AI engineer · Finance executive

Silvan Schwarz.

I design and build AI agents, payment systems and the integrations that connect them, working directly with the teams who use them.

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30 seconds. Every build.

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Services

What I can build for you.

I work inside your business, find where time and money leak, and deliver the fix in production.

AI agents for your team

Agents that take the repetitive work off your people: answering emails, updating the CRM, drafting proposals, chasing approvals.

You get hours back every week, with a person approving anything important.

Connect the tools you already use

Slack, Google Workspace, your CRM and your database, wired together so information moves on its own.

No more copying data between apps.

Payments and finance systems

Card programs, payment flows, reconciliation and month-end reporting, built by someone who has run both the code and the finance side.

Fewer manual checks and a clean audit trail.

Secure custody for digital assets

Multi-signature wallets and treasury controls so no single person or key can move company funds.

Built for treasuries, funds and family offices.

Websites and products, start to launch

Design, front end, back end and launch for a new product or website, as one person who owns the whole thing.

Ten live sites and four production systems so far.

Technical due diligence

A clear, honest read on an AI or digital-asset company before you invest in it, buy it or sign with it.

Architecture, security and true cost, in plain language.
Discuss your projectFull-time, contract and fixed-scope engagements.

Architecture

Built in layers.

One backbone behind MajiClip, SorenPay and Soren Wallet. Anything risky stops for a person.

SurfacesSlack · Gmail · API
GatewayOAuth · webhooks
OrchestrationAgno · MCP
DataPostgres · vectors
Trustapprovals · audit
18 yrsbuilding software, since my first website at 13
7specialist agents behind one router at MajiClip
8-figclient investments closed as a finance executive
$10Mpre-seed raised for SorenPay on a live product demo

Integrations

Your tools.
One agent layer.

    Scroll to run it. Example data, nothing is sent.

    Orchestratoragents · MCP
    OAuth, scoped per agentWebhooks and queuesMCP serversApproval gatesIdempotent retriesAudit and tracing

    Track record

    Where I've shipped.

    Teams and products I've engineered for. Tap a coin.

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    Websites I designed and built.

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    Selected work

    Systems in production.

    Each one has a working model you can drive. They use example data.

    MajiClip.ai · 2025–2026

    Brief in. Finished ad out.

    An agent-driven video studio. One brief goes through a router to seven specialist agents, and every generation step stops at an approval gate.

    • Orchestrator routing and the tool surface behind 7 agents
    • MCP server exposing the studio to outside agents
    • 3 video vendors behind one contract, with fallback
    • Vendor partnerships, APIs, front end, back end, UI/UX
    majiclip.ai ↗
    Made with MajiClip

    SorenPay · 2026 · $10M pre-seed

    Payments for people and their agents.

    Accounts, cards and global payments for businesses, plus a payment rail for autonomous agents. I wrote the platform end to end.

    • $10M pre-seed raised on a live product demo
    • Scoped cards: each agent gets its own card and limits
    • OpenAPI, Python and TypeScript SDKs, and an MCP bridge
    • Built on Reap, Column and Visa
    • Shopify and WooCommerce acceptance apps
    sorenpay.com ↗
    launch campaignhover to pause

    Soren Wallet · 2026

    No single key moves money.

    Multi-signature custody on the Safe protocol, controlled from one dashboard across EVM and TRON.

    • Allowlisted transfers under a cosign quorum
    • Hardware-first signing on mainnet
    • Hash-chained audit log and balance reconciliation
    • Kill switch if permissions change outside the app
    Soren LiteOverviewMulti-SigProposalsActivityLedger connected

    Operator Console

    Multi-signature custody across EVM and TRON.

    mainnet
    + Add Multi-SigDeploy or paste address
    1 pending txneeds 2 of 3
    Historyhash-chained log
    Allowlist4 destinations
    Multi-sigs
    Treasury SafeEVM · 0x7a3f…c91e
    2/3
    TRON OperationsTRON · TJx9…4Lq2
    2/3
    Payroll SafeEVM · 0x51c0…a7d3
    3/5
    Pending proposal
    to allowlisted treasury25,000 USDC0x7a3f…c91e · Safe tx #142
    0 of 2 signatures

    Rebuilt from the Soren Lite console's own design. Example data.

    Soren Helius · Five Quantum · 2026

    Every stage can say no.

    A rules-first automated trading system on Solana. Each signal clears seven stages, and the system fails closed.

    • Live Solana stream with a gap detector
    • Decoders validated on real mainnet transactions
    • Sell simulation before any entry
    • Caps, circuit breakers and a profit ratchet in code

    In paper trading with simulated fills. No live track record yet.

    helius.pipeline · paper modesignals 0 · passed 0
    19modules
    486tests
    7gates

    Almazeus · Kensho Tech Labs · 2019–2022

    Atomic, or not at all.

