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Applied AI Engineer · Forward Deployed Engineer

I ship
and I show.

I’m Ishan Sharma.

I build AI products and ship them to real users.

At Amazon I shipped features to half a million Kindle users. After that I worked on the product side of Moonvalley, an AI video company, then built Bloort on my own: a production RAG platform used by paying clients.

I like starting from a vague brief, working closely with the customer, and getting something running in their production.

things I've built

Two projects you can use today.

www.bloort.ai/ · demo
01AI agent platform · Founder & Lead Engineer · 2025–present

Bloort

An AI platform I took from a solo prototype to a paid product on client sites. It started as a RAG chatbot and is now a sandbox for building and testing AI agents. In the live demo you paste a URL, an agent is built in about a minute, and you can talk to it without signing up.

  • Sold it to clients and ran it on their live sites. I handled the sales calls, onboarding and billing myself.
  • Multi-tenant and secured for production: per-client Pinecone namespaces, layered prompt-injection defence (an LLM guard with a regex fallback), SSRF and XSS filtering, and email and phone masking before anything is stored.
  • A semantic cache reuses retrieved context when a new question is at least 0.88 cosine-similar to an earlier one, which cuts Pinecone lookups and LLM cost. Model calls have retries with backoff, timeouts, per-run cost limits, and a dry-run gate on irreversible actions like placing a call.
  • Agents use real tools over the Model Context Protocol, including a calendar server for live availability. Outbound VAPI voice calls and Twilio WhatsApp handle lead callbacks and owner alerts.
  • Evals run on versioned golden datasets. A trajectory eval caught the agent inventing an appointment date in a tool call, and the fix took the 6-scenario suite from 5 of 6 to 6 of 6. Retrieval evals ruled out a hybrid retriever that did worse than plain dense search (recall@1 fell from 95% to 70%).
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI
  • Pinecone
  • MCP
  • VAPI
  • Twilio
  • Firecrawl
  • Firebase
  • Railway
lab.ishan.website/ · demo
02Browser tools, hand-tracked toys and lessons · live

ISHAN'S LAB

Camera apps you control with your hands or your whole body, running in the browser. Nothing to install, and nothing leaves your machine. Every dependency is bundled behind a strict CSP, so the page makes no third-party requests and all tracking happens on the device.

  • Jump Runner is an endless runner you play with your body. Jump to clear obstacles and crouch to duck, tracked with MediaPipe Pose.
  • Sign School teaches ASL fingerspelling. A rule-based checker reads your handshape from 21 hand landmarks and gives live corrections like 'straighten your index'.
  • My hand-tracked animations reached 150 users in two weeks without any promotion.
  • three.js (WebGL2)
  • MediaPipe Hand + Pose
  • p5
  • GLSL
experience

Where I’ve worked.

  1. Bloort · Founder & Lead Engineer

    Remote · 2025 – Present
    Applied AI / agents

    Built an AI platform alone from zero to production, then brought in and led two part-time engineers for maintenance and bug fixes. It started as a RAG chatbot on client sites: ingestion, retrieval, an agent with guardrails, an eval harness, a dashboard, subscription billing, and an auto-branding step that reads each client's colours from a screenshot. It has since grown into an agent sandbox. I handled the customer conversations myself throughout.

  2. Amazon · Software Development Engineer

    Toronto · 2022 – 2023
    Consumer hardware

    Shipped landing-page and sign-in features on Amazon Kids+ for Kindle to 500,000+ users, contributing to a ~20% revenue increase. Accessible sign-in raised successful sign-ins ~15%. A/B tests I led improved retention ~10%, and automated testing improved reliability ~25%.

  3. Moonvalley.ai · Full-Stack Engineer

    Toronto · 2024
    Generative AI

    Moonvalley builds its own AI video model. I worked on the product side, building a Vue.js image canvas with real-time generation and editing. A modular backend cut time-to-market by about 30%.

Before & during UofT

  • SatSure Software Engineer Intern · 2021 · Bengaluru

    Built a full-stack tracking app for satellite-data analytics and cut compute time 25% with faster libraries.

  • Innis College, UofT Web & Product · 2020–21 · Toronto

    Took StarterKit, a recruiting tool for international students, from idea to 4,000 users in two months.

  • RBC AmpHacks Hackathon · 2020 · Toronto

    Built and pitched an SMB-mentor matching platform over a weekend. 2nd of 25 teams and Most Socially Innovative.

  • While One Software Engineer Intern · 2020 · Toronto

    Built chat and ratings backend for a peer-to-peer currency exchange app; grew signups 80% with cross-platform packaging.

Education

University of Toronto

B.Sc. (Honours), Specialist in Computer Science

Toronto · 2017 – 2022

Computer Science
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithm Design & AnalysisOperating SystemsDatabasesData Structures & AnalysisSoftware EngineeringSystems ProgrammingComputer OrganizationTheory of ComputationNumerical MethodsHuman-Computer InteractionInteractive Computational MediaComputational Systems Biology
Electives
Classical MythologyGreek CultureThe MahabharataIntro to SanskritBuddhism & Cognitive ScienceAncient EmpiresLife on Other WorldsMath and Law
off the clock

Away from the keyboard.

Drums, a podcast and diving.

Drumming

drums.ish

I play drums and record in a small home studio I built. I post the videos as I go.

Podcast

The NoteLess Podcast

My podcast with working musicians about how they make a living from music.

PADI Advanced Open Water

Diving

Earned my Open Water and Advanced Open Water certifications over the last few years. It's good to be a beginner at something again.

skills

What I work with.

Applied AI
RAG pipelines · agent orchestration · eval harnesses · vector DBs · prompt engineering · LangChain · OpenAI · Pinecone · Firecrawl
Full-stack
TypeScript · Python · Next.js · React · Vue · Node · FastAPI · Firebase · PostgreSQL
Infra & delivery
AWS · Vercel · Railway · Docker · CI/CD · production observability

get in touch

Got something you want
built fast?

I’m open to founding engineer roles, a technical cofounder role, or contract AI work. If you’re building something, send me a note.