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Senior web developer, 14 years shipping production software — these days I build the AI-native features (Anthropic SDK, MCP, voice agents) that show up inside real client products.
Jeremiah Ruanes is a senior web developer based in Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand, with 14+ years shipping production software and 500+ sites delivered. He started with city government work in the Philippines in 2010, then spent 12 years as a senior developer at a US marketing agency, building large-scale enterprise sites for clients in healthcare, lending, manufacturing, and industrial services. He also runs Meraki8, his own digital marketing agency.
Today he specializes in AI-assisted engineering: building AI-native features (Anthropic SDK, MCP servers, GPT chatbots, voice agents) on top of years of WordPress and WooCommerce work. He's finishing a Master of Applied Computing at Lincoln University, and wiring AI and MCP integrations into products that didn't have them before. Still curious, still shipping.
12 years as a senior developer at a US marketing agency, building large-scale enterprise sites for clients in healthcare, lending, manufacturing, and industrial services. Long-tenure relationships, strict performance budgets, and deep integration with client-side systems.
12-year tenure shipping production sites for clients in regulated industries.
Built a bespoke page builder for non-technical content teams managing 100+ European sites at a Vienna agency. Reduced developer dependency for routine updates and freed engineering capacity for higher-impact work.
Cut routine update turnaround and freed developer time.
Shipped GPT-based chatbots, voice agents, and workflow automation (Make.com) directly into customer-facing client products at a US marketing agency. Introduced AI-assisted development practices into a long-running engineering team.
Added a new AI line of business to an established agency.
In-house technical SEO and dev work for a high-volume auto-parts WooCommerce store: crawl efficiency, Core Web Vitals, codebase cleanup, web + mobile optimization, ongoing maintenance.
Catalogue performance improving quarter over quarter at scale.
Active in the Philippine tech community as a consultant on WordPress, e-commerce, and AI integration projects. Guest speaker and panellist at developer events and conferences, sharing practical experience on senior-level engineering and AI-assisted development.
Long-running community involvement and knowledge-sharing.
Custom development with the Anthropic SDK and MCP servers — full-stack Next.js, React, Payload CMS, and PostgreSQL. Agentic AI features in production. Python tooling suite (sitemap crawler, single-page scraper, WordPress REST dumper) pipes live client content into LLM analysis workflows.
Turned ad-hoc audits into repeatable LLM-assisted pipelines.
Working with Meraki over the past year and a half has been an exceptional experience. Despite the challenges of working across time zones, Jeremiah and his team have always been incredibly accommodating, responsive, and dedicated to meeting our needs. Their professionalism and commitment to delivering quality work have made them an invaluable partner in inTruth's journey. We couldn’t be more grateful for their support and collaboration.
Jeremiah is an extraordinary web developer and human! Besides having a deep understanding of code, Jer brings with him years of experience working with cross functional marketing teams this means that he also has a wealth of knowledge of optimizing for SEO, integrating CRMs and creating user journeys that convert. More important than his technical skills is his attitude, Jer is always looking for ways to further help his clients, whether it is by making recommendations to their tech stack or little touches he adds to all of his projects. I have had the pleasure to work with Jer across multiple projects both for myself and for companies I advise, and the quality of his work, delivery timeline and dedication to his clients’ success is unmatched.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Jer for nine years, completing nearly a hundred projects together. His reliability, outstanding work, and timely delivery make him an invaluable partner. I can always count on Jer for exceptional results and unwavering support.
I've worked with a lot of developers throughout my career and Jer has been the fastest, most efficient, and easiest to work with. His technical prowess is obvious, but he also has a good eye for design -- so if you give him some branding guidelines and a general idea of the layout of a page, he can turn out something very cool with minimal input. In my experience, that's very rare among devs. He's also very pleasant to work with: laidback, communicative, and friendly. More than a web dev, Jer is a partner in your journey toward digital success!
Working with Meraki over the past year and a half has been an exceptional experience. Despite the challenges of working across time zones, Jeremiah and his team have always been incredibly accommodating, responsive, and dedicated to meeting our needs. Their professionalism and commitment to delivering quality work have made them an invaluable partner in inTruth's journey. We couldn’t be more grateful for their support and collaboration.
Jeremiah is an extraordinary web developer and human! Besides having a deep understanding of code, Jer brings with him years of experience working with cross functional marketing teams this means that he also has a wealth of knowledge of optimizing for SEO, integrating CRMs and creating user journeys that convert. More important than his technical skills is his attitude, Jer is always looking for ways to further help his clients, whether it is by making recommendations to their tech stack or little touches he adds to all of his projects. I have had the pleasure to work with Jer across multiple projects both for myself and for companies I advise, and the quality of his work, delivery timeline and dedication to his clients’ success is unmatched.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Jer for nine years, completing nearly a hundred projects together. His reliability, outstanding work, and timely delivery make him an invaluable partner. I can always count on Jer for exceptional results and unwavering support.
I've worked with a lot of developers throughout my career and Jer has been the fastest, most efficient, and easiest to work with. His technical prowess is obvious, but he also has a good eye for design -- so if you give him some branding guidelines and a general idea of the layout of a page, he can turn out something very cool with minimal input. In my experience, that's very rare among devs. He's also very pleasant to work with: laidback, communicative, and friendly. More than a web dev, Jer is a partner in your journey toward digital success!
This chat is wired into Claudeand grounded in Jeremiah's real work — ask it about his engagements, stack, and how he ships. It's the same pattern he builds into client products.
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