Cook Mantra
An application that turns an ingredient photo into complete recipes through multimodal and specialized LangGraph agents for extraction, dish suggestions, nutrition estimates, preview images, and recipe generation.
Senior Full-Stack AI-Native Engineer
AI-assisted software development · Personal LLM and AI applications
I’m a senior full-stack engineer with 8+ years shipping software. My work spans SaaS, healthcare, education, Web3, and consumer products. I use AI-assisted development and build personal LLM and AI applications with Python, FastAPI, React, Next.js, TypeScript, local models, and commercial model APIs.
Open to senior full-stack, AI-native product, founding-engineer, and Forward Deployed Engineer opportunities.
What I bring
My background is in building complete products: translating ambiguous requirements into architecture, shipping frontend and backend systems, integrating external services, handling authentication and permissions, and carrying features through deployment.
I now apply that experience to LLM applications. That includes retrieval pipelines, model routing, structured API boundaries, evaluation workflows, local models, multimodal interfaces, and the React or Next.js experiences through which users interact with the system.
My advantage is not limited to prompting a model. I can work across the full product surface surrounding it.
Clarify the user, business objective, data, constraints, failure conditions, and how success will be evaluated.
Connect model or retrieval workflows to typed APIs, data systems, authentication, observability, and a usable product interface.
Test outputs, document limitations, handle provider and tool failures, improve reliability, and measure the behavior that matters.
Featured projects
An application that turns an ingredient photo into complete recipes through multimodal and specialized LangGraph agents for extraction, dish suggestions, nutrition estimates, preview images, and recipe generation.
An eight-run benchmark comparing retrieval and reranking strategies over a synthetic clinical database. The project evaluates how query rewriting, small-to-big retrieval, aggregate rollup documents, and rerankers affect retrieval and answer quality.
A deployed Next.js and FastAPI LLM application with model routing, validated API boundaries, backend-owned prompts, provider timeouts, browser-side persistence, analytics, automated checks, and Vercel deployment.
Work in progress
I have spent more than eight years delivering software across SaaS, healthcare, education, Web3, mobile, and consumer products. That experience shapes how I use AI-assisted development and build personal AI applications: as complete systems that require product judgment, secure data handling, maintainable architecture, and reliable delivery.
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I’m interested in senior full-stack, AI-native product, Forward Deployed Engineer, and founding-engineer opportunities where I can own the path from an ambiguous problem to deployed software.