Samuel Bostock
I'm a top-10 contributor to Open Mercato, an open-source AI-engineering framework for CRM/ERP and commerce, with 45 merged pull requests — mostly security and correctness fixes. Before that, I founded and ran a software business for ten years: 12 commercial products and around 20,000 customers.
Australian, based in Thailand (UTC+7), working remotely — open to remote contract and full-time roles.
How I can help
Engineering with coding agents, backed by a decade of shipping and supporting real products.
AI-Assisted Engineering
I design the workflow agents work in: spec templates per task type, an independent quality gate that re-verifies every change before it's published, browser-based self-QA, and review loops that keep pull requests moving. My Open Mercato work runs entirely through this pipeline (Cezar + Claude Code).
Security & Correctness
Authentication and sessions, tenant and organization scoping, webhooks, payment-gateway handling, AI-agent safeguards, concurrency and undo/redo integrity — fixed with regression tests, upgrade notes for behaviour changes, and follow-up issues for known limitations.
Product & Customer Experience
Ten years of running a commercial software business end to end: requirements, releases, licensing, payments (WordPress/WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal) and supporting around 20,000 customers — so I understand how technical decisions land with real users.
Experience built around real products and customers
More than a decade of practical responsibility across software, support and online operations.
Selected experience
Open-source engineering today, built on a decade of owning a commercial product.
Founder & Operator — Independent Software Business
I built and operated a commercial Windows automation software business serving an international online gaming community.
- Developed and maintained 12 commercial Windows products.
- Served approximately 20,000 customers worldwide.
- Managed WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe, licensing and software delivery workflows.
- Investigated installation, compatibility and customer-environment issues.
Open-Source Contributor — Open Mercato
Security and correctness fixes across an open-source AI-engineering framework for CRM/ERP and commerce — 45 merged pull requests, with more approved in the merge queue.
- Authentication, tenant scoping, webhooks, payment gateways, AI-agent safeguards, forms and portal access.
- Delivered through an agent-driven pipeline I designed: spec templates, an independent quality gate, self-QA and automated review loops.
- Defects are scouted, reproduced with a failing test, fixed, and only then filed — together with their fix.
Core skills
Engineering with coding agents, grounded in a decade of shipping and supporting software.
Let’s talk about your team
I'm looking for remote roles in AI-assisted software engineering, forward-deployed / solutions engineering, and product-focused development — especially on open-source, platform and business-software products.