AI Engineer

I take AIfrom Modelto Production.

I ship AI products end to end, from architecture to deployment. Fast, clean, production-grade.

Available for AI roles & freelance projects
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01Selected work

Things I've built and shipped

A mix of products, automation, and tools. Several run in production today.

Empathiq Studio screenshot
01Real-time emotional intelligence

Empathiq Studio

Reads facial expression and voice tone in real time, then responds with empathy across nine AI coaching modes. Built solo in 24 hours for a buildathon, deployed and live.

  • React
  • Express
  • Claude
  • Hume EVI
  • face-api.js
Load Lens screenshot
02Automated load search & quoting

Load Lens

A Telegram bot that automates load searching and quoting on Courier Exchange. It polls for matching loads, reads intent with an LLM, and submits quotes, all from a chat window. Runs in production.

  • TypeScript
  • Trigger.dev
  • Playwright
  • Redis
  • Gemini
  • Claude
Upstander screenshot
03AI-triaged harassment reporting

Upstander

Turns bystander phone video into triaged incident reports. Extracts frames, scores urgency with a vision model, and surfaces cases on a monitor dashboard. AI failure never blocks a submission. Built overnight with 65 tests, pitched to police teams in India and the UK.

  • Node.js
  • SQLite
  • ffmpeg
  • Gemini Vision
  • OpenRouter
UK Immigration Compass screenshot
04Full UK immigration dashboard

UK Immigration Compass

Live dashboard tracking sponsor register changes, Home Office policy updates, and active petitions. Transforms raw Home Office CSVs into a diffed intelligence feed, and joins Companies House data to build an industry-filterable directory of 86,668 matched sponsors. Backed by 90 tests.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Gemini Flash
  • Firestore

More projects

MCP4Acumatica

2026

Open-source remote MCP server connecting Claude to Acumatica ERP: 49 tools, per-user OAuth, role-based access, and audit logging on Cloudflare Workers. Contributed the merged PR that added its first write tools, safety-gated with dry-run confirmation, growing the test suite from 51 to 64.

  • MCP
  • TypeScript
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • OAuth 2.1

SMILE Children's Charity

2026

Website for SMILE Children's Charity, a registered Scottish charity supporting families in Larkhall. First consulting client. In active development, with an early version already live.

  • Next.js
  • React 19
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Client work

gmail-mcp

2026

Multi-account Gmail MCP server for Claude Code. Searches threads, reads messages, and composes drafts across accounts. Read and draft only by design: it never sends, deletes, or modifies mail.

  • MCP
  • TypeScript
  • Gmail API

Wish Pool

2026

A UK gifting platform where friends and family pool money toward the gift someone actually wants. One link to share, no awkward duplicate presents. Design-led and mobile-first.

  • Design system
  • Responsive UI
  • HTML / CSS / JS

Resume Matcher AI

2025

Scores a CV against a job description, breaks down the skill gaps, and drafts a tailored cover letter. Works with or without an AI key thanks to a local fallback.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • PyMuPDF
  • OpenRouter
02Skills & tech stack

What I build with

AI & ML

  • Claude
  • OpenAI / GPT
  • Gemini
  • Groq
  • Hume EVI
  • Prompt & agent design
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • RAG
  • MCP servers

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • C#
  • SQL

Cloud & Infra

  • Vercel
  • Trigger.dev
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud / Firestore
  • Redis

Frontend & Automation

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Playwright
  • Firecrawl
03About

From software engineer to AI builder

For years I built business software: applications, data systems, and integrations with C#, .NET, SQL, and cloud platforms. I learned how real systems get designed, shipped, and kept running.

Then I went all in on AI. I design and build real products: automation that handles the boring work, multimodal apps, and tools that solve one problem well. I move fast, ship things that run in production, and sweat the details that make software genuinely useful.

Right now I'm doing two things: looking for an AI engineering role where I can build at scale, and helping businesses put AI to work through freelance and consulting projects.

Based in
England, UK
Focus
AI products & automation
Open to
AI roles & freelance work
04Contact

Let's build something,
or talk about a role.

Hiring, or have a project in mind? The fastest way to reach me is email. I reply to everything.

dasharadhivarun@gmail.com