Available for senior AI engineering opportunities

Hi, I’m Daniel Edwards.

Principal AI Engineering Lead. I architect the data structures, system boundaries, and information flows that let AI agents operate reliably in production — Context Engineering for regulated, high-stakes environments.

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Experience
18+ yrs
Specialty
Context Engineering
Based in
Aubrey, Texas
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Notes from production

Detailed writing on Context Engineering, agentic systems, and what actually breaks when AI ships at scale.

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Cold Start, Cold Stop: The Two Commands That Bookend Every AI Coding Session

AI coding sessions have a cold-start problem (the agent walks in blind) and a cold-stop problem (the next session inherits nothing). Two boring slash commands — `/primer` at the start, `/handoff` at the end — fix both. Here's what I run, why it works, and the honest tradeoff.

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