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Founding AI Engineer

Builds AI products from idea to production.

4+ years building AI-powered products from idea to production — spanning agents, SWE agents, RAG, conversational AI, automation and MCP.

20+production AI systems
4+years engineering depth
6startups partnered
Core positioning

AI-native product builder with depth across agents, retrieval, backend systems, automation and user-facing applications.

Candidate snapshotProfile + CV backed
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Santhosh Patel

Founding AI Engineer · AI Agents · RAG · Automation · MCP
PythonTypeScriptNode.jsReactOpenClawLLM Systems
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AI Usageengineering activity profile
20+
production AI systems
built & shipped
6
startups worked closely with
MVP → production
4+
years building AI products
engineering depth
6
AI focus areas
agents · RAG · MCP · more
agent systemsRAGSWE agentsautomationMCP / tools
Where the AI work goesPROFILE DERIVED
Agent systems
core
RAG / context
core
SWE agents
core
Automation / MCP
strong
What that means
0 → 1product building
WebReact / Next.js
DesktopTauri
MobileCapacitor

AI is used across the full product loop — reasoning, retrieval, tool use, backend services and user-facing applications.

Hiring manager scan5 signals
Ships20+ production AI systems
Ownsidea → architecture → production
Buildsagents, RAG, automation, MCP
Works6 startups / high-ambiguity teams
Thinksreliability, scale, performance
What he is strongest at

AI systems that actually ship.

AI engineering + backend + product execution. Strongest when the problem is ambiguous and the system still needs to ship.

AgentsReasoning · planning · execution
RAGSemantic search · context retrieval
AutomationWorkflow + developer automation
Working style

Builder · Systems thinker · Product-minded

Best suited to ambiguous environments where someone needs to design the architecture, build the system and keep pushing it toward production quality.

“Treats AI as part of the product system — not as a thin API layer.”
ReliabilityPerformanceScalabilityReal-world impact
Capability map

Agent Systems

Core: multi-agent systems, planning, reasoning, execution, tool-calling and agentic loops.

Developer Agents

Built: OpenClaw-based GitHub SWE agent for issue-to-PR automation plus documentation automation.

RAG & Context

Built: semantic retrieval, dynamic context pipelines, hallucination control and response validation.

AI Security

Built: audit agents, rule-based validation, guardrails, evaluation and observability systems.

Backend & APIs

Stack: FastAPI, Node.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and real-time inference.

Product Engineering

Stack: React, Next.js, Tauri and Capacitor across web, desktop and mobile experiences.

Experience2022 → present
01/2025 — Present

AI Engineer · Full Stack & Agent Systems

Enculture

Built production AI systems and REST APIs; designed multi-agent systems; developed an OpenClaw GitHub SWE agent; built webhook/tool pipelines and sandboxed execution; optimized inference for cost, latency and scale; implemented RAG.

Current
11/2025 — 02/2026

AI Consultant

Demerzel Solutions · Nethermind Projects

Designed AI agents and audit systems for workflow/code validation, built LLM + rule-based validation pipelines with guardrails, prototyped decentralized AI data systems and agent workflows.

Consulting
01/2025 — 10/2025

Full Stack AI Developer

CRE8TAR

Architected AI applications integrating LLMs into production workflows, built FastAPI and Node.js backends for real-time inference, and developed frontend systems with Next.js and React.

Product
08/2023 — 01/2025

Freelance AI Agent Developer & RAG Engineer

Freelance

Built intelligent agents using LangChain, Langflow and PyTorch; developed RAG systems with semantic search and dynamic context retrieval; implemented hallucination control and response validation.

AI
05/2023 — 12/2023

Data Engineer

MyGateway

Built data-management applications and ETL pipelines for blockchain wallet and transaction data, including extraction, transformation, reporting and analytics workflows.

Data
08/2022 — 06/2023

Backend Engineer · Part-time

Homesify

Worked on order-management systems, APIs, data analysis, ETL pipelines and operational reporting/automation workflows.

Backend
Selected proof of work
01 · Agent

GitHub SWE Agent

OpenClaw

LLM harness with agentic loops, GitHub API integration, webhook pipelines, planning/reasoning/execution layers and sandboxed tool-calling for issue-to-PR automation.

See portfolio ↗
02 · Platform

AI Workforce & Org Platform

Multi-tenant

Cross-platform workforce and organization platform with embedded AI assistants, shared React/TypeScript codebase, Tauri desktop apps and Capacitor Android apps.

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03 · Security

AI Audit Agent

Guardrails

Python audit agent using LLMs and rule-based validation, with traceability, explainability, evaluation/observability and RAG-based real-time context.

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04 · Developer tooling

GitHub Documentation Agent

Automation

Generates structured documentation from codebases by analyzing APIs, architecture and dependencies for context-aware output.

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05 · Retrieval

RAG Pipelines

Context

Semantic-search and dynamic-context retrieval systems with response validation and hallucination-control patterns for production workflows.

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06 · Product

Real-time AI Applications

Full stack

AI-powered applications combining real-time inference, FastAPI/Node.js backends and React/Next.js interfaces for production use.

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Best role fits

Why a hiring manager should care

Hands-on AI product ownership, fast iteration, system design and production execution — without separating “AI work” from the rest of the product.

Founding AI Engineer0→1 ownership + AI systems breadth
BEST FIT
Senior AI EngineerAgents + RAG + backend + production
STRONG
AI Platform / Agent EngineerOrchestration + MCP + tool-calling
STRONG

Education & certifications

BTech, Data Science — TKR College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad.

Certifications: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Python for Data Science and AI, NPTEL Data Structures & Algorithms, HackerRank certifications.

Additional foundation: Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.