Hi, I'm Ishaan Gupta 👋

AI Full-Stack Engineer shipping production AI, fast

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About

Seasoned Forward Deployed AI Full-Stack Engineer focused on shipping production AI fast, with a proven track record of leading the design & delivery of high-quality, scalable enterprise solutions. Specialized in building multi-agentic systems, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, fine-tuning & full-stack development. Built 100+ apps since my school days; a few recent ones are an AI upskilling platform used daily by 30k+ employees, an AI image-gen SaaS with 31k+ users and 100k+ generations, and earlier a COVID vaccine-finder API that reached 1M+ usage across India during the pandemic. AI-pilled generalist who prototypes and ships at high velocity with any AI tool one can imagine. Judged/mentored 25+ hackathons worldwide (HackMIT, HackPrinceton, HackHarvard etc.). I love to write intuitive tech tutorials on medium. Tinkering and contributing to OSS multimodal LLMs. FTC robotics 2014 Nationals. Top 3% on LeetCode, rank 1 on GFG Campus.

Work Experience

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freeCodeCamp

April 2026 - Present
Senior Technical Writer
  • Accepted through the Senior Technical Writer contributor program; write deep technical tutorials and articles part-time.
  • Contribute educational content to one of the largest programming learning communities globally.
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Freelance Agentic Engineering Consultant

February 2026 - Present
Agentic AI Engineer
  • Contract agentic engineering engagements with undisclosed clients and global organizations.
  • Design and build multi-agent systems, agentic workflows and AI automations for production use cases.
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Hexaware Technologies (at Kirkland & Ellis)

November 2024 - February 2026
Forward Deployed Agentic AI Engineer
  • Hired by Kirkland & Ellis (top US law firm) as a Forward Deployed Agentic AI Engineer, engaged via Hexaware Technologies (Kirkland's consulting partner). Directly interfaced with client leadership and stakeholders to lead development of GenAI PoCs across legal, financial, and healthcare domains.
  • Worked in a close-knit team consisting of the org's EVP & SVPs on a LegalTech AI Risk Modeling solution. Took it from PoC stage to a demo stage along with GTM strategies, and demoed it to various US legal companies and other prospective customers.
  • Built multi-agent systems and chatbots fine-tuned for the legal domain on top of Onyx, along with RAG pipelines/PoCs, deployed on the AWS stack for production workloads. Also built and deployed an enterprise AI upskilling platform now used daily by 30,000+ employees company-wide, driving productivity gains across teams and making them AI ready.
  • Recognized with a fast-track promotion, Employee of the Year, Young Achiever Award, Tech Guru Award, Client Impact and Relations Award, and various hackathon-win awards for exceptional impact.
  • Mentored principal consultants and technical architects on GenAI adoption; authored company-wide AI blogs in the global newsletter, motivating teams to be 10x ready. Pioneered a vibe-coding culture across engineering teams using Cursor, Claude Code, and Replit, accelerating rapid PoC prototyping.
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Overture Rede Pvt. Ltd.

October 2023 - October 2024
Software Developer
  • Led a small dev team building a production RAG application, designed retrieval pipelines and integrated LLM-based query resolution using llamaindex and langchain.
  • Developed dynamic, responsive web applications translating Figma designs into React+Tailwind.
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Upwork, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour

March 2020 - September 2023
Freelance/Contract Software Engineer
  • Delivered freelance and contractual solutions for global MNCs across multiple short-term projects.
  • Primarily focused on full-stack and Android development.
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Two Waits Technologies

January 2022 - March 2022
Web Development Intern
  • Complete redesigning of web pages to improve navigation and performance. Developed landing pages, dashboards and online applications using React and Tailwind CSS.
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Medium

January 2020 - Present
Senior Technical Writer
  • Independent technical writer contributing to major tech publications on Medium.
  • Write deep technical tutorials; compensation is tied to article readership and performance metrics.
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Skills

AI & Agents

Agentic AI Development
Multi-Agent Systems
Agentic System Design
RAG
Agentic RAG
LangGraph
LangChain
OpenAI Agents SDK
AWS Strands SDK
CrewAI
AutoGen
LlamaIndex
Vercel AI SDK
Deep Agents
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
A2A Protocol
Agent Memory
mem0
supermemory
Context Engineering
HiTL Workflows
Async & Streaming Execution
Computer-Use Agents
Agent/RAG Evals (RAGAS)
LLM as a Judge
Autoresearch
Agentcore
Onyx
Hermes
OpenClaw
n8n

