Full-stack Engineer with OCR & AI

Ashutosh is a full-stack engineer seeking early-stage (pre-seed/seed) founding engineer or first technical hire opportunities. He is remote-based (IST timezone with US/EU overlap flexibility) and not willing to relocate, though open to short visits. He excels at shipping fast and owning features end-to-end (UI to backend to integrations), thriving in high-ownership remote environments. His expertise includes React, Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, Tesseract.js (OCR), and REST APIs. He has a proven track record of delivering impactful projects such as an Email SaaS with Tesseract.js OCR (85% accuracy, cutting processing time from 15 min to 30 sec), rebuilding a delivery pipeline with Brevo API (98% success, zero downtime), a Voice AI booking system (95% accuracy, 800+ reservations), and optimizing a real estate platform's DB queries by 75%. He is particularly interested in AI agents, document processing, workflows, data extraction, and building reliable systems quickly. His GitHub is github.com/ashutoshpandey18.