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👋 Hi, I'm Julian Au

🚀 Senior Full Stack & Mobile Developer  ·  AI/LLM Integration  ·  System Architecture

     


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🎯 About Me

Senior Full Stack & Mobile Developer with 7+ years scaling production systems to 1M+ users. Expertise across backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, Expo/React Native mobile, and Next.js/NestJS web frontends with TypeScript and Prisma ORM.

Focused on AI-native product development — shipping OpenAI and Anthropic Claude integrations, production RAG pipelines, and LLM-powered features that cut inference costs by 40% and P95 latency by 55%. Daily AI-augmented development workflows with Claude (Sonnet/Opus, Claude Code), ChatGPT (GPT-4o/GPT-5), Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Proven impact across backend, mobile, web, and AI/LLM integration — improving delivery velocity by 18%, API throughput by 20%, and infrastructure costs by 15%.


💡 What Sets Me Apart

✦ Full-stack depth across web, mobile, backend, and AI — end-to-end ownership from PostgreSQL schema to LLM integration layers
✦ Production LLM development — OpenAI GPT-4o & Anthropic Claude, RAG pipelines, agent workflows, 40% cost reduction in production
✦ Mobile expertise — shipped Expo + React Native apps to App Store & Play Store with offline sync, push notifications, biometric auth
✦ Proven at scale — 1M+ user systems with distributed Redis (3x traffic), auto-scaling AWS, optimized PostgreSQL
✦ Hands-on at every layer — TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS within the same PR
✦ AI-augmented workflow — daily Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot with strong code review discipline
✦ Remote-native — 5+ years async across US, Canada, and European time zones

🧠 Core Competencies

🏗️ System Architecture & Design ⚙️ API Design & Backend Development ☁️ Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
📱 React Native & Expo Mobile Dev. 🍎 Cross-Platform iOS & Android Delivery 🚀 App Store & Play Store Deployment
🤖 LLM Integration & RAG Pipelines 🧪 Prompt Engineering & Agent Workflows 🗄️ Vector Databases & Embeddings
💬 Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor 🤝 GitHub Copilot & AI-Augmented Dev 🌐 Full Stack SaaS Development
🗄️ Database Design & Optimization 🔁 CI/CD, Docker & DevOps ⚡ Performance Tuning
🔍 Code Review & Quality 🔐 Security & Auth Implementation 🧪 Testing & Integration

🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend

Node.js NestJS Express Django Python GraphQL WebSockets TypeScript

AI / LLM

OpenAI Anthropic LangChain LlamaIndex pgvector Pinecone Weaviate

AI Dev