Grant Wilson

I teach English, I design lessons in English and in Mandarin, and I build the tools that produce them. Taiwan is where I want this work. Three things shape it:

1. Taiwan, anywhere in it. For a teaching post I will relocate and work on site permanently. Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Tainan or a smaller town, it makes no difference to me. Lesson and curriculum design I will also do remotely, on your timetable, from Taiwan or from South Africa.
2. Qualified to be hired. TEFL certified, with a BSc from the University of Cape Town. A South African passport is on Taiwan’s list for foreign English teachers, and I am applying for an Employment Gold Card.
3. I design lessons with AI, in English and in Mandarin. I am a Claude Certified AI Architect Professional and AI systems are my day job, so this is not a teacher who has read about it. Give me a syllabus and a class, and I will produce the grammar explanations pitched at their level, the drills that step up as they improve, pronunciation practice aimed at the sounds that class actually gets wrong, worksheets at three difficulties for the same lesson, speaking prompts, tests and the marking guide. A term of material in a day, and the tooling to do it again next term.

Roles I am specialised in:

• In the classroom. A timetable at a school, a cram school or a kindergarten. Any age group, any level.
• Behind it. Lesson and curriculum design, written to your syllabus and taught by someone else.
• Adults. Business English, exam preparation and one to one.
• The tooling. Building the AI that plans the lessons, for a school or an edtech company. Not a private trick I keep to myself: something the whole staff room runs, so one teacher’s best worksheet becomes the template every teacher starts from, in one house style, ready for the next intake. New teachers included, on their first week.

I have taught real classes. In 2020, three elementary classes a day into a bilingual school in Zhongshan, every lesson written from scratch before it ran: exercises, speaking work and assessment. In 2026 I taught for a month at a cram school in Taichung. I have also been the student. I started Mandarin at UCT in 2014 and I am still at it, so I know from the inside what a Chinese speaker finds hard about English.

AI architect or software engineer is where I do best. Three things shape it:

1. Remote, with one exception. I am based between South Africa and Taiwan and I work from both. I can hold my schedule to the business and make daily online calls. The exception is Taiwan: for the right position I will relocate there and work on site permanently. Anywhere else, remote is how I work.
2. Contract preferred, permanent considered. I invoice as an independent South African contractor, so there is no visa, work permit, sponsorship or payroll to arrange. I am open to any length from a single month and can bill hourly. Permanent is worth talking about, particularly in Taiwan, where I am currently applying for an Employment Gold Card.
3. I build with AI. I hold the Claude Certified AI Architect Professional certification. Claude Code and agentic tooling are how I deliver production work.

Everything else is open.

I work anywhere in the stack: front end, back end or full stack. I pick up an unfamiliar one quickly. My deepest is Golang on GCP. I have worked in Rails, Python and Java too, on Azure and AWS.