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Ali Gajani

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer

+44 7540 316037 aligajani@gmail.com aligajani.com London, United Kingdom Full British Citizen

Summary

Hi, I am Ali, a high agency, senior full stack AI engineer with keen focus on product design and artificial intelligence. With a decade of experience in various capacities, ranging from engineering to leadership roles, I have helped build technologies for startups in various sectors. This includes a regulated fintech platform, a large scale edtech application, a customer support AI agent, a salon management software, a civic tech platform and more. My recent interest in Generative AI has led me to build multiple AI apps, for work and fun.

Experience

State · Senior Full Stack AI Engineer

Sep 2025 - Present

London, United Kingdom

My most exciting and impactful work to date. I built the latest version of State from the ground up in a couple of months — a civic tech platform rebuilding democracy's infrastructure. The platform is used by UK government representatives, including Members of Parliament, councillors, and candidates, as well as citizens. My role spans architecture, engineering, design, infrastructure, and research. Key products include Oracle, a multi-layer AI agent system that acts as a town hall moderator, and educational pages — all powered by agentic AI development.

Skills: Next.js, Laravel, Multi-agent Systems, RAG, PostgreSQL, GIS, Claude, GPT, Langfuse, Redis

Impact: Ensuring citizens' voice gets to people in power and holding representatives accountable

Genie X · Full Stack AI Engineer

Sep 2022 - Sep 2025

London, United Kingdom

I architected and engineered the Genie X platform, in particular, Bot Genie, a Customer Support AI Agent, to automate support in a range of industries, including the beauty space. Used by dozens of companies, the software uses a custom RAG pipeline & web scraping, with an open source vector database, bespoke semantic caching, agentic AI patterns and LLM fallbacks.

Skills: Typescript, Next, React, TailwindCSS, Laravel & Tools, Vercel, AWS, Python, LangChain, OpenAI

Impact: Helping SMEs automate their customer support by 70%

Digital Salon · [ Contract ] Consultant Full Stack Software Engineer

Apr 2020 - Dec 2022

London, United Kingdom

I designed and engineered the Request Booking system for salons. The innovative software was delivered in record time and has so far processed tens of thousands of bookings worth over millions of euros in value. Despite its sophisticated nature, the software runs on SaaS autopilot.

Skills: Vue.js, Laravel, Stripe (Software), Figma (Software), Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Impact: 100,000+ bookings per year, dozens of salons

Shadow Foundr · Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

May 2019 - Sep 2022

London, United Kingdom

I was a senior full stack software engineer and later hands-on CTO (chief technical officer) of Shadow Foundr. I rebuilt, from the ground up, the firm's technology stack. This includes design, engineering, management and overall leadership of driving the future of one of UK's top FCA-regulated investment platforms.

Skills: Vue.js, Goji, FinTech, Greenfield Projects, Laravel, Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Impact: Millions of pounds AUM, platform featured on BBC

Fitness Data Science · Full Stack Web Developer

Feb 2018 - May 2019

London, United Kingdom

I was a full stack web developer at Fitterclub, where I designed and engineered Fitterclub's cross browser web application using Vue.js with a Laravel backend, integrated Stripe and Salesforce and set up infrastructure on AWS.

Skills: Vue.js, Laravel, Stripe (Software), Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Impact: Thousands of subscribers during operation

Upskillist · Junior Software Engineer

Dec 2014 - Feb 2018

London, United Kingdom

I was a junior software engineer for Upskillist. My primary roles included building, managing and monitoring payment systems across Stripe, Amazon Payments, and Braintree, processing well over 8 figures each year. I also played a key role in building a chatbot that handled 40,000 learners at once.

Skills: Laravel, Stripe (Software), AngularJS, Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Impact: Delivering education to millions per year

Mr. Geek (Blog) · Founder

Feb 2011 - Oct 2014

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I founded Mr. Geek in my dorm while in the second year of university. I spent no more than 1,000 hours across a few years, generating $40,000 of revenue from ads, sponsorships, writing and reviewing gadgets. My first ever professional experience of any kind was an enterprising one.

Skills: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Trend Research, Blogging, Writing, WordPress

Impact: 250,000 unique readers in its history

Upwork · Top Freelancer

Aug 2011 - Feb 2014

Global

I was a freelancer on Upwork while studying full time at university. This included building tiny web apps for clients and writing content for blogs. During 800 hours of part-time work, I was at one point a Top 5% earner in the ecosystem.

Skills: Writing, WordPress

Impact: Helping numerous clients go digital

Education

University College London (UCL)

2013 - 2014

MSc Web Science & Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Awarded Distinction

The University of Sheffield

2009 - 2012

BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business

Awarded First Class

The International School, Karachi

1998 - 2009

IB Diploma with Majors in Engineering

Awarded IB Diploma

Skills

Next.jsReactTailwindCSSVercelLaravelAWSPythonAI AgentsMulti-agent SystemsRAGLangChainOpenAIClaudeLangfusePostgreSQLRedisMySQLGISVue.jsStripeFigmaFinTechSalesforce

Selected Projects

Wickwalk — Make Your City a Walking Game

An iOS app that turns everyday walks into playful missions with generated routes and London blue plaques.

Trivia Game — AI Powered Quizzes

An AI powered version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but better, personalised and infinite.

Sayvio — Personal Knowledge Base

An AI powered personal knowledge base to keep your multimedia content curated in one place.

Complex Networks and Web

Analysis of relationships between 13,000 historical figures available in the Wikipedia dataset.

Volunteering & Certification

Stack Overflow — Contributor

Active member of the Stack Overflow community, helping developers solve problems across web, AI, and software engineering.

Impact: Benefited an estimated 4.5 million students and developers

Certified Fintech Professional

Financial Conduct Authority — Reference number AXG00470