Founder · Engineer · AI Builder
I'm Irving Barajas, a founder and senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience. I help businesses and founders move from idea to launch through modern design, software, and practical AI.
Based in
Riverside, California
Experience across startups and established brands.
Services
Whether you need a website that better represents your business, an MVP that proves your idea, or an AI system that saves your team time, I help you find the clearest path and build it.
Modern, responsive websites built around your goals—not generic templates. Ideal for businesses that need stronger positioning, clearer conversion paths, bilingual content, lead generation, payments, or an easier publishing workflow.
From concept to launch, I help founders turn ideas into production-ready web and mobile products without unnecessary complexity.
Practical AI solutions that save time, improve operations, and help teams create or ship faster.
Portfolio
Client work, founder products, business transformations, and experiments built to solve real problems.
Rebuilding a law firm's online presence with a bilingual, conversion-focused site for immigration and personal injury.
Bringing a family-owned polishing and buffing manufacturer online with a modern product-focused website.
Modern product engineering for a route-planning platform used by professional drivers and teams.
A property and roommate-management platform built from firsthand experience managing room-by-room rentals.
Transformation
Hadley Offices: Rebuilding a law firm's online presence with a bilingual, conversion-focused site for immigration and personal injury.
Outcome: A bilingual professional site with service pages and lead pathways — TODO: VERIFY live metrics before publishing.
Work directly with a builder who has shipped products, led engineering, and run real businesses.
I don't only write code. I help clarify the offer, identify what should be built, and prioritize what creates value.
AI-assisted development helps accelerate execution, while senior engineering judgment keeps the product maintainable and reliable.
Clear communication, fewer handoffs, and a direct relationship from strategy through launch.
Start with a landing page or MVP, then add payments, automation, content, dashboards, or custom features as the business grows.
Building in public
I regularly select founders and small businesses and build the first version of their website for free. I document the strategy, design, and AI-assisted development process so other builders can learn from it.
Submitting does not guarantee selection. Chosen projects may be documented publicly as educational content.
Founder product
After managing room-by-room rentals and living with more than 20 roommates, I built Cohabi to make shared-property management easier. Cohabi helps landlords and roommates stay organized with chores, inspections, reminders, communication, and property tools.
Active product
Property & roommate management
Built from firsthand house-hacking and co-living experience.
I host live sessions and community experiences for founders, entrepreneurs, and curious builders who want to use AI, launch ideas, and meet other ambitious people.
About
I taught myself software engineering and built a career creating products for startups and established brands. Along the way, I launched companies, invested in real estate, managed room-by-room rentals, worked remotely, and traveled to more than 35 countries.
Now I'm focused on building useful products, helping businesses use technology more effectively, and sharing what I've learned about creating a life with more freedom.
Freedom isn't retirement. It's designing a life you don't have to postpone until 65.More About Irving
Notes across Build, Freedom, Explore, Family, and Think.
AI is not a marketing slogan. Used well, it shortens the distance between an idea and a working website, workflow, or product.
The difference between shipping a page and building something that creates freedom is systems thinking — for code and for life.
Tell me what you're working on. I'll help you identify the simplest, smartest path from idea to launch.