Software Lead/Architect with Typescript / Python Experience

· 8+ years in solutions or software architecture with hands-on code; recent (2025-26) production work on LLM agent systems with tool use.

· Working knowledge of Anthropic’s Claude platform (Messages API tool use, prompt caching, Agent SDK, Managed Agents) and the Model Context Protocol, including authenticated MCP servers.

· Identity and payments architecture: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT/JWKS, HTTP message signatures, PCI-adjacent checkout flows; familiarity with agentic-commerce protocols (UCP, OpenAI ACP, AP2) and KYA concepts.

· Threat-modelling and privacy-by-design experience; can write an ADR that engineers actually follow and a sequence diagram a partner can read.

· Consulting-grade communication: has led technical working sessions with external engineering teams and translated between executives and builders.