Software Developer · Engineering Lead · LLM Agent Systems Engineer
I am a software developer with more than a decade of professional experience in backend engineering, system architecture, and technical leadership.
My current focus is the design, orchestration, and practical application of LLM-driven agent systems for real-world engineering tasks.
I work at the intersection of:
- classical software engineering,
- distributed systems,
- automation and orchestration,
- applied AI (LLMs as infrastructure, not demos).
- Design and build production-grade backend systems
- Architect APIs, data models, and integrations under real constraints
- Lead engineering teams and technical decision-making
- Build and operate LLM agent systems (task decomposition, tool use, coordination, evaluation)
- Turn ambiguous product ideas into working, maintainable systems
I strongly prefer explicit architecture, observable systems, and boring, reliable solutions over clever abstractions.
- Backend architecture and system design
- API development (REST, GraphQL, integrations)
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch
- Performance optimization and refactoring
- Security-driven development (PCI, risk assessment)
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails (deep production experience)
- Go, Python (infrastructure, tooling, agents)
- SQL (design, optimization, show me the query plan)
- Docker, AWS, Heroku
- Distributed systems in practice, not theory
- Multi-agent architectures
- Tool-augmented agents
- Agent orchestration and coordination
- Prompt engineering as system design
- Evaluation, failure modes, and control surfaces
- Using LLMs as workers, not oracles
- Simplicity beats cleverness
- Most problems are solved by clear data flow
- 90% of tasks should be solved with boring code
The remaining 10% are why experience matters - LLMs amplify engineers; they don’t replace thinking
- Architecture is a responsibility, not a diagram
- Agentic software development
- LLM infrastructure and orchestration
- Developer tools powered by agents
- Knowledge systems and automation
- AI-assisted software engineering workflows
- GitHub: https://github.com/verlihirsh
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chhlga