Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go
Applied AI x Full Stack
Aaliyan Shaikh
AI + engineering: pragmatic, production‑ready
I build production AI systems with full-stack ownership. My focus is practical execution: robust orchestration, measurable cost and latency improvements, and interfaces teams can trust in real operations.
About
Engineering with contemplative rigor and shipping speed
I am an engineer focused on applied AI systems, backend architecture, and product-minded delivery. I like solving hard implementation edges: retries, observability, tool reliability, and costs at scale.
Recent work spans KYC automation, multimodal extraction, and agentic workflows where reliability matters more than demos. I enjoy bridging deep technical detail with clear user-facing outcomes.
Capabilities
Stack and system instincts
AI and ML
Gemini, LangGraph, scikit-learn, XGBoost, FAISS, Milvus, NLP
Backend
Django, FastAPI, Node.js, NestJS, TypeORM, API design, queue workers
Frontend
React, Vite, Next.js, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
Cloud and Ops
AWS ECS and S3, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Grafana dashboards
Product delivery
Evaluation loops, retries, cost control, reliability budgets, clear tradeoff handling
Experience
Roles where I built and shipped
Software/AI Engineer
OCN
- Designed and implemented a risk analysis system using ML (scikit-learn, XGBoost) and agentic AI.
- Architected parallelized AI/Agentic workflows achieving ~3x faster execution with higher reliability.
- Automated the end-to-end KYC lifecycle improving onboarding, fraud detection, and document verification.
- Reduced OCR provider costs by up to 20x via multimodal LLM integrations; improved accuracy and throughput.
- Improved document processing speed and resilience with parallelism and exponential backoff retries.
- Delivered a voice/text customer support system (Django, Gemini, Twilio, S3 vectors) with React/Vite/shadcn UI.
- Deployed on AWS ECS with Docker and Terraform; automated via GitHub Actions and instrumented with Grafana.
Software Engineer
Sastaticket
- Developed backend services with Django and frontend components with React.
- Implemented AI-driven PoCs focusing on NLP applications.
Software Engineer
Techwards
- Built generative AI applications with Django and LangChain; React/TypeScript frontend with Tailwind.
- Added agentic capabilities to an enterprise chatbot for tabular data analysis (LangGraph, tool calling).
- Developed blog generation and competitor analysis tool for a publishing firm.
Associate Software Engineer
Techwards
- Built an AI-evaluated multiplayer game ('Death by AI') using PlayroomKit SDK and React.
- Improved accessibility for a legacy Angular 1.4 frontend.
- Implemented RAG pipelines: FAISS for small-scale, Milvus for large-scale vector searches.
- Migrated authorization from RBAC to ABAC with CASL across React and NestJS services.
- Implemented an end-to-end change request ticketing system (React + Nest).
Projects
Selected systems and products
Tool Calling Reliability Benchmark
Tool Calling Reliability Benchmark
A benchmark project for evaluating reliability in LLM tool-calling workflows across different scenarios and failure modes.
midi-mixer (Go TUI)
A terminal-based MIDI mixer built in Go. Keyboard-driven workflow for mixing and routing—built as a focused developer tool.
OCN Agents (OneCarNow)
OCN Agents (OneCarNow)
Worked on an agentic customer + KYC workflow product: reliability-focused orchestration, document processing, and full-stack delivery.
Journal
Findings while building
More of such stuff/takes actively shared on my Twitter.
Refactoring.Guru design patterns
the best design patterns explanations, the visual elements nailed it and that cheatsheet is on point.
Open linkHenrik Karlsson on Unfolding
feedback loops over rigid plans. keep evolving :)
Open linkThe Odin Project
this got me out of tutorial hell and into shipping early on in 2021.
Open linkDistributed systems playlist
it was a tossup between this and that DSA playlist, but this one means a whole lot more to me.
Open linkCodeAesthetic
3b1b for software engineers.
Open linkLearn Git Branching
neat explanations to actually understand branching, rebasing, and merge flow.
Open linkContact
Get in touch
Reach me directly
For collaboration, technical discussion, or product ideas, email is the best channel.
Email: aaliyan1230@gmail.com