Gaurav Kapur

I'm an AI Engineer with 4 years of experience across companies like Turing, YC-backed startups, B2B enterprises, and AI-first teams, including founding-member experience where I owned the backend from day one.

These days, most of my work is applied AI: agents, multi-LLM pipelines, RAG, and MCP tooling. What I actually enjoy is the unglamorous part of making AI work in production, the verification loops, the self-healing on failures, the guardrails that stop an agent from doing something stupid with your database.

I'm comfortable owning things end-to-end. Product conversation to architecture to deployment to the 2 AM debugging session. I don't need a DevOps team to ship, and I've worked remote-first my whole career, so async and self-managed is my default mode.

Currently open to remote AI Engineer and Full Stack roles, worldwide.

AI Engineer at Voriq AI (2026-01 – Present)

• Shipped a production live-commerce platform on Amazon IVS with Supabase Realtime for sub-second product spotlighting, S3 VOD replay, and an embeddable widget; load-tested to 15,000 concurrent viewers across 4 AWS regions.
• Produced a full-stack internal operations platform serving 150+ outplacement coaches managing 24K+ clients, aggregating 8 external services into a unified dashboard; featuring AI-driven career shift analysis via parallel Lightcast API calls and an agentic admin chatbot with AST-level SQL validation.
• Launched a multi-LLM workflow automation server running 4 production pipelines (document intelligence, resume generation, lead automation, news synthesis) across dev and prod.

Full Stack Engineer at Paasa (YC S24) (2025-10 – 2026-01)

• Delivered UCITS screening platform from inception to production on Fly.io, architecting a scalable server-side solution managing 2,940+ UCITS-compliant investment instruments with advanced filtering and live data processing.
• Spearheaded an LLM-based portfolio engine mapping quiz responses to personalized investments; automated weekly statement emails via cron, cutting manual outreach 40%.
• Constructed server-side Next.js components with SSR architecture for production tools, including a global brokerage calculator and US estate tax calculator, increasing user engagement by 15%.

Software Engineer at AKS Internationals (2024-06 – 2025-10)

• Shipped a Next.js/PostgreSQL customer dashboard for 2,000+ enterprise customers (70–90 DAU) with the sales team; built ingestion pipelines pulling from internal SFTP servers over SSH/SCP, containerized and deployed on-premise to bare-metal Ubuntu via CI/CD.
• Automated the quality department's certificate generation, replacing a 20-person manual workflow: pulled SharePoint invoices via Power Automate, matched against 7,500+ templates with Elasticsearch, and dispatched via Microsoft Graph API in under 3 minutes; rolled out to 10 workstations.
• Modernized legacy codebases and improved application performance, sustaining 99.9% production uptime and cutting production bugs by 65% through comprehensive testing strategies.

Backend Engineer & Founding Member at Suko (2022-12 – 2024-06)

• Engineered a scalable backend for an AI-driven social platform, enabling real-time data delivery via WebSockets and driving a 40% increase in session duration post-launch.
• Productionized raw ML model output into a user-facing feature via a worker-based pipeline bridging AI generation and backend services; validated with the platform's first 300 users and cut asset delivery time 60% using S3 storage and ETag-based Redis caching.
• Containerized backend services with CI/CD on GCP for faster releases; re-architected v2 onto AWS Lambda for auto-scaling; mentored 2 junior engineers.

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering – Delhi Technological University (DTU)