YC S22
Backed Startup
$3M
ARR Product
3.71
GPA · Magna Cum Laude

Founding Engineer

ASHARRAHMAN

Building AI-native products from 0→1.
Formerly founding engineer at Aviary AI (YC S22).

Experience

Founding Engineer

Aviary AIYC S22
May 2024 — Mar 2026New York, NY
  • Product Owner for Knowledge Base RAG platform generating $3M ARR
  • Built agentic AI tooling with LangGraph and open source LLMs on scalable cloud infra
  • Led SOC 2 compliance across all frontend applications
  • Architected enterprise SAML authentication with React, Next.js, TypeScript
  • Created AI ingestion pipelines processing thousands of concurrent documents
  • Managed engineering team growth with scalable delegation policies
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptLangGraphAWSAzureRAGVoice AI

Software Engineer Co-Op

Toast IncBusiness Platform
Jan 2022 — Sep 2022Boston, MA
  • Reduced server-side exceptions by 15% for 71,000 users using PostgreSQL, Kotlin, and AWS Lambda
  • Designed database handling policy pitched to senior leadership — reduced db post-mortems by 50%
  • Built anti-fraud tooling and ISO compliance automation
KotlinPostgreSQLAWS LambdaJava

Undergraduate Researcher

CLASP Lab — RITAI/ML
Aug 2021 — Dec 2021Rochester, NY
  • Conducted AI/ML research on confusion detection in humans using unsupervised learning models
  • Published findings contributing to human-computer interaction understanding
PythonMachine LearningNLPResearch

Projects

Aviary AI

Enterprise AI knowledge platform (YC S22)

Knowledge Base RAG platform and agentic AI tooling used by Fortune 500 enterprises. Product-owned the platform as Founding Engineer from prototype to $3M ARR.

$3M
ARR
YC S22
Backed
SOC 2
Compliance
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptLangGraphAWS
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Umrah Buddy

Carry the prayers of your loved ones to Umrah

Spiritual web app that lets pilgrims collect du'as from friends and family before Umrah, carry them to the Haram, and notify submitters when their prayer is completed.

Spiritual
Mission
Zero
Friction
The Ummah
Built for
Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLEmailAuth
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Sheska

Fintech event management platform

Online fintech platform that makes hosting events easier, more integrated, and cheaper — handling payments, vendor integrations, and seamless guest experiences.

Fintech
Type
Serverless
Infra
Firebase
Platform
ReactTypeScriptFirebaseBootstrapMUI
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Skills & Tech

Frontend & UI

React
Next.js 15
TypeScript
Tailwind
Framer Motion
Three.js

AI & Data

LangGraph
OpenAI / Claude
RAG
Vector DBs (pgvector)
Voice AI (Pipecat)

Backend & Infra

Node.js
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
GCP
AWS
Redis

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