# Carson Rodrigues — Full Profile (LLM-readable)

> Engineering Leader & Technical Co-Founder shipping production AI: real-time voice agents (LiveKit, Pipecat, Deepgram, ElevenLabs), LLM pipelines (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini), MCP servers, and event-driven backends. Active Claude Code production user. Author of six peer-reviewed papers on the same systems shipped in production.

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## Case studies

Six long-form, 1500-word deep dives — each one walking through Problem → Constraints → Architecture → What I built → Trade-offs → Outcome. The architecture and trade-off sections are the part that actually generalises.

- **Phiny.ai** — AI career-prep platform with real-time voice mock interviews. https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/phiny
  - Smart Recruiter unified backend (NestJS, 516 TS files / ~101k LoC) + FastAPI WebRTC microservice (~17k LoC).
  - Pipecat + LiveKit + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram. Voice E2E p50 under 1.2s after a five-step optimisation pass.
  - Two-process system bound by typed events; LLM router with prompt caching; Resume + RAG pipeline.
- **Northway Tech** — AI voice caddie ft. Andy North (2× US Open champion). https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/northway
  - Real-time voice over LiveKit + WebRTC, geospatial intelligence over 40,000+ courses (MongoDB geospatial indexes).
  - Player-history loop: every shot transcribed via Deepgram, structured by Claude, fed back into next-shot context.
  - ElevenLabs voice cloning of Andy North + Claude system-prompt steering for golf jargon and on-course etiquette.
- **Brilliance** — 10-app academic operations monorepo for JEE/NEET/CLAT/IPMAT prep. https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/brilliance
  - Hono backend with 18 route modules, Drizzle ORM over PostgreSQL (25+ tables), Redis cache + queue.
  - 4,159+ TS/JSX files in a Turborepo-style monorepo. Shared @brilliance/core, @brilliance/ui, @brilliance/api-client packages enforce one type system across all surfaces.
  - Claude API for AI question generation with a faculty review queue — never auto-promoted.
  - Live admin console: https://dev.23yards.com.
- **CELABE** — AI-powered wedding & events platform. https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/celabe
  - Co-founded. React Native (Expo) for iOS + Android, Next.js 15 for web. NestJS backend, MongoDB primary store.
  - ML-powered planning (vendor matching, timeline generation, budget sanity); AI-as-suggestion pattern (never auto-acts).
  - Viral QR photo-sharing pipeline (S3 + Lambda + MediaConvert + CloudFront).
  - Live on App Store (id6760023313) + Play Store (com.eventa.app) + celabe.com.
- **SmokeMukti** — ICMR-funded tobacco cessation app. https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/smokemukti
  - React Native + Expo + Redux Toolkit. Server-side AI chat (Supabase Edge Functions + Gemini) — no client-embedded keys after Apple App Review remediation.
  - Care-pathway state model (user, goal, logs, achievements) with local-first AsyncStorage and server reconciliation.
  - ICMR Short-Term Studentship grant; awarded 1st & 3rd place at AIDEC.
- **Oravira** — oral health × HIV care-pathway app. https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/oravira
  - Same SmokeMukti boilerplate, retargeted to oral-health × HIV. Logs, goals, achievements re-shaped for adherence work.
  - Local-first privacy-critical data model. Server-mediated AI chat from day one (Apple App Review compliant on first submission).
  - Generalisation proof: same care-pathway architecture works across two clinical domains.

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## Identity

- **Name:** Carson Rodrigues
- **Headline:** Engineering Leader & Technical Co-Founder · Voice AI · LLMOps · MCP · Distributed Systems
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India · remote-first · IST
- **Email:** rodriguescarson@gmail.com
- **Website:** https://carsonrodrigues.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/rodriguescarson
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/rodriguescarson
- **X (Twitter):** https://x.com/carsonmarz
- **Calendly:** https://calendly.com/rodriguescarson/new-meeting
- **Topmate:** https://topmate.io/rodriguescarson
- **Workshop site:** https://workshop.carsonrodrigues.com

## Status

Available for senior AI engineering, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), and staff engineering roles. Open to remote and contract engagements. Multi-quarter projects preferred.

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## Summary

Engineering leader and technical co-founder shipping production AI:

- **Real-time voice agents** built on LiveKit + Pipecat + Deepgram + ElevenLabs + Anthropic Claude.
- **LLM pipelines** with multi-model routing (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini) via OpenRouter and the AI SDK.
- **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** servers in production at Ôdasie, with a peer-reviewed paper on architecture patterns.
- **Event-driven backends** (NestJS, FastAPI, Hono) on AWS serving real-time interactions across 40,000+ locations.
- **Mobile apps** live on App Store and Play Store (CELABE, SmokeMukti, Oravira) — React Native / Expo.
- **Six peer-reviewed papers** on the same systems shipped in production: voice AI latency (−41.8%), ASR intent detection (41.7% → 91.7%), MCP architecture, LLM optimization (+5.6 pp), trust in LLMs, multi-agent drift.

