Hi, I'm Rakesh.

I'm an AI engineer and founder based in India. I build software for a living and for fun, and the line between the two has mostly stopped existing.

What I'm doing now

I run Akoota Labs, a small studio for AI products. Our flagship is CiteAgent — a platform that helps businesses win citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI. We're in private beta with 200+ on the waitlist.

On the side, I take a small number of consulting and pilot-build engagements for founders who want to ship real AI features inside their products.

How I got here

I started shipping web apps years before the AI boom — the usual full-stack path through TypeScript, Next.js, FastAPI, NestJS, Postgres, and a long list of frameworks that turned out to be stable bets.

When LLMs got good, I had a head start. The boring full-stack patterns — auth, queues, multi-tenancy, observability — turn out to be exactly what AI features need to ship in production. The "AI part" is the easy part. The hard part is everything else.

What I'm good at

• Designing AI architectures that actually scale (cost, latency, failure modes)
• Picking the right model + provider for the job, and switching when it stops being right
• Building agents that don't hallucinate themselves into a hole
• Shipping with a small team or solo, fast, with good DX
• Knowing when not to build the AI feature at all

What I'm not

• An ML researcher (I won't train you a foundation model)
• An MLOps platform team (I won't manage your GPU fleet)
• An agency (I work alone or with a tiny crew, on one thing at a time)

Outside work

I read more docs than novels, maintain too many side projects, and slowly build a YouTube channel where I show how the systems behind these products actually work.

Get in touch

Easiest is Topmate for a call, or email for a message. I reply within a day.