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Akshay CJ

AI Product Engineer · Co-founder & CTO
I'm a founder and product engineer with 9+ years shipping products end-to-end, focused on production agentic AI systems. At Cura, I led all technology across agent orchestration, evaluation infrastructure, LLMOps, and a real-time backend processing close to 500K messaging events each month.

Before that, I led frontend and enterprise security engineering at a US cybersecurity startup. I work AI-native by default: agent-driven development workflows, automated eval gates, and self-healing pipelines are part of the toolchain.

Work experience

Cura
Aug 2025 – Aug 2026
Co-founder & CTO1 year
AI-native, multi-tenant CRM and omnichannel engagement platform for clinics — owned architecture, engineering, and AI systems end-to-end.
  • Built production tool-calling agents for live customer conversations, real-time availability, autonomous appointment management, contact enrichment, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
  • Designed a self-healing generation pipeline with streaming inference, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, policy guardrails, and deterministic plus judge-driven repair.
  • Established synthetic user simulation, scenario generation, automated judging, and regression evals that gate releases and version agent behavior as a tested artifact.
  • Built Excel, Word, and PDF ingestion pipelines for extraction, classification, semantic chunking, and tenant-specific RAG grounding.
  • Own LLMOps: provider routing and failover, feature-flagged rollouts, tenant overrides, full-trace observability, token-level cost attribution, and cost-aware inference.
  • Scaled a reactive Convex backend to close to 500K messaging events per month with CI-enforced read budgets, O(log n) counters, and schema-regression guards.
  • Integrated WhatsApp Business, Instagram, Messenger, LINE, and Gmail/IMAP into a unified five-channel inbox, plus outbound automation and Stripe usage billing.
nosub
2025 – Present
Founder1 year 8 months
Suite of 10+ native macOS apps under a pay-once model, with the storefront, licensing, and release infrastructure behind them.
  • Built one storefront, licensing engine, and update infrastructure that serve every product in the suite.
  • Created notype, a hybrid edge/cloud voice pipeline with on-device ASR accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine, streaming cloud speech recognition, and local-LLM post-processing.
  • Designed device-limited licensing, payment-idempotent issuance, refund revocation, offline grace, and dual signed auto-update channels.
  • Engineered low-latency audio capture, noise suppression, OS-level text injection, and screen-context OCR in Rust and Swift; shipped signed and notarized releases through CI/CD with a 90% coverage gate.
FenixPyre Inc.
Aug 2019 – Jul 2025
Frontend Lead6 years
US cybersecurity startup focused on enterprise identity and customer-managed security.
  • Built the entire product frontend from scratch and led a small team through multiple product pivots with scalable architecture, automated deployment, and testing.
  • Implemented enterprise SSO with multi-IdP support across Okta, Azure AD, and Auth0, plus a BYO-IDP architecture for customer identity providers.
  • Integrated BYO-HSM for customer-held keys and secrets and led SOC 2 compliance for frontend infrastructure.
  • Worked directly with the CTO on priorities and user research; mentored junior engineers while shipping on tight timelines.
Cowostash
Jun 2018 – Jul 2019
Fullstack Developer1 year 1 month
  • Shipped the core product MVP in a five-person early-stage team with scalable APIs and pixel-perfect UIs.
CUSAT Startup Incubator (CITTIC)
Feb 2017 – May 2018
Tech Mentor1 year 3 months
  • Ran React and Firebase workshops and MVP-building curriculums for student founders.

Education

Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT)B.Tech, Information Technology · 2014 – 2018

Selected builds

Cura
AI-native CRM and omnichannel engagement platform
  • Production agents, eval infrastructure, LLMOps, real-time messaging, and billing for clinics.
nosub
Native macOS software, sold once
  • Voice AI, screen recording, system utilities, and the licensing/update platform behind a 10+ app suite.

Technical skills

Agentic AIDesigning agents as production systems: observable, testable, recoverable, and useful to real operators.
Agent orchestration
Tool use / function calling
Multi-agent pipelines
LLM-as-a-judge
Self-healing generation
Guardrails
Human-in-the-loop
Agent evals & simulation
Prompt & context engineering
MCP servers & clients
Voice agents
LangChain / LangGraph / LangSmith
CrewAI
agno
Mem0
AI SDK
LLMOpsKeeping model-powered products reliable, traceable, cost-aware, and safe to change in production.
Multi-provider routing & failover
OpenRouter
Inference cost optimization
LLM observability & tracing
Feature-flagged model rollout
RAG & embeddings
Vector databases / pgvector
Streaming inference
Edge / on-device inference
LiveKit
Automation & dataTurning messy operational work into observable, recoverable workflows.
Workflow automation
n8n
AI document processing
OCR
Data extraction & classification
Exception handling
Straight-through processing
Platform & backendMulti-tenant product foundations, reactive data, APIs, billing, and infrastructure that can grow without surprises.
Convex
Multi-tenant SaaS
Event-driven architecture
Webhook infrastructure
Usage-based billing
Node.js
Python
SQL / Postgres
Supabase
Firebase
MongoDB
Express
GraphQL
Clerk
Frontend & UIProduct interfaces that make complex systems feel direct and dependable.
React / Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind
Zustand
Redux
shadcn
Radix UI
Ant Design
Chakra UI
Framer Motion
Native & cross-platformShipping software close to the device, with the performance and distribution details handled.
Rust
Swift
Tauri
Electron
React Native
Capacitor
Chrome Extensions
Shopify apps
DevOps & infrastructureAutomated delivery, signed releases, and operational guardrails from commit to production.
Docker
GCP
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Vercel
Netlify
Fly.io
Railway
Render
Integrations & enterprise securityThe integrations and trust boundaries that make products usable by real businesses.
Meta platform APIs
LINE
Gmail / IMAP
Stripe
OAuth 2.0
SSO / SAML / OIDC
BYO-IDP
BYO-HSM
SOC 2
GDPR
HIPAA
Vault
Key management
Audit logging
GrowthEnough product and distribution fluency to connect engineering decisions to adoption.
SEO
Email marketing
Facebook Ads
Affiliate systems
Digital marketing