Headline

Founding Engineer • AI Products • Marketplaces/Consumer Apps/e-commerce • SaaS • From Idea → Production → Revenue

About

I help founders turn ideas into production-grade products. Over the past few years I've built AI systems, marketplaces, SaaS platforms, mobile applications, payment systems, recommendation engines, and backend infrastructure for startups across the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Canada, and India. My work typically involves: • AI product development (LLMs, RAG, semantic search, AI workflows) with HIPAA-compliant GDPR (EU), CCPA/CPRA (California) • Marketplace, e-commerce infrastructure • Payments, subscriptions and transactional systems • Backend architecture and scalable APIs • MVPs designed for real users, not demos Recent work includes building an AI-powered marketplace platform from scratch including search, messaging, payments, subscriptions, seller payouts and cloud infrastructure. I usually work directly with founders as a Fractional Founding Engineer. Open to: • Founder-led startups • Investor-backed companies • AI products • Marketplace/e-commerce businesses • Select consulting engagements Based in India. Working globally.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

cursor

gemini

mcp

ChatGPT

Work experience

Founding Engineer | Head of Enginering at JAStudioAI, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Michigan, United States, Heading the engineering and overall product development end to end from scratch. Leading team of 4-7 engineers. Building a marketplace platform from scratch using Flutter, FastAPI, and AWS. Owned the entire SDLC - from system architecture to CI/CD and production deployments. Developed and deployed RESTful APIs handling user auth, product listings, buying, selling and DM chat services to make offers with auto accept and decline. subscription. buyers and sellers payouts using Stripe. Led cloud infrastructure setup on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), achieving 99.5% uptime with scalable auto-deployment pipelines. Also scratching head on LLM, RAG system, vector db and many more for an ai startup

Lead Mobile Engineer at eBUYgumm Ltd, Jun 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr, England, United Kingdom, Led end-to-end development of eBUYgumm, a Flutter-based reselling app, streamlined inventory management workflows, revamped UX flow enabling users to list products 50% faster compared to the previous process. Integrated PayPal SDK for secure in-app payments, handled transactions, negotiations and subscriptions. Collaborated cross-functionally with UK-based web/backend teams to ensure product consistency across platforms.

Lead Mobile Engineer at foriio Inc, Nov 2022 - May 2023 · 7 mos, Tokyo, Japan, Building and managing multiple portfolio & project management based apps at https://www.foriio.com specifically made for creators with the focus on creator economy. Led the development of a mobile apps focused on portfolio and project management for creative professionals. Designed and implemented key features including real-time messaging. Built custom project tracking tools that enabled creators to collaborate with clients, share updates, and manage deliverables efficiently. Delivered production-ready code with a focus on maintainability, testing, and long-term scalability.

Software Engineer at KeepWorks Technologies Pvt. Ltd., May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Developed an open-source SDK/plugin for analytics with Flutter, allowing easy integration of native SDKs into Flutter apps. Focused on building an analytical no-code solution for CMS, invoicing, and marketing tools with DashX. Collaborated on a no-code analytics and marketing platform, helping reduce setup time from days to minutes.

Mobile Developer at Machine Theory, Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 · 2 mo, Canada, Built an app for a client who is a UX designer. Goal was to simplify and make it quick to invoice the clients for traders or solo contractors on regular basis and get paid. Contains in app purchases and simplicity in UI. One of the best designed app I have worked on.

Mobile Developer at uRyde, May 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mo, Germany, An app which provide car pooling like services. Connecting people and organisations in order to jointly create sustainable and shared mobility using Flutter & Firebase with BLoC for state management.

Mobile Developer at Ease Your Life, Nov 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 y 1 mo, Mumbai, Built and refactored an mobile app for delivery knights using Flutter & Firebase with Provider for state management. You know how tricky it is to manage multiple tasks right? Yes, we did that on app as well.

Former Founding Director at Women Who Code, Jun 2019 - Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Non profit organization, aims to inspire womens in tech

Education

Diploma in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mohammed Haji Saboo Siddik Polytechnic

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Rizvi College of Engineering

Public links

github: https://github.com/aatikakhan

aatikakhan.github.io: https://aatikakhan.github.io/