Nagarjun Mallesh.

Full-stack AI engineer building 0-to-1 products from ambiguous workflows: discovery, architecture, frontend, backend, evaluation, deployment.

Seeking founding software engineer / applied AI FDE / full-stack AI roles

Nagarjun Mallesh

Based in the US

New York, NY. Open to relocation.

Discovery to shipped productFull-stack AI systemsEvaluation and guardrailsFounder-minded execution
Available for 0-to-1 engineering workApplied AI productsFull-stack systemsRAG and agentsCloud automation

Live systems

Products I have taken 0-to-1.

The work I want to keep doing: find a painful workflow, shape the product boundary, build the full stack, add evaluation and guardrails, and ship something users can actually operate.

01

0-to-1 AI outreach product

Aletheia

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Problem

Professional outreach is usually slow, generic, or unsafe because it ignores the real context users already have in profiles, resumes, and intent.

Built

A shipped full-stack AI product with a Chrome MV3 extension, authenticated dashboard, resume/profile management, and reviewed LinkedIn/email draft workflows.

Technical depth

Service workers, content scripts, side-panel UI, Supabase Auth/RLS, credit enforcement, rate limits, structured Claude outputs, prompt-injection defenses, Sentry, Vitest, and Playwright.

Why it matters

Shows the founder-engineer loop: identify a painful workflow, design the product surface, build the full stack, add safety rails, and ship it for real users.

  • Next.js
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Chrome MV3
  • Supabase
  • Claude

02

AI resume intelligence platform

Prism Pro

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Problem

Resume tools often give generic advice or fabricate improvements candidates cannot defend in interviews.

Built

A FastAPI and Next.js platform for parsing resumes, recruiter-style evaluation, JD tailoring, versioning, preview, and country-aware PDF export.

Technical depth

Schema-constrained LLM responses, hallucination guards, ATS simulation, Supabase auth/storage, credit accounting, and Playwright PDF rendering.

Why it matters

Turns an ambiguous career-support workflow into a defensible product system with clear user value, evaluation boundaries, and production delivery.

  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Pydantic
  • OpenAI
  • Next.js
  • Supabase

03

Interactive systems education

Visual Learning

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Problem

System design topics are often explained with static diagrams that hide runtime behavior, failure modes, and the tradeoffs engineers actually debug.

Built

A client-side simulator with interactive modules across databases, Kafka, TCP, rate limiting, transformer inference, sharding, and scaling patterns.

Technical depth

Typed simulation engines, state-driven controls, SVG visualizations, live metrics, and module-level architecture for adding new system internals.

Why it matters

Turns abstract infrastructure concepts into inspectable systems for engineers who learn better by watching behavior unfold.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • Framer Motion
  • SVG

Technical stack

Tools and systems I work with.

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Go
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

Backend

  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs
  • Next.js API Routes
  • microservices

Cloud infra

  • AWS Lambda
  • EC2
  • S3
  • API Gateway
  • RDS
  • Step Functions
  • CloudWatch
  • EventBridge
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • GitHub Actions

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • DynamoDB
  • Kafka
  • PostGIS
  • OpenSearch

AI systems

  • RAG
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Claude
  • Hugging Face
  • LangGraph.js
  • Cohere Rerank
  • FAISS
  • Sentence Transformers
  • RAGAS

Engineering spectrum

Founder-minded engineering, backed by systems depth.

My strongest work sits where the requirements are not fully formed yet: translating client pain into architecture, building the product surface, and proving the system behaves reliably.

01

0-to-1 Applied AI Products

Own client-facing AI products from discovery and architecture through frontend, backend, evaluation, demos, pilot feedback, and deployment across insurance, workforce, and EV-charging workflows.

  • Discovery
  • Architecture
  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • Evaluation
  • Deployment

02

Measured RAG and Agentic Systems

Build RAG and bounded-agent workflows where the hard part is not calling a model, but constraining retrieval, tool use, evaluation, latency, and escalation paths.

  • Bedrock
  • LangGraph.js
  • Hybrid retrieval
  • RAGAS 0.87
  • Cohere Rerank
  • Policy engine

03

Cloud-Native Product Infrastructure

Design backend systems that move beyond prototypes: event-driven uploads, RDS-backed schemas, Redis locks, PostGIS search, observability, CI/CD, and production deployment.

  • AWS Lambda
  • Step Functions
  • RDS Multi-AZ
  • Redis
  • PostGIS
  • GitHub Actions

04

Enterprise Automation at Scale

Built automation for hardware, BIOS, OS provisioning, project tracking, ticket routing, and banking microservices, with measurable reductions in manual work and operational delay.

  • PowerShell
  • BIOS config
  • OS deployment
  • 100K+ machines
  • Kafka
  • Go DNS

Engineering arc

Useful before impressive. Operable before clever.

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I am drawn to founder-stage engineering because the work is not only implementation. It is learning the domain, narrowing the problem, choosing the right technical boundary, and carrying the product from a messy first conversation to something real users can rely on.

2025

Full-stack AI product ownership

Own discovery, architecture, frontend, backend, evaluation, and deployment for client-facing AI products, including RAG, text normalization, and EV marketplace workflows.

2024

Cloud backend and infrastructure

Built AWS/GCP storage services, RDS Multi-AZ schemas, Lambda/EventBridge processing, Dockerized Node.js services, and CloudWatch observability.

2019-2022

Enterprise automation and services

Automated BIOS configuration, OS deployment, ticket routing, project dashboards, Go DNS provisioning, and Spring Boot/Kafka service migration work across enterprise environments.

Writing and learning

Writing to clarify what I am learning.

I write to clarify what I am learning and share practical notes with other engineers. My writing explores backend systems, AI workflows, automation, and the implementation tradeoffs I encounter while building.

Contact

Available for founding software engineer, applied AI FDE, and full-stack AI product roles.

Best fit: small teams that need someone to turn ambiguous workflows into shipped AI products: discovery, architecture, interface, backend, evaluation, deployment, and iteration.