AI Developer in Katy, TX
Senior ai developer serving Katy, TX businesses — single-principal engagements, veteran-led, written specifications before contract, working code on every checkpoint. The engineer in the scoping call writes the code. No agency overhead, no offshore handoff.
About Katy and what local buyers ship
Katy is the Energy Corridor's western residential anchor — a Fort Bend / Harris / Waller tri-county city built around Katy Independent School District (KISD), one of the largest and most consistently top-rated school districts in Texas. The master-planned communities Cinco Ranch, Cross Creek Ranch, Firethorne, and Tamarron pull household-income buyers from the Houston energy and professional-services workforce who commute east on I-10 to the Energy Corridor between Beltway 8 and Fry Road. Major employers headquartered in or adjacent to Katy include Igloo Products, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital, and a dense layer of oil & gas operator field offices and contractor businesses serving the upstream sector.
I am based in Fulshear, the next master-planned community west on FM 1093. From my house, Cinco Ranch is 10 minutes, Cross Creek Ranch is 5 minutes, and the Katy Mills / Grand Parkway intersection is 15 minutes. In-person discovery in any Katy ZIP from 77449 to 77494 to 77450 is routine — a 30-minute coffee meeting at LaCenterra or Cinco Ranch is the recommended way to evaluate fit before anyone signs anything.
Katy buyers I work with most often: family-owned businesses in retail, food service, and home services that need an internal portal or dashboard their existing accounting / point-of-sale software cannot produce; energy-services contractor firms that need a Laravel-driven contractor-management or invoice-approval workflow; mid-market accounting and bookkeeping firms that need a secure client portal layered onto QuickBooks Online; and the occasional KISD-adjacent education-services business that needs a curriculum-management or parent-communication tool. The typical engagement shape is Laravel 13 + Livewire 4 + Pest 4 on the backend, with Azure AD / Entra ID for authentication when the buyer is already on Microsoft 365, and a written runbook at launch covering deployment, secret rotation, and the on-call window for the engineer who built the system.
Engagement shape
Single-principal end-to-end. Written specification before contract. Two-week build sprints with working demos on staging. Written hand-off at launch. Same engineer you speak to on day one is the engineer you speak to on day 90.
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