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Purvesh Rathod/Software Engineer

Founding Software Engineer at Gia, building production AI agents and the systems around them. Previously at Turabit, Vergo.ai, and DeepSense.


Background

I'm a Software Engineer with a background spanning cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and, more recently, production AI. My career has followed a consistent thread: taking complex, ambiguous problems and shipping systems that hold up in the real world.

At Gia I work as Founding Software Engineer, which means I've touched everything from product architecture to the infra bill. Before that I spent time at Turabit, Vergo.ai, and DeepSense, accumulating experience across microservices, HPC clusters, and full-stack web. I hold two AWS certifications and a master's degree from Dalhousie University.

Outside of code I'm interested in the design of software systems, not just whether they work, but why they break, and what structural decisions made them fragile or resilient. I believe the most valuable engineering skill is judgment: knowing which problems are worth solving and when good enough actually is.

Based in 🇨🇦5+ years in tech

Education

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Associate Developer

    DVA-C02 · 2023

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C01 · 2023

Experience

  1. GiaFounding Software EngineerNow
    • Took product 0 -> 1 as founding engineer; shaped architecture and engineering standards.
    • Shipped production autonomous agents with CrewAI, Langgraph, Anthropic SDK, and Vercel AI SDK.
    • Architected and built backend services, RAG pipelines, queueing systems, and frontend dashboards.
  2. QACPython Developer
    • Built end-to-end ETL pipelines in Python across heterogeneous data sources.
    • Developed internal comparison-report tool that streamlined data migration validation.
    • Maintained CI pipelines on Azure DevOps.
  3. Vergo.aiFull Stack Developer (Contract)
    • Rebuilt the application in Next.js with SSR, achieving a 40% load-time reduction.
    • Developed Flask APIs and managed AWS infrastructure: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redis.
  4. DeepSenseCloud Engineer Intern
    • Provisioned HPC clusters on AWS with ParallelCluster and Slurm, improving resource utilization by 30%.
  5. TurabitSenior Software Developer
    • Centralized logging with Kafka and ELK stack, increasing log analysis efficiency by 50%.
    • Set up CI/CD on GCP using Cloud Build and GKE; implemented real-time chat with Socket.IO.
  6. TurabitSoftware Developer
    • Implemented OAuth 2.0 across Python services; built microservices for Teams and Active Directory workflows (LDAP, Azure AD).
    • Developed Flask REST APIs supporting multi-tenant SaaS platform.
  7. Dalhousie UniversityTeaching Assistant
    • Led lectures and workshops on Kubernetes and Docker for graduate students.
    • Mentored students on AWS services for cloud-native application development.

Toolkit

Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsJavaC++SQL
AI & Agentic
LangGraphLangChainCrewAIVercel AI SDKClaude Agent SDKMCPRAG
Web & Frontend
ReactNext.jsTailwindCSSSSR
Backend & APIs
FastAPIFlaskDjangoExpressSpring BootRESTGraphQLWebSocketsOAuth 2.0
Data & Messaging
CeleryKafkaRabbitMQSocket.IOELK Stack
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDBElasticSearch
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (Certified)GCPAzureDockerKubernetesCloudFormation
Tooling
GitCI/CDAzure DevOps

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