Founding & Full-Stack Engineer | RAG Systems • MCP • Rust • Startup Infrastructure
📍 Zanzibar, Tanzania 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ateg-ali/ 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/ateeq1999/ 📧 ateeq.dev@email.com
I'm a Founding and Full-Stack Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade systems in startup and fast-moving environments.
I specialize in taking products from idea → MVP → production, with deep hands-on ownership across AI systems, backend architecture, frontend delivery, and developer tooling. Most of my work focuses on end-to-end RAG pipelines, AI agents, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) tooling — where AI is core infrastructure, not a surface feature. I'm also deepening my Rust expertise, building systems-level tools and an open-source Rust framework ecosystem.
AI-assisted engineering is core to how I work day to day — I build using Claude Code and OpenCode, working across both cloud LLMs and local models via Ollama.
I'm most effective in early-stage teams that value speed, ownership, and technical clarity.
- 🤖 End-to-End RAG Pipeline Systems (ingestion → embeddings → retrieval → generation)
- 🧠 Vector Embeddings & Semantic Search
- 🧩 MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers & AI Agents
- 🦀 Rust Systems Development (memory safety, ownership/borrowing, Tokio, Axum)
- 🛠️ AI Tooling & Developer Platforms
- ⚡ High-Performance Backends (Bun.js, Node.js)
- 🎨 Modern Frontends (React, TanStack Start, Tailwind)
- 🚀 Startup MVPs → Scalable Production Systems
- JavaScript, TypeScript
- Rust
- PHP, Python, Golang, Dart
- Node.js, Bun.js
- AdonisJS, ExpressJS, Laravel, ElysiaJS, NestJS
- Axum, Tokio (Rust)
- REST APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, Real-time & Background Processing
- React.js, Vue.js, Next.js
- TanStack Start, React Router
- Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
- RAG Pipeline Systems (end-to-end)
- Vector Database Architecture & Embeddings (Chroma, Qdrant, Pinecone, pgvector)
- LLM Integration (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini)
- MCP Servers & Clients
- AI Tooling & Agent Systems
- rig.rs (LLM-powered Rust applications)
- LangChain, EmbedJS, CrewAI
- Ollama (Local LLMs)
- Claude Code, OpenCode
- Vercel AI SDK
- AWS, GCP, Vercel, Netlify
- Docker, Linux, Git
- CI/CD & Automation
- Grafana, Prometheus (monitoring)
Rust framework ecosystem focused on a productive, batteries-included developer experience, including ORM, authentication, HTTP infrastructure, procedural macros, and CLI tooling. 🔗 rok-docs.vercel.app
Framework-agnostic code pattern registry and CLI for discovering, installing, and publishing reusable development patterns. Built with TanStack Start, deployed on Vercel. 🔗 tsx-docs-nine.vercel.app
- Owned engineering from product concept through implementation
- Designed end-to-end RAG pipelines for semantic discovery and personalization
- Built MCP-based AI tooling enabling agents to execute real platform actions
- Architected backend services (AdonisJS, MySQL, Redis, WebSockets)
- Built frontend experiences (Vue.js, Vuetify, Tailwind)
Public-facing website for a Zanzibar luxury travel and concierge business. 🔗 zanzivoyage.com — TanStack Start · React · TypeScript · Vercel
- Production-grade RAG architectures
- MCP-first AI tooling platforms
- Deeper Rust systems development
- Developer-facing AI infrastructure
- ✅ Founder-level ownership mindset
- ✅ Comfortable with async & distributed teams
- ✅ Experience shipping MVPs fast and scaling responsibly
I enjoy building AI systems that ship fast, scale cleanly, and create real-world impact.