Remote AI and Full-Stack Developer for Australian Businesses

What can you hire me to build?

AI agents and chatbots first, then the software around them. Each line of work has its own page with the scope and the limits.

I do not sell small one-off fixes as a separate service. Work starts from a written scope, even when the scope is short.

Where is the work done, and why say so up front?

In Baramulla, in Kashmir, India, by me. Some Australian buyers are wary of offshore work, so I say where it is done before the first call. These are the checks worth making with any developer, and my answers:

• Who does the work? One developer, me, under my own name, with public reviews on Upwork and Fiverr: Top Rated on both, with 580+ five-star reviews on Fiverr.
• Where do the code and accounts sit? In your company's repository and accounts, not mine.
• Where does personal information go? It stays on your systems, on Australian servers if you need that, and the quote says how I handle it.
• Which Australian client can I name? CornerHost: I built the website for this Australian managed WordPress host. The rest of my work is in my portfolio.

How do our working hours overlap?

Your afternoon is morning in India. India stays on UTC+5:30 all year. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT observe daylight saving from 4 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, and Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not. This is 13:00 to 17:00 in your city, in Indian time:

East-coast mornings fall very early in India, so calls fit best in your afternoon. Perth overlaps the most: its morning is 6:30 to 9:30 in India. We agree a call slot within these hours in the quote. The rest runs on a written update each working day, and a request you send at the end of your day arrives during the Indian working day.

Do you charge GST, and is there anything you need to do?

The ATO's rules answer this for registered businesses. Its guidance for overseas suppliers says GST does not apply when a non-resident sells to an Australian business that is registered for GST, carries on an enterprise in Australia and is not buying for private use. Its worked example is an Australian insurer buying IT services from a supplier in India. A non-resident whose only sales are of that kind does not need to register.

On your side, the ATO says to give the supplier your ABN and state that you are registered for GST. The reverse charge applies only in some cases, such as purchases you could not fully claim a GST credit for, and then the GST is 10% of the price, worked out and paid by you. If you are not registered for GST, the ATO says you pay GST on imported services. Your accountant decides how this applies to you.

Who is responsible for personal information under the Privacy Act?

If the Privacy Act covers your business, you are. The Act covers organizations with an annual turnover of more than A$3 million and some smaller ones, such as health service providers. For those organizations, the OAIC's APP guidelines say that providing personal information to "a contractor located overseas" is, "in most circumstances", a disclosure under APP 8, and that the Australian entity is generally accountable if the overseas recipient does something that would breach the APPs. The guidelines expect an enforceable contract requiring the recipient to handle the information in line with the APPs.

So the quote sets out how I handle personal information. That can include access only to what the job needs, work on your systems instead of copies on my machine, deletion at the end of the project, and prompt notice of any breach, which helps you meet the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Your data can stay in Australia:

Hosting in Australia does not by itself remove your APP 8 obligations, because I still access the systems from India. It does keep the data under your control.

Which Australian rules shape an AI chatbot or agent?

Three, and the first is new law from 10 December 2026.

• Automated decisions in your privacy policy. From 10 December 2026, under the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, a covered organization that uses a computer program to make, or to do something substantially and directly related to making, a decision that could reasonably be expected to significantly affect a person's rights or interests, where personal information about that person is used, must describe in its privacy policy the kinds of personal information used and the kinds of decisions made. It applies to systems built before that date too. An agent can be documented so that what it decides, what it passes to a person and what personal information it reads is written down.
• Telling people they are talking to AI. The OAIC advises that public-facing AI tools such as chatbots be clearly identified as AI, and recommends against entering personal information into publicly available generative AI tools. The government's voluntary Guidance for AI Adoption, published in October 2025, says customers served by a chatbot "should know this is not a human specialist", and lists six practices, including testing, monitoring and keeping a person in control.
• Accessibility. The Australian Human Rights Commission's 2025 guidelines under the Disability Discrimination Act set WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the minimum to aim for, and they cover websites, SaaS and chatbots. The guidelines are not legally binding, but they describe how to meet the Act. I work toward WCAG 2.2 AA, but I do not certify compliance.

What can I set up for Australian hosting companies on WHMCS?

The Australian parts of billing and domains, on top of modules and integrations.

• .au domains. auDA requires an Australian presence for every .au license, such as an Australian citizen, an Australian company or an entity with an ABN, and the presence must continue for the whole license. WHMCS ships additional domain fields for .au, .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .asn.au and .id.au, including the registrant ID with an ABN or ACN option and the eligibility type. Its eligibility reasons still include "close and substantial connection" wording that auDA's current com.au rule no longer uses, so I check those fields against the rules and your registrar module, and test a registration in the registrar's test environment where one is available.
• Gateways. WHMCS has built-in modules for eWAY, SecurePay AU and Merchant Warrior, and WHMCS's GoCardless module supports AUD. For a Stripe account based in Australia, BECS Direct Debit and PayTo support recurring payments in custom apps. Afterpay does not fit hosting renewals, because Stripe lists it as not supporting recurring payments.
• Modules and integrations. Custom provisioning, registrar and gateway modules, covered on hire a WHMCS developer. Registrar setup is in my WHMCS domain registrar guide.

When am I the wrong choice for you?

• Your contract or tender requires the work to be done in Australia, or by an Australian business.
• You need calls in your morning every day. East-coast mornings fall in the early hours in India.
• You need a large team at once. I am one developer.
• The cheapest hourly rate decides. My rate buys one senior developer who scopes, builds and supports the work.

Disclosure: I am CTO at ElySpace, a freelance developer for Marmaids LLC, and founder of WHMCSPilot and MagizAI. Tax, privacy, accessibility, domain and payment points on this page summarize the ATO, the OAIC, the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, the Department of Industry, the Australian Human Rights Commission, auDA, WHMCS, Stripe and the cloud providers as read on 28 October 2026. They are not legal or tax advice.