Pune, IN
Available for fulltime / contract
Prathmesh Vhatkar

Hi, I'm Prathmesh.
I build AI products end-to-end.

From LLM tool calling agents and RAG pipelines to the full stack that ships them. Currently sole engineer on a live AI video SaaS serving 2k+ paid users, contributing to open source, and prototyping at the edge of what LLMs can actually do in production.

Resume
Work

Shipped, not shelved.

03 roles · 2025 → now

Independent· Software Engineer · UK client

Sep 2025 → Present · remote

Sole engineer on a UK client's AI video SaaS, taking it from unstable prototype to 2,000+ paid users.

  • Own the full stack: Next.js 16 + React 19, tRPC + Drizzle + Postgres, AWS Lambda rendering, auth, payments, infra.
  • Shipped the Remotion Lambda pipeline behind 18,000+ AI video generations.
  • Built a remote MCP server so the product runs inside Claude, one of the earlier MCP apps in AI video.

ProofofSkill· Frontend Engineer

May 2025 → Sep 2025 · proofofskill.org

Owned the recruiter-facing experience at a skills-based hiring startup, shipping across five apps.

  • Led the recruiter filter + candidate heatmap system, the core loop recruiters use to source candidates.
  • Migrated candidate video recording from direct S3 uploads to AWS IVS live streaming.
  • Replaced console logs across 226 files with a Sentry-aware logger via a single jscodeshift codemod.

Independent· Software Engineer · Contract

Jan 2025 → May 2025

Two solo deliveries: an AI-first email client, and a government event platform on a hard deadline.

  • Built an AI email + calendar client in Next.js 15: RAG over the inbox with pgvector, Gemini summaries and reply drafts.
  • Delivered 1,500+ printable IDs for a FIFA International friendly (Govt. of Meghalaya) with role-gated approvals.
COEP Technological University · Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering
2020 - 2024
Stack

What I actually reach for.

no framework collecting
AI / Cloud
AWSVercelVercel AI SDKMCPpgvectorCodexClaude Code
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTailwindCSSZustandTanStack Query
Backend
Node.jstRPCDrizzlePostgresRedis
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQL
Projects

Things I built because I wanted to.

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Looking for junior or founding engineer roles on AI products, full-time or contract. If you're building something with LLM agents, RAG, MCP, or the full stack around them, send me an email or put 15 minutes on my calendar.