Achu Mukundan

Fullstack / Backend Engineer

Building local-first AI tools, developer systems, and production-grade infrastructure.

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Experience

Junior Developer

May 2023 — May 2024

Replicant AI

Worked on production conversational AI systems, internal LLM tooling, and NLP testing infrastructure for a platform serving 10K+ daily users.

Built and shipped production conversational AI bots in TypeScript/Node.js serving 10K+ daily users
Implemented low-latency conversation-state handlers processing 500K+ bot events/day with approximately 150ms median latency
Developed the company's first ever internal LLM chat interface used by 200+ company employees
Migrated legacy workflows to LLM-based data collection, improving bot/data accuracy by approximately 30%
Designed timezone-aware scheduling/detection modules that reduced bot misfires by approximately 15% and improved CSAT
Built an automated NLP intent-recognition testing suite with Jest, reaching 90%+ test coverage and reducing regressions
Introduced structured logging and health endpoints, improving debugging under elevated load

Education

University of Toronto

Graduated 2025

BASc, Computer Engineering

Relevant coursework: Algorithms and Data Structures, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Operating Systems.

Featured Projects

Suitcase — A private career agent that lives on your machine.

A local-first career copilot with web chat, Discord bot, and an agent that organizes career evidence inside suitcase_world/.

Relay — Protocol infrastructure for local AI models

A lightweight compatibility gateway for running local models through OpenAI- and Anthropic-style APIs.

Synax — A local-first coding agent for quantized and open models.

An experimental terminal coding agent built around local inference, OpenAI-compatible model gateways, and small/quantized model workflows. Currently in closed alpha.

wytOS — A local-first creative OS for structured memory and AI-assisted workflows

A local-first creative operating system with SQLite FTS5 search, local LLM summarization, and structured retrieval workflows.

Temper Cloud — Self-hosted distributed storage and compute platform

Docker-based distributed storage with Cloudflare Zero Trust access, observability, and concurrent metadata pipelines.

watchyourtemper — Electronic music, events, merch, and visual world

An electronic music world spanning releases, events, merch, visual systems, and community experiments.

Skills

TypeScript JavaScript Node.js React Vite Next.js Python FastAPI Flask SQL REST APIs WebSocket / SSE PostgreSQL SQLite SQLite FTS5 Docker Linux CI/CD OpenAI-compatible APIs Anthropic-compatible APIs llama.cpp GGUF Agent Architecture Tool Calling Streaming/SSE TUI Development Cloudflare Workers Cloudflare Pages Cloudflare Tunnel Zero Trust Three.js / WebGL Terminal UI Design Observability Jest pytest Caddy systemd Music Production Creative Direction