taking freelance fde engagements

// i embed with your team, then i ship

ayush
goyal

Forward Deployed Engineer & AI Engineer

I drop into your team and ship AI that actually runs in production. Full-time AI engineer, freelance FDE, and I build robots on the side.
Ayush Goyal, Forward Deployed Engineer and AI Engineer
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free labor era

/ open source
except it paid
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    archestra-ai/archestra

    AI agent platform — MCP servers, multi-LLM orchestration, RAG knowledge connectors & embeddings. Shipped the Notion connector, Gemini embeddings, SharePoint & OneDrive connectors, an OAuth proxy fix, and recursive subfolder traversal across 6 PRs. Maintainers paid out $400 in bounties. Big W.
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    bolna-ai/bolna

    Open-source voice AI agent framework (telephony, LLM, TTS pipelines). Killed the duplicate .env situation in the telephony server Dockerfiles (Twilio & Plivo) by centralising config through the docker-compose env_file directive. Small PR, big ick removed.
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where i've been cooking

/ experience
tap for the yap

Freelance

2025 — now
Forward Deployed Engineer
Embedding with client teams to ship AI into production. Shipped a WhatsApp machine-maintenance ticketing bot that runs a factory's breakdown workflow and SiteOS, a WhatsApp-to-dashboard site-tracking platform for an architecture studio — both live in production. Discovery with real users, pilot in their stack, production rollout, handover.

TAP Innovations

May 2026 — now
AI (Harness) Engineer
AI (Harness) Engineer at TAP Innovations, a US software startup building integrations, analytics and custom apps for enterprise systems. Fully remote, shipping AI-driven solutions — while going all in on Physical AI, i.e. machine intelligence inside actual robots and embedded hardware. Calling it now: that's the next big thing.

Loadshare Networks

Nov 2025 — Apr 2026
AI Engineer
AI Engineer at Loadshare Networks, a big name in logistics and supply chain tech. Built AI-driven solutions to optimise logistics ops, make deliveries way less painful, and level up the customer experience. Also freelanced AI/ML consulting on the side across a bunch of domains.

Data Alt Dynamics

Jul 2025 — Nov 2025
Backend Developer
Shipped a Raspberry Pi server with multi-sensor integration for real-time data acquisition and control. Tuned local ComfyUI workflows and made AI-driven processes 70% more efficient. Glued Cloudflare Tunnel to n8n for secure remote access and clean cloud sync, which deleted 40% of the manual busywork.

Physics Wallah

May 2025 — Jul 2025
Trainee
Backend and platform engineering at India's biggest ed-tech, serving millions of students across JEE, NEET and school curricula. Real traffic, real stakes, zero room to fumble.

Bharat Electronics Limited

Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
Summer Intern
Embedded systems and electronics at India's top defence electronics manufacturer, under the Ministry of Defence. First proper taste of industrial hardware, and the reason i'm stuck on this stuff now.
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certified inventor arc

/ uk design patent
the uk agreed
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    3D Printed, Pneumatically Actuated Four-Finger Adaptive Gripper

    UK Design Registration for an industrial robotic end-effector: a pneumatically actuated four-finger gripper that adapts to objects of almost any shape or size. UK Design Registration 6450987.

got ai that needs shipping?

Tell me what you're trying to build. I'll tell you straight whether it's worth it.