Expert-Vetted on Upwork · Auburn, WA

I turn ambitious
AI ideas into
systems that work.

I design and deploy production AI systems that connect trusted data to real business workflows—from property intelligence and buyer experiences to identity, documents, payments and human decisions.

Platform16 years on Upwork
PerspectiveEngineer + strategist
StandingExpert-VettedTop 1% on Upwork
Experience18 yearsTechnology + strategy
EnterpriseMicrosoft + AWSStrategy, systems and storytelling
FocusUseful AIBusiness problem first

Selected systems

Proof, not promises.

Founder products, client delivery and clearly labeled future-state research.

01

Founder product · Live prototype

Tekia.ai

An AI-assisted FSBO platform that helps homeowners turn verified property knowledge into a polished selling experience.

Tekia combines Property Memory, an evidence-grounded buyer concierge, lead capture, showing requests and campaign support—beginning with a flagship property grounded in 42 verified facts.

  • FSBO
  • Property Memory
  • Gemini
  • PostgreSQL
  • Railway
Visit Tekia.ai
Property intelligenceVerified home knowledge, ready to work.
02

Client delivery · Production workflow

Domelin

A high-trust tenant verification system carrying each case through one auditable operational lifecycle.

Payments, documents, identity verification, signatures and WhatsApp communication were integrated around explicit state—not a collection of disconnected screens.

  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Didit KYC
  • DocuSign
  • Webhooks
Visit Domelin
Trusted verificationOne case. One visible state.
03

Future-state R&D · Research program

PhysicAI Labs

An independent experimental studio exploring the property intelligence layer for the homes of tomorrow.

The research asks how edge AI could help a home observe, understand, verify and remember—while raw household life remains local and people remain in control.

  • NVIDIA Jetson
  • Edge AI
  • Matter
  • Home Assistant
  • Provenance
Explore PhysicAI Labs
Future-state R&DResearch concept · Not a shipping product

Where I create leverage

Business problem first.
Technology in service of it.

01

Agentic workflows

AI systems that coordinate tools, data, business rules and human review across consequential operational processes.

02

Grounded intelligence

Property memory, retrieval and provenance patterns that make fluent answers traceable to trusted facts.

03

Full-stack delivery

From architecture and product decisions through APIs, databases, interfaces, integrations and deployment.

04

Physical-AI research

Future-state exploration of edge inference, smart-home interoperability and local property intelligence.

Notes from the work

Build in public.
Publish with purpose.

Occasional essays and build logs that document real decisions—not a content treadmill. Original project notes can be adapted for LinkedIn, Upwork and video without losing their technical substance.

Tekia note · Drafting

Why verified facts matter more than fluent answers

Designing an AI buyer concierge that knows the difference between property evidence and plausible language.

Publishing path established
PhysicAI field note · Concept

The property black box: a future-state architecture

How local intelligence could turn physical home activity into permissioned, evidence-backed property events.

Publishing path established
Systems note · Outline

What an AI workflow needs before it reaches production

The unglamorous architecture—state, observability, exceptions and human control—that makes an AI system dependable.

Publishing path established

The builder behind the work

Engineer.
Strategist.
Translator.

I’m Jeffrey Walker, an AI Systems Engineer who helps founders and teams turn ambitious ideas into dependable operational systems.

My background spans technology strategy, software delivery, business communication and entrepreneurship—including enterprise work supporting Microsoft and AWS. That range helps me see both sides of an AI project: what the system must do technically and why it needs to exist commercially.

Today my commercial focus is Tekia’s FSBO platform. PhysicAI Labs remains a separate future-state research studio for edge AI and the physical home. The distinction matters: shipped work is presented as shipped work, and research is presented honestly as research.

Need an AI system that has to work beyond the demo?

Let’s turn the idea
into a production system.

Choose a time that works for you, and let’s talk through the problem, the opportunity and the most practical path forward.