Big Four consultant · AI-native development

AI-native development,
from boardroom
to production.

I'm Daniel Semerjyan, a Big Four technology consultant and hands-on AI engineer. I help enterprises adopt AI-native ways of building software, and I practice what I advise: shipping RAG, agentic, and GenAI products end to end on AWS and Azure.

years shipping software
10+
years shipping software
AWS & Azure certified
AWS & Azure certified
AI products in production
5
AI products in production
Daniel Semerjyan

Daniel Semerjyan

Poznań, PL · EU time zones

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • AWS Certified Developer
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
What I do

One discipline, three ways to use it

Everything I do is one craft, AI-native development, applied at different altitudes: the enterprise, the product, the team.

For enterprises

AI adoption that reaches production

Strategy that survives contact with delivery. I help organizations move from AI pilots to AI-native development: the tooling, workflows, and engineering culture that make it stick.

  • AI-native delivery playbooks for engineering teams
  • Use-case assessment grounded in what ships
  • Governance and guardrails without killing velocity

For founders & product teams

AI products, shipped end to end

RAG pipelines, agentic systems, GenAI features. Designed, built, and deployed on AWS or Azure. Production-grade from day one: auth, observability, and infrastructure included.

  • An AI-native MVP in days, not quarters
  • A decade of web, backend, and cloud engineering behind it
  • Honest pressure-testing of the business case, not just code

For leaders & teams

Advisory & enablement

I train teams to build with AI instead of around it, review architectures before they calcify, and give the kind of direct feedback consulting decks usually soften.

  • Hands-on enablement in AI-assisted engineering
  • Architecture and roadmap reviews
  • Fractional advisory for AI initiatives
Selected work

Proof, not promises

Products I designed, built, and shipped. Every one is AI-native in how it was made, several in what they do.

Product screenshot — proposal editor with AI assist
Featured

BuildOffer

AI proposal-generation SaaS for service businesses — turns a client inquiry into a polished, on-brand offer in minutes.

  • End-to-end AI product: knowledge-base ingestion, generation, prompt-based editor
  • Shareable password-protected proposals with open tracking and PDF export
  • Live in Polish market — serving freelancers, agencies, and consultants
  • AI
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • SaaS
Raport Ninja dashboard with property listings and reports
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Raport Ninja

Compliance automation for Polish real estate developers — auto-generates daily price reports to the dane.gov.pl portal from a single listing URL.

  • Daily scraping detects price and availability changes without manual input
  • Reports built to the official ministerial schema with zero validation errors
  • CSV history archive and change alerts for ongoing compliance audits
  • Next.js
  • Automation
  • Compliance
  • RegTech
Hero screenshot of marketing landing page
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Bezpieczny Transport

Marketing site for an insurance and financial advisory practice serving the Polish transport sector.

  • Server-rendered Next.js 16 with full SSR on AWS Amplify
  • Trust-and-authority design system with Polish localization
  • Optimized Core Web Vitals — sub-second LCP on 4G
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • AWS Amplify
FitWise dashboard with client schedule and session planner
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FitWise

Fitness management platform for personal trainers — schedule clients, build recurring sessions, and manage workouts from a single dashboard.

  • Full-stack Next.js 15 app with Supabase auth, Postgres, and row-level security
  • Drag-and-drop session planner with recurring schedules powered by rrule
  • Client CRM, calendar, and dashboard built on Radix UI + Tailwind
  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • TypeScript
  • Radix UI
Chrome extension popup showing recording controls and transcript
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TabScribe

Chrome extension that records any browser tab (+ mic) and produces speaker-labeled markdown transcripts — locally, with no subscription or remote server.

  • Captures tab audio and microphone simultaneously via Chrome tab capture API
  • Speaker diarization + auto language detection powered by Google Gemini
  • Re-transcription with custom prompts; global dictionary for proper nouns
  • Chrome Extension
  • Gemini API
  • Web Audio API
  • Vanilla JS
Writing

Thinking in public

Essays on AI-native development, agents, and building products. Applied frameworks and case studies from the work.

All writing
Identical wireframe cubes ride a dark conveyor through glowing ring gates, the last cube past the final gate lit green — modules clearing quality gates
7 min read

The Terraform module factory: gates, not prompts

Module libraries rot because standards live in prose and reviewers enforce them from memory. This repo turns every standard into a machine-checkable gate, then lets a coding agent do the work. A tour of the harness, and what it changes in a platform team's week.

  • Terraform
  • Platform Engineering
  • AI Agents
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9 min read

The wall is you: long-running agents and the 4 levels of AI

The bottleneck in AI work is the human in the middle handing out tasks. Long-running autonomous agents are the specific mechanism that removes you from the loop, and as of Opus 4.8 they ship rather than loom. The optimist's case for climbing to Level 3.

  • AI Agents
  • Opus 4.8
  • Autonomy
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15 min read

A production-grade Postgres recipe for ~$7/mo

Managed Postgres at small scale starts at $25–70 per project per month. There's a middle ground the debate usually skips: one cheap VPS, multiple projects, real backups, real DR, ~$7/mo total. This is the recipe.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Self-hosting
  • Recipe
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12 min read

How to get mentioned by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Perplexity

AI agents now decide who gets seen on the web. The peer-reviewed research is in, and the playbook is clearer than most posts make it sound — six moves, in priority order, for anyone running a brand, a portfolio, or a product.

  • GEO
  • AI Search
  • SEO
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How I work

Consulting rigor, builder speed

I work with enterprises, founders, and product teams to take AI-native ideas from ambiguous to shipped. The consulting side brings scoping, business-model assessment, and structured delivery; the engineering side brings a decade of web platforms, backend systems, and cloud.

Honest feedback runs across all four steps, not just the first one.

  1. 01

    Discover & assess

    A working session to pin down the use case, sanity-check the business model around it, and find where AI adds leverage and where it doesn't.

  2. 02

    Prototype fast

    An MVP in days, built with AI for speed, so we can put it in front of a real user and learn before committing to a roadmap.

  3. 03

    Ship to production

    Deployed, observable, in real users' hands. A product with auth, infra, and the operational basics in place.

  4. 04

    Scale

    Harden, optimize, and extend. Default stack: Next.js, with AWS or Azure underneath and the right AI primitives for the job.

Credentials

Nine certifications across both major clouds

Not collected for the wall. Earned building the systems the certificates describe.

Amazon Web Services

4× certified
  • Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Developer – Associate
  • SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • Cloud Practitioner

Microsoft Azure

5× certified
  • AI Engineer Associate
  • Solutions Architect Expert
  • Administrator Associate
  • AI Fundamentals
  • Azure Fundamentals
Open to select collaborations

Let's make your next build AI-native.

Whether you're an enterprise leader planning AI adoption, a founder who needs a product shipped, or a team that wants to move faster, the quickest way to find out if I can help is a short email.

Poznań, Poland · Working across EU time zones