Ayush Kumar Rathore // full stack · ai Get in touch →
full stack developer · ai builder · nine years in

Every system starts with one node.

Nine years of building web products, realtime platforms and AI agents. Scroll, and watch one get built, one layer at a time.

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01 / interface

First, the part people touch. Screens that stay fast with real data: long lists, live cursors, uploads that survive a bad connection. React most days. WordPress when that is what the business runs on.

02 / backend

Behind it, where the rules live. APIs written as contracts, with retries and rate limits from day one. Live updates over WebSockets. Queues for anything slow.

03 / data

Underneath, one source of truth. Postgres for products. SQLite when one file is enough. Redis for what must be fast. And backups that have actually been restored.

04 / ai

Then the systems that think. Agents with explicit tools and cost caps. Search over libraries too large to read. Models do the heavy reading, people make the decisions.

05 / infra

And the part that keeps it alive at 3 am. Linux, Docker, Nginx, a GPU when inference needs one. Deploys that are boring, and a restore drill before anyone needs it.

06 / built

Then it is built. Every repo gets a map. Every decision is on paper. The team runs the next review without me — which is the part I care about most, because a system nobody else can run is not finished, however well it works.

get in touch

If you are building something, let us think out loud.

I like talking to people who are making things — comparing notes, arguing about an approach, sharing what went wrong. No pitch and nothing to sell. If that sounds useful, write a few lines about what you are working on.

emailayushkumarrathore@gmail.com →

I write about the craft on LinkedIn → in/ayushkumarrathore  ·  and I co-founded itcheez.com →

how i work
  1. Listen, then write it down. If it is not written, it was not decided.
  2. Map the whole path. Which file owns what, and what breaks when you change one.
  3. Build the smallest real thing. Working end to end early, then hardened.
  4. Put AI to work, with guardrails. Explicit tools, allowlists and cost caps.
  5. Commit, document, hand over. A team that runs the next review without me.
about
Ayush Kumar Rathore

Full stack developer, nine years in. From WordPress sites for small businesses to React and Node.js platforms, cloud hosting and AI systems. Most of that work is under contract, so this page talks about the craft, not the clients.

I co-founded ITCHEEZ, where we give away what we know about hiring technical people. I still build every week, which is the only thing that keeps any of it honest.