Vidula Sawant

Full-stack engineer who ships AI products end to end — multi-provider LLM orchestration, agent tooling (MCP), and production web apps in TypeScript/React and Python. Built and launched PackAI, a live AI product, solo in under 4 weeks. 3+ years of production engineering for a bank and enterprise clients, including high-availability systems and API integrations.

AI Products - Independent Software Engineer - Seattle, WA

(2024)

• PackAI — Designed, built, and deployed PackAI, a full-stack AI travel wardrobe planner, solo in under 4 weeks — Next.js/TypeScript frontend, PostgreSQL, and a multi-provider LLM pipeline — owning it end to end from requirements through live production deployment.
• Designed a multi-provider LLM failover architecture, cascading requests across providers behind a shared prompt contract with an output-validation layer, after hitting rate limits and provider credit exhaustion in production — keeping the product available through provider outages.
• Built a multi-model AI vision pipeline that extracts structured clothing attributes from user-uploaded wardrobe photos, feeding results directly into the recommendation engine.
• Built a modular, reusable React component library from scratch, enabling fast UI iteration and a consistent design system across every product surface.
• Agentic Recommendations API — Built an MCP-native API enabling AI agents to generate personalized travel recommendations with full enforcement of partner-specific business rules in a multi-tenant architecture; automated test suite (16 tests).

Relocation & U.S. Work Authorization - Career Break - Seattle, WA

(2023-04 - 2024)

• Relocated from New Zealand while awaiting U.S. work authorization; maintained daily data structures & algorithms practice and self-directed AI/ML study, then moved directly into independent product development upon authorization.

Software Developer - Enabling Ltd - Auckland, New Zealand

(2021-11 - 2023-04)

• Led end-to-end delivery of a custom cross-platform warehouse management system built with .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid (Android + Windows) for an enterprise client — from initial scoping through production rollout — reducing inventory errors and improving throughput for 100+ warehouse workers.
• Built and shipped API integrations connecting .NET/C# services with Sage300 and Odoo ERP systems, automating accounting and order-fulfillment workflows and eliminating hours of daily manual processing.
• Built shared front-end components and design conventions adopted across the company's product suite.

Software Engineer - ASB Bank - Auckland, New Zealand

(2020-02 - 2021-04)

• Shipped production features end to end on a low-latency, high-availability banking platform in Agile sprints — requirements through QA/UAT to release — while maintaining CI/CD pipelines and contributing to code reviews.
• Partnered directly with 1,000+ frontline bankers to translate business requirements into shipped platform features, improving how the frontline identified and prioritized high-value clients.
• Improved release quality by formalizing regression testing and cross-functional triage workflows across product, QA, and ops.

Master of Engineering Studies - Electrical & Electronics - University of Auckland (2018)

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics - K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering (2016)