Rinards Sondors — Product Engineer & AI Specialist.
I think in product. I build in code. Product engineer & AI specialist building AI-native web apps, full-stack products, and websites — remote-first, working worldwide.
About
Half of engineering is deciding what not to build. I take that half as seriously as the other one. Based in Dublin, Ireland; working remotely with clients worldwide. One person owns the whole stack — no hand-offs, no account manager, no telephone game.
How I help
Design — We argue about the problem before writing anything. What's actually needed, what's scope creep, what can wait.
Develop — React up front, Python or Node behind, one codebase owned end to end — no hand-offs, no excuses.
Deliver — Working software in production, with the pipeline that builds it and the docs that explain it.
Services
- Build from zero — concept to shipped product: scoping, wireframes, architecture, development, deployment.
- AI integration — chatbots, RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, content automation. Production-grade, not prototype-grade.
- Technical consulting — architecture reviews, performance audits, SEO/GEO, fractional tech-lead.
Selected work
- ComplyLink — EU packaging law (PPWR) compliance for online sellers, built and run solo. 27 country dossiers where every fact is dated, sourced and re-checked daily by a monitored pipeline, plus an order-upload wizard that runs entirely in the browser so a merchant's CSV never leaves the page. Astro 7, Cloudflare Workers, D1, MapLibre.
- JobSee — One search across every Irish job source, matched to a profile by meaning rather than keywords, built and run solo. Hybrid retrieval: ESCO occupation expansion, pgvector embeddings, cross-encoder rerank. An AI career suite tailors CVs, writes cover letters, scores against ATS keywords and generates interview prep. Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector, Railway.
- CyberFX Studio — Agency site with a CMS the client edits themselves, so content changes need no developer. Mux video, GSAP motion, shipped on Cloudflare. Astro 5, Sanity, Tailwind CSS.
- ThinkPad — A productivity tool built around focus instead of features, designed, built and deployed end to end. React, TypeScript, Node.js.
- Finance App — A dashboard that answers questions instead of just charting numbers, running on real-time data in production. SvelteKit, Tailwind CSS, Chart.js.
What I work with
Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS. Backend: Go, Node.js, Python. Data: PostgreSQL, pgvector, SQLite and Cloudflare D1, Redis, Supabase. Infrastructure: Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Linux, CI/CD. Commerce: Shopify custom apps and headless storefronts. AI: LLM pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search and reranking, tool-calling agents.
Availability
Currently accepting new projects. Typically books 2–4 weeks out. Time-flexible, working with EU and US hours.
Common questions
- What does Rinards Sondors do?
- He is a product engineer and AI specialist based in Dublin, Ireland. He designs, builds and ships AI-native web apps, full-stack products and websites single-handedly — scoping, UI, architecture, code, infrastructure and deployment — and also runs his own products, ComplyLink and JobSee.
- Can he build an AI feature that works in production, not just a demo?
- Yes. He has shipped retrieval-augmented generation over real documentation, tool-calling agents that take actions in other systems, and semantic search with embedding and reranking pipelines. JobSee runs ESCO occupation expansion, pgvector embeddings and a cross-encoder rerank in production.
- Does he work with clients outside Ireland?
- Yes — he works remotely and is time-flexible across EU and US hours. Most work is delivered remotely.
- How much does a project cost?
- A focused MVP or feature typically lands in the €8k–€20k range and a full web application in the €20k–€45k range; larger platforms are phased from €45k, and ongoing work or fractional tech-lead runs €3k–€6k per month. These are honest planning ranges rather than quotes — every project is scoped individually and the exact figure comes in a proposal after a discovery call.
- How long does a project take?
- An MVP or focused feature is typically 4–6 weeks, a full web application 8–12 weeks, and a larger platform is phased over 12 or more weeks.
- What is he not a good fit for?
- Simple brochure sites or template WordPress work, "just code this exact Figma file" projects with no product thinking, emergency fixes on undocumented legacy systems, and projects where the cheapest bid wins.
Contact
contact@rinards.dev ·
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