About James — AI Authority Hub

I'm James Henderson — a Texas-based Laravel, PHP, .NET & AI Developer, U.S. Army veteran, and computer scientist with 25+ years of experience building secure, scalable software systems. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, and the degree still shapes how I work: systems thinking before frameworks, written specifications before code, and verification before delivery.

Before transitioning into software and AI development, I served in the U.S. Army from 1994–1997 as a 13B Field Artillery crew member, with assignments at Fort Sill, Fort Bliss, and Fort Carson. That experience shaped a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to engineering, problem solving, execution, and leadership.

This is the AI Authority Hub — one of seven specialty hubs I maintain so buyers can find me in the vocabulary they actually search. The hub's discipline is custom ai engineering, automation, rag pipelines, and self-hosted llm systems. The full practice spans Laravel, PHP, .NET, AI, mobile, web, and systems work; see the master profile at jameshenderson.online for the broader engagement options.

Every engagement is single-principal. The engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code. No agency overhead, no offshore handoff, no parallel-client multitasking. One discipline at a time, fully present.