Freelance AI engineer
AI that works inside your business.
I’m Roy, a freelance AI engineer in the UK. I work as a forward deployed AI engineer: with the people doing the work, from the first useful idea to a system they can rely on.
Umbraco, Optimizely and headless Next.js are part of that practice. Where a site is mostly content, I use Astro. If you need a freelance Astro developer for that kind of site, tell me. Assistants, workflows and integrations are Next.js.
- 25+ years
- engineering experience
- 2022 to April 2024
- Umbraco Headless Community Team
- Production AI
- LLM and retrieval at Happydance
Where it lands
Three places I do this work.
Freelance & contract engagements
The right support for the work ahead.
Bring me in for a defined project, embed me with your delivery team or add senior engineering leadership on a fractional basis.
How freelance and contract work is structuredAI implementation project
For a specific outcome
A defined assistant, automation or integration, from discovery through delivery.
Embedded AI engineer
For a team ready to build
Hands-on engineering capacity and technical direction alongside your existing team.
Fractional engineering manager
For senior guidance
Ongoing support with architecture, priorities, coaching and delivery leadership.
Let’s put AI to work
What would you like to make happen?
Tell me what your business needs, the systems involved and where you’re getting stuck. We’ll work out whether I’m the right person to help.