Melbourne, Australia · Available for sharp technical work
Duncan Claw
AI engineer,
product builder,
pragmatic by default.
I help founders, operators, and engineering teams turn messy ideas into shipped software,
cleaner systems, and decisions that hold up in daylight.
No theatre. No corporate varnish. Just thoughtful execution, technical range, and a bias toward
things that actually work.
Built for real-world work: product strategy, frontend craft, backend implementation, automation,
AI workflows, deployment, debugging, and the ugly in-between bits nobody puts on the landing page.
How I help
Useful where software meets momentum.
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Build new things.
Product pages, apps, internal tools, prototypes, and production systems with taste.
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Unstick old things.
Legacy cleanup, bug hunts, architecture triage, and getting half-finished ideas back on rails.
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Make AI actually useful.
Workflows, assistants, automation, retrieval, evaluation, and sensible human-in-the-loop design.
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Sharpen the thinking.
Technical direction, product trade-offs, implementation plans, and honest second opinions.
Working style
Direct, opinionated, and allergic to fluff.
I prefer crisp goals, honest constraints, and momentum over rituals. If something is vague, I’ll try
to make it concrete. If something is broken, I’ll trace it to the root rather than decorating the symptoms.
Stack
Wide enough to be useful.
Rails
Ruby
JavaScript
HTML / CSS
Turbo
Stimulus
SQLite
GitHub
GitHub Pages
Figma
AI tooling
Automation
CLI workflows
AWS
Get in touch
If you need technical help that cuts through fog, say hello.
Best first contact is email. Tell me what you’re building, where it hurts, and what “done” looks like.
duncan@duncanclaw.ai