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Aiden ten Velden

AI Consultant & Full-Stack Developer

I build, ship, and maintain the systems that quietly do the work — from production AI agents to the servers they run on. Senior engineering for businesses that want results, not slideware.

Get in touch What I do
  • AI agents
  • Full-stack engineering
  • Secure infrastructure
  • AI strategy
What I do

Build, ship, and consult on the things businesses are figuring out right now.

  • Production AI agents

    Agents that ship real work — tool use, memory, evaluation loops, guardrails. Built to run unattended, not to demo well.

  • Coding with AI

    Embedding Claude, Cursor, and modern AI workflows into engineering teams so you ship multiples faster — without compromising code quality or review discipline.

  • Full-stack engineering

    TypeScript, React, Next, Astro, Node, Postgres. End-to-end ownership from schema to UI to deploy pipeline.

  • Databases & data infrastructure

    Schema design, migrations that don’t break prod, query performance tuning, vector stores for retrieval. Postgres, SQLite, Pinecone, pgvector.

  • Servers & secure infrastructure

    Provision, harden, and maintain Linux servers and cloud infra to current SOC 2 security standards. Observability, zero-downtime deploys, automated backups, incident response.

  • AI strategy for business

    For teams figuring out where AI fits and where it doesn’t. From audit and roadmap through to first production rollout — measured in outcomes, not pilots.

About

I'm Aiden ten Velden — I build AI systems that survive contact with real users, real load, and real audits.

Years of building complex software end-to-end — databases, backends, frontends, and the servers they all run on. These days most of that work has AI threaded through it: production agents, retrieval pipelines, internal tools that quietly take work off people's plates.

I treat infrastructure the same way I treat code: provisioned, hardened, and maintained to current SOC 2 standards. Observability, automated backups, zero-downtime deploys — the kind of foundation that lets you sleep when you're on call.

On the consulting side I work with businesses figuring out where AI actually fits — and where it doesn't. The goal isn't slideware. It's systems that ship and keep shipping.

Got an idea, a half-built prototype, or just a question? Let's talk.

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