# Aashir Javed

Senior software engineer in London building backend, infrastructure, crypto payment and AI-agent systems. Experienced with local LLM workflows, Ollama, LM Studio/LLM Studio, local models, context and memory management, evals, RAG and production hardening.

## Current Signal

- MoonPay: senior software engineer working across crypto payments, AI agents, agent skills and consumer product launches.
- Recent MoonPay proof: personal AI agent demo that automated daily tasks and executed a crypto transaction at the London AI x Crypto meetup.
- LLM operations: prototypes and evaluates workflows with local models, Ollama and LM Studio/LLM Studio before hardening them for production.
- Agent design: works on context-window design, memory/state management, tool orchestration and eval loops for agent behavior.
- Product-launch signal: contributed to Moonlog Volume 02 work across Buy/Sell, MoonPay Balance and 8.5x faster Polygon buys.
- Open-source signal: contributor to `moonpay/skills`, public AI-agent skills for on-ramps, swaps, wallets, deposits and payments.
- Side-product signal: Whatify, a public-data financial-class diagnosis tool with 300+ weekly unique users.
- Open-source project: `alchemy-infra`, an agent infrastructure skill for Alchemy, Cloudflare, AWS and strict secret hygiene.

## Experience

- MoonPay: crypto payments, AI agents, public agent skills, consumer launches.
- Motorway: core engineering lead, Motorway Pro trade proposition, decoupled AuthN/AuthZ, operational excellence. Outcomes: +15% platform volume, +7% conversion, -15% annual AWS cost.
- Deliveroo: customer-care automation with agents, fine-tuned GenAI models and highly available Go APIs. Outcomes: 2x CSAT, request handling reduced to 0.5x, 100+ engineers trained on incident response.
- Zalando: warehouse integration gateway for inbound distribution centers. Outcomes: 1000+ RPS gateway, 15% latency reduction.
- Nordcloud: cloud migration and managed services across AWS, Azure and GCP.
- CARE: Industry 4.0 cyber-physical systems, MQTT infrastructure, OTA firmware systems, P@SHA ICT Award.

## Stack

Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java, C++, Rust. AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, serverless, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, vector databases. LLM agents, Ollama, LM Studio/LLM Studio, local models, evals, context management, memory management, RAG, MLOps, automation, crypto payments, distributed systems, reliability and platform engineering.

## Pages

- Home: https://aashir.net/
- About: https://aashir.net/about
- Experience: https://aashir.net/experience
- Projects: https://aashir.net/projects
- Writing: https://aashir.net/writing
- Resume: https://aashir.net/resume
- Contact: https://aashir.net/contact

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/aashirjaved
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashirjaved
- Alchemy Infra: https://github.com/aashirjaved/alchemy-infra
- MoonPay Skills: https://github.com/moonpay/skills
- Whatify: https://whatify.ai/
- Writing: https://dev.to/aashirjaved
- Email: me@aashir.net