LLMs & ML

Generative AI
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Fine-Tuning (LoRA/QLoRA)
HuggingFace Transformers
Prompt & Context Engineering
Embeddings & Semantic Search
Vector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS)
Multimodal & Voice Agents
Diffusion Models
World Models
OpenCV
Image Processing
vLLM Serving
Multi-GPU LLM Deployment
CUDA
Ollama

Full Stack

Next.js
React
Node/Express
FastAPI
Flask
Django
Hono
REST/GraphQL
Prisma/Drizzle ORMs
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL
SQL/NoSQL
SQLite
MERN
PERN
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Streamlit

Languages

Python
TypeScript/JavaScript
C++
Java and Kotlin (Android)
C# (Unity)
SQL
Go (learning)

Cloud, Infra & Systems

AWS Stack
Cloudflare Stack
Microsoft Azure
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Vercel
Railway
Convex
Supabase
Firebase
Serverless (Lambda/Workers)
Inngest
Event Queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Caching (Redis)
DAG-Based Pipelines
Async Streaming
Observability & Monitoring
Nginx
Linux
Git/GitHub

AI Dev Tools (early adopter)

Claude Code
Cursor
Windsurf
Devin
OpenAI Codex
Gemini CLI
GitHub Copilot
Replit Agent
Lovable
v0
Kiro
Kilo Code
CodeRabbit
Vibe Coding

Game Dev, AR & XR

Unity
Game Development
Blender
Augmented Reality (AR)
Spark AR Studio
Lens Studio (Snapchat)
Vuforia AR SDK

Projects

Specialized in building AI agents, multimodal LLM systems, and RAG applications. Also a full-stack engineer, and worked on Android apps, and game development throughout my journey professionally.

Xylo Ai

AI-powered application named xylo-ai.

TypeScript

Vedaai

AI-powered application named VedaAI.

TypeScript
AI

Ai Post Scheduler

AI-driven social media post scheduler that automates content planning and publishing.

CSS

Agent Scratch Python

Building an AI agent from scratch in Python for a Medium article series.

AI Agents

Ai Res Builder

AI resume builder that generates polished resumes from user profiles using LLMs.

TypeScript

Strands Agent Tuts

Tutorials and examples for AWS Strands SDK agents.

Python
AI Agents

Cold Email Startup Otter

AI-powered cold email generator and outreach tool for startups.

TypeScript
AI

Simple Cli Agent

Simple command-line AI agent for task automation.

TypeScript
AI Agents

Ai Writer Server

[Private] Ai Writer Server project repository.

Python

Ai Writer Client

Ai Writer Client project repository.

TypeScript

Ai Engineering Interview Questions

[Fork] Your Cheat Sheet for AI Engineering Interview – Questions and Answers.

AI

Agent Skills

[Fork] Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

AI
AI Agents

Magenta Realtime

[Fork] Magenta RealTime 2: An Open-Weights Live Music Model

AI
AI Agents

Hiring Agent

[Fork] AI agent to evaluate and score resumes.

AI
AI Agents

Litellm

[Fork] Python SDK, Proxy Server (AI Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format, with cost tracking, guardrails, loadbalancing and logging. [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, VLLM, NVIDIA NIM]

AI
LLMs
OpenAI

Ai Research Skills

[Fork] Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

AI

Hermes Agent

[Fork] The agent that grows with you

Python
AI
AI Agents

Agency Agents

[Fork] A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.

AI
AI Agents

5 Dollar Llm

[Fork] Train LLM from scratch for $5 USD - Research.

AI
LLMs

FolioCV - AI-Powered Portfolio Generator

AI-powered portfolio generator that turns a resume into a polished developer portfolio using LLMs and RAG.

Next.js
TypeScript
LLMs
RAG
Generative AI

Nano Banana Pro - Free AI Image Generator

Free AI image generator built on Nano Banana Pro — zero signups, zero watermarks, no rate limits, instant generation, and a clean, intuitive interface.

Next.js
Generative AI
AI Image Generation
LLMs

Navigable 3D AI Generated World Models from Single Image

Built a 3D gaussian splat renderer for 3D AI models generated from a single image using the worldlabs.ai platform.

3D Rendering
Gaussian Splatting
AI
Computer Vision

AI Pasta (Open Source AI Fiesta Clone)

World's Most Powerful AIs in one chat. Clone of a $3M ARR app. Built it within a day.

Next.js
TypeScript
AI APIs
OpenAI
Claude
Gemini

Nano Banana Image Generator SaaS

Built a production-ready, credit-based AI image generation app using nano-banana & Seedream 4.0; scaled backend infra to support growth to 31K+ users and 100K+ generations.

