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Trig Bundgaard

@trigbundgaard

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Forward Deployed Engineer at TasteMaker who shipped an AI platform assistant gated by a 98% eval pass rate.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a remote, US-based role as an AI Solutions or Forward Deployed Engineer, or a senior individual-contributor AI platform or founding engineering role. I'm available immediately for W2 or contract work.

At TasteMaker, I scoped, built, and shipped an independent product solo with AI coding agents. Its in-app AI assistant answers platform questions and is gated by a 98% eval pass rate, with prompt-injection hardening.

I also built a multi-agent outreach pipeline with human-in-the-loop review and quality gates. The Next.js 15 platform includes 127 API routes, 49 pages, and a 21-file Vitest suite.

At Remarc Vending LLC, I was Lead Software Engineer (CTO) and hands-on technical lead of a five-person team during 400% revenue growth. I built a loan origination system and a customer-facing AI loan advisor on the OpenAI API.

Independently, I build and run trading systems, including Solana trading infrastructure with order latency under 500ms and crash recovery across eight concurrent positions. I also co-founded and continue to run Trystan Photography, a digital marketing agency.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Engineer

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Tastemaker Inc.

Feb 2026 - Present (8 months)

- In-app AI assistant acted as a platform consultant: users asked how to do things on the platform and what terms meant, conversationally.
- In-app assistant eval gate ≥98%; prompt-injection hardening.
- Outreach: Scout → Researcher → Writer → QA → Sender → Tracker (Mastra, Stagehand).
- HITL review queue, quality gates, rate limits, eval/tuning.
- Next.js 15: 127 API routes, 49 pages, 105 Supabas

Current

Co-Founder & Technology Director

Current

Trystan Photography

Oct 2004 - Present (22 years)

- Digital marketing agency (SEO, SEM, PPC, social).
- Google Analytics with custom KPIs.
- Photography, videography, web design, graphic design.
- Designed marketing collateral until 2022, then managed a designer.

Lead Software Engineer (CTO)

Remarc Vending LLC

Jan 2020 - Jul 2025 (5 years 6 months)

- 400% revenue growth ($900K → $4.4M); 5-person technical team.
- Customer-facing AI loan advisor for Remarc Financing on the OpenAI API (ChatGPT), customized to the loan business: applicants asked it questions conversationally, saw how they would qualify, got estimated loan terms and amounts, and compared options across loan packages.
- Loan origination system built in PHP: 13-stage pipeline, Dwo

Board Member

Pikes Peak Continuum of Care

May 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 2 months)

Served on governing board for regional coalition addressing homelessness in El Paso County. The Pikes Peak Continuum of Care coordinates service providers, advocates, local government, and citizens to implement HUD-funded programs providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent housing solutions.
Board Responsibilities:

Provided strategic governance oversight for federally funded

Founder & Director

Blackbird Outreach

Jan 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 5 months)

Founded and led nonprofit organization addressing critical service gaps for homeless population in Colorado Springs. Built organization from concept to operational impact, serving 200+ individuals annually through direct service provision and resource navigation.

Organizational Leadership:
• Founded mission-driven nonprofit organization with focus on serving people experiencing homelessness
• Dev