Open to founding & product-engineering roles
San Francisco Bay AreaUC Berkeley · CS & Data ScienceSurface Labs (YC'23)

Amisha Gupta — AI & Infrastructure Engineer

AI & infrastructure engineer. I build the machinery around models that makes them reliable in production — from schema to ship to the on-call rotation.

Currently at Surface Labs (YC'23). Previously Amazon and UCSF × Stanford.

Selected work

Four builds, owned end to end
01Surface Labs · YC'23 · 2026 – Now

Multi-model orchestration across 4 frontier models with validation, retry, and structured output — built for production reliability, not demos.

Content idea → AI orchestration → Validate + recover → Structured output

4
Frontier models
02UCSF × Stanford · Jul – Nov 2025

A high-reliability pipeline on Kafka, Redis, and Cassandra — circuit-breakers and idempotent writes for clinical-grade systems where a duplicate event is a patient-safety risk.

Kafka → Redis cache → Cassandra → FastAPI

99.9%
Uptime · p99 held
03Amazon · Jun – Aug 2025

Event-driven validation and recovery on S3 and DynamoDB for 2M+ records — catching bad data at the door and eliminating 70% of manual toil across the ingest path.

S3 event → Validate pipeline → DynamoDB → Reconcile + CI/CD

2M+
Records · 70% toil cut
04Cognova · Founding Engineer · 2025 – Now

AI phone agents that take orders and answer questions, integrating ElevenLabs, Clover POS, Twilio, and Stripe.

Twilio call → ElevenLabs agent + RAG → Clover POS → Supabase + Stripe

10K+
Calls handled
Also shipped
  • +30%payment-API throughput · American ExpressJava / Spring Boot.

About

I'm Amisha, an AI and infrastructure engineer studying Computer Science and Data Science at UC Berkeley. I build the systems that have to keep working once they become load-bearing.

My range runs from RAG and retrieval systems at Surface Labs to high-reliability healthcare pipelines with UCSF and Stanford, data recovery at Amazon, and founding-engineer work on voice agents at Cognova. The throughline is reliability: idempotent writes, retry-aware queues, and evaluation that runs on every deploy.

I care about the seam where technical depth meets product judgment: taking an idea from schema to ship to the on-call rotation, and leaving the system simpler than I found it.

Skills

AI-led
AI / LLM SystemsAnthropic API, OpenRouter, RAG, agent harnesses, tool use / function calling, prompt engineering, eval pipelines, workflow orchestration, vector search, guardrails, AI observability, fine-tuning
LanguagesPython, TypeScript, Java, Go, Kotlin, SQL, Bash
Backend & DistributedFastAPI, Spring Boot, REST, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, async pipelines, retry-aware systems, circuit breakers
Cloud & InfraAWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux, Terraform (IaC), Spark, Airflow

Contact

Let's build something worth trusting.

Open to founding & product-engineering roles — from schema to ship to the on-call rotation.