Production AI systems
Voice sales agents, live AI coaching, RAG pipelines, and knowledge bases — engineered for latency, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.
Available now · Austin, TX
Daniel Noel
I build production AI and lead the teams that keep it running.
I've spent two decades launching startups, scaling platforms to millions of users, and shipping AI that holds up in production: voice agents, live coaching systems, RAG pipelines, and custom models trained on proprietary data.
My best work happens where executive judgment meets direct technical ownership. Think AI-first VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or a hands-on CTO who still ships.
Founder of Loji · Co-Founder & CTO of Ashore App · Founder of TavernScribe
- $2M
- AI contract delivered
- $3M
- Infra budget owned
- 8 yrs
- Production Kubernetes
- 20+ yrs
- Shipping software
What I do
Executive judgment, hands on the keyboard.
Custom model training
Fine-tuned LLMs and domain-specific neural networks trained on proprietary data — faster, cheaper, and more accurate than generic frontier calls, with sensitive data kept fully in-house.
AWS cloud architecture
Production architecture, networking, IAM, capacity planning, and cost control — operational ownership for business-critical systems.
Kubernetes & SRE
Custom autoscaling, observability, on-call systems, incident response, and release safety for platforms serving millions of users.
Engineering leadership
Hiring, process, and technical strategy. Teams that ship, and an executive seat that speaks both business and systems fluently.
Founder & operator
Three companies taken from zero to production — board-level judgment paired with hands still on the keyboard.
Selected work
Proof, not promises.
2025–26
Luminary Life
Live AI coaching for human sales agents plus AI voice agents that take calls and move conversations toward underwriting — real-time voice pipelines, LLM reasoning, and CRM workflows, delivered to production.
$2M contract
2016–24
Chatbooks
Architected and operated the AWS/Kubernetes platform behind millions of users; managed a $3M infrastructure budget, built custom autoscaling, and trained and served a photo-ranking ML model in production.
Millions of users
2019–now
Ashore App
Co-founded and built everything from the ground up — infrastructure, API, and client. Still running, and still profitable, a decade later.
$300K ARR
Beyond the résumé
The parts a CV can't hold.
Since age 10
First lines of code at ten. Still drawn to problems that require understanding a system all the way down to the metal.
Custom over generic
Happiest training a small, sharp model on proprietary data that beats a frontier API on cost, latency, and accuracy.
Oldest of nine
Grew up responsible for a small platoon. It shows in how I run teams: calm, accountable, no drama.
Military family
Navy pilot and Marine grandfathers, two Marine brothers. Long term, I want to do R&D that serves the country.
Magnetic fields
My team philosophy: line up everyone's magnetic fields so the whole pulls harder than the sum of its parts.
Sci-fi shelf
Lifelong science fiction reader who believes cold fusion is the key to the stars. Building TavernScribe where AI meets tabletop.
Let's talk
Need an engineering leader who still ships?
I'm looking for the next role I can go all in on — AI-first VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or hands-on CTO. I also take selective fractional CTO engagements through Loji.