I turn complex business problems into practical software and AI systems.
I’m Jaun-Paul Stevenson, a product-minded full-stack developer and founder of EdgeWorks. I design and build AI-assisted workflows, operational platforms, customer tools, and integrations—from the first messy conversation to a system people can use.
12+ years across software, entrepreneurship & operationsSouth Africa → Thailand → United States
How I approach the work
More than code. I build the system around the problem.
The most valuable software projects rarely begin with a perfect specification. They begin with scattered data, manual work, inconsistent decisions, and important knowledge held in a few people’s heads.
I work across product thinking, systems architecture, full-stack development, automation, and AI to make those environments easier to operate. My goal is simple: create software that reduces friction, improves decisions, and earns its place in the business.
What I do
From ambiguity to adoption.
AI systems & assisted workflows
Product discovery, sales guidance, content generation, enrichment, and decision support. Useful context, structured data, clear rules, human review, and feedback.
Full-stack product engineering
Production applications and internal platforms, from architecture and data models to interfaces, APIs, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
Operations, automation & integration
Understanding how work happens, simplifying the process, and connecting the systems around it—including the reliability work that makes software useful every day.
Product & systems leadership
Turning an unclear opportunity into a buildable product, choosing a sensible first release, and aligning engineering decisions with commercial value.
Speaking at BNI in Phuket, Thailand.Discussing business assistance with the Hat Yai Chamber of Commerce.
Current toolkit SvelteKit, TypeScript, Node.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Webflow, n8n, Make, Docker, and AI development tools.
Selected work
Systems and products
Recent work across AI-assisted sales, campaign infrastructure, regulatory software, and integrations. Private projects are described without client names; ongoing work is marked as such.
Private client system · In development
AI-assisted product intelligence & quoting
Turning inconsistent product data and expert knowledge into a more useful sales workflow. A governed knowledge layer normalizes records, attributes, and aliases, with AI-assisted search and ranking to help salespeople interpret imperfect customer requests.
People stay in control: sales staff review recommendations and improve the underlying knowledge through their corrections. The system is designed to make quoting faster and more consistent.
My contribution
Product architecture, data modeling, AI workflow design, full-stack development, search and ranking, and sales-process design.
Product data · AI-assisted search · Human review
Private product collaboration · Active development
AI-native campaign platform
A platform for creating, publishing, measuring, and improving campaigns. AI creates the presentation layer; the platform provides artifact storage, previews, version history, rollback, analytics, attribution, forms, and leads.
The architecture turns AI-generated pages into managed business assets with consistent behavior and measurement.
My contribution
Product architecture, full-stack development, AI workflow design, publishing architecture, analytics, attribution, and platform integration.
AI workflows · Versioned publishing · Lead capture
Private platform · Pre-release / active development
Fiscalization & transaction workflows
Making a complex regulatory workflow understandable and auditable, from taxpayer onboarding and device activation to certificate handling, transaction submission, and error recovery.
The central challenge is helping operators see what has happened, what comes next, and how to recover when an external service interrupts a transaction.
My contribution
Systems architecture, workflow and state design, integration logic, administration tooling, error handling, and product development.
Stateful workflows · API integration · Auditability
Private client systems engagement
A connected digital operations roadmap
Designing an operational environment for a professional-kitchen technology business, spanning customer relationships, product and service information, sales processes, and internal workflows.
The work maps where information moves and effort is duplicated, creating a practical foundation for phased digital transformation.
My contribution
Discovery, process analysis, requirements design, systems architecture, and automation planning. Identifying which capabilities belong in CRM, ERP, custom software, or automation.
Process design · CRM & ERP · Systems planning
Private integration project
A connected membership & booking experience
Connecting a customer-facing membership site to an established fitness platform. The booking flow carries an authenticated customer through availability and reservation, then returns a clear result.
Server-side integration services connect the customer journey to the underlying booking system without exposing its complexity.