Next.js
TypeScript
AI Image Generation
Stripe
SaaS

Elevate - Employee Assistant Enterprise App

  • Built a B2B AI enterprise application to upskill employees in their careers. Features a multi-agent study plan generator and tracker, documentation and GitHub repo assistant, multimodal chat assistant, deep research agent, and a video summarizer.
  • Won the Global AI Hackathon at Hexaware, then scaled it internally — now used by 30K+ employees daily.
Next.js
TypeScript
AI Agents
RAG
Multi-agent Systems
Enterprise

Blog Writer using Multi Agent

  • A production multi-agent AI blog writer (Router → Research → Orchestrator → Parallel Workers → Reducer) deployed on the AWS and Cloudflare stack.
  • Ran worker agents in parallel with structured Pydantic outputs, per-agent retries, and SSE streaming of live progress to the UI.
  • Implemented a daily $25 hard budget cap with token-level cost tracking, blocking over-budget requests before any LLM call.
Next.js
TypeScript
Multi-Agent Systems
AWS Strands SDK
Claude
Cloudflare

Diffusion Based LLM Chat App

Fastest AI Chatbot in the world, built using Inception Labs' Mercury 2 diffusion model. Built a complete open-source cookbook.

Diffusion Models
LLMs
Real-time AI
Next.js
TypeScript

Realtime smolVLM

Realtime activity detection web app built using smolVLM (small visual language model).

VLM
Computer Vision
Real-time Processing
AI

Zerodha Custom MCP & AI Trading Bot

Zerodha Custom MCP & AI trading bot (Depreciated). Built custom zerodha MCP and integrated it with claude & cursor for 'vibe trading'. Depreciated since zerodha has now released their own MCP SDK.

MCP
Trading Bots
Claude AI
Python
API Integration

Invoice Extractor POC

Invoice extractor POC built using Gemini.

Gemini AI
Document Processing
OCR
Python

AI Legal Semantic Search

Built an enterprise AI semantic search application for the legal domain using embeddings and vector search (deprecated).

Generative AI
Semantic Search
Embeddings
Vector Databases
RAG

Lovable.dev Clone

Lovable.dev Clone (in-progress). Building a clone of Lovable.dev - an AI-powered development platform that generates full-stack applications from natural language descriptions.

Next.js
TypeScript
AI
Code Generation
Full-stack

Built My Own VectorDB From Scratch

Built a hybrid vector DB without any external vector-DB library — hand-rolled indexing and semantic search. Currently making it production-ready.

Python
Vector Databases
Semantic Search
Embeddings

Ai Tictactoe

Tic-tac-toe game with an AI opponent built for learning and fun.

TypeScript

Ai Chess App

AI-powered chess application with intelligent move suggestions and gameplay.

TypeScript
AI

Gemini Computer Use

Computer-use agent experiments built with Google Gemini.

Python

Deep Agents

Collection of deep-learning agent experiments and implementations.

Python
AI Agents

Dllm Cookbook

Cookbook and reference implementations for diffusion-based large language models.

Experimental

Gemini Rag Tool

[Private] Gemini Rag Tool project repository.

TypeScript
Gemini

Res To Website Gemini

[Private] Res To Website Gemini project repository.

TypeScript
Gemini

Llm Evals Testing

[Private] Llm Evals Testing project repository.

Python
AI
LLMs

Photoai Fiesta Submit

[Private] nano-banana hackathon submission

TypeScript

Dllm Chat

Diffusion based LLM simple chatbot inference

TypeScript
AI
LLMs

Ai Pasta

[Private] Ai Pasta project repository.

TypeScript

Ai Pasta Try

[Private] Ai Pasta Try project repository.

TypeScript

Gemini Cookbook

[Private] Gemini Cookbook project repository.

Python
Gemini

Flappy Ai

[Private] Flappy Ai project repository.

JavaScript

Llamaindex Tuts

[Private] Llamaindex Tuts project repository.

Python

Chessai

[Private] Chessai project repository.

Python

Langchain Rag Basic

[Private] Langchain Rag Basic project repository.

Python

Chainlit Tuts

[Private] Chainlit Tuts project repository.

Python

Open Ai Agents

[Private] Open Ai Agents project repository.

Python
AI
AI Agents

Genai Colab

[Private] genai-colab tuts

Jupyter Notebook

Ai Legal Semantic Search

[Private] Ai Legal Semantic Search project repository.

TypeScript

Basic Ai Weather Agent

[Private] Basic Ai Weather Agent project repository.