Active **Claude Code** production user and ecosystem contributor. **n8n** automator. Speaker (BITS Law, Mumbai AI for Marketing Masterclass). Best Outgoing Student at Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa (CGPA 9.28). National-level Taekwondo black belt.

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## Experience

### Co-Founder & Technical Lead — CELABE
**Jan 2026 – Present · Bengaluru, India**
- celabe.com · App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/celabe-vendors-timeline/id6760023313 · Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eventa.app
- Co-founded and architected an AI-powered wedding / events platform.
- Led full lifecycle from concept to production launch: iOS, Android, web, vendor ecosystem.
- ML-powered planning workflows, viral QR photo-sharing, real-time vendor coordination.
- Established engineering culture, CI/CD automation, and the technical roadmap.

### Senior Full Stack Engineer & Team Lead — Ôdasie (Water of Asia)
**Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 · Remote · Thailand on-site twice (~1 month total)**
- Led a team of 6 engineers through architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
- Architected and shipped 5+ production AI systems: LLM pipelines (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini), real-time voice AI agents, MCP servers, geospatial processors.
- Built real-time AI avatar experiences using LiveKit + WebRTC (bi-directional voice + video + data channels).
- Heavy n8n automation work — orchestration of LLM agents, API integrations, and approval workflows.
- Adopted Claude Code in production engineering workflow, integrating agentic dev loops into the team's daily build/test/ship cadence.
- Cut release cycles from weeks to hours through AWS infrastructure automation (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, Bedrock) plus Netlify, Coolify, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Vector search (Algolia), model fine-tuning, Python-based microservices, custom AI pipelines.
- On-site technical bridge across multiple agencies in Thailand for licensing setups, API integrations, and partner coordination.

### Senior Software Developer — VoiceQube Inc.
**Sep 2023 – Apr 2026 · Remote (United States)**

Shipped four production AI products end-to-end across a 2.3-year tenure:

**Phiny.ai — AI Career Prep Platform** (https://phiny.ai)
Built the Smart Recruiter unified backend — NestJS, 516 TypeScript files (~101k LoC): AI Resume tailoring per JD, real-time AI voice mock interviews (FastAPI + Pipecat + LiveKit + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram, ~17k LoC of Python in a separate WebRTC microservice), job matching, application tracker, interview prep, upskilling paths, university partnerships. Stack: Anthropic SDK, OpenRouter, AI SDK, Mongoose, BullMQ queues, Apify scraping, Tesseract OCR, pdf-parse + mammoth (resume parsing), Playwright, Razorpay/Stripe/Apple Pay, AWS S3/SES/SQS, Sentry, PostHog.

**Crosslane — Career Counselling Platform**
Built the CL unified backend — NestJS, 476 TypeScript files (~107k LoC) across 13+ feature modules (llm, payment, resume, counselor, code-compiler, forum, phiny-jobs, feedback, user, admin, auth). Production monitoring stack: Prometheus + Grafana + Sentry. Cross-product integrations with Phiny.

**Northway Tech — AI Voice Caddie** (https://www.northway-tech.com/)
Voice-enabled AI golf app featuring 2× US Open champion Andy North. Hands-free course navigation, contextual AI shot recommendations (course / weather / player history), AI-powered shot recording with analytics. Real-time voice via LiveKit + WebRTC stack.

**Brilliance — Academic Operations Platform** (https://dev.23yards.com)
End-to-end 10-app monorepo for Indian junior colleges preparing students for JEE / NEET / CLAT / IPMAT: Super Admin, Branch Admin, Dashboard, Faculty, Student PWA, Parent PWA, plus React Native (Expo SDK 55) mobile apps for student and parent. 4,159+ TypeScript/JSX files, Hono backend (18 route modules), Drizzle ORM (25+ tables), PostgreSQL + Redis (AWS Mumbai), Claude API for AI question generation, MSG91 SMS/WhatsApp, FCM push, full RBAC + JWT + OTP, Sentry monitoring. Stack: Next.js 15, React 19, Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion, KaTeX. Event-driven Claude Code agent orchestration in development workflow.

**Cross-cutting (across all products at VoiceQube)**
- Architected and scaled distributed backend serving real-time interactions across 40,000+ locations with event-driven workflows and high availability.
- Live talking AI avatars and voice agents (LiveKit, Pipecat, ElevenLabs TTS, Deepgram ASR, Anthropic for intent detection).
- Media pipelines: AWS Lambda + MediaConvert for image/video compression, CloudFront CDN for low-latency edge delivery.
- Real-time GPS tracking via MongoDB geospatial indexing; Redis caching for high-traffic surfaces.
- OAuth (Google, Facebook, Apple), Route 53 + Nginx SSL, GitHub Actions CI/CD, third-party integrations (Stripe, Calendly, Brevo, Twilio).