My contribution
Integration architecture, authentication flow, data and server-side functions, booking interface, and API development.
Authentication · Booking · Customer experience
Open source · Co-author
SvelteKit MVC Design Pattern
An open-source architecture for keeping growing SvelteKit applications understandable. It establishes boundaries between external services, controllers, request and response models, data-transfer objects, and presentation components.
The pattern grew from organizing larger applications so multiple developers can work together without business logic leaking into every route.
I founded EdgeWorks to help growth-minded companies remove operational friction and build systems that scale. We combine process diagnosis, custom software, automation, and AI-assisted sales to make businesses easier to run and easier to buy from.
Clients can engage EdgeWorks for scoped delivery or a longer systems partnership. If you’re hiring for a role, you can reach me directly below.
I care about the decisions that keep software understandable as it grows. I co-authored the open-source SvelteKit MVC Design Pattern to document an architecture we developed for larger, integration-heavy applications.
I’m now writing a practical book about design patterns for SvelteKit: structuring real applications around domains, services, data contracts, workflows, and maintainable boundaries—especially as teams and AI coding agents contribute to the same codebase.
Teaching web development in Thailand—making technical ideas practical.
About me
A technical career shaped by running real things.
I’m a South African-born product developer, systems thinker, and entrepreneur based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My route into technology was not a straight line.
I spent a decade living and working in Thailand. I taught web design, English, and business communication; managed an education company with an 11-person team and more than 500 active students; helped build a hostel and café; and founded and operated a vehicle-finance business.
Running organizations changed how I think about software. A technically elegant system can still fail if it ignores the people doing the work, the exceptions they handle, the data they trust, or the commercial result that matters. I learned to begin with the operation.
Alongside that work, I co-founded Kreonovo and spent a decade building web applications, APIs, dashboards, and integrations for clients. I completed that chapter in 2024. Standard Car Buying Solution concluded operations at the end of 2025, and I turned my focus fully toward AI-enabled product and systems development through EdgeWorks.
In 2026, I relocated to the United States. I bring experience spanning development, teaching, management, entrepreneurship, and client delivery to teams solving complex operational problems.
The first car sold through Standard, Thailand.Working with the team at Standard.
South African roots. A decade in Thailand. A new chapter in Minneapolis.
Experience
The path so far.
2025–Present
Founder & Lead Systems Developer
The Edge Works (Pty) Ltd
Building operational systems, automation, customer platforms, and AI-assisted sales tools for growing businesses.
2021–2025
Founder
Standard Car Rental / Standard Car Buying Solution · Thailand
Founded and operated a rent-to-own and vehicle-finance business, from acquisition and auctions to payments, insurance, repairs, and customer operations. Operations concluded at the end of 2025.
2014–2024
Co-founder & Full-stack Developer
Kreonovo / KN Digital
Built web applications, APIs, dashboards, and integrations for international clients. Co-developed the SvelteKit MVC Design Pattern.
2018–2021
Educator
Hatyaiwittayalai & corporate programs · Thailand
Taught web design, IELTS, English, and business communication. Making complex subjects understandable remains central to my work.
2016–2018
General Management & Business Development
Education, events & hospitality · Thailand
Managed an 11-person education team serving more than 500 active students, contributed to business development, and helped plan and build a hostel and café.
Teaching, leading, and learning in Thailand
Leading a meeting as head of foreign teachers.Addressing a parents’ meeting.Receiving a third-place debate teacher award, 2019.With my M6 class, as head of M6.
Webflow Expert Certification · Google Apps Administration · TOEIC 970/990
Let’s talk
Have a difficult system to untangle—or a product worth building?
I’m open to conversations with teams hiring for AI systems, product engineering, full-stack development, and technical leadership roles. I also work with clients through EdgeWorks on operational software, automation, and AI-assisted sales.
Tell me what is slowing the business down, what you’re trying to build, or where the current system is falling short.
