveness and impact. Shipping production systems where correctness and speed matter, from conversational AI to enterprise payment infrastructure.
Builds the system that builds the system. Disciplined agentic engineering, not vibe coding: harnesses, context, and review loops that turn agents into production code
Builds intelligent tools, pipelines, and applications. RAG, tool-calling agents, evals, and guardrails, applied where they solve a real problem
Owns architecture and technology strategy, hires and grows engineers. Keeps systems simple so they hold up as the team and the tools move fast
Keeps the customer at the center from brainstorming through implementation. Ships what solves the problem, not what is most interesting to build
I am an avid learner and am always looking for ways to improve my craft. Whether it is agents and agentic engineering, functional programming paradigms, or reading business books, I like to stay up to date on the latest technologies, tooling, and best practices so that I can bring the greatest value in the shortest time to my team and customers.
Lead engineer building two flagship products. Architected a RAG-based conversational AI agent that helps buyers find the perfect property, backed by a knowledge base built from crawling and indexing affiliated real estate websites. Also building an enterprise payout and payment platform for the Indian market that integrates directly with banks to access a wide range of payment rails, featuring an intelligent payout queue that routes each transaction based on rail, live bank rate-limit capacity, time of day, and many other real-time factors.
Provide independent software and AI consulting across a range of clients, including a national truck-stop chain and fuel network, an educational platform startup, and a local school. Advise on and build software and AI-driven solutions tailored to each client's business and technical needs.
Core member of team responsible for creating new contractor insurance and financial evaluation applications that directly led to acquisition of several new clients. Refactored and improved legacy code and features to improve reliability, maintainability, and correctness. Identified and proposed solutions for several security vulnerabilities, performance improvements, and product management/business processes. Led discussions on and presented language features, programming concepts, best practices, etc. to share knowledge and give my team tools to create better, less error prone code.
Responsible for all technical decisions, architecture, implementation, and performance of Motil's web and two mobile applications. Hired and managed small team of engineers to build and maintain Motil's applications. Managed external development and designer partners. Built and maintained scheduling, payment processing, CRM, hosted customer business web fronts, LLM powered virtual business assistant, and many other features. Deployed two mobile apps for iOS and Android. Established and enforced design and code standards, focusing on simplicity, maintainability, and reusability. Averaged 24 hour turnaround time for reported customer issues.
Dev lead for Quickbooks Time retention team, built GraphQL API for integration with Intuit Ecosystem, member of API Governance Team, held key positions for several innovations that spanned the entire product development organization, led many discussions around customer obsession based initiatives.
Create, debug, and improve internal and public API, data management system, brand websites, and marketing promo websites.
Built and maintained custom websites using the custom framework LaraPress, which is built with Laravel and Wordpress. Improved skills of source control management, project deployment, development lifecycle, and efficient collaboration with team members.
Tyler Rhinehart — tyler.rhinehart22@gmail.com — (385) 722-4211