AI & agent systems
Turn capable models into dependable products: agents, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, orchestration, and the software around them.
Available for select projects and roles
I build what’s next—and make it work.
I’m Mike Richards, a technical founder and engineer who turns hard, fuzzy problems into useful products and resilient systems—especially with AI, agents, and emerging technology.
See how I workThe tools change. The job doesn’t: understand the problem, find the leverage, and build the right thing.
What I help with
Bring me the complicated part.
I work across the whole system—from the idea and business model to the models, data, code, and infrastructure that make it possible.
Complex product engineering
Take an ambitious, ambiguous idea from whiteboard to production—with the architecture, interfaces, and judgment to make it real.
Scale & systems design
Design for real-world load, failure, security, and change. I’m comfortable where APIs, data, infrastructure, and users collide.
Technical leadership
Turn business needs into engineering direction. Shape the architecture, coordinate contributors, and build the foundations—while staying deep in the code.
Selected work
Evidence, not a tool list.
A few examples of products where the hard part wasn’t one language or framework. It was seeing the whole problem and carrying it through.
01
Enterprise AI · Technical leadership
Warner Bros. Discovery
Building the foundations for practical agentic AI.
At Warner Bros. Discovery, I turn emerging AI capabilities into practical enterprise software—across product direction, architecture, and hands-on engineering.
Led development & business initiative
Document intelligence
I led the business initiative and engineering development of an enterprise AI document intelligence platform—from product direction and technical architecture to hands-on implementation.
Agentic AI, LLM orchestration, RAG, hybrid search, and full-stack engineering.
Product direction, architecture, and hands-on engineering.
Architecture & platform engineering
General-purpose agentic platform
Separately, I helped shape and build a reusable agentic platform. I designed foundational architecture, built infrastructure, and developed integration foundations and core platform capabilities.
Architecture, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and extensible AI workflows.
I coordinated engineering across contributors, including engineers building the extensible tool ecosystem.
02
Real-time systems · Startup
FanBeat
A live sports platform built for stadium-scale moments.
As technical co-founder of FanBeat, I designed and built a real-time game platform that ran alongside live sporting events. The system was load-tested for millions of simultaneous requests and kept devices synchronized under intense, bursty traffic.
- Zero-to-one product and architecture
- Low-latency, synchronized gameplay
- Led product and engineering delivery
03
Product engineering · Regulated workflows
FanBeat Daily
From product concept to a working daily fantasy business.
I led the product design and engineering of FanBeat Daily, including a scalable API, responsive web application, and money movement integrations. The work crossed product strategy, UX, infrastructure, and hands-on implementation.
- Full-stack product delivery
- Payments and withdrawal workflows
- Cross-functional technical leadership
04
Enterprise · Data architecture
The Home Depot
Making a complicated purchase feel understandable.
For The Home Depot, I architected and led engineering of a countertop estimator that translated complex product, pricing, and installation data into a useful customer experience—working from early concept through production.
- Architecture and hands-on build
- Complex pricing data made usable
- Agency, client, UX, and business alignment
Atlanta, Georgia · Working everywhere
A little context
Builder first. Titles second.
For 15+ years, I’ve moved between founder, architect, lead, and hands-on engineer—often in the same week.
I’ve built consumer products for startups and Fortune 500 companies, designed systems for extreme traffic, led teams through ambiguity, and learned new domains whenever the problem demanded it. Today, that range goes into enterprise AI products: shaping the direction, making architecture decisions, and seeing the engineering through.
My useful edge is range: I can reason about the business, sweat the user experience, design the architecture, and open the editor to make the thing work.
Along the way
A career spent making ambitious things less hypothetical.
At Warner Bros. Discovery, I lead an enterprise AI document intelligence initiative and help shape and build a separate agentic platform—working across product direction, architecture, infrastructure, and hands-on engineering.
Warner Bros. DiscoveryLead Software Engineer · Current
FanBeatTechnical Co-Founder
senditProduct Engineer
BLOCKviOS Engineer
AT&T Digital LifeSenior Engineer
Engauge / MoxieInnovation Architect
Have a hard problem?
Let’s make it
less hypothetical.
Startup idea, AI initiative, complex system, technical leadership, or something that doesn’t fit neatly in a box—I’m happy to hear about it.
hi@mikerichards.tech