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Himanshu Lade

@himanshulade

Executive AI Software Engineer building local-first, traceable systems—shipping full-stack products solo under tight deadlines.

Australia

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking a challenging engineering environment where I can keep building at this pace—shipping solo, owning end-to-end delivery (backend to AI integration), and keeping my local-first, traceable engineering approach.

I build local-first on hardware I own, with logic I can trace—exactly the kind of engineering where I can keep shipping under tight deadlines. As CTO, I lead a solo-builder venture developing local-first AI systems, including Project Aegis (algorithmic trading engine) and Hermes, an agentic development orchestration layer.

I’ve architected and shipped full-stack products end-to-end—backend, infra, and AI integration—while also building and deploying LLM-powered pipelines like a FastAPI + Ollama + Pydantic skills matching system. From ransomware recovery (100% data restored) to performance and security improvements on MERN apps, I’m the engineer who checks raw command output before believing the summary and delivers reliability you can measure.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

CTO, Founder

Current

Lade LLC

Jun 2026 - Present (1 month)

Solo-builder venture developing local-first AI systems, including Project Aegis (algorithmic trading engine) and Hermes (agentic development orchestration layer). Architecting and shipping full-stack products end-to-end across backend, infra, and AI integration.

Local AI Agent orchestration Algorithmic Trading Full Stack Backend Engineering Infrastructure Engineering AI Integration

AI in Residence

Western Sydney Tech Innovators

Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 (1 month)

Built an LLM-powered skills matching pipeline for semantic developer-to-project matching. Shipped features across the WSTI Studio platform, including CRUD tooling, a real-time WebSocket feed, and an admin dashboard, and advised junior engineers on AI/engineering collaboration.

fastAPI Ollama Pydantic Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL WebSockets

Software Engineer

Ask Jay Services

May 2025 - Oct 2025 (5 months)

Delivered solo ransomware recovery with 100% data restored (0% loss) and improved load time from 25s to 3s within 30 hours. Built a shift booking automation bot and a three-sided Flutter marketplace, and established CI/CD and production deployment practices.

Ransomware Performance Optimization Flutter Automation CI CD