JavaScript
AI
AI Agents

Ai Math Animation Generator

[Private] Ai Math Animation Generator project repository.

TypeScript

Chat With Pdf Ai Try 1

[Private] Chat With Pdf Ai Try 1 project repository.

Python

Ai Websupport Agent

[Private] Ai Websupport Agent project repository.

JavaScript
AI
AI Agents

Langchain Tuts

[Private] Langchain Tuts project repository.

Python

Agentic Ai Todo App

[Private] Agentic Ai Todo App project repository.

JavaScript
AI
AI Agents

Agents

[Fork] Build and deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare

AI
AI Agents
Cloudflare

Dllm

[Fork] dLLM: Simple Diffusion Language Modeling

AI
LLMs

Gemini Cli

[Fork] An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.

AI
Gemini

UGC Video Clone SaaS App

UGC Video Clone SaaS App (currently building). UGC clone app where users can create their AI clones with a single image. User can also replace themselves with characters in a video. Building using Wan & hunyuan OSS models.

Next.js
AI Video Generation
Computer Vision
SaaS
OSS Models

Meet Verse - Realtime AI Video Agent Helper

Meet Verse - Realtime AI Video Agent Helper. Built a full stack AI video helper app using OpenAI, StreamSDK and Inngest. Users can schedule meetings on any topic and consult with AI in realtime with minimal latency, as if it were a human!

Next.js
OpenAI
StreamSDK
Inngest
Real-time AI
Video Processing

AI Math Animation Generator

AI Math Animation Generator. Building AI Math Animation Generator using Claude API, NLP, Manim, ffmpeg and other video libraries.

Claude AI
Manim
FFmpeg
NLP
Python
Video Generation

Portfolio Roast App

Portfolio Roast App using AI. Built a fun app for roasting resume, github, leetcode and other user profiles using AI.

Next.js
AI
OpenAI
API Integration

Doc Reader Agent Backend

[Private] doc-reader-agent-backend using fastAPI

Python
AI
AI Agents

Chat With Website Ai App

[Private] Chat With Website Ai App project repository.

TypeScript

Ai Interviewer

[Private] Ai Interviewer project repository.

TypeScript

Visionaryai

[Private] Visionaryai project repository.

TypeScript

Saas Ai Content Generator

[Private] saas-ai-content-generator in nextjs

TypeScript

Saas Ai Resume Builder

[Private] Saas Ai Resume Builder project repository.

TypeScript

Saas Ai Salesbot

[Private] Saas Ai Salesbot project repository.

TypeScript

Ai Resume Builder

[Fork] Ai Resume Builder project repository.

Experimental

SaaS AI Podcast Generator App

SaaS AI Podcast Generator App (Next.js, AI). SaaS AI Podcast app with text-to-multiple-voices and AI-generated images.

Next.js
AI
Text-to-Speech
AI Image Generation
SaaS

SaaS AI Chat With Document App

SaaS AI Chat With Document App (Next.js, AI). SaaS AI app with feature to chat with documents using OpenAI, LangChain and RAG.

Next.js
OpenAI
LangChain
RAG
Vector Database

Cowin Vaccine Availability

[Private] Live Site

Python
Hackathons

I love building products ❤️

During my time in university, I attended 7+ hackathons. People from around the country would come together and build incredible things in 2-3 days. It was eye-opening to see the endless possibilities brought to life by a group of motivated and passionate individuals.

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    Youngest Chairperson at ICAMC 2023

    International

    Invited to judge and approve research papers by people all around the world at International Conference on Emerging Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cybersecurity.
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    Judge/Mentor at 25+ Hackathons Worldwide

    Global

    Judged 25+ prestigious hackathons around the globe including HackMIT 23, 24, 25; HackPrinceton 23; HackHarvard 23, 24; TreeHacks 23; HackCBS 5.0; NSC 23 and other ivy league university hackathons.
  • W

    Winner at IOSD MAIT National TechFest

    India

    Won first place at IOSD MAIT National TechFest competition
  • W

    Winner at Bugtrons 2.0 National Hackathon

    India

    Won first place at Bugtrons 2.0 National Hackathon
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    Innovate India Coding Championship

    India

    Qualified Round 2 for National Innovate India Coding Championship by AICTE
  • A

    Annual University Tech Expo Winner

    India

    Annual University Tech Expo - Winner in Tech Project, 2nd place in Tech Quiz in 1st semester
  • F

    FTC and IRC National Qualifier (Robotics Competition)

    India

    Qualified for national level FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) and IRC (International Robotics Challenge) robotics competitions. Issued by multiple global universities and robotics companies.

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