Available now · Melbourne, Australia

Ravi Kumawat

AI & Full-Stack Engineer

I take products from an empty repo to production — prototyping solo, then scaling with a team, with testing, data integrity and deployment rigour built in from the first commit rather than bolted on later.

RevenuePrototypes that removed manual operations helped double company revenue at KRISHAI
70 / 400+Claude Impact LabSelected for Anthropic's APAC Claude Impact Lab, Melbourne (2026)
1.5M+Audience reachedFounding engineer on evolvue.ai, built for Krish Naik’s AI education network
6-nodeKubernetes clusterProvisioned and operated across Melbourne Research Cloud VMs

Five projects that went all the way to production.

Each one is written up properly — the problem, what I built, and what it changed.

Agentic AI · FreelanceIn production

An agentic system that runs a procurement desk

One product input triggers autonomous supplier research, tariff compliance classification and quotation outreach — with a human approving anything that reaches a real supplier.

AI Engineer (Freelance, Remote)·Jul 2026 – Present
LangGraphPythonTavilySerperTrade.gov API
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Founding engineer · GenAILive

Founding engineer on a GenAI education platform

Hired as the first engineer to build evolvue.ai for one of India’s largest AI and data science education networks — and to keep shipping while it grew.

Founding Full-Stack Engineer·Feb 2025 – Feb 2026
PythonFastAPIReact.jsGenAI / LLMsAWS
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Full-stack · Freelance · MelbourneLive

Bookings, payments and calendars that reconcile themselves

A booking and payments backend for a Melbourne firm, taken from local development to a live domain inside a three-month engagement.

Full-Stack Engineer (Freelance, Hybrid)·Jun 2026 – Aug 2026
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLGoogle Calendar APIPayment gateway
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Research engineering · HealthcareDeployed to clinical workflow

Putting a deep-learning model in clinicians’ hands

An end-to-end serving application that let clinicians run inference, flag edge cases and re-annotate data — closing the loop between model output and model improvement.

Full-Stack Research Engineer (Intern)·May 2024 – Dec 2024
MONAInnUNetUNetCVAT3D Slicer
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Distributed systems · CloudDelivered

A six-node cluster for live social sentiment

Streaming Mastodon and Bluesky data through serverless functions and local LLMs into live Kibana dashboards, on Kubernetes across Melbourne Research Cloud.

Infrastructure and data pipeline·Mar 2025 – Jun 2025
KubernetesFissionElasticsearchKibanaGemma 2B
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Also built

  • Team-built learning platform with a conversational AI chatbot for real-time code assistance. Shipped the MVP within strict deadlines.

    FlaskReact.jsMongoDBOllamaLlama 3.1
  • Monolithic Vue/Flask app with Redis caching and Celery background jobs, deployed on EC2 behind Nginx and tested against concurrent booking races.

    FlaskVue.jsSQLiteRedisCeleryAWS EC2
  • Taxi Fare PredictionSep 2023 – Dec 2023

    End-to-end ML pipeline: cleaning, missing-value handling, outlier detection and feature engineering, then Linear Regression, Random Forest and XGBoost compared on strict metrics.

    PythonPandasScikit-LearnXGBoost

Three ways I can help right now.

Open to part-time roles, internships and freelance briefs.

For Melbourne employers

Part-time engineering

Up to 24 hours a week alongside my Master of Data Science. I have shipped production systems as a founding engineer, so I can own a slice of your product end to end rather than needing it broken into supervised tickets.

  • AI/ML, backend, data engineering or full-stack
  • On-site in Melbourne, hybrid, or fully remote
  • Work authorised — Student Visa (Subclass 500)
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For vacation & graduate programs

Summer internship

Available full-time for the November 2026 – February 2027 window. I arrive with four years of shipping real software, an AWS certification and a research engineering background, not just coursework.

  • Full-time across the summer teaching break
  • Data science, AI engineering, or platform teams
  • Comfortable with stakeholders and domain experts
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For founders & teams

Freelance builds

Fixed-scope projects taken from brief to a live URL. Recent work: an agentic procurement system for a US client, and a booking and payments backend for a Melbourne firm — both delivered inside three months.

