Felix Kebaya AI Engineer, LLM Trainer, AI Strategist Start a project

I build AI into real software, then write down exactly how.

Most people find me through an article — a tool taken apart, or a build walked through line by line. Then they ask whether I would do it for them. Usually the answer is yes.

159 Projects shipped for clients
10 Countries worked with
2 days Reply time
Felix Kebaya

What I do

Hire me for the whole technical job.

Prices are on the page so you can decide before you email. Nobody should need a discovery call to learn a number.

AI automation and pipelines

From $2,500 per pipeline

Teams doing the same manual task every week

The work that removes a recurring manual task: documents in, structured answers out, running on a schedule without anyone watching it.

  • Agents that use your own tools
  • Retrieval over your documents
  • Classification and extraction
  • Scheduled and event-driven runs
  • Evaluation so you know it works
  • Cost controlled from day one
Scope an automation

Two to four weeks

AI strategy and team training

From $1,500 per engagement

Teams being told to “use AI” without a plan

Where AI actually pays for itself in your business, and how your team uses it without creating new problems.

  • Opportunity audit across your workflows
  • Build-or-buy recommendations, in writing
  • Half-day or full-day team workshops
  • Prompt systems your team can reuse
  • Policy and guardrails for safe use
Book a strategy call

Two weeks from first call

Most enquiries

Build engagements

From $1,800 per project

Businesses whose off-the-shelf tool ran out of room

I build the thing. Scoped in writing before anyone commits, delivered weekly on staging.

  • Web applications and internal tools
  • AI features inside existing products
  • Custom WordPress themes and plugins
  • Working software on staging every week
  • Full handover: code, docs, walkthrough
Start a project

Scoped in writing within a week

Consulting by the hour

$60/hour

Founders and developers mid-build

You are mid-build and stuck on a decision. We get on a call and you leave with an answer.

  • Architecture and model-choice reviews
  • Debugging an agent that will not behave
  • Code review on AI-assisted codebases
  • Build-or-buy second opinions
Book a call

Usually the same week

AI capabilities and beyond

AI engineering first — and everything around it.

Agents, retrieval pipelines, LLM engineering and AI strategy are the core of what I do. The web development, design and video sit around them, so the model, the product it lives in and the material that sells it come from one person.

What I do

AI automation and pipelines

The work that removes a recurring manual task: documents in, structured answers out, running on a schedule without anyone watching it.

  • Agents and tool use
  • RAG over your data
  • Document pipelines
  • Scheduled runs
  • Evaluation
  • Cost control

LLM engineering

Getting a model to behave reliably on your data — the prompting, retrieval, tuning and evaluation that separate a demo from something you can ship.

  • Prompt systems
  • Fine-tuning
  • Embeddings and vector search
  • Context engineering
  • Eval harnesses
  • Guardrails

AI strategy and training

Where AI genuinely pays for itself in your business, and bringing your team up to speed on using it without creating new problems.

  • Opportunity audits
  • Build-or-buy calls
  • Team workshops
  • Model selection
  • Policy and guardrails
  • Vendor selection

AI features in real products

Assistants, search, classification and extraction built into software people already use, rather than bolted on as a separate toy.

  • In-app assistants
  • Semantic search
  • Classification
  • Extraction
  • Streaming interfaces
  • Usage analytics

Custom web applications

When the off-the-shelf tool has run out of room: portals, ordering systems, dashboards and internal tools.

  • ASP.NET MVC
  • PHP
  • REST APIs
  • Databases
  • Role-based portals
  • Reporting

WordPress development

Custom themes and plugins written for how a business actually runs, plus the care work that keeps them running afterwards.

  • Custom themes
  • Custom plugins
  • WooCommerce
  • Migrations
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals
  • Care plans

Design and video

Company profiles, brand collateral and edited video — the material a business needs alongside the software, from the same person.

  • Company profiles
  • Brand identity
  • Pitch decks
  • Promos and explainers
  • Social cutdowns
  • Motion graphics

Technical writing and content

Hands-on writing for an audience of engineers, and content systems for sites that live or die by organic search.

  • Tool reviews
  • Build walkthroughs
  • Documentation
  • Sponsored coverage
  • Technical SEO
  • Content systems

Selected work

Shipped, live, and still running.

Client work across four countries — websites, web applications, and the operational systems behind them.

All projects
HydraPure Liberia Ongoing

Custom theme + operations portal

HydraPure Liberia

Orders, deliveries and staff roles in one portal instead of three WhatsApp groups

Custom plugin MySQL 2026
Modest Beauty Live

Custom theme + booking toolkit

Modest Beauty

Two booking paths, one brand — quick appointments and multi-day training handled differently

Custom plugin JavaScript 2026

Writing

The writing is the portfolio.

Most of the work I take on started with someone reading one of these. Pulled live from Medium.

All writing

Open source

I ship most days. Here is the proof.

Check my Git
7.4k Contributions this year On GitHub since May 2019
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Current streak Since 4 May
135 Longest streak 4 May – 15 Sep
138 Active days Days with at least one contribution

Commit activity

Last 53 weeks
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How it works

Every engagement runs the same four steps.

  1. You email me

    A few sentences about the problem. I reply within two working days, honestly, including when it is not something I should take on.

  2. A short call

    Thirty minutes to find the real constraint, which is rarely the one in the original email.

  3. Scope in writing

    What gets built, the price, the date, and what is explicitly out. You approve it before anything starts.

  4. Weekly, on staging

    Something you can click through every week. Then handover: code, documentation and a walkthrough.

Tell me what you are building.

Describe the problem in a few sentences: where it is stuck, what you have already tried, and roughly what it is worth solving.

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