    A flash-loan arbitrage system in Solidity and Python across the Ethereum and BSC mempools. It only executed when the whole trade could settle in one transaction. It raised $500K in seed funding on a live demo.

    Almazeus is closed.

    FlashArb.sol
    
              
    Pick a market and press Simulate.

    Cyber security

    Secure by default.

    Trained in information security, and it shows in everything I ship. When systems move money, keys and client data, security comes first.

    EC-Council University · 2014–2018

    Expert, Computer & Information Systems Security

    Formal training in network defence, threat modelling and secure systems design. It's the base under every product I build.

    Custody and key management

    Multi-signature quorums, hardware-first signing, offline key generation, and a kill switch that trips within five minutes if permissions change outside the app.

    Smart contract security

    Contract design and auditing, DeFi and MEV threat models, and transactions that execute atomically or not at all.

    Safe AI agents

    Narrowly scoped tokens per agent, policy checks before every action, and a person approving anything that sends, pays or deletes.

    Audit and monitoring

    Hash-chained audit logs, balance reconciliation, tracing on every tool call and alerts when anything drifts.

    Compliance and due diligence

    AML and KYC flows, cross-border compliance, and security reviews of vendors before client capital or data goes in.

    API documentation

    Docs developers actually use.

    At Exodus I owned the engineering handbook for the wallet's backend and frontend infrastructure, and wrote the company's technical writing guide. At SorenPay I wrote the OpenAPI developer docs, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, and the MCP bridge that lets AI agents pay.

    • OpenAPI reference docs
    • SDK guides and quickstarts
    • Architecture handbooks
    • Runbooks and incident guides
    POST/v1/agents/{id}/cardsExample

    Issue a scoped card to an AI agent, with a monthly limit and merchant rules.

    
            
    201 Created
    { "id": "card_9f2c", "last4": "4417", "limit": 2500, "status": "active" }

    Off the clock

    Born on the summer solstice. Happiest on the water.

    Kitesurfing
    Surfing
    Snowboarding
    Yachting
    Jet skiinglakes and oceans

    Around the world

    33+ countries. Four languages.

    Born and raisedDominican Republic
    LivedGermany
    LivedBarcelona, Spain
    LivedAustralia
    LivedNew Zealand
    LivedThailand

    Photos: Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons licences. Credits shown on hover.

    Experience

    My work experience.

    Eighteen years building software. I started at 13 with websites for my parents' beachfront hotel in Cabarete, then ran game servers, built apps for local businesses, and consulted on-site at banks in New Zealand and Australia. Today it's agent studios and payment rails. I'm usually also the one closing the deal, so I can explain both the architecture and the business case.

    BasedThailand · working globally
    LanguagesEN · DE · ES · TH
    Daily stackAgno, MCP, FastAPI, Next.js
    EducationSIIT Thammasat · EC-Council
    Multi-agent orchestrationMCPRAGPythonTypeScriptGoSolidityPostgresSafeSolanaTechnical due diligenceCapital raising
    2026

    Lead engineer

    SorenPay · Soren Wallet (co-founded)
    • Raised a $10M pre-seed round on a live demo of the platform.
    • Built SorenPay alone: scoped agent cards, developer API, SDKs and an MCP bridge.
    • Built Soren Wallet, multi-sig custody on Safe for EVM and TRON.
    2026

    Client builds: AI products and websites

    Soulful Hymns · Does It Add Value?
    • Built Soulful Hymns for a church choir: upload a photo of sheet music and the AI reads the notes, generates MIDI and renders separate soprano, alto, tenor and bass tracks to practise with.
    • Designed and built doesitaddvalue.com for a strength coach and wellness advisor at The Sanctuary Thailand: journal preorders and a 12-week coaching programme.
    2025 – 2026

    Forward deployed engineer, co-lead

    MajiClip.ai
    • Built the AI engines, orchestrator and tool surface behind seven agents.
    • Negotiated and integrated every video provider; owned APIs, full stack and UI/UX.
    • About 1,150 of the project's 2,400 commits.
    Jun 2022 – now

    AI systems architect & senior finance executive

    Five Quantum LLC · Frankfurt and New York
    • Built the agent workflows behind research and due diligence.
    • Set the approval rules for AI work that touches client capital.
    • Originated and vetted physical commodity deals in fuels, precious metals and agricultural products.
    • Closed over eight figures in client investments.
    • Architected Soren Helius.
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    Director of Technology

    MergeIt AI
    • Led backend infrastructure for a biotech and pharma intelligence platform run by nine agents.
    Jan 2019 – Jun 2022

