← Back to About Us

// Two Red Kites — Engineering Profile

Daniel Z

Technical Lead

Turning complex business problems into reliable, production-grade software.

Full-Stack Problem Solver

Technical Lead at Two Red Kites. Sits at the intersection of engineering and strategy: leading the team, setting technical direction, building internal developer tooling, and staying hands-on with the code across FinTech, HealthTech, Construction, and SaaS projects.

Daniel Z
3+
Years at Two Red Kites
4+
Industries delivered
10+
Years agency experience

Tech Stack & Expertise

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL TypeScript Elixir Crystal .NET AWS Docker CRM Platforms Payment Platforms Identity Providers REST APIs GraphQL APIs
🤖

AI & Automation

Tooling I use to deliver faster, smarter, and with higher quality.

Claude Code RAG Systems N8N Workflows Multi-LLM Architecture OpenAI

Key Solutions

Serverless for Monoliths

Making Monoliths Scale Like Microservices

Taking traditional monolithic Rails applications and deploying them on serverless infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, Lambda). Teams stop firefighting deployments and start building. Breaking changes revert in minutes. High-traffic spikes handle themselves.

⚡ Rollbacks in minutes 🔒 Zero client-facing downtime 🏗 Event-spike resilient

AI-Powered Delivery

Building Better Software with Purpose-Built AI

Architect and lead developer behind Janus, Gaia, Hermes, and Soteria: four specialist AI systems that let a small senior team deliver the breadth of a much larger firm. From parallel code review to automated security assessment, AI is woven into every stage of how we work.

🤖 4 purpose-built AI systems ⚡ 5-phase automated delivery 🔍 Parallel expert code review

Industries

💳

FinTech & Payments

Payment processing, international transfers, compliance-grade infrastructure, and Stripe integrations.

🧠

HealthTech & Mental Health

HIPAA-compliant systems, sensitive data handling, and privacy-first application architecture.

🏗

Construction & Trades

Estimation tools, project management software, and workflow automation for field operations.

🚀

SaaS & Coaching Platforms

Subscription systems, client portals, and scalable platforms built to grow with the business.

Outside the Code

"When I'm not building software, I'm building memories with family, pizza, video games, and the Queensland coastline."

🎮
Video games with family
🍕
Pizza nights
🏖
Australian beaches
👨‍👩‍👧
Family first, always
LinkedIn Profile

Posts by Daniel Z

Got a Problem Worth Solving?

Tell us about what you need built.

Get in Touch →