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Avinash Verma

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AI product engineerwho ships wholeproducts.

Fourteen years in product teams, mentoring engineers, tech-leading delivery and owning the platform other teams build on. Seven products shipped end to end, three of them AI products with agents, retrieval and LLM pipelines in production. All still running. TypeScript, Node, React, Postgres.

Level
Staff / Principal
Leading
Mentoring · tech lead · hiring
AI
Agents · RAG · LLM pipelines
Core
TypeScript · Node · React · Postgres

14

years shipping software

8

companies, PayPal to Atom Learning

7

products designed, built and shipped

3

of those are AI products, all live

01

The short version

I've spent fourteen years inside product teams, the last five at Atom Learning, where I owned the design system the rest of engineering built on, mentored the people using it, tech-led delivery and interviewed the engineers we hired.

Alongside that I've shipped seven products of my own, three of them AI products: Rankahead.ai, Recly.io and Decklab AI. Some with cofounders, all of them end to end: design, frontend, backend, infrastructure, billing and the support inbox.

That is where the AI work stopped being a demo. Owning the model bill, the latency and the support inbox at once teaches you quickly which prompts are load-bearing, what a model does to inputs you never imagined, and how much of an AI product is really the plumbing around the model: the retrieval, the schemas, the retries, the queue behind it all.

It's the combination I'd like to be hired for. I can own an AI product end to end, model layer included, and I would much rather do it with a team than around one.

Avinash Verma
Avinash Verma · Kolkata, working with UK and EU teams since 2018
02

AI in production

I've spent fourteen years building products in teams, and shipped seven of my own, three of them AI products that are live today: Rankahead.ai, Recly.io and Decklab AI. The AI work is production software with the whole apparatus around it, agents and tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs and scheduled LLM pipelines, rather than notebooks or demos.

  1. 01Rankahead logo

    Rankahead.ai

    Queries four assistants on a schedule, reads the answers back to score how often a brand appears and which URLs get cited, then runs agents that turn each gap into answer-first content and publish it to the customer’s CMS. Customers bring their own keys, stored AES-256 encrypted.

    Case study

    Model layer

    • Agents & tool use
    • Multi-model orchestration
    • Retrieval-augmented generation
    • Structured outputs
    • Scheduled LLM pipelines
    • Citation extraction
  2. 02Recly logo

    Recly.io

    Detected clicks and scrolls become a step list, and each step is captioned by a model working from the surrounding UI context, so a raw screen recording arrives as a narrated walkthrough the author only has to edit.

    Case study

    Model layer

    • Context-grounded generation
    • Prompt engineering
    • Streaming responses
  3. 03Decklab AI logo

    Decklab AI

    A one-line game concept is expanded into a full card set under a schema, so abilities and stats come back as data rather than prose. A balance pass validates the set and regenerates what fails it, and the art for every card is generated alongside.

    Case study

    Model layer

    • Structured generation
    • Generate-validate-retry loops
    • Image generation
    • Prompt engineering

On each of these I owned the whole path: the model layer, the API, the database, the queue, the frontend, the billing and the support inbox. Some were built with cofounders, and the ones that were are better for it.

The full AI record
04

How I work

01

A model is a dependency, not a feature

It is the least reliable thing in the system, so it gets treated like one: a schema at the boundary, retries and a fallback behind it, and a path that still does something useful when the model returns nothing worth using.

02

The multiplier is the team, not me

The work I am proudest of is the engineers who got better while I was there. Code review as teaching rather than gatekeeping, the context shared before it is asked for, and a hiring bar I would want applied to me.

03

Platform work is leverage or it is tax

A design system only pays off if the people on it move faster than they would without it. That makes adoption and API design the job, not Storybook coverage, and it is won by talking to the teams using it.

04

Tokens and milliseconds are the same budget

Model spend behaves exactly like a performance budget: invisible until it is a line item, and cheapest to defend every release rather than in a panic once a quarter. Prompt size, model choice and caching are architecture decisions.

05

Demos lie, production does not

Anything works on the input you chose while building it. What matters is the input a real user pastes in at 2am, and seven products where the support inbox was also mine is how I learned the difference.

06

Write it down

Decisions, tradeoffs and the option that was rejected. Distributed across timezones for most of my career, and anything that only exists in a call effectively does not exist.

05

Stack

AI

Shipped in products that are live today.

LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)Agents & tool useRAG & retrieval pipelinesEmbeddings & vector searchStructured outputsPrompt engineeringMulti-model orchestrationStreaming responsesBackground LLM pipelinesImage generation

Daily

What I reach for without thinking.

TypeScriptNode.jsReactNext.jsPostgreSQLREST APIsCSS / TailwindGit

Fluent

Shipped to production, repeatedly.

Background jobs & queuesDesign systemsTesting (Jest, RTL, Playwright)Web performance & Core Web VitalsAccessibility (WCAG)Puppeteer & browser automationState managementViteCI/CDElectronChrome extensions

Working knowledge

Enough to build and operate a product on it alone.

AndroidCloud infrastructureAuth & OAuthPayments & billingAnalytics & instrumentationApplied cryptography
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Track record

  1. Aug 2021May 2026

    Atom Learning

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Nearly five years, the longest tenure, and the same years the side products were built.

    London, UK · Remote

  2. Sep 2018Aug 2021

    Oradian

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Zagreb, Croatia

  3. Dec 2016Aug 2018

    Directi

    Senior Software Developer

    Mumbai, India

  4. Apr 2016Nov 2016

    Craftsvilla

    Senior Software Developer

    Mumbai, India

  5. Dec 2014Apr 2016

    UBERStudies

    Cofounder

    Mumbai, India

  6. Apr 2014Apr 2015

    Shopsense (Fynd)

    Frontend Developer

    Mumbai, India

  7. Oct 2012Apr 2014

    Tata Consultancy Services

    Software Developer

    Mumbai, India

  8. Jun 2011Aug 2011

    PayPal

    Software Developer Intern

    Chennai, India

Education

B.Tech, Information Technology

West Bengal University of Technology · 20082012

Full résumé