Portfolio

Dhanush SantoshFull-Stack AI Developer

Remote • Worldwide

Dhanush Santosh ships AI copilots end-to-end. 

Across fintech, creative tooling, and B2B SaaS I lead squads shipping AI copilots, realtime dashboards, and automation platforms. I balance research velocity with production rigor—wrapping model orchestration, evals, and design systems into experiences that scale beyond demos.

Expertise

AI-native systems with cinematic craft.

I architect AI-native product systems where resilient infra, delightful UX, and reliable models operate as a single surface.

Full Stack

Next.js
React
TypeScript
TailwindCSS
Node.js
Docker
Supabase

AI Native

GPT-5
Claude 3.5
Llama 3
Gemini Pro
Gemini Pro
Cursor
Cursor
Hugging Face

18

AI-native launches shipped

12K+

Automation hours saved yearly

<450ms

Avg. inference latency

Experience

Leadership across AI product squads and creative studios.

2022 — Present

Lead AI Product Engineer · Nebula Studio

Leading full-stack squads delivering AI-first marketing platforms and internal copilots for global brand launches.

  • Architected Nebula OS, a multi-tenant Next.js + Edge runtime powering generative landing pages for six premium campaigns.

  • Built an inference orchestration layer with OpenAI + Anthropic failovers and pgvector retrieval, improving factual accuracy by 38%.

  • Established automated evals, tracing, and feature flags that cut regressions to near-zero post release.

2019 — 2022

Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Volt Finance

Owned mission-critical trading surfaces and rolled out AI-driven risk analysis for quant teams.

  • Migrated the dashboard from CRA to Next.js/Node microservices, slicing load time by 63% while introducing streaming data widgets.

  • Launched Volt Sense, an AI assistant watching risk policies and alerting PMs in Slack via retrieval + function calling.

  • Partnered with research to codify a shared component library and testing harness adopted by four teams.

2016 — 2019

Product Engineer · Independent / Labs

Shipped automation-heavy prototypes, data viz, and AI experiments for agencies, creators, and seed-stage founders.

  • Delivered 25+ bespoke builds spanning creative marketing sites, realtime dashboards, and voice interfaces.

  • Experimented with reinforcement-learning powered personalization, multi-agent storytelling, and WebGL interactions.

  • Served as embedded partner from research sprints through deployment, observability, and iteration.

Projects

AI-native builds & research.

A few launches that blend retrieval, automation, and cinematic UX with measurable outcomes.

Open Source

Intellex

Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPythonTailwind CSSZustand

An AI-powered research assistant with multi-agent orchestration, structured planning, and workspace-based research management. Features guided research workflows, real-time chat interfaces, and provenance tracking.

Open Source

DeskCrafter

PythonPyQt5Linux

A beautiful, user-friendly Linux app for creating, managing, and launching custom desktop entries.

Open Source

WinePrefix-Automation

ShellBashWineLutris

Wine Prefix Automation simplifies the process of creating and managing Wine prefixes through an intuitive graphical interface.

Contact

Ready to ship your AI-native product?

I partner with founders, research leads, and ops teams to design copilots, automation workflows, and intelligent UX from discovery through launch.

Closure

Coding is like writing poetry for computers – carefully crafting lines to bring functionality to life.

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