# Reshadat Ali

> Director of AI Strategy and Engineering at ArmorCode. Sixteen years of backend and platform engineering. I make the machine that makes the product: production AI platforms and AI-native engineering orgs.

Location: Gurgaon, India (GMT+5:30). Contact: reshadat@reshadat.com. Site: https://reshadat.com. GitHub: https://github.com/reshadat. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/reshadat.

## The work

- AI in production: AI systems running inside an enterprise security platform, against billions of security findings a month. Self-hosted Graph RAG stack (LightRAG, pgvector, Neo4j), MCP integrations for AI assistants, LLM pipelines with real users and real SLAs.
- AI-native engineering org: spec-driven development with AI at the spec stage. 80% of PRs AI-assisted, 98% of stories with AI involvement, 60% of bugs resolved with AI. Onboarding time down 40% year over year.
- Infrastructure: multi-tenant SaaS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS. Single-tenant, data-resident deployments for regulated customers, operated under SOC2 Type II, FedRAMP, and GDPR. 50B+ findings a month across 320+ integrations, 99.9%+ uptime.

## How I lead

- Knowledge should outlive the person who wrote it.
- The spec is the work.
- Quality is a habit you build into a team. At Sophos: twelve months without a production incident.
- Grow people until they replace you.

## Open source

- [officeOs](https://github.com/reshadat/officeOs): persistent AI agent teams on your own infrastructure, run from Slack.
- [brainstim](https://github.com/reshadat/brainstim): predicts brain activation from video, audio, or text using Meta's TRIBEv2 fMRI models.
- [first-principles-destructor](https://github.com/reshadat/first-principles-destructor): agent skill that rebuilds problems from first principles. Works across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor.
- [self-learning-claude](https://github.com/reshadat/self-learning-claude): framework for self-improving LLM systems with evolving context playbooks.
- [claude-ai-council](https://github.com/reshadat/claude-ai-council): multi-agent consensus for Claude Code.
- [ClaudeUsageBar](https://github.com/reshadat/ClaudeUsageBar): macOS menu bar app showing Claude Code usage.

## Employment

- 2023-present: ArmorCode, Director of AI Strategy and Engineering. Engineering org across backend, DevOps, QA, AI platform, and documentation in India and the US.
- 2019-2023: Sophos, Engineering Manager, Platform Excellence and Quality Engineering.
- 2014-2019: MakeMyTrip, Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering. Built the AWS stack from scratch (Kafka, MongoDB, Solr).
- 2010-2014: Tata Consultancy Services, IT Analyst.