hi stranger, the engineering side.

I ship what the customer needs, by the deadline.

Founding engineer at Beyond Presence: I own the platform behind the product, and I’m in the customer meetings and on the tight deadlines. Co-founder of an award-winning agency before that, and open-source contributions along the way.

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I own the platform. And I ship it fast.

I joined as a founding engineer in September 2024, at pre-seed, before there was a product. Now I own the platform that serves the product, frontend and backend: the creator platform, where an avatar gets made and embedded on a website, and the call platform behind our real-time avatars and Managed Agents, built on LiveKit. The real-time models and their scaling on GCP are my teammates’ work.

What I bring is speed. I sit in customer meetings, work out what they actually need, and ship it against tight deadlines: the meetings integration that puts an avatar in a Zoom or Teams call, built on a third-party meeting service, and our kiosk. When something breaks for a customer, I’m often the one answering the support ticket.

200,000+
avatar sessions served
1,000+
running at the same time
15,000+
startups, scaleups and enterprise teams

Public figures from beyondpresence.ai

Architecture for a free product.

The NPC Filter homepage

NPC Filter

LinkedIn filled up with AI comments, so my agent built a filter overnight.

Free in the Chrome Web Store

I designed the architecture to scale and stay cheap. It runs on Cloudflare and uses Clef, Cloudflare’s typed decision model, so each check comes back as a structured verdict, fast and at low cost.

npcfilter.com
  • Chrome extension
  • Cloudflare
  • Clef

Open source, mostly for building with avatars.

Open source

reels-in-code

A Claude skill that takes an idea to a finished reel: hooks, shots, captions, zooms, sound effects. Built with Claude and Remotion.

Open source

LiveKit JS plugin

Brings Beyond Presence avatars to LiveKit web apps. Ported from the Python plugin.

Published

Beyond Presence n8n node

A custom node plus templates. The only verified n8n integration in the AI avatar category.

Free

n8n workflows

Ready-made workflows for using Beyond Presence avatars in n8n.

Where I learned to ship.

  1. 2022–2024 · cureVision · Munich

    Founding engineer on a medical device.

    Two years on the software for our own hardware, with ML on the device. Wound documentation got about 90% faster.

  2. 2023 · The June Care Company

    Founding engineer, on contract.

    Five months building their product in React.

  3. 2021–2022 · Keyhole · Social media analytics

    Rebuilt parts of their legacy platform in React.

    A year as a full-stack engineer.

  4. 2022 · Humain · for a top German car company

    A car information system.

    Senior web developer at Humain, building a car information system for one of Germany’s top car makers. The rest is under NDA.

  5. 2018 → · CodeJunkie · Co-founder & CTO

    A company. An award-winning one.

    Co-founded in my final semester. I led the technical side of an award-winning agency, trained our designers and developers, and delivered work for startups and corporate clients, including banks in the UAE and Oman. In 2023 it grew a second company: Crewmate, a staff augmentation service I co-founded.

  6. 2015 · NUST, Islamabad

    Two hackathon prizes and a first game.

    First prize at Pakathon for Directions, an educational Android app I built and helped design, and the People’s Choice award for EZ Manzil, a transport app for women. Flappy Returns, my first published game, came out the same year.

  • 2015Best Idea, 1st prizePakathon, NUST chapter
  • 2015People’s ChoicePIF women’s transport hackathon
  • 2016High Achiever’s AwardRector, NUST
  • 2022AGORA scholarshipDAAD and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship

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