Trig Bundgaard

Colorado Springs · Remote, US · Available immediately

AI Engineer

I build LLM apps, agent pipelines, and guardrails for AI agents, and I ship production software with AI coding agents, backed by evals and tests.

I scope the problem with the people who have it. Then I build: LLM apps on the OpenAI API and Claude, agent pipelines with human-in-the-loop review, and the integrations underneath them. I ship with Claude Code.

I have built for the web since 2005 and done product engineering since 2020: a loan origination system and an AI loan advisor at Remarc Vending; TasteMaker, a live platform I built solo, end to end; and StrangerDanger, an open-source Claude Code plugin that keeps untrusted text away from agents that can act.

Open to AI Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer and AI Solutions Engineer roles, and to backend, full-stack and blockchain work. Remote, US. W2 or contract.

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Selected work

Every link below is public. Where the code is private, the card says so.

  • Open source · Oct 2026 – present

    StrangerDanger

    An open-source (MIT) Claude Code plugin that keeps untrusted text (web pages, documents, email, strangers' code) away from agents that can act. Only read-only reader agents, which can't run commands or write, may read it, and PreToolUse hooks that gate tool calls enforce that. Current release: v0.1.1 (experimental). Built by directing Claude Code agents.

  • Jan – Oct 2026

    Security advisories and a sealed VM

    Public advisories (CC BY 4.0) on malicious interview take-home repos (remote code execution through environment variables, VS Code task autorun, fake font loaders) and a fake careers-page lure, plus a guide to triaging interview repos safely. The newest was reported to GitLab and Upwork.

    To inspect untrusted code I designed a sealed VM with no network while that code runs. Built by directing Claude Code agents.

    The sealed VM's code is private.

  • Sep 2026 – present

    Job Hunt: an agentic job-search system

    A personal multi-agent pipeline in Python, built solo by directing AI coding agents: discovery, scoring and knockout rules, LLM tailoring, PDF render, and fill plans. A verifier checks every generated claim against a truth ledger and a link allowlist, and a separate reviewer model grades each draft against the posting. Postings and email are treated as untrusted. Its agents never submit: the software pre-fills each form for me to review and submit. About 2,400 tests.

    Code is private.

  • Feb 2026 – present

    TasteMaker

    A live platform I designed and built solo, end to end, with AI coding agents. A Next.js / PostgreSQL app with 127 API routes, 49 pages, and 105 database migrations, Docker deploy, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Wallet and email auth, funding, governance, and revenue claims.

    Wallets and payments, on Solana devnet: one wallet layer over Phantom, Solflare and Magic embedded wallets, with in-app balances, send and receive; backers can fund projects in $TASTE through an on-chain escrow, RWA holders can claim their share of revenue on chain, and an escrowed OTC marketplace program settles both legs in one transaction.

    On chain: seven Anchor programs on Solana devnet (project escrow, quadratic governance, RWA token minting, revenue distribution, OTC marketplace, platform token, Token-2022 transfer hooks). CPI chains release a milestone's funds when the governance release authority signs. 77 integration tests. All programs and payment flows run on devnet.

    The web app's code is private; the Anchor programs are public.

  • Remarc · TasteMaker

    AI assistants and loan advisor

    At Remarc: a customer-facing AI loan advisor on the OpenAI API, customized to the loan business. Applicants asked it questions, saw how they would qualify, and compared estimated terms and amounts across loan packages. Alongside it, an AI loan and lease-financing calculator.

    At TasteMaker: an in-app assistant that acts as a platform consultant, answering how-to questions and explaining terms. Releases were gated on a ≥98% eval pass rate, and it is hardened against prompt injection. Plus a multi-agent outreach pipeline (Scout → Research → Write → QA → Send → Track) with human-in-the-loop review and quality gates.

    Assistant and agent code is private.

  • Aug – Sep 2026 · Solana mainnet

    KEKBULL / ICHOR DAO

    A Solana mainnet DAO I built solo by directing AI coding agents: a fork of SPL Governance 3.1.2 with a ~15-line Token-2022 fix, ICHOR (an 18-instruction Anchor conversion program with 89 program tests), and the holder app at dao.kekbull.com.

    Both programs are OtterSec verified builds (a reproducible-build check, not an audit): rebuilt from the public repos to match the on-chain bytes. Over 1,100 automated tests. Launch waited until about a dozen AI red-team rounds had closed their findings.

  • Jun 2024

    HYPNOSecosystem

    Dual-token DAO governance in Solidity, with quadratic voting and an upgradeable proxy. The governance contracts are deployed on the Sepolia testnet; the HYPNOS ERC-20 token is on Ethereum mainnet.

  • Remarc Vending · 2020 – 2025

    Lending and operations software

    Sanitized public copies of systems I built at Remarc. A PHP loan origination system with a 13-stage pipeline, Dwolla ACH payments, and in-house e-signature with SHA-256 document integrity. An Odoo ERP executive dashboard with inventory forecasting, sales analytics, and shipment tracking over read-only XML-RPC. The AI financial calculator.