### Application Developer — Siemens Ltd.
**Oct 2023 – Oct 2024 · Goa, India**
- Engineered enterprise IoT desktop applications: 20k+ LoC, 1,000+ Jest tests.
- Architected real-time MQTT communication systems and concurrent schedulers achieving ~3× performance improvement.
- Stack: Angular, Electron, RxJS, NestJS, RxDB, Python, MQTT pub/sub.

### Co-Founder — V3NEX (Non-Profit)
**Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · Goa, India** (https://v3nex.vercel.app)
- Spearheaded a non-profit initiative introducing children to Generative AI.
- Designed workshops on text/image generation with local AI models, mentored students through deployed projects.

### Earlier roles
- **Software Engineer (Freelance) — StackWalls** (Sep 2023 – Feb 2024): NestJS on Google Cloud Run, Twilio/Firebase, art-purchase trading platform with 150+ API endpoints.
- **App Developer — Timepass** (Apr – Jun 2023): React Native multi-media social app with offline gaming.
- **Software Engineer Intern — Pai Kane Power Group** (2022): React Native e-commerce + Firebase admin.
- **Software Engineer (Freelance) — Royal Finance, Slovakia** (Jun – Jul 2022): React frontend revamp + admin panel for fintech startup.
- **Software Engineer — Kusol Labs, New Zealand** (Oct – Dec 2021): React/Django/MongoDB.

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## Health-tech apps (live on stores)

### SmokeMukti
- ICMR-funded tobacco cessation app.
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smokemukti/id6760089561
- Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rodriguescarson.react_native_boilerplate.dev
- Personalized AI chat coach with server-side key handling (Apple-compliant).
- Awards: 1st & 3rd at AIDEC, ICMR Short-Term Studentship.

### Oravira
- Oral health × HIV care-pathway app.
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oravira/id6764292468
- Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rodriguescarson.oravira
- Same care-pathway pattern as SmokeMukti, applied to a new clinical domain.

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## Research & Publications

Six peer-reviewed papers on production AI systems:

### MCP Server Architecture Patterns (Rodrigues, 2026)
Target venue: ACM / IEEE Software. Design patterns for production Model Context Protocol servers — Gamma-format taxonomy (context, problem, solution, code, consequences, known uses), anti-patterns, cross-cutting concerns. 100% classification accuracy at ≤10 tools per server; small models (Haiku) drop below 90% beyond ~15 tools, motivating the Proxy Aggregator pattern. Transport p50/p95/p99 latencies measured.

### Latency Optimization in Production Voice AI Pipelines (Rodrigues, 2026)
Target venue: ICASSP / IEEE Access. Systems-level latency study of ANSYR, a production voice AI platform integrating ElevenLabs TTS, Anthropic Claude for intent detection, and a custom NestJS middleware over WebSocket transport. Six stage-boundary instrumentation across 30 benchmark sessions. Five optimizations evaluated:
1. Streaming-first TTS chunking
2. Concurrent intent detection and synthesis (the highest-leverage win)
3. Prompt compression for LLM calls
4. Session-state caching
5. Adaptive VAD endpointing
**Result: −41.8% E2E latency.**

### ASR Intent Detection at Scale
Target venue: EMNLP / IEEE NLP. Using LLMs as a post-ASR intent classifier on noisy production transcripts. Prompt + structured-output classifier tested across ~120 prompt variants. Lifted intent accuracy without retraining the base ASR.
**Result: 41.7% → 91.7% accuracy.**

### LLM Optimization for TensorFlow
Target venue: NeurIPS / IEEE TNNLS. Evaluation framework and fine-tuning recipe lifting benchmark task performance.
**Result: +5.6 percentage points on benchmark tasks.**

### Trust in LLMs
Empirical study of trust calibration with large language models — user perspectives on reliability, transparency, and accountability.

### Multi-Agent Drift
Measuring and mitigating divergence in multi-agent systems. Framework for detecting drift across coordinated LLM agents.

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## Open Source

### everything-claude-code (merged PR)
- Repository: https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code
- 82,000+ stars · 10,000+ forks · 90+ contributors.
- Started as zenith.chat, built with Claude Code in ~8 hours, won 1st place at the Anthropic × Forum Ventures hackathon (NYC, 2025) — earning $15,000 in API credits. Has since evolved into a full AI agent ecosystem with multi-agent workflows, memory systems, evaluation loops, and orchestration.

### Qubekit Voice AI Server
Open-source LiveKit + Pipecat + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram FastAPI reference implementation with SSE streams, JWT, runtime data exchange, React test client. The voice stack you can clone and ship.

