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A forward deployed engineer builds inside the business that will use the software: next to the people doing the work, against the systems they already run, until the tool is part of the daily routine. Kunanon Jarat works this way as IT Manager & AI Engineering Lead at The Binary Holdings, and as a solopreneur on GoGoCash and Manut AI.
Open to roles · Forward Deployed Engineer and AI engineering · Bangkok or remote
The Binary Holdings ran its internal operations on Zoho. The TBH Intranet replaces it with one login-only web app for HR, approvals, Thai accounting, expenses, CRMs and an AI assistant, built around how the group works: several legal entities, Thai accounting requirements and multi-step approvals.
ARIA, the intranet's assistant, combines Gemini and Claude models with embedding search over internal knowledge. Team-built agents on Google's Agent Development Kit have Gemini check that each sports clip is real match content and write its title and caption, with a Google Sheet as the human approval queue; a recruitment agent scores resumes and grades take-home cases, with human review for borderline candidates.
Gmail, Google Sheets, Bank of Thailand exchange rates and PostHog in the intranet; the YouTube Data API and Apify in the content agents; the Avalanche P-Chain over JSON-RPC and Resend in a daily validator health report with four alert rules and a fallback when sending fails.
He works directly with the people who use what he builds: Manut AI customers, GoGoCash merchant partners, and the companies he has run client projects and workshops for. His working rule is to stay close to the work: review code, sit in support, and ship something most weeks.
Kunanon Jarat builds AI agents and internal tools inside the businesses that use them: integrated with existing systems, with a person on the judgement calls.