For Recruiters
What I'm looking for
- Status
- Open to Forward Deployed, backend & applied-AI engineering roles
- Location
- India (Remote) — open to remote / hybrid
- Experience
- 4+ years · software engineer across aviation, finance & energy (Bidgely, BlackRock, Indigo, Universal Weather, Cognizant)
- Domains
- Forward-deployed / customer-facing engineering, production AI agents & LLM evals, backend & event-driven systems, enterprise integration
- How I work
- Sit with stakeholders, turn their needs into UI flows and API contracts, ship fast and own it in production — e.g. a full-stack app from scratch to production in 2 months at BlackRock
- Core stack
- Python · TypeScript / Node.js · Java · LangGraph · MCP · RAG · AWS · Kafka · Cassandra · PostgreSQL · MongoDB
- Not a fit
- Frontend-only or design-only roles, and unpaid "trial project" processes
- Preferred contact
- theshivankbhardwaj@gmail.com
I do my best work on teams that treat engineering as reasoning under uncertainty — where decisions get written down, tradeoffs get named, and failure is a learning opportunity rather than something to hide. I'm happiest close to the customer, owning a hard problem end to end: the AI agent that has to be trustworthy, the billing logic that has to be exact, the integration that has to not break. The case studies on this site walk through exactly how I think about those problems.