Senior Software Engineer / AI Automation Engineer
Vancouver, Canada · Remote-friendly
Go · Python · Distributed Systems · AI Automation
I’m a backend-focused engineer with ~10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and AI-powered SaaS products.
I specialize in:
- Golang-first backend systems (microservices, data pipelines, infra tooling)
- AI & automation using LLMs (Gemini, Gemma, LangChain-Go, n8n)
- Product-minded engineering — shipping fast, clean, and reliable software
- Founding & building Micro-SaaS from 0 → production → monetization
I enjoy working at the intersection of systems engineering, AI, and business value.
- Languages: Go, Python, JavaScript / HTMX, SQL, Ruby (legacy)
- Backend & Data: Microservices, REST & GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Pub/Sub, ETL
- AI / Automation: LLMs (Gemini, Gemma), LangChain-Go, Prompt engineering, AI workflows & agents, n8n, Ollama
- Infra / DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Terraform, Ansible
- PropCopy.ai — AI-powered SaaS generating SEO-optimized property descriptions from photos. (Go, HTMX, Multimodal LLM, Stripe)
- PromptRefiner — High-performance SaaS for AI prompt optimization. (Go, HTMX, LangChain-Go, Gemma)
- Scrapions — Decentralized web scraping platform. (libp2p, Ethereum, Headless Chrome)
- Clean, readable, boring (in a good way) code
- Strong system design fundamentals
- Developer experience
- Products that actually ship and make money
- Using AI as a force multiplier, not a gimmick
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josuekouka
- GitHub: https://github.com/josuebrunel
“Make it work. Make it right. Make it scale.”