Vijay Patel

AI Engineer

My favorite part of building with AI is learning how to build better with AI.

Check out my work

Cakes by Ashni

March 2026

Migrated Cakes by Ashni's website from a standard Squarespace template to a bespoke website in 3 days.

Super Bowl Boxes

February 2026

Built an app < 24 hours before kickoff. Secured 50 users in under 6 hours. Your claude code harness could never.

Rajat Mahotsav Website

February 2026

A feature rich event platform for Secaucus Temple's 25th Anniversary Celebration.

Writing

Cloning Karpathy: Which AI Knows Him Best?

February 2026

I asked Codex and Opus to think like Karpathy when it comes to agentic coding, then had them judge each other's work.

Skills & Expertise

AI Engineering

The AI systems, tooling, and techniques I use to design, evaluate, and ship production-grade agentic products.

Harness EngineeringAgentic SystemsMulti-Agent OrchestrationLong-Running AgentsLoop EngineeringEvaluations & LLM-as-JudgeRAG & Hybrid RetrievalPrompt & Context EngineeringMCP ServersSkills & PluginsVector DBsEmbeddings & RerankingLLM Observability & TracingCost & Latency OptimizationTask-Model OptimizationClaude Agent SDKCoding Agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex)Voice & Realtime AgentsTTS & STT

Technical

Core technologies I use to build and scale products.

Java & Spring BootPythonTypeScript & Next.jsMemcached & RedisAWSAgentic SystemsApplied AIAgentic AI SystemsSystem OptimizationHigh-scale distributed systemsMicroservicesSystem Monitoring & ObservabilitySDK Development

Professional

How I work with teams, decisions, and execution.

Technical LeadershipCritical ThinkingAdaptability & ResilienceCommunication & CollaborationAgencyBias for ActionProduct MindsetDeep DiveProblem SolverStrong OwnershipCustomer ObsessionExplorativeSelf-MotivatedData-Driven

Get in Touch

vijpatel7 at gmail dot com GitHub LinkedIn X