  • Jan 2026

    Open-source libraries

    Four open-source libraries (MIT): three in Rust and TypeScript (Solana on-chain utilities, real-time data, multi-provider transaction sending) and an async market-data pipeline in Python.

Experience

  1. Feb 2026 – Present · Remote

    Software Engineer · TasteMaker

    Independent product: scoped, built, and shipped solo with AI coding agents.

    • Shipped a Next.js / PostgreSQL platform: 127 API routes, 49 pages, 105 database migrations, automated tests, Docker deploy with GitHub Actions CI/CD; 7 Solana programs on devnet with 77 integration tests
    • Built an in-app AI assistant that acts as a platform consultant, answering how-to questions and explaining terms; gated releases on a ≥98% eval pass rate and hardened it against prompt injection
    • Designed a multi-agent outreach pipeline (Scout → Research → Write → QA → Send → Track) with human-in-the-loop review and quality gates

  2. Sep 2026 – Present · Remote

    Independent · AI agent tooling and security

    Self-initiated, unpaid projects; not client work.

    • Built StrangerDanger, an open-source (MIT) Claude Code plugin that keeps untrusted text away from agents that can act: read-only reader agents, enforced by PreToolUse hooks that gate tool calls (v0.1.1)
    • Built Job Hunt, a multi-agent job-search pipeline in Python: a verifier checks every generated claim against a truth ledger, a separate reviewer model grades each draft, and no agent submits; about 2,400 tests
    • Designed a sealed VM that runs untrusted code with no network, and published security advisories on malicious interview take-home repos

  3. Jun 2024 – Present · Remote

    Independent · Trading and blockchain systems

    • Launched the KEKBULL/ICHOR DAO on Solana mainnet: a forked SPL Governance program with a Token-2022 fix and an Anchor conversion program, both OtterSec verified builds (not audits)
    • Built Solana liquidity-pool detection and arbitrage analysis with a live webhook dashboard, and Rust trading bots using low-latency transaction submission
    • Directed AI agents to build reinforcement learning trading agents, judged against pre-registered, out-of-sample bars; they ran in mock and shadow mode only
    • Built an ML-signal equities trading bot (paper trading), later rewritten in Rust with backtesting; built Ethereum DAO governance contracts (Sepolia); published 4 open-source libraries

  4. Jan 2020 – Jul 2025

    Lead Software Engineer (CTO) · Remarc Vending LLC

    Hands-on technical lead of a 5-person team through 400% revenue growth ($900K → $4.4M).

    • Built the loan origination system in PHP: a 13-stage pipeline with Dwolla ACH payments, in-house e-signature, and Twilio SMS verification; 30–40 applications per month across a $1.3M portfolio
    • Built a customer-facing AI loan advisor on the OpenAI API: applicants asked it questions, saw how they would qualify, and compared estimated terms and amounts across loan packages
    • Customer-facing: demos for vending operators and buyers, support on sales calls, requirements with lending partners (Nayax Capital, Clicklease), and customer training
    • Set up and ran the company's entire Odoo ERP (CRM, GAAP accounting, inventory), supported every user, and built its executive dashboard; built custom Android (Kotlin) touchscreen interfaces for the OMNI vending machines; ran GCP production and company IT
    • Won the CEO over to handheld scanners for inventory and manufacturing; afterwards efficiency rose almost 5x and lost or damaged parts fell almost 99%

  5. Earlier

    Earlier and education

    • Bitcoin Incognito (XBI), 2018–2019: contributor to a live proof-of-stake masternode network (wallet, masternode setup); led its community street team.
    • Web and digital, Trystan Photography, from 2005: company websites, social presence, SEO/SEM, analytics.
    • Community: board member, Pikes Peak Continuum of Care; organized Blackbird Outreach. Google Analytics certified.
    • Education: U.S. Air Force Academy (coursework) · A.A., American Academy of Dramatic Arts

Skills

AI systems
LLM apps (OpenAI API, Claude), agents (Mastra, Stagehand, MCP), evals, prompt-injection hardening, human-in-the-loop
Agent safety
Claude Code plugins and PreToolUse hooks, read-only reader agents, Docker sandboxes and a sealed VM, malicious-repo triage
Machine learning
Reinforcement learning (Stable-Baselines3 PPO, PyTorch), imitation learning, out-of-sample and pre-registered evaluation
Integrations
REST APIs, webhooks, PostgreSQL / Supabase, Odoo, Dwolla, Twilio
Build & ship
Claude Code, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Rust, Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP
Domains
Lending and fintech, retail and vending operations, crypto and trading systems

Contact

Available immediately for AI Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer and AI Solutions Engineer roles. Remote, US. W2 or contract.