Building production AI · Open to freelance work · 2026

AI software engineer
designing agentic systems
that hold up in production.

I design, build, and operate AI systems used by real teams — intent routing, safe tool-use, structured outputs, and the serverless infrastructure underneath. I treat AI as production software, not a demo.

Portrait of Panya Ou on the California coast
Panya Ou SLO · CA
Focus Applied AI · Agents · Serverless
Stack AWS Bedrock · Python · TypeScript
Status Available
Now

Where my attention is.

Building

Production-grade AI agents — a Microsoft Teams assistant on AWS Bedrock that gives users a safe, conversational interface to backend systems, and a Text-to-SQL agent over an enterprise HR / payroll database. Plus migrating a decades-old Smalltalk/FileMaker stack onto serverless AWS.

On personal time: LingoGrasp (cross-platform language-learning app) and an AI SaaS generator — auth, billing, sandboxed code execution, real-time preview.

Going deep on

The patterns that make agents reliable in production: multi-step tool use, structured outputs, schema-grounded prompting, and confirm-before-invoke on destructive actions. Field notes land in the Learning Lab.

Closing out an M.S. in Software Engineering (AI focus) and the AWS Solutions Architect / Developer associate track.

Let's talk

Building something interesting? I'd love to hear about it.

Open to senior AI / software engineering roles — full-time or contract. Happiest in conversations about how systems get built.