SAN DIEGO · CA · USA · MIKE LENVAL STUDIO

Mike Lenval

Solo technical founder · 15+ years full-stack

I build production-grade systems end-to-end — architecture, backend, frontend, infrastructure, and everything in between. Not prototypes. Not MVPs-as-experiments. Things that ship, hold under load, and can be maintained by one person a year from now.

HOW I WORK
Architecture first
Every non-obvious decision is documented before code exists — with its rejected alternatives. No tribal knowledge.
Invariants over deadlines
What cannot break is defined first. Contracts between subsystems are explicit. Critical paths carry zero ambiguity.
Production from day one
Auth, billing, monitoring and error boundaries ship in v1 — never "hardened later."
STACK
EXPERIENCE LAYER
Sub-second interfaces, edge-rendered and globally distributed. Strict end-to-end typing — zero runtime surprises in prod.
DATA & LOGIC
The data layer that disappears. Structured, semantic, and transactional — unified. Millisecond retrieval at production scale, invisible to the end user.
AI SYSTEMS
Not API wrappers. Tool-using agents — orchestration and MCP, provider-agnostic frontier models, realtime voice, and memory that survives sessions. AI that behaves like a system, not a demo.
SOVEREIGN COMPUTE
No vendor lock-in. On-premise compute with isolated container networking, bonded links, and edge distribution. Uptime governed by architecture, not an SLA.
CURRENTLY

Not a portfolio. An operating system for building — applied across industries simultaneously, by one person, without dropping the bar.