### CP Studio AI
All-in-one competitive programming workspace for VS Code & Cursor. Pull problems from Codeforces / LeetCode / GeeksforGeeks, instant testing, AI-powered code analysis with BYOK, contest dashboard.

### RealStream ChatDoc
Real-time document intelligence platform — Kafka-based ingestion, AWS Glue + Athena ETL, vector-based document chat over Pinecone + Algolia + OpenAI.

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## Speaking

### AI for Marketing Masterclass — BITS Law, Mumbai (2025)
3-hour technical workshop: creative AI tooling, content + distribution automation, zero-code CRM pipelines, hands-on with LLM and image-gen tools.
All workshop materials at https://workshop.carsonrodrigues.com.

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## Recognition

- **Certificate of Reviewing** — European Journal of Computer Sciences and Informatics (2026). Reviewed a manuscript as part of the peer review process.
- **Best Outgoing Student Award** — Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa. B.E. (Hons) Computer Engineering, CGPA 9.28.
- **Chairman, C-Codes** — Students' Council of Computer Engineering, DBCE. Organised INSPIRUS 2K21, two-day national tech event with 300+ participants.
- **Smart India Hackathon** — Grand Finalist (Coco).
- **Techgium by L&T** — Grand Finalist (ParkMe).
- **AIDEC** — 1st place + 3rd place (with SmokeMukti).
- **University Games** — Gold medalist, Taekwondo (state level).
- **National-level Taekwondo black belt.**

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## Skills

### Leadership
Team building, engineering management, technical mentorship, hiring, cross-functional leadership, product strategy.

### Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++.

### Voice AI
LiveKit · Pipecat · Deepgram (ASR) · ElevenLabs (TTS) · WebRTC · WebSockets · SSE · real-time avatar.

### AI / LLMs
GPT-4, Claude (Anthropic SDK), Gemini, OpenRouter, AI SDK, RAG, vector search (Algolia), fine-tuning, MCP servers, agentic pipelines.

### AI Dev Tools
Claude Code (production user + OSS contributor), MCP configs, AG-UI, n8n, Lovable.

### Backend
Node.js, NestJS, Hono, Express, FastAPI, microservices, event-driven architecture, BullMQ.

### Frontend
React, Next.js 15, React Native (Expo), Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion.

### Databases
PostgreSQL (Drizzle), MongoDB (Mongoose, geospatial), Redis (cache + queue), vector databases, RxDB.

### Cloud / DevOps
AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, Bedrock, MediaConvert, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, SES) · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Google Cloud Run · Netlify · Coolify.

### Observability
Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, PostHog.

### Systems
Distributed systems, MQTT pub/sub, message queues, streaming pipelines, geospatial indexing, OAuth (Google / Facebook / Apple), JWT + OTP + RBAC.

### Payments / SaaS
Stripe, Razorpay, Apple Pay, Twilio, Calendly, Brevo, Tesseract OCR, pdf-parse, Apify, Playwright.

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## Education

**B.E. (Honours), Computer Engineering** — Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa.
**CGPA: 9.28 · Best Outgoing Student Award.**

### Certifications
- The Joy of Computing Using Python — IIT Madras.
- Machine Learning for Trading Specialization — Google Cloud × NYIF.
- Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP — Google Cloud × NYIF.
- Entrepreneurship Essentials.

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## Frequently asked

### What is Carson Rodrigues currently focused on?
Voice AI in production. Specifically: latency optimization across the ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline, MCP server design at scale, and shipping mobile-first AI products that customers download. Also writing peer-reviewed research on the same systems.

### What can Carson Rodrigues help with?
- Building production voice AI agents end-to-end (LiveKit + Pipecat + ASR + LLM + TTS).
- LLM pipelines, RAG systems, agentic loops, and multi-model routing.
- MCP server design and deployment.
- Engineering leadership for small AI-focused teams (5–10 engineers).
- Technical co-founding and 0-to-1 product builds.

### Is Carson Rodrigues open to work?
Yes — senior AI / FDE / staff engineering roles. Remote-first, contract-friendly, IST-friendly. Best contact: https://calendly.com/rodriguescarson/new-meeting or https://topmate.io/rodriguescarson.

### What's notable about Carson Rodrigues?
- Six peer-reviewed papers on the AI systems shipped in production.
- Five production AI systems shipped end-to-end at VoiceQube.
- Co-founded CELABE; led 6 engineers at Ôdasie.
- Active Claude Code production user and ecosystem contributor (PR merged into everything-claude-code, 82k+ stars).
- Three apps live on App Store + Google Play.
- BITS Law, Mumbai speaker.
- Best Outgoing Student, Don Bosco College of Engineering (CGPA 9.28).