AI automation builds
Find the bottleneck, automate it, keep a human approving the risky steps. Example: my Autopilot CRM classifies enquiries, routes work and drafts outreach for approval.
Hire me
AI engineer who builds the systems a real business runs on
Andrew Ferdinands
Available now for AI automation contracts, and open to remote full-time AI engineering roles.
12 years running a 3,000+ event photography business — then I built the CRM, content and video pipelines and apps that run it. Below: how I work, what I've shipped, and proof you can check.
- AI Engineer & Automation Builder
- Evals
- Human in the loop (HITL)
- Melbourne, Australia
- Remote — Australia-based
- Part-time, full-time or contract
- Melbourne business hours, with agreed overlap
- admin@ferdi.com.au
Contracts
Ways to work with me
Fixed scope, working software, proof it works, and a clean handover.
AI content & video pipelines
Research, write, design and edit on repeat, with quality gates so bad output never ships. 6 hours → 30 minutes per carousel post; 1M+ impressions in June 2026.
Apps & product builds
From idea to shipped apps: EP101 is live on the App Store and Squeeze (Mac, Rust + Swift) is live on the Mac App Store; Annotastic (iPad + Mac) is pre-launch.
How a contract works
- 15-minute call — you describe the bottleneck.
- Fixed-scope proposal — what I'll build, what done looks like.
- Build and prove — tests and a live demo before handover.
- Handover and training — runbook, walkthrough, support window.
1M+
impressions generated
300+
automated pipeline tests
A$5k+
tool suite replaced per year
3,000+
events delivered
iOS app
shipped to the App Store
Proof, not demos
Shipped products
Real products and production systems. I built and shipped each one.
Shipped
Event Photography 101 — iOS app
A 59-lesson photography learning app — 4 courses + Extras, 127 cheat sheets and 23+ hours of content. Live on the Apple App Store.
Designed, built and shipped end to end
In production
Autopilot CRM
Bookings, payments, email and automated client messaging in one system — it runs a real 3,000+ event business day to day.
A$5,000+/yr saved — combined across the replaced tool suite
In production
EDL Composer
An AI video pipeline that turns long recordings into finished shorts — every cut checked against the source before it ships.
300+ automated tests · 40+ failure gates · 60+ shorts shipped
Live
kyurate.ai
Photos sorted by what is actually in them: 1,000-photo batches auto-tagged and grouped without manual sorting.
Replaced a paid subscription across thousands of files
Live on Mac App Store
Squeeze
Shrinks camera RAW files into much smaller DNGs. Lightroom edits carry over; originals are never touched.
62–95% smaller in tests across 5 camera brands
Pre-launch
Annotastic
Draw over photos, PDFs and slides with Apple Pencil, talk over it, export a finished video lesson.
Pixel-identical preview and export
How I work
I find expensive repetitive work → build AI systems → test them until they're reliable → ship them → measure the business result.
Engineering discipline
The machine is only half the story. Before I call anything done, I document how it fails — failure modes, provenance, quality checks.
How I hunt failure modes in a production AI pipeline — 300+ automated tests, 40+ named failure gates, and what the machine got wrong.
Read the analysis ↗Hiring full-time?
I'm open to remote AI engineer and automation engineer roles. Pick the résumé that fits below, or book a call.
Résumés
Two PDFs to download
Download the PDF that matches the role you're hiring for.
Get in touch.
I spent 12 years running a real event business, then built the AI systems that now run it day to day with a 20–30 person subcontractor team. That frees me for contract builds and a remote AI role. Tell me the bottleneck and I'll tell you what I'd build.
Email: admin@ferdi.com.au — I reply fast, usually within a day.