    Lead architect

    Almazeus · Kensho Tech Labs
    • Wrote and deployed the smart contracts for a private flash-loan arbitrage system: borrow from liquidity pools, run six swaps across DEXs to capture price differences, and repay in the same transaction.
    • Watched the Ethereum and BSC mempools for opportunities.
    • Raised $500K in seed funding on a live demonstration.
    • Created the Ape Gorilla NFT collection in the same period.
    Mar – Jun 2021

    Technical writer

    Exodus
    • Owned the engineering handbook for backend and frontend infrastructure.
    Sep 2017 – Dec 2019

    Consultant, then senior business analyst

    Nomis Solutions · Auckland, then Australia
    • Consulted on-site at banks in Auckland, New Zealand, to understand their needs, then in Australia.
    • Moved into the business analyst role once the software was built and implemented: mortgage, deposit and pricing optimisation for Westpac and BNZ.
    • Full-stack JavaScript and REST APIs inside a regulated banking environment.
    Before 2017

    Mobile apps and websites

    Independent · small businesses
    • Built small mobile apps and websites for local businesses, from design to launch.
    Teens

    Game servers and databases

    World of Warcraft private servers
    • Ran private game servers and worked directly in the backend database.
    • Learned how SQL queries change live gameplay by creating my own items and modifying their effects.
    Age 13

    First websites

    Villa Taina · Cabarete Condos · Dominican Republic

    Vision

    Where this is going.

    Personal flight vehicles that charge themselves on solar-powered grids, and pay for their own energy through an agent payment gateway. The rails I build today are the first piece of it.

    Solar gridBattery and chargingFlight vehiclesPayment settled
    Personal flight

    Electric vehicles that take off and land vertically, routed by agents, from rooftop to rooftop.

    Solar energy grids

    Neighbourhood solar fields feeding shared battery banks, so every pad charges from clean power.

    Charging networks

    Charging pads on rooftops and vertiports, balancing load across the grid in real time.

    Machine payments

    Vehicles pay for their own charge through a payment gateway, with scoped limits and a full record.

    Family office

    Family office consulting and network hosting.

    Four years advising family offices, speaking on panels and hosting the events that bring them together.

    Silvan speaking on a Family Office & Sports panel
    Panel speaker · Family Office & Sports
    4 years

    Consulting and panels

    Technology and digital-asset consulting for family offices, and a regular voice on family office panels.

    New York

    Family Office Picnic

    Hosted a family office picnic in New York with 14+ family office members, venture capitalists, a government delegate and a rabbi.

    AIIR · Asia Impact Investing with Royals

    A 14-day royal-guest delegation

    Co-hosted, through Kensho Tech Labs, a delegation of family offices and investors through Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal. It included audiences with royal families and government ministers, and the group travelled on royal guest visas.

    The AIIR delegation

    Thailand · Bhutan · Nepal

    Impact investing with family offices, royal families and government decision-makers. Executive travel with private charter, royal invitations and VIP visas.

    Before AIIR
    New York CityFamily office gatherings and networking
    →
    Dominican RepublicHosted family offices on the ground
    →
    AIIRThailand · Bhutan · Nepal
    The Grand Palace, Bangkok
    01 · ThailandBangkokThai family offices · Thailand 4.0 tech, industry and startups
    Dechencholing Palace, Thimphu
    02 · BhutanThimphuRoyal family and ministers · ICT, hydro and solar power, health
    Mountain valley, Nepal
    03 · NepalKathmandu · DhulikhelRoyal family and ministers · agriculture, energy, manufacturing
    Private charterRoyal invitationsRoyal guest visas5-star hotelsCurated meetings
    60+family office events
    12+family offices in the Five Quantum network
    18+ yrshosting events
    365events

    Commodities · Five Quantum · 2022 – 2026

    Four years in physical commodities.
    Checked before anything moves.

    At Five Quantum I originated and vetted physical commodity deals: sourcing counterparties, running KYC and checking documents and allocations before any capital moved, and building the tools that make a desk faster.

    Energy

    Crude and refined fuels

    Verified allocations and certified cargo documents.

    Products
    Crude · EN590 · Jet A-1
    Inspection
    SGS · Intertek
    Metals

    Precious metals

    Assays and chain of custody, checked before introductions.

    Products
    Gold · Silver
    Verification
    Assay · chain of custody
    Agriculture

    Agricultural products

    Quality certificates and counterparty checks before signature.

    Inspection
    SGS · quality certificates
    Terms
    CIF · FOB
    energy-trading-desk · concept
    Concept buildYour desk, online like a trading house.

    A concept site I designed and built for energy trading desks: product specs, a live-market ticker, global reach and assets. Brand and figures are fictional.

    Let's build yours ↗

    Languages

    Four languages.

    Silvan Schwarz
    EnglishGermanSpanishThai

    Contact

    Let's build
    your agent layer.

    I'm happy to screen-share the orchestrator, the MCP surface and the failure paths on a first call.