Forward Deployed Engineer — I embed with customers and put AI into production where the work actually happens.
7+ years shipping for customers across 🇮🇳 India · 🇺🇸 US · 🇬🇧 UK · Remote
I'm the engineer you put in front of a customer. I run the discovery, prototype the solution live with their team, deploy it into their environment, and own it in production. Lately that means wiring LLMs and agents into real systems — not demos.
The loop I run: talk to the customer → scope the real problem → prototype fast → deploy → own it in production.
- 🔧 phonepe-mcp — Unofficial MCP server for PhonePe, India's largest UPI payments app: payment links, status, refunds, settlements, and webhook-signature verification, with automatic OAuth token caching/refresh. The kind of tooling that lets an LLM safely touch a real payments API. TypeScript · MCP SDK.
- 🤖 upi-agent — A from-scratch agent loop with no framework, driving MCP tools autonomously via Llama 3.3 70B on Groq. Built to understand agents from first principles, not abstract them away. TypeScript.
- 💸 upi-mcp — Offline MCP server that builds and parses UPI payment links + QR codes. Zero API keys, strict TypeScript, Vitest-tested. Published on npm.
Each of these started as an ambiguous brief and ended as a system running in production:
- Real-time B2B analytics processing 5M+ data points/day for a multinational QSR chain across India & Indonesia — the dashboards their C-suite runs on. I ran requirements directly with their executives and cut 5–10 hours/week of manual reporting.
- Digital-goods e-commerce platform with Stripe payments — live, with paying customers.
- Telehealth platform with WebRTC video consultations, Razorpay payments, and digital prescription workflows.
- Merged PR #16618 into Google Lighthouse — the web-performance auditing tool built into Chrome DevTools and used by millions of developers.
- Two MCP servers published to npm (above).
| Languages | TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL |
| AI / LLM | MCP servers & clients, agent loops, multi-LLM routing, RAG, OpenAI & Anthropic APIs, on-device / local LLMs |
| Backend | Node.js, Express, NestJS, REST, WebRTC, Webhooks, OAuth 2.0, serverless |
| Frontend | React, Next.js (App Router), Redux, Tailwind CSS |
| Data & Cloud | PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudFormation), Docker, CI/CD |
Forward Deployed / Solutions Engineering / founding-engineer roles — fully remote — where I sit close to customers and ship AI into production. If you need someone who can talk to your hardest customer in the morning and have a working prototype by evening, that's the role I want.
📫 nirav.gondaliya@icloud.com · Portfolio · LinkedIn
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