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Akshay Bengani
AI Engineer · Agent systems and technical enablement
I build agent systems for work, and finish the software I need at home.
India · 6 years 9 months · github.com/akshaybengani
- 6+
- years shipping software
- 22
- customer engagements delivered
- 10
- applications built and finished
- 2,661
- tests across my three largest codebases
About
What I do, and how I got here
I build and evaluate production agent systems. Over the last year that has meant MCP servers deployed to live customers, RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and the evaluation harnesses that prove any of it works. Behind that sit six years of shipping mobile and full-stack products, including a PCI-DSS compliant fintech platform used by under-18s across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
On my own time I finish things: a 112,000 line Rust audio control plane, an on-device agent runtime that never phones home, and a household inventory with 1,295 tests behind it. Most of what I build works with the network unplugged, because that is the constraint I start from rather than a feature I add.
Worth saying plainly, since it shapes everything above. I design these systems, specify them, review every decision, and debug them when they break. The code itself is written with AI, which is also what I do professionally: building agent systems and the harnesses that prove they behave. So ask me why the audio hub owns the clock rather than the client, or why tool restriction belongs at registration rather than on the key. I can defend the architecture. I would not claim to write Rust from memory.
How I work
- Measure, don't assert. An agent that sounds right and an agent that is right are different claims, and only one survives a test battery.
- Derive state, never decrement it. A counter that drifts is impossible to audit. A derivation you can recompute is impossible to lose.
- No network unless the problem needs one. It removes accounts, sync conflicts, outages, and the question of what happens to someone's data.
- Finish things. Tests are the finish line, not the intention.
Experience
Where I've worked
Six years across regulated fintech, community commerce, developer tooling, and most recently enterprise agent platforms.
Implementation and Technical Enablement
Jul 2026 to PresentMindset AI, as a client of Pratham Softwares
Enterprise agent platform. Customer-facing delivery across 22 engagements.
- Built and deployed two production MCP servers powering a live safeguarding alert system, taking it from scoping through deployment, QA, and customer handover.
- Wrote a probe runner and two 43 case evaluation batteries, and measured detection rates across configurations, so agent behaviour was quantified rather than asserted.
- Verified eleven live agent plans directly against Firestore, and found and replaced wrong-region crisis helplines before any learner was exposed to them.
- Diagnosed and fixed two MCP protocol defects that had left both servers unusable by any compliant client, having passed tests that mocked the transport instead of speaking it.
- Resolved two production escalations on the live platform, from root-cause analysis through merge request to production deployment.
- Delivered an open-source contribution onboarding agent end to end as a proof of concept.
- Authored internal enablement tooling and skills, and wrote the workspace routing and architecture documentation for the agent-first platform rebuild.
MCPPythonFlutterFirestoreBigQueryGCPFull Stack Senior Developer, internal AI and SDLC
Jun 2025 to Jul 2026Pratham Softwares (PSI)
Internal innovation: AI automation, developer tooling, and full-stack delivery.
- Built Aegis AI (v3.3.9), a containerized agent running on GitLab CI/CD schedules that scans the issue tracker for labelled work, dispatches AI agents to analyse or fix it, and reports back as comments and merge requests. Added Anthropic and OpenHands provider support and the Docker packaging.
- Built an AI SDLC playbook and Claude Code plugin for an internal .NET 8, EF Core, PostgreSQL, and React 18 portal, with six specialised subagents, slash commands, hooks, and a companion knowledge repository.
- Authored five agentic AI workshops for the engineering organisation, including a RAG support agent on LangChain and FAISS with configurable embedding and model providers.
- Delivered full-stack applications in React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL, containerized to Azure Container Apps, and designed multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with error handling and automated reporting across five platforms.
- Cleared Azure AI-900, and was recognised as Emerging Employee of the Year 2025.
PythonFastAPIReactDockerAzureGitLab CILangChainFrontend Developer
Mar 2025 to May 2025Sheldom Labs · Gomegle
Discover people, chat in real time, pick a meetup spot, and navigate there. Shut down when funding ran out.
- Built the Flutter application with real-time chat over WebSockets, Mapbox location tracking, and a gamified interaction layer.
- Worked to a modular BLoC and Cubit architecture with reusable widgets, custom animations, and multi-language support.
FlutterDartFirebaseWebSocketsMapboxSenior Mobile Application Developer
Sep 2021 to Dec 2024Cashee Tech FZE
Banking and financial literacy for ages 8 to 18 across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Real cards, real money, real compliance.
- Led end-to-end Flutter development, building core financial features to PCI-DSS compliance with root and VPN detection.
- Implemented Apple Wallet card provisioning and native bridges for third-party SDKs.
- Built gamified educational modules, multi-language UI, and analytics through Countly and CleverTap, and tuned performance across several markets.
- signups in 3 months
- 7,500+
- cards issued
- 800+
- UX Design Awards nominee
- 2024
signups in 3 months
cards issued
UX Design Awards nominee
FlutterDartiOS SDKPCI-DSSApple WalletFrontend Developer
Feb 2020 to Sep 2021Rirev · Sync, built for Swiggy
Invite-only communities buying from local vendors. Became the groundwork for Swiggy Mini.
- Built community joining, shopping, and vendor chat in Flutter.
- Designed in-app logic for supporting multiple communities, and contributed to backend integration over GraphQL and Hasura.
FlutterDartGraphQLHasuraFirebasePostgreSQL
Jan 2025 to Feb 2025
A deliberate break after Cashee. I travelled, rested, and went deep on AI. It is the reason the rest of this reads the way it does.
Projects
The ones I'd want read first
Large, finished systems built outside work. All of them are private while they settle, so the write-ups here are the way in.
SoundA2Z
PrivateA control plane for the audio you already own.
Per-app volume, sample-accurate multi-room zones, and one API an assistant can actually drive. Not a media player.
- crates
- 9
- lines of Rust
- 112k
- tests
- 689
- operating systems
- 3
crates
lines of Rust
tests
operating systems
Hermes and the self-hosted AI stack
PrivateA personal assistant running on my own hardware, with a hard boundary around what it can touch.
A model gateway with per-function keys, fail-closed tool access, and MCP servers scoped so no caller sees more than it needs. Seventeen containers on one mini PC, behind a dual-ISP firewall.
- gateway keys, scoped by function
- 5
- LXC containers
- 17
- MCP servers, one self-built
- 3
- ISPs, load balanced
- 2
gateway keys, scoped by function
LXC containers
MCP servers, one self-built
ISPs, load balanced
MYOCA
PrivateMake your own chat agent.
A bring-your-own-key Android agent runtime with no backend and no login, where every agent is granted device capabilities one at a time.
- lines of Dart
- 89k
- tests
- 677
- feature modules
- 11
- servers of mine
- 0
lines of Dart
tests
feature modules
servers of mine
HomeBook
PrivateA memory of the house.
Document where everything is and find it again. Search for "drill" and get back the shelf it sits on, not a guess.
- lines of Dart
- 83k
- tests
- 1,295
- live modules
- 7
lines of Dart
tests
live modules
Also built
One problem each, followed to a finished app
Smaller than the three above, and every one of them started with a specific irritation in my own week.
Medstock
An offline stock book for a household’s medicines.
Not a pill reminder, a logistics ledger. How much is left, when it runs out, and exactly how much to buy to reach a given date.
- tests
- 133
tests
Barge
A queue for file operations.
Not a faster copier, a scheduler for copies. One transfer at a time, in the order you choose, verified before anything is deleted.
Replay
A macOS menu bar macro recorder.
Do a task by hand once. Replay does it again, as many times as you ask, while you go and do something else.
- tests
- 116
tests
Skills
What I actually work in
Ordered by what I reach for now rather than what I once read a book about.
AI and agents
Building agent systems, and proving they behave.
Languages I work in daily
Six years of professional work, most of it mobile.
Systems I architected and shipped
Specified, reviewed and debugged by me, written with AI. I can defend the design decisions, not recite the syntax.
Mobile and desktop
Six years of it, including a regulated fintech platform.
Backend and data
Services, storage, and the queries behind them.
Infrastructure
Getting it to production and keeping it there, including on hardware I own.
Delivery
Multi-stage pipelines with error handling and reporting, across five platforms.
Beyond the job
There's a whole other page about who I actually am
The Proxmox node and the wall of cable behind it. A projector automation that presses forty buttons so I don't have to. A house on solar. Kubernetes, currently being learned the hard way. And the photos.
Read the personal page
Credentials
Education, certifications, and awards
Education
MCA, Master of Computer Application
Jaipur National University, Rajasthan
2020 to 2022
BCA, Bachelor of Computer Application
JECRC University, Jaipur
2016 to 2019
Certifications
- AI-900, Microsoft Azure AI FundamentalsCertified
- AI-102, Azure AI Engineer AssociateIn progress
- Full Stack AI EngineerTraining
- Google Prompting EssentialsTraining
- CompTIA Security+Training
- CISCO Networking Basics SpecializationTraining
Awards
Emerging Employee of the Year 2025
Pratham Softwares
Adhack 5.0 Winner
AdHoc Networks Infotech, Jul 2019