Ashir Shaikh · Independent AI & product engineer
I help founders and product teams turn a difficult build, unreliable workflow, or voice-AI idea into a production-ready product. You work directly with me from the first technical decision through launch.
A few lines are enough. I reply personally within one business day.
For founders & product teams
Launch a web or mobile app, connect your backend, add AI, or get an existing product ready for real users.
First step: a technical fit check on the scope, risks, and cleanest path to release.
Explore product buildsFor HVAC & plumbing businesses
Start with an after-hours or overflow voice agent that qualifies requests and gives your team a clear next step.
First step: a short missed-call review before any build or platform commitment.
Explore the voice-agent pilotFor AI agencies & voice-agent teams
Get help with broken bookings, failed actions, dropped calls or conversation problems in an existing voice agent.
$150 diagnosis · $500 scoped repair, including diagnosis. All prices in USD.
See repair pricingSelected outcomes
Client work · Voice AI
Full-stack work across conversational workflows, LiveKit voice agents, tool calling, knowledge retrieval, and SIP telephony.
Contributed agent workflows and integrations to Voho’s white-label call-center platform for sales, recruiting, reception, and support.
See the evidence and scope ↗Independent product · Web + AI
An end-to-end product build spanning the application experience, authentication, AI workflow, saved validations, analytics, and deployment.
Built and shipped the application end to end, connecting idea input to an AI-assisted assessment and a saved validation plan.
See the evidence and scope ↗Technical fit check
Share the outcome, what already exists, and what is blocking progress. I will reply personally within one business day with focused questions or a useful next step.
Good fit: product builds, difficult integrations, voice AI, and reliability work.
No brief needed: two or three useful sentences are enough to start.
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hello@ashirshaikh.comSelected work
10 projects — AI and full-stack products I designed, built, or improved across web, backend, mobile, cloud, and automation.
Full-Stack Build
Offline lesson kits for teachers, powered by local Gemma 4 inference. A Flutter desktop app that turns textbook PDFs and scanned pages into classroom-ready lessons — explanations, teaching notes, quizzes, activities, and homework — without ever touching the cloud. Built for the reality that most classrooms can't depend on reliable internet, with a Present mode for laptop-based teaching and a Student Help flow grounded in lesson context.
Full-Stack Build
StackFlight is an AI-powered startup validation product that turns an early idea into a proof score, priority risks, live market evidence, and a concrete validation plan. I built and shipped the product end to end, including the application experience, authentication, AI workflow, saved validations, analytics, and production deployment.
Product & Full-Stack Build
A voice-first Mac productivity app for people who work with AI every day. Press Fn from any app, speak naturally, and StackSpeech removes filler and repetition, turns the thought into a clear prompt, and places it directly at the active cursor. I built the product experience around an interruption-free workflow, with hold-or-toggle capture, a live listening indicator, safe cancellation, and a paid early-access pilot for real-world validation.
Full-Stack AI Build
A self-directed demo for configuring AI phone agents across inbound and outbound call workflows. I built the product experience for defining agent behavior, opening lines, voice settings, and business-specific guardrails, then used it to demonstrate a dental receptionist flow for appointment requests, urgent-call triage, and human handoff.
Full Stack Engineer
Enterprise AI call-center platform with LiveKit-powered voice agents for inbound and outbound calling. I worked across the full stack and cloud layer, building conversational agent workflows, tool/function calling, knowledge-base retrieval, and SIP telephony integrations that powered Voho's white-label deployments for sales, recruiting, reception, and support teams.
Full Stack Engineer
An AI-agnostic knowledge infrastructure platform — your second brain for work. Nucleus ingests documents, Gmail, Drive, and links into a single source of truth that any AI tool can query via MCP, returning natural-language answers with source citations and no folder overhead. I worked across the Next.js product surface, the API layer, and the retrieval model that makes unified search fast and grounded.
Full Stack Engineer
A social platform for monetized group chats — ranked #1 on Product Hunt. Available on iOS and Android, it lets users and organizations launch paid or regular group chats in seconds. I worked across the Flutter codebase, the native iOS offline-messaging layer, the backend, deployments, and growth engineering.
Frontend Tech Lead
Dart's first-ever serverless framework as a service (FaaS) — deploy your Flutter apps as you build them. Led the frontend and developer experience of the platform, shaping how Flutter developers shipped serverless backends without leaving their editor.
Frontend Tech Lead
An exclusive marketplace for screenwriters and producers. Writers get their best work in front of world-class producers; producers discover ready-to-produce scripts. I led the frontend team and shipped the web experience and design system behind both sides of the marketplace.
App Developer
An AI assistant app that turns short text prompts into illustrations and automates everyday tasks — built as a single-codebase Flutter app for iOS and Android, with an AI image-generation layer under the hood.
About
I like taking hard product problems and making them feel simple. I work across web, mobile, backend, cloud, and AI. From the first question to the final release, I stay close to the work and make sure every choice has a reason.
How I work with AI
AI helps me explore ideas and build faster. I still choose the direction, review the work, and take responsibility for the result.
Learn the product, read the code, and understand the users, limits, and things that could go wrong.
Ask AI for different ways to solve the problem, including the good and bad sides of each one.
Compare the AI answer with the code, product needs, and what I know from experience.
Break the work into clear steps and decide how I will know when each step is done.
Give AI the right information, clear limits, and a clear task.
Review the work, run tests, check security and unusual cases, and fix anything that is wrong.
The goal is not to create more code. It is to build faster while keeping the work clear, correct, and safe.
Experience
Journey · 07 chapters
2021 — Present
Worked as an independent contractor providing full-stack and app development services for itellicoAI. Built and maintained product features across web and app surfaces, backend integrations, and AI/voice-agent workflows, turning product requirements into shipped functionality.