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Abu Dhabi

Staff engineer · forward deployed

Building the platform. Sitting with the accounts.

Distributed systems first, then the product around them. Fourteen years of platforms taken from a first commit into production — ai, social, fintech, real estate, and the field work that follows.

Building ask71 at AI71. --:-- in Abu Dhabi.

years on this planet.

Work

  1. AI71dec 2024 – now
    Staff software engineer / forward deployed engineer · abu dhabi

    founding engineer on ask71, a multi-tenant ai platform now in eight uae government entities, a hundred thousand users, and the conversation surface they all share.

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    • own the core platform — api layer, multi-tenancy, retrieval, integrations, deployment.
    • forward deployed on government accounts worth twenty million a year: discovery, architecture, delivery, and turning asks into reusable connectors.
    • agent and tool governance — tenant permissions, policy, audit, human-in-the-loop approvals, failure recovery.
    • ci/cd and engineering standards from zero; two hundred interviews to build the team.

    python · fastapi · next.js · postgres · redis · docker · terraform · azure · llms · rag

  2. Dizart Solutionsfeb 2023 – dec 2024
    Head of engineering · india

    architecture, hiring, and delivery — an nft marketplace that did seventy million in sales, and the face-swap and voice platforms around it.

    react · typescript · python · aws

  3. Compassoct 2020 – jan 2023
    Senior software engineer · remote

    notification systems dispatching a hundred million messages a month, and a twilio messaging paas underneath the real-estate product.

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    • worked across backend, frontend, and infrastructure on a fast-growing product.

    java · go · python · react · mysql · thrift

  4. Metadec 2018 – feb 2020
    Software engineer · london

    integrity pipelines filtering two hundred and forty thousand media assets a second, and supplier portals on forty billion a year.

    more
    • a hundred interviews across software and enterprise engineering.

    hack · react · rust · tao · spark · graphql · c++

  5. Flipkartsep 2016 – aug 2018
    Software development engineer · bengaluru

    third-party orders into the marketplace oms, and invoice and signing systems at one and a half million documents a day.

    java · react · ruby · graphql · mysql

  6. Tracxnjan – sep 2016
    Software engineer · bengaluru

    core frontend, and a chrome extension that was about thirty percent of company revenue.

  7. RS InfoCorpjul 2012 – nov 2015
    Co-founder · udaipur

    a services firm in udaipur. education platforms, from the requirements through to production.

Toolbox

languages
python · typescript · java · go · hack · rust · c++ · ruby
systems
postgres · mysql · redis · spark · tao · thrift · graphql · fastapi
platform
azure · aws · terraform · docker · ci/cd · multi-tenancy
ai
llms · rag · agents & tool governance · retrieval
product
react · next.js · chrome extensions · slack & teams apps

Education

Rajasthan Technical University2012
B.Tech, computer science
  • gold medal in c programming, nptel.
  • gate qualified, 93rd percentile.

Say hello

Platforms, forward deployed work, or a hard problem worth a conversation.

somnathrs25@gmail.com