Hire someone who can take the whole problem to production.
I’m Neil Busque, an AI and full-stack developer with an operations brain and a designer’s eye. I turn rough ideas into software people can use—then stay close enough to make sure it works in the real world.
Elizabeth, New Jersey · Remote or NJ/NYC hybrid · Eastern time
90-second introduction Why I’m useful on a small, ambitious team. Open my introduction
I’m a full-stack developer who came up through design, marketing, and operations. That means I do not see a feature as just code. I see the person using it, the handoff around it, the metric it should move, and the failure nobody thought to put in the ticket.
I have built and now operate more than ten production apps on my own: multi-tenant SaaS, AI agents with real permissions, realtime consumer products, internal tools, and automation that replaced hours of manual work. Before that, I ran operations and shipped systems across more than ten client accounts.
I’m looking for a team where I can own meaningful problems, work close to the people using what we build, and keep shipping. If you need somebody who can think through the product, design the experience, build the system, and take responsibility after launch, that is the work I want to do.
Do not take the résumé’s word for it.
These are shipped products and client builds, not portfolio concepts. Open them, inspect the case studies, and ask me about the decisions behind them.
Multi-tenant CRM + AI agents↗
Orbit
Workspace-scoped RLS, Stripe billing, six-language i18n, roughly 100 edge functions, and an AI assistant with 19 tools.
Realtime consumer PWA↗
Tandem
876 registered users across 466 households, with realtime sync, WebRTC, web push, subscriptions, and offline support.
Screen recorder + sharing↗
Vid
A Loom alternative with multipart uploads to Cloudflare R2, non-destructive editing, and measured watch analytics.
Industrial website + interactive product story↗
Darioo
A client build combining strategy, interface design, 3D product storytelling, frontend engineering, and launch ownership.
One person. More of the problem covered.
End-to-end ownership
I can take a rough business problem through product decisions, UI, data, integrations, testing, deployment, and the fixes that only show up after launch.
Product and design judgment
I do not treat the ticket as the whole problem. I look at the flow, the hierarchy, the edge cases, and whether a real person will understand what to do next.
Operations in the room
Five years across marketing and operations taught me to connect software to revenue, handoffs, reporting, and the unglamorous work a team actually does.
AI with a review layer
I build agents around permissions, auditability, and human approval. The goal is useful leverage, not a demo that becomes dangerous around real data.
I do not need a perfect ticket. I need the real problem, access to the people who feel it, and ownership to make it better.
That is where I do my best work: close to users, close to the business, and responsible for more than the first clean demo.
A role with real ownership.
I’m looking for a full-time or long-term role where I can build useful AI and software with a small, capable team—not spend the week passing work between silos.
AI Engineer
Full-Stack Product Engineer
Automation Engineer
High trust. Direct feedback. Small team. Real users.
AI features, internal tools, workflow systems, and products that need an owner.
Remote or hybrid in the New Jersey / New York City area.
The work will never go quiet.
You should not have to chase a developer for context or wait until the deadline to discover the hard part. This is what I hold myself to.
You will see progress early.
I ship a working slice quickly, then improve it against real feedback. Long stretches of invisible work are a warning sign, not a process.
I communicate before you have to ask.
Clear updates, honest tradeoffs, documented decisions, and an early warning when something changes. No theatre and no hiding behind jargon.
I stay for the last 10%.
The edge cases, responsive states, permissions, loading failures, documentation, and handoff matter as much as the clean happy-path demo.
I care about the outcome.
If the right answer is a smaller build, a plain automation, or no AI at all, I will say it. The company winning matters more than protecting my first idea.
Built from the business side in.
Independent AI & Full-Stack Developer
Designing, building, and operating 10+ production applications across multi-tenant SaaS, AI agents, consumer PWAs, and internal tools.
Director of Operations · Catalyze Growth Partners
Cut onboarding from 30 days to 7, shipped 20+ n8n workflows across 10+ client accounts, and automated more than 60% of recurring operations work.
Developer, automation engineer, and marketer
Built client websites, funnels, CRM systems, and automations while running paid campaigns and learning how product, design, and revenue connect.
Messages I was happy to get.
Unedited client messages, shown exactly as they came in.
- AI engineerAgents, MCP, and the systems around them, with shipped products as proof.Role
- AI automationWorkflow and integration work: n8n, APIs, and the glue between your tools.Role
- AI engineer in New JerseyBased in Elizabeth, NJ. On-site or hybrid across North Jersey.NJ
- AI engineer in NYCA train ride from Manhattan. Hybrid works.NYC
- Remote AI engineerUS time zones, async-first, with a public track record you can click through.Remote
Need someone who can own more than a ticket?
Send me the role, the problem you need this person to own, or the question that is keeping you from moving me forward. I’ll answer directly.