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Open to Forward Deployed Engineer roles · Remote / SEA

PremKumar

Forward Deployed Engineer building applications, SaaS products and production AI systems for startups and organisations, from first prototype to live deployment.

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08
yrs building AI
03
products live
About

Who I am

Forward deployed engineer with 8 years building applications, SaaS products and production systems for startups and organisations. I work close to the people using the software: scoping the problem with them, building it end to end, and staying with it until it runs in production.

11 yrs on GitHub
1,414contributions in the past year
68stars
39repos
21followers
TypeScript · Python · HTML
Experience

Where I've worked

2024 — now

Ancileo

Singapore (Remote)

Senior AI Engineer

  • Developed an internal claims-assessment AI engine built on LangGraph, the OpenAI SDK, and an in-house AI library. Runs end-to-end, assessing the peril for claim approval against policy.
  • Designed the foundation of a multi-tenant insurance conversational agent on AWS Strands and Bedrock AgentCore, provisioned via Terraform (IaC). Connected on WhatsApp via Twilio.
  • Owned the Flowable BPM workflow manager automating claims assessment for the Ops and AI teams; led a cross-functional team of 3 engineers and QAs through to production.

2022 — 2023

Azara AI

United States (Remote)

2023 — 2023

AI Engineer

  • Designed and built a drag-and-drop workflow modeller for composing multi-step agent pipelines (n8n-style), powering production AI agents across WhatsApp and Gmail; lifted engagement 35%.
  • Pioneered the company's first RAG pipeline, benchmarking indexers and retrieval strategies.
  • Built the agent observability and evaluation stack on AWS with LangSmith, Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger.

2022 — 2023

Product Manager

  • Owned technical and business requirements gathering with clients; ran sprint planning and prioritization for the engineering team.

2019 — 2022

WISE AI

Malaysia

Machine Learning Engineer

  • Shipped liveness detection and facial recognition for e-KYC, deployed to private and government clients across Malaysia.
  • Extended CNN architectures for liveness detection and prototyped a hybrid CNN for 3D facial-depth estimation as an anti-spoofing measure.
  • Directed data sourcing across 30+ global sources plus multi-university collection for model training and fine-tuning.
  • Drove the team to ISO 30107-3 certification, the first company in Southeast Asia to achieve it.

2019 — 2020

Tekkis

Malaysia (Remote)

Python DeveloperContract

  • Built backend services in Python for early-stage security and AI products.

2018 — 2019

Neofin

United States (Remote)

Machine Learning Engineer

  • Built facial recognition for loan origination, deployed across four US fintech and neo-banking partners.
  • Embedded liveness detection and facial verification into the digital onboarding and KYC pipeline, blocking fraudulent applications ahead of credit scoring and underwriting.

2017 — 2018

Monash University

Malaysia

Graduate Researcher

  • CNN-based seed classification for an automated grading system.
Products

Things I've built

Tech Stack
Claude CodeNext.js / TSStripeSupabaseVercel
Skills Used
/code-review/design-taste-frontend/ship-check
Featured

Agentica

All-In-One POS, ERP and AI for your Business Operations

  • agenticaPOS · Customisable POS for your business
  • agenticaERP · Handles stock, invoices, receipts, payroll, staffing and moreEPF, SOCSO, EIS and PCB
  • agenticaAI · 24/7 AI assistant that monitors your business
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decenchro.com

Decenchro

  • AI agents running 24/7 on your own servers
  • Every action logged immutably
  • Rule-based guards pause risky operations
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hiregents.com

Hiregents

  • Pick an agent, connect your Telegram bot
  • Runs on its own private server
  • Live in minutes
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saasclips.com

SaaSClips

  • Paste a URL, get a launch video
  • Square MP4 in about sixty seconds
  • AI voiceover built in
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Side Projects

Health Trend Keeper

ReactOpenAITypeScript

Pulls health metrics out of medical report PDFs and charts them over time. Built it after getting tired of manually logging numbers from lab results.

Face Recognition System

TensorFlowOpenCVKeras

End-to-end face recognition pipeline: detection, embedding storage, REST API. A reusable reference implementation from my eKYC work.

Overcooking

Three.jsNode.jsJavaScript

A browser Overcooked clone in Three.js. 3D kitchen, interactive stations, multiplayer chaos. Built it to learn WebGL.

Catering Chatbot

LangChainOpenAIReact

Order-taking chatbot for Caterspot. Handles the full flow (menu, quantities, delivery) so staff don't repeat the same questions.

Contact

Get in touch

I'm looking for senior AI engineering roles, remote or hybrid, building agentic systems in production. If that sounds like your team, or you just want to talk shop, send a note.

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