About
Hi, I'm Daz.
I'm a full-stack AI engineer and technical founder. I write production code every day and a lot of careful prompt and pipeline work. I'm a builder who can lead a team, but I'm at my best when I'm shipping.
The short version
I've been writing code since 2000 and shipping companies since 2008. Originally from England, I came to the US on an O-1 "Extraordinary Ability" visa and became a citizen. Today I'm in Dallas, Texas, and I work out of FluxAI US Inc., the studio I co-founded.
Across two decades I've built and run e-commerce companies (Harland Corp, Redu Group), been CTO of a $30M hair-and-beauty network (Beauty&Hair), co-founded one of the earliest voice-AI shopping assistants (CODY, 2015 - before "voice AI" was a category), and built a social publishing platform with 0.9B annual impressions (SocialX).
For the last three years I've been heads-down on AI - architecting, coding, and deploying AI-native products end-to-end. Three of them are in production right now: a meeting intelligence platform, a phone-and-web AI receptionist, and a private-cloud autonomous SDR.
Off the clock I still build: I open-sourced Continual Coder, a self-improving coding harness for LLM agents, and I recently finished writing a novel, Monkey. Human. Robot. - then built it an interactive, illustrated home online.
20+
years shipping software
5
companies co-founded
200+
people employed across ventures
$40M+
revenue generated
What I do
Full-stack AI engineering. The whole loop - frontend, backend, AI pipelines, infra. Python and TypeScript across the stack, and the AI plumbing underneath: custom RAG, vector indices, prompt orchestration, structured LLM output, cost-tracked LLM calls, MCP tool use. Along the way I've invented two proprietary document-AI systems: D3R (Document Distillation by Deductive Reasoning) and DEfRAG (Document Enrichment for RAG).
Production infrastructure. I run GPU servers I built myself - CUDA, vLLM, model serving, batch and queue systems. Container orchestration on my own hypervisor, mesh-VPN networking, dual-WAN failover, tunnel-based ingress. I've personally served hundreds of thousands of generated images and full-duplex voice traffic from this stack.
Real-time voice. WebRTC, NAT traversal, ICE candidate gathering, custom real-time voice pipeline, STT/LLM/TTS stitched into sub-three-second latency. Phone and browser, end-to-end.
The boring stuff that makes AI production-grade. Webhook idempotency, rate limiting, OAuth (with separate scopes for separate integrations), tenant isolation at the queryset layer, RFC 8058 unsubscribes, dry-run modes, observability. Most "AI projects" hand-wave this; mine don't.
Stack
What I reach for. Tools change; principles don't.
Languages
Application layer
AI
AI infrastructure
Data & ops
Career arc
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2022 - Present
Technical Co-Founder & Full-Stack AI Engineer · FluxAI US Inc.
Hands-on technical founder. Personally architect, code, and deploy a suite of AI-native products - Beaver AI, VoiceDesk, Brimley, FluxAgents, and a production image-generation engine on bare-metal GPUs.
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2022 · 2022
AI Developer & Consultant · Smartico
Built Aura, a voice agent for call centres that cut human agent load by 40%. Built Hammy, an AI email triage tool. End-to-end prototypes on two-to-four-week sprints.
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2017 - 2022
CTO & Lead Engineer · Beauty&Hair
Headhunted as CTO for North America's largest online hair-and-beauty e-commerce network (~4M annual visitors). Grew revenue from $14M to $30M through technology efficiencies. Early AI proof-of-concept work with frontier LLMs and synthetic voice.
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2016 - 2017
Co-Founder & CTO · SocialX
Built a social-media publishing platform managing 2M+ fans, 76M monthly reach, and 0.9B annual impressions.
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2015 - 2016
Co-Founder & CEO · CODY
Built one of the first voice-AI shopping assistants. Natural-language commerce, before that was a sentence anyone said.
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Earlier
Co-Founder · Redu Group & Harland Corp
Redu grew to £2M/month retail sales, a 15-person team, and 600K+ fans in 15 months. Harland - one of the UK's leading online beauty companies - 731% growth, national-award winner.
Before all that
The pre-AI years were not quiet either.
- Early web pioneer - built one of the first independent music community sites in 2000: 26,000 members, 3.5M+ interactions.
- The Powerhouse - grew the UK's biggest under-18s dance event from one venue and 600 attendees to eight venues across England.
- National press - turned a nascent fashion trend into the UK's largest hair-feathers retailer and manufacturer, covered in Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times.
- Board positions - invited to the board of the Sunderland Football Club Foundation, among other roles.
Recognition
- 2025 Tech Innovation Award - AI Luminaries, theCUBEd
- O-1 Visa Recipient - Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement (now US citizen)
- Innovation Through Technology - National Winner, British Chambers of Commerce (awarded by Dell)
- Outstanding Achievement Award - National Winner, British Chambers of Commerce (awarded by Dell)
- David Goldman Young Entrepreneur of the Year - Newcastle University
- One of the Most Influential People in the North East of England - The Journal, 2011
What people say
"Daz is one of the most dynamic young entrepreneurs in our region. Passionate and focused, he is developing a great business."
"He has received a number of awards, both regionally and nationally, which recognize how he has grown and adapted his business. His is a great success story."
"An inspirational speaker and superb role model for young entrepreneurs. I'm aware of his future development plans, which are even more ambitious, and I am confident he will achieve his goals."
"A lively but focused entrepreneur who displays an understanding of web-based and real-world business beyond his years. He is fun to work with and a fountain of knowledge on just doing it."
Looking for a remote AI Developer.
If you're hiring for a role where I'd own AI features end-to-end - frontend through inference infrastructure - I'd love to hear about it.