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Product Engineering

I ship complete products.

Backend, AI, automations, frontend, SEO — from first commit to paying customers. In weeks.

Previously: Technical Lead at Impossible Foods (7 years) · Brown University

10+

years engineering

3+

years AI-native

6

products live

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Ari Nakos
Ari Nakos

Built for teams in construction, education, privacy, and customer service

RapidSafeSystems - AISetian AIprivisay — PrivateLlanai - Your

Products I've shipped

Each one designed, built, and deployed as the sole engineer.

RapidSafeSystems - AI Construction Project Management Sydney
Construction Management

RapidSafeSystems - AI Construction Project Management Sydney

Your #1 AI powered construction project management assistant in Sydney. Generate SWMS forms, manage safety compliance, and streamline construction workflows.

rapidsafesystems.au

What I built:

  • •AI document processing pipeline for Safe Work Method Statements
  • •PDF generation engine from structured LLM output
  • •Multi-tenant authentication with organization-level permissions
  • •Deployed on AWS Fargate with automated CI/CD
Next.js
FastAPI
OpenAI
PostgreSQL
AWS Fargate
Docker
Customer Service

Setian AI

Make Digital Twins for your Business

setian.ai

What I built:

  • •AI-powered communication platform for schools
  • •Event-driven workflows with automated message routing
  • •Third-party integrations (CRM, email, notifications)
  • •User feedback loops with school administrators and parents
Next.js
Python
Redis
PostgreSQL
Vercel
Resend
Setian AI
privisay — Private Voice-to-Text for Mac
Privacy & Voice

privisay — Private Voice-to-Text for Mac

Local speech-to-text transcription for Mac. Press ⌘⇧Space, speak, and text appears. 100% private, no cloud, no subscription. $29.99 one-time.

privisay.com

What I built:

  • •Native macOS app for privacy-first voice interaction
  • •Local-only data processing — nothing leaves the device
  • •Built with Swift for native performance and system integration
Swift
macOS
Local-first
EdTech

Llanai - Your Language Learning Journal.

Your personal Japanese learning journal. Practice writing in Japanese with minimal AI guidance and track your progress over time.

llanai.com

What I built:

  • •AI-powered writing feedback with RAG retrieval pipeline
  • •Spaced repetition system for vocabulary retention
  • •Stripe payment integration with subscription management
  • •SEO-driven content strategy generating organic traffic
Next.js
OpenAI
PostgreSQL
pgvector
Vercel
Stripe
Llanai - Your Language Learning Journal.

Also built

EdTech

Learn Japanese Kanji with Stroke Order - Interactive Kanji Dictionary

EdTech

Kanjifun - Learn Japanese Kanji Through Pixel Art Gaming

Weeks, not months.

My process is built for speed without cutting corners.

1

Scope

Define the product, map the architecture, identify the MVP core. 2–3 days.

2

Build

Design, develop, and integrate. Backend, frontend, AI, automations — in parallel. 2–4 weeks.

3

Ship

Deploy to production, set up monitoring, launch. You get a live product, not a prototype.

Background

Impossible Foods

Software Engineer → Technical Lead · 7 years

Built full-stack production systems: Python backend services, data pipelines, computer vision, API integrations, and internal tools used daily by operations teams.

Open Source

POSE — evaluation framework for AI product quality. red-team-evals — LLM testing scripts.

Education

Brown University · B.Sc. Chemical Engineering

Tech

TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, n8n

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