Product engineering
Product discovery, workflow modelling, technical direction and end-to-end delivery.
ABOUT / FOUNDER-LED ENGINEERING STUDIO
Built from
real experience.
AGENTBOT is led by Esky — an independent product engineer and founder who designs, builds and improves complete digital products. The work spans payment infrastructure, native applications, event technology, onchain media and AI-powered systems.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRODUCTS
Independent by nature.
Builder by practice.
I'm Esky — an independent product engineer working across software, open technology and creative communities.
My work has moved between Bitcoin payment infrastructure, native Apple apps, event platforms, onchain media and AI systems. I enjoy getting close to the real problem, understanding how all the moving parts fit together, then building technology that people can actually use.
I bring that experience together through AGENTBOT Studio: practical product thinking, hands-on engineering and end-to-end delivery.
ESKY / FOUNDERA HANDS-ON APPROACH
Make it real.
Make it useful.
I'm interested in the systems behind the interface: the data, payments, integrations, infrastructure and operational details that turn an idea into a working product.
That perspective comes from building across different environments — from open-source Bitcoin projects and community-led technology to independent products developed from the ground up.
OPEN TECHNOLOGY / BITCOIN COMMUNITY
Built with communities,
not just for them.
Alongside software development, I've taken part in the wider Bitcoin and open-source ecosystem through freelance work, community participation, workshops and events.
The photograph records a moment with members of the BTCPay community. It gives some context to the people and shared work behind that part of my engineering history.
GITHUB HISTORY & OPEN-SOURCE WORK
Past work.
Current engineering.
Explore the repositories, releases and pull requests behind the products. I link directly to source and upstream records so you can inspect the engineering work for yourself.
View GitHub activity profile on Release ↗ · Explore GitHub repositories ↗
PLATFORM & DELIVERY
Built to ship.
Engineered to last.
Modern product engineering, deployed on Vercel.
Vercel is a core part of the delivery workflow: production hosting, preview deployments, domain delivery and the platform runtime for web products. Applications are built with modern frameworks and services selected for the product's actual requirements — not a one-size-fits-all stack.
Engineering standards include clear architecture, typed interfaces, secure-by-default data access, accessible and responsive UI, automated checks where configured, performance-conscious rendering, observability and documented deployment workflows. The exact controls are applied and verified per project; they are not claimed as a blanket certification.
VercelCloud platform
Next.jsWeb framework
ReactUI engineering
TypeScriptTyped systems
SwiftUINative Apple apps
PostgreSQLData layer
StripePayments
GitHubSource control
Selected technologies used across projects. Each engagement has its own architecture and toolchain.
THE APPROACH
Understand the system.
Build the right thing.
The best digital work sits where clear thinking, considered design and solid engineering meet.
The focus is not simply producing attractive interfaces. It is understanding how a product, business or community operates, then engineering the software, integrations, data flows and operational tools that make it work reliably.
That means working across the full lifecycle: product definition, architecture, interface design, implementation, testing, deployment and ongoing improvement.
ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES
Full-stack platforms
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, PostgreSQL, Supabase and multi-tenant systems.
Native Apple development
SwiftUI, iOS and iPadOS, local persistence, CloudKit integration and app workflows.
Payments & blockchain
Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure, wallet integrations, onchain payments and payment operations.
AI & agent systems
AI model integrations, tool use, agent runtimes, background workers, evaluation and local-model workflows.
Infrastructure & reliability
Docker, deployment automation, CI, security reviews, observability and production hardening.
OPEN-SOURCE & INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Bitcoin payments.
Real-world engineering.
BTCPay Server — contracted freelance development
I completed approximately three years of contracted freelance development with the BTCPay Server team during 2017–2023. The work combined hands-on engineering on payment infrastructure and the BTCPayServer.Vault hardware-wallet bridge with workshops, conference speaking and direct involvement in the Bitcoin and Lightning communities.
The work also extended beyond the codebase into the Bitcoin community: delivering workshops, taking speaker slots and participating in industry conferences and community events, including BitBrum and Bitcoin Conference events. Esky also attended the Lightning Conference alongside the BTCPay team. This reflects hands-on experience explaining Bitcoin and Lightning payment technology to developers, operators and wider audiences, as well as building it.
Recorded conference interview
A 31-minute BitBrum interview discussing BTCPay Server, hosted and self-hosted payment infrastructure, WordPress and WooCommerce integration, payment security, Lightning and on-chain payments, merchant onboarding, and opportunities for independent creators and music businesses.
Read the BitBrum 2019 session record ↗ · Watch the interview ↗
Developer and community participation
The public BTCPay Server community introduction records Esky's involvement in the project, support for its community channels and work on BTCPayJungle. The public developer-directory footprint also places Eskyee among people to follow in the Bitcoin development ecosystem.
Read the BTCPay community introduction ↗ · Explore BTCPayJungle source ↗
Explore BTCPayServer.Vault source ↗ · Review upstream pull requests ↗
Independent freelance contract and open-source contribution experience; not a claim of current employment or an official endorsement by BTCPay Server.
Read the BTCPay technical case study ↗REMOTE & INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Distributed teams.
Shared delivery.
Remote product development with international collaborators.
Co-built JungleLab, a Bitcoin Liquid digital-asset platform, with Adam from Raretoshi over an approximately two-year project. The collaboration involved building across locations and working together on a specialist product spanning digital media, asset issuance, wallet functionality and marketplace workflows.
The platform has since closed and Esky has moved on to other projects. It is presented here as historical project experience, not current employment or a live service.
Explore the JungleLab source repository ↗ · Read the JungleLab case study ↗
ENGINEERING TIMELINE
A record of building over time.
BTCPay Server ecosystem
Approximately three years of contracted development and community work with the BTCPay Server team. Public upstream contribution records include activity from 2018 to 2020.
Founder-led products
Recent repository history documents active development across baseFM, Agentbot, GrowJournal and Booking OS, including streaming and wallet integrations, agent infrastructure, native iOS data and AI workflows, and multi-tenant event operations.
The project links provide a direct route to source code, release history and public contribution records. Historical contribution records are not presented as a measure of hours worked.
SELECTED PRODUCTS
Discobobulated
Founder-built booking and event operations platform spanning web, native iOS, PostgreSQL and payments.
Technical case study ↗baseFM
Community radio and event infrastructure combining live streaming, wallet access and onchain payments.
Technical case study ↗Agentbot
AI worker infrastructure, agent identity, isolated runtimes, integrations and developer tooling.
Technical case study ↗GrowJournal
A SwiftUI application with plant histories, local data, analytics and an evidence-grounded AI coach.
Technical case study ↗HOW WE WORK
Understand
Define the user, operational problem, constraints and intended outcome before choosing a solution.
Engineer
Make architecture and technology choices that fit the product, then build and test the complete workflow.
Improve
Deploy, observe, harden and refine. Good software is an ongoing engineering practice.
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