Joe Swanson — Software Consulting
One engineer.
Full ownership.
Software that ships.
Engineering teams bring me in when they need someone to own a hard problem — not coordinate it. I embed directly, take accountability for outcomes, and ship. AI tooling, platform infrastructure, SRE.
Services
01
AI & Agentic Engineering
Design and build LLM-powered tooling that engineers actually use — Slack-based AI agents with real integrations, CI/CD pipeline agents that gate and review code automatically, and agentic workflows orchestrated via MCP across your existing stack.
Experienced leading AI tooling transitions at scale: security auditing, developer rollout, and custom observability dashboards to track usage and ROI across the organization.
02
Site Reliability Engineering
SLI/SLO definition, observability pipelines, incident runbooks, and reliability standards for platforms that can't afford downtime. CI/CD, containerized deployments, and IaC built to be owned by your team.
03
Platform & Developer Experience
Internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, and Golden Path templates that let teams ship without waiting on ops. Backstage, automated onboarding, and the tooling that collapses the gap between code and production.
04
Automation & Integration
SaaS API integrations, event-driven orchestration, identity and access automation — and custom microservices when off-the-shelf tools don't cut it. Built in Go or Python to be fast, testable, and maintainable.
Approach
You work with me.
No account managers.
No hand-offs.
I'm Joe Swanson — a staff software engineer based in Bozeman, Montana. When you hire me, I'm the one doing the work. Every engagement is scoped honestly — if something isn't the right fit, I'll tell you.
I've been embedded across small teams, funded startups, and larger engineering orgs. I take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks — and I'm available for contract engagements on a project or retainer basis.
15 years of infrastructure and platform work, including a decade of production on-call responsibility. Hands-on agentic AI engineering in production — not just evaluating tools. MCP integrations, CI coding agents, and AI tooling rollouts at the org level.
Work
AI & Platform Engineering — Enterprise SaaS
DevX Agent — AI-Powered Engineering Platform
Built a centralized Slack-based AI agent integrating six internal platforms via Model Context Protocol — GitLab, Atlassian, Grafana, Backstage, Datadog, and EKS. Engineers query infrastructure state, trigger workflows, and get real-time insights through a natural language interface. Also engineered CI/CD coding agents that perform automated code review and quality gating on every merge request, and led the company-wide transition from GitHub Copilot to Cursor and Claude Code.
AI Engineering — Enterprise SaaS
Agentic Documentation Pipeline
Built a two-stage AI documentation system that operates across the full development lifecycle. At the pull request level, the agent analyzes code changes and surfaces targeted doc update suggestions inline. At release tags, a holistic review job runs, generates updated agentic-ready documentation, and opens a PR for a single human reviewer — eliminating manual doc maintenance without removing oversight.
Backend & Infrastructure Engineering — Venture-Backed Healthcare Startup
Founding Platform Infrastructure
One of five engineers on the founding technical team building a healthcare AI platform from the ground up. Designed and implemented Go microservices for core platform functionality, authored GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and consolidated database migrations into a unified, maintainable schema strategy.
Personal Projects
chomptron.com
AI-powered recipe generator built on Google Gemini. Serverless on Cloud Run — scales to zero, deploys via Cloud Build CI/CD. Caching, retry logic, and health endpoints built in.
chomptron.com →wrenchtron.com
Fleet maintenance tracker with Firestore, Firebase Auth, and Cloud Storage. Full PWA with offline support. No server — Firestore security rules handle all access control. Demo available, no login required.
wrenchtron.com/demo →tronswan.com
Personal platform hub integrating Spotify, weather, MLB stats, a Hugo blog, and a Google Docs-backed resume. 93%+ test coverage with Vitest and Playwright. 457 commits of active development.
tronswan.com →Contact
Let's talk about
what you're building.
Whether you need AI tooling built into your engineering workflow, an SRE embedded with your platform team, or a second opinion on an architecture decision — reach out and I'll figure out if there's a fit.
Get in touch- joe@swantron.com
- Location
- Bozeman, Montana — Remote Available
- Response time
- Within one business day
- linkedin.com/in/joseph-swanson
- GitHub
- github.com/swantron