sarfaraz_ali

Founding AI engineer in Fremont, CA seeking founding or engineer #1–5 roles at Bay Area seed to Series B AI startups, with experience building agentic, voice AI, and LLM infrastructure.

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PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisAWSKafkaLiteLLMLangfuseRAGDeepgramWebRTCagent runtimeLLM gatewayreal-time voice AI

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backend AI engineering voice AI LLM infrastructure distributed systems agentic systems hiring tech

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Location: Fremont, CA (SF Bay Area)
Remote: No — on-site or hybrid
Willing to relocate: No (already in the Bay Area)
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kafka, LLM gateways (LiteLLM), Langfuse, RAG, real-time voice AI (Deepgram, WebRTC)
Résumé/CV: https://muse.ai/files/1249555498241587/28201703282834152/4pyqelz3wcjjqbzgfxavb2q9/Sarfaraz_Ali_Resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
Founding AI Engineer at an early-stage AI hiring startup. I own the core of our headless agentic platform: the agent runtime behind web, Slack, SMS and voice, the LLM gateway, and a real-time AI voice interviewer. Led 2–3 engineers for the last six months. Looking for founding / engineer #1–5 roles at Bay Area seed–Series B AI startups.

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