Ashish Kumar / Software Engineer
I make
complex
systems
legible.
I work across interfaces, infrastructure, and applied AI, usually where the problem is ambiguous and the path to a useful product is not.
Follow the path
Current role
MAQ Software
Working since
2024
01 / Path so far
Four turns,
one direction.
- 202101
B.Tech / Computer Science
IIIT Kalyani
Started learning how systems fit together, then kept pulling on the thread.
- 2024—2502
AI Engineering Intern
FastCode AI
Production OpenAI, Gemini, and Whisper pipelines. Latency, retries, evaluation, and cost became real constraints.
- Jun 202503
IIIT Kalyani / 8.56 GPA
Graduated
Finished the degree with a stronger interest in products than in technology for its own sake.
- Now04
Software Engineer / Microsoft engagement
MAQ Software
Shipping search, RAG, Power BI automation, and accessible React + .NET systems inside the Proposal Centre of Excellence.
02 / Working principles
- 01
Make the hard thing legible.
- 02
Accessibility is product quality.
- 03
Ship the whole path, not the demo.
- 04
Leave the code kinder than you found it.
03 / Capability map
Wide enough
to own the path.
Interfaces
Accessible, dense, and fast enough to disappear.
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Tailwind
- Three.js
Systems
Full-stack paths from a user action to the data underneath it.
- Python
- .NET / C#
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
Applied AI
Retrieval and agent workflows with operational constraints included.
- Azure AI Search
- OpenAI
- Ollama
- Hugging Face
- RAG
Delivery
Cloud infrastructure, automation, and the last 10% that gets software used.
- Azure
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Power BI
- MCP
04 / The short version
I graduated from IIIT Kalyani in 2025 and joined MAQ Software the following month. Most of my work now sits inside the Proposal Centre of Excellence: search systems, AI-assisted proposal workflows, Power BI automation, and accessible enterprise applications.
Outside work, I build tools that solve problems I can feel directly. That has produced a source-aware Copilot overlay, a self-hostable RAG toolkit, and a procedural 3D GitHub city. The common thread is simple: make difficult systems easier to use and easier to maintain.
ashish.mukesh8987@gmail.com
GitHub
PiPanther
in/ashimanual