Vivek Agarwal

About Me

I'm a full-stack developer with over a decade of experience building products from the ground up. Here's what I work with:expand details

• LLMs / RAG / Evals / Structured Data Extraction I've been building production LLM systems for the past two years. I built a data extraction pipeline at Cacta.ai that achieved 100% accuracy on documents with 40k+ data points. Currently focused on building quantifiably reliable agentic pipelines for production environments.
• Web Scraping / Reverse Engineering Over a decade of experience scraping data at scale. I specialize in reverse engineering web and mobile app APIs, and have responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities to Apple, a major financial institution, and several startups.
• Python / Django Working with Python since 2013. Started with Flask and Django for traditional MVC applications, now building API backends that power production services and apps.
• TypeScript / Node / React / React Native Started with jQuery, explored Angular.js and Ember.js, and have been working with React for over nine years. Experienced in building both web and mobile applications.
• Postgres / Cassandra / Redis / RabbitMQ My go-to stack for databases, caching, and message queues. Also experienced with CockroachDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Microservices / Serverless / REST / GraphQL Specialized in microservices architecture for building performant and scalable systems. I prefer serverless deployments with small, focused services communicating via REST APIs and message queues.
• Docker / AWS / Caprover Docker is my standard for both development and production environments. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, though I'm equally comfortable with Debian-based servers from any provider.
• Certificate Authority / X.509 / TLS Certificates Designed and developed a complete PKI platform (Python/Flask/CockroachDB/Artemis) for a Certificate Authority.
• Product Development Built multiple startups from scratch and worked with early-stage companies throughout my career. This experience has given me strong product intuition and understanding of the business side of product development.
• Affiliate Marketing / SEO Started as an affiliate marketer before becoming a full-time developer. Built and ranked websites with millions of monthly users.

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