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About Me

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I'm Darsh Naresh Jain — a founding software engineer who builds AI products and distributed systems from zero. I just finished my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Virginia (GPA 3.94/4.00), and I've spent the last few years shipping production code at startups, research labs, and enterprise teams.

Now

Shipping LLM applications at Cast Insights — Python microservices on GKE, RAG pipelines, and tool-calling agents that extract structured insight from unstructured content.

Research

Architecting fault-tolerant ingestion pipelines at UVA Darden — processing 10TB+ of raw data and improving throughput by ~70%.

Founding Engineer

First engineer at Lab Systems — owned the platform from blank slate, drove the technology roadmap, led product development, and shipped cryptocurrency & disk forensics tools to clients.

Patent

Granted German patent for a blockchain-based pharma logistics system — improved supply-chain traceability by ~80% in pilot deployments.

I work across the stack: Python, TypeScript, C/C++ on the build side; FastAPI, Next.js, and Flask on the application side; Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS/GCP on the infra side. Day-to-day I'm fluent in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, agentic AI, and distributed data pipelines.

Whether I'm the first hire or the tenth, my pattern is the same — own a piece end-to-end, ship it, and make the surrounding system measurably better. If you're building something hard and looking for an engineer who actually adds value end-to-end, let's talk.