Harsh Rastogi

    AI Product Engineer and Business AI Head

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    AI Product Engineer who builds enterprise-grade AI products and agents end to end. Four roles in two years, from a defence internship to Business AI Head at Modelia, promoted after five months. Ships a new idea every week, finds where AI can grow the business and automates how teams work.

    Experience

    1. AI Product Engineer and Business AI Head

      Jun 2026 — Present

      ModeliaPromoted after 5 months

      • Bring a new AI idea every week and build it end to end into features people test in production, on a complete AI solution for the fashion ecosystem: DAM and PIM, catalogue management, product imagery and visual master generators, with bulk generation
      • Find where AI can grow the business and automate how our teams work
      • Built the AI video production tool for commercial-ready content, with multi-clip generation and music, growing single-output generation into a full creative pipeline
      • Unified two isolated platforms into one synchronised system with cross-platform payments and shared generation history
      • Replaced rigid sprint releases with continuous delivery behind feature flags, enabling controlled rollouts and A/B tests
      • Built per-tool consumption analytics and cut AI infrastructure costs with caching and usage monitoring
    2. Full Stack Engineer

      Jan 2026 — May 2026

      Modelia

      • Engineered the core platform: generative image engine, merchant-facing Shopify app, Studio creative tool and internal systems, serving hundreds of merchants generating thousands of AI images a day
      • Unified and restructured the Modelia app for Shopify merchants, cutting client escalations by more than 95%
      • Rebuilt the legacy codebase as a modular, production-grade system in 35 days
      • Built secure media delivery through an Azure Blob proxy, cross-platform credit sync with PostgreSQL and Prisma, and real-time updates over SSE with Redis pub/sub
    3. Full-Stack Developer

      Jan 2025 — Dec 2025

      Asynq

      • Built the AI hiring platform from scratch: candidate scoring engine, bulk resume analysis pipeline and an agentic AI interviewer that runs structured candidate conversations
      • Designed a candidate ranking system that analyses resumes at scale and surfaces best-fit profiles
      • Processed hundreds of concurrent resume analyses with BullMQ queues and Redis caching, keeping API responses under a second
      • Wrote the backend in TypeScript and tRPC with end-to-end type safety, designed for non-technical recruiters
    4. Software Engineering Intern (defence internship)

      Jul 2024 — Aug 2024

      Bharat Electronics Limited

      • Built React interfaces for Harvester HCI virtualised computing and storage in defence-grade deployments, improving efficiency by 45%
      • Developed Indian Air Force project interfaces with React and Ant Design, reducing paperwork by 75%

    Projects

    • SelfAgentic · Founding Engineer · selfagentic.in

      Multi-agent AI orchestration platform in closed beta: inter-agent delegation, contextual memory, token-level streaming, and Slack, Discord, Notion and email integrations with scheduled agent runs.

    • Tutively · End-to-end owner · tutively.com

      Smart school ERP with AI student analysis. Automates attendance and admin work and keeps admins, teachers, students and parents on the same live data.

    • GyanSathi · Built solo · gyansathi.com

      Learning management system for 5,000+ learners at CCS University Meerut: courses, exams, AI-based evaluation, certificates, payments and analytics. Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL.

    • carcode · Creator · open source

      Voice control for Claude Code from the car: reviews PRs, reads Slack and ships changes on a Mac while CarPlay reads the answer aloud. MIT licensed.

    • PDF Compliance Validation Engine · Developer

      REST microservice that validates PDF accessibility against WCAG 2.2 and PDF/UA-1, with async jobs on Celery, built for CI/CD pipelines.