  • Agentic AI, LLM products and RAG systems
  • Full-stack apps with payments, auth and integrations
  • Deployment, CI/CD and infrastructure included
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Engineer who ships.

I am currently completing a Master of Data Science at the University of Melbourne, following a BS in Data Science from IIT Madras. Alongside my studies I deliver agentic AI and full-stack work for Australian and US clients.

Before Melbourne I spent a year as the founding engineer at an AI education startup, owning product, backend, frontend and infrastructure end to end. That is where I learnt the thing I care most about now: shipping fast and shipping reliably are not opposites, but you only get both if testing, data integrity and deployment are in from the first commit.

Experience

AI Engineer, Freelance/Jul 2026 – PresentNow

Sambac Procurement Intelligence LLC

Alabama, United States (Remote)

Built an agentic procurement intelligence system on LangGraph that turns a single product input into end-to-end supplier research, compliance classification and quotation outreach.

Case study
Full-Stack Engineer, Freelance/Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

Atlas Counsel Pty Ltd

Melbourne, Australia

Delivered the booking, payments and calendar backend behind thesolutionistagenda.com, then deployed and configured the production stack on a Hostinger VM.

Case study
Founding Full-Stack Engineer/Feb 2025 – Feb 2026

KRISHAI Technologies Private Limited

Bengaluru, India

Hired as founding engineer to build evolvue.ai for Krish Naik’s AI education network. Owned product, backend, frontend and infrastructure; prototypes that removed manual operations helped double company revenue.

Case study
Teaching Assistant/Dec 2023 – Aug 2025

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Chennai, India (Hybrid)

Guided students through the full software lifecycle in Modern Application Development and ran viva evaluations for CS2003P and CS2006P.

Full-Stack Research Engineer (Intern)/May 2024 – Dec 2024

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

Rupnagar, India

Built the MVP of a clinical deep-learning serving platform solo, then led a remote team of student developers to scale it into a real clinical workflow with PGIMER Chandigarh.

Case study
DevOps & Deployment Consultant/Oct 2024

Biofield Power Private Limited

Rupnagar, India

Delivered automated CI/CD pipelines across both AWS and GCP inside a one-month contract, cutting release friction for the engineering team.

Education

Master of Data Science/Mar 2026 – Nov 2027 (expected)

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

BS in Data Science and Applications/Jan 2021 – Dec 2025

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Chennai, India

Every role and all 36 university units

What I build with.

AI & Machine LearningLLMs, GenAI, LangGraph, agentic workflows, RAG, PyTorch, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost
Data & AnalysisPython, Pandas, NumPy, feature engineering, statistical analysis, Kibana, Matplotlib, dashboard development
Backend & Full-StackFastAPI, Flask, Django, Next.js, React.js, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C, Bash
DatabasesPostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQL, relational schema design
Cloud & DevOpsAWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Nginx, Uvicorn, system and load testing
Working styleEnd-to-end system design, rapid prototyping, stakeholder communication, cross-functional teamwork, mentoring

Awards & certifications.

The highlights are below. Every certification — with credential IDs, coursework, endorsed skills and the roles behind them — is laid out on the credentials page.

Honours & awards

  • Claude Impact Lab, Melbourne2026

    One of 70 participants selected from 400+ applicants for Anthropic's APAC Claude Impact Lab

  • Hackathon Champion — KHOJ Startup Yatra2022

    First place: designed, built and pitched a tech solution under competition time limits

  • Paper Presentation — Rajasthan DigiFest2022

    Presented research on Big Data Analytics to industry professionals

  • Scholarships2021–26

    SVSAE (2026); Ram Shriram Foundation, USA (2024); RCAT, Govt. of Rajasthan (2023); TATA Capital (2023); L&T Merit (2021)

Notes from shipping things.

Let’s talk about what you need built.

Whether it’s a part-time role, a summer internship, or a project that needs to exist by next quarter — tell me the problem and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person for it.

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