Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go
Agentic systems and LLM infrastructure
Aaliyan Shaikh
Software engineer working on agentic systems, LLM tooling, and backend-heavy AI products
My work spans Python and TypeScript application development, async backend systems, real-time interfaces, evaluation tooling, and model-serving experiments, with recent focus on agent workflows, grounded QA, and reliability.
Capabilities
Stack and system instincts
AI and ML
PyTorch, JAX, Transformers, Gemini, FAISS, evaluation harnesses
Backend
Django, DRF, Channels, Celery, Django-Q, Node.js, NestJS, queue workers
Frontend
React, Vite, Next.js, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
Cloud and Ops
AWS, Docker, Terraform, Cloudflare, Linux, CI, observability tooling
Product delivery
Latency and cost tradeoffs, retries, failure handling, evaluation loops, production hardening
Experience
Roles and responsibilities
Software/AI Engineer
OCN
- Built a production agentic platform across Django and ASGI services, React frontends, relational data flows, and async job execution.
- Shipped chat, voice, retrieval, and document-processing workflows with a strong focus on tool reliability, concurrency, and operational stability.
- Supported cloud deployment and hardening across AWS infrastructure, worker orchestration, key management, and real-time customer workflows.
Software Engineer
Sastaticket
- Built product features across backend and frontend systems for core web workflows.
- Contributed AI-focused prototypes to evaluate NLP use cases for the platform.
Software Engineer
Techwards
- Built and maintained AI-enabled web applications across backend and frontend services, shipping interactive product experiences while improving legacy frontend quality.
- Implemented backend capabilities for retrieval workflows, access control, internal request management, and enterprise chatbot flows with deeper analysis and tool-assisted interactions.
- Delivered AI-assisted automation features for publishing, research, and internal product use cases.
Projects
Systems, benchmarks, and tools
Polyglot Grounded QA
Polyglot Grounded QA
Multilingual grounded QA pipeline focused on citation-aware answering and abstention, with artifact-backed evaluation instead of demo-first output.
Tool Calling Reliability Benchmark
Tool Calling Reliability Benchmark
Benchmark harness for testing LLM tool-calling under retries, stalls, timeouts, and failure-transfer scenarios instead of ideal-path demos.
TurboQuant x Refusal Eval Bench
TurboQuant x Refusal Eval Bench
KV-cache compression benchmark that measures how TurboQuant-style caching shifts refusal behavior, fidelity, and long-context robustness under matched prompts.
midi-mixer (Go TUI)
A terminal-based MIDI mixer built in Go. Keyboard-driven workflow for mixing and routing—built as a focused developer tool.
OCN Agents (OneCarNow)
OCN Agents (OneCarNow)
Production agentic platform for chat, voice, and KYC workflows across Django services, async workers, retrieval and tool execution, and React delivery.
Journal
Findings while building
More of such stuff/takes actively shared on my Twitter.
Refactoring.Guru design patterns
the best design patterns explanations, the visual elements nailed it and that cheatsheet is on point.
Open linkHenrik Karlsson on Unfolding
feedback loops over rigid plans. keep evolving :)
Open linkThe Odin Project
this got me out of tutorial hell and into shipping early on in 2021.
Open linkDistributed systems playlist
it was a tossup between this and that DSA playlist, but this one means a whole lot more to me.
Open linkCodeAesthetic
3b1b for software engineers.
Open linkLearn Git Branching
neat explanations to actually understand branching, rebasing, and merge flow.
Open linkContact
Get in touch
Reach me directly
For collaboration, technical discussion, or product ideas, email is the best channel.
Email: aaliyan1230@gmail.com