Hi, I'm Ishaan Gupta 👋

Forward Deployed Agentic AI & Full-Stack Engineer shipping production AI, fast!!

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About

Forward Deployed Agentic 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. Deep specialization in architecting multi-agentic systems, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, fine-tuning & end-to-end full-stack development. Built 200+ projects 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 relentless velocity with any AI tool one can imagine. Judged/mentored 50+ hackathons worldwide (HackMIT, HackPrinceton, HackHarvard etc.). I love to write intuitive tech tutorials on medium. Forever tinkering with and contributing to OSS audio and video models. FTC Robotics 2014 Nationals. Top 3% on LeetCode, rank 1 on GFG Campus.

Work Experience

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IFS Loops

July 2026 - Present
Forward Deployed Agentic Engineer
  • Founding Forward Deployed Engineer from the APAC/APJ region for IFS Loops, IFS's industrial-grade agentic AI platform.
  • Build and deploy Digital Workers—autonomous agents that execute end-to-end, multi-system business processes for customers in physical industries.
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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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Independent Research & Consulting

February 2026 - July 2026
Agentic Engineering, LLM Evaluation & Technical Writing
  • Selected for a vetted expert pool evaluating agentic coding models for leading frontier AI labs—my tiny contribution to AGI :). Assessed long-horizon, multi-step tool-use trajectories, authored structured rationales for model post-training, and diagnosed failure modes including instruction drift, premature termination, unsafe operations, and unverified completion claims.
  • Delivered full-stack agentic AI solutions to global organizations, founders, and engineers across short-term engagements, including multi-agent RAG systems and production AI workflows.
  • Wrote applied LLM, agentic architecture, system design, and AI research tutorials for Medium, freeCodeCamp, and Towards Data Science; recognized as a Medium Top Writer with 2,400+ followers.
  • Prototyped and stress-tested AI-native solutions and multimodal models, including open-source research reimplementations and GPU-based fine-tuning.
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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
GenAI Engineer
  • Led a small engineering team delivering a production GraphRAG application; designed retrieval pipelines and LLM-based query resolution using LlamaIndex and LangChain. Built the organization's early-stage AI PoCs for internal use and prospective customers.
  • Developed dynamic, responsive web applications by translating Figma designs into React and Tailwind CSS.
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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

I've built 200+ projects so far, specializing in 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. A curated selection is below.

Xylo Ai

AI-powered application named xylo-ai.

TypeScript
Source

Vedaai

AI-powered application named VedaAI.

TypeScript
AI
Source

Ai Post Scheduler

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

CSS
Source

Agent Scratch Python

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

AI Agents
Source

Ai Res Builder

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

TypeScript
Source

Strands Agent Tuts

Tutorials and examples for AWS Strands SDK agents.

Python
AI Agents
Source

Cold Email Startup Otter

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

TypeScript
AI
Source

Simple Cli Agent

Simple command-line AI agent for task automation.

TypeScript
AI Agents
Source

Ai Writer Server

[Private] Ai Writer Server project repository.

Python
Source
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Hackathons

I love building products ❤️

I've gone from competing in hackathons during university to judging and mentoring 50+ hackathons worldwide, including HackMIT, HackPrinceton, HackHarvard, TreeHacks and other Ivy League and top university hackathons. Reviewing thousands of submissions and mentoring teams that ship incredible things in 24-48 hours never stops being eye-opening.

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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 50+ Hackathons Worldwide

    Global

    Judged and mentored 50+ prestigious hackathons around the globe, including HackMIT 23, 24, 25; HackPrinceton 23; HackHarvard 23, 24; TreeHacks 23; HackCBS 5.0; NSC 23 and many other Ivy League and top university hackathons. Reviewed thousands of submissions, mentored teams on AI and full-stack architecture, and helped early-stage builders take ideas from concept to working demo within 24-48 hours.
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    Winner at IOSD MAIT National TechFest

    India

    Won first place at IOSD MAIT National TechFest competition
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    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
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    Annual University Tech Expo Winner

    India

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

Education

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GGSIPU, Delhi

2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering (GPA: 3.44/4.0)

Certifications

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NCA - Generative AI Multimodal

Jun 2025
NVIDIA
  • NVIDIA-Certified Associate covering multimodal generative AI models, workflows and deployment. Valid through Jun 2027.
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NCA - Generative AI LLMs

Mar 2025
NVIDIA
  • NVIDIA-Certified Associate covering LLM fundamentals, prompt engineering and generative AI workflows. Valid through Mar 2027.
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AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Feb 2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • AI/ML and generative AI concepts, services and responsible AI practices on AWS. Valid through Feb 2028.
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Foundational AWS cloud concepts, core services, security, architecture and billing.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Dec 2024
Microsoft
  • AI-102 — designing and implementing Azure AI solutions across generative AI, computer vision, NLP and knowledge mining.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Dec 2024
Microsoft
  • Designing and implementing data storage, processing and analytics pipelines on Azure.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Dec 2024
Microsoft
  • AI-900 — core AI/ML concepts and Azure AI workloads including computer vision, NLP and generative AI.
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PCEP - Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Nov 2024
Python Institute
  • Core Python syntax, data types, control flow, functions and error handling.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

Oct 2024
Microsoft
  • DP-900 — core data concepts, relational and non-relational data, and analytics workloads on Azure.
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Oct 2024
Microsoft
  • AZ-900 — cloud concepts, core Azure services, security, governance, privacy and pricing.

Publications

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Data Security And Data Breaches In Modern Web Applications

2023
IJEAST
  • Vol. 8, Issue 02, ISSN No. 2455-2143, Pages 174-177

Get in Touch

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