I build AI systems and teach the internet how they work.
Senior engineer shipping LLM systems to production. I write up what they cost and where they break.
What I've built, and what I've explained
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AI systems in production. The live ones you can try.
Masterji
An AI startup coach. One task each morning, proof each evening.
helpindiebuild.comHow it works

- Problem
- Builders plan more than they ship, and a chatbot coach will agree with anything.
- Built
- The loop at the top of this page, plus a cost ledger on every model call and an MCP server, so Claude can file proofs too.
- Outcome
- LLM cost is ₹2.70 per builder-day, the median over 174 production calls.
Django, litellm, OpenTelemetry, MCP, Cloud Run
Skill Issue
A daily game: which AI skill fires for this prompt?
playskillissue.comHow it works
- Problem
- AI agents pick a skill by its description, and it's hard to guess which one will fire.
- Built
- Rounds drawn from public SKILL.md files. An LLM writes the questions, a blind LLM judge reviews them, and only the ones it agrees with get published. The judge is calibrated against a hand-checked set.
- Outcome
- A daily job publishes new rounds by opening a pull request.
Next.js, Upstash Redis, Postgres, GitHub Actions, OpenAI, Sarvam
Call pipeline
Live call transcription and AI call outcomes for a US debt-collections client.
How it works
- Cost
- ~5.5¢ → ~2¢ per call, after prompt caching
- Volume
- 1,828 live calls in one day, for a client handling 10M a year
Client work, anonymised. .NET, Azure Speech, Azure OpenAI, SQL Server, Python
AI support agent
A RAG agent answering customer questions for Shopify brands, at DelightChat.
How it works
- Problem
- Support teams at D2C brands answer the same questions all day on WhatsApp.
- Built
- I tech-led a two-person team. The agent retrieves from each brand's approved FAQs and product data in pgvector; vector matching replaced LLM-based FAQ matching.
- Outcome
- 15k queries a month on the agent, 50k+ on the AI text tools, and $50k+ in new ARR.
Django, Postgres + pgvector, Celery, OpenAI
Explained
Write-ups on how these systems work.
- The LLM proposes, the server decides
On this site, Oct 2026
- Efficiently scheduling Celery tasks in Django
Medium, Feb 2025
Next ones land here.
Other things I've built
Idea BoardA corkboard for ideas you're not building yet, with a handoff to Masterji when one is ready.Open
MunshijiCash book, credit ledger and GST invoices for Indian small businesses.Try it
My Car DiaryFuel and service log. A vision model reads handwritten logbook pages.Open
JournalA private daily diary with autosave and markdown export.Demo
Mayur School, BaduBilingual school website with a CMS the staff edit themselves. Client work.Visit
Earlier, at IIT Jodhpur: Hybrid PageRank on the GPU (12× faster), Maze search visualiser.
About

- 2026 - nowSaxeCap Senior Software Engineer. LLM pipelines and backends for US clients.
- 2024 - 26DelightChat Senior Backend Engineer. Tech lead on the AI support agent.
- 2022 - 24Deloitte USI Software Engineer. Document classification across three clouds, a 100+ TB lossless migration.
- 2018 - 22IIT Jodhpur B.Tech, Computer Science. JEE Advanced AIR 2890.
Say hello
Open to talking about AI builds, collaborations and roles.
cmahendra9999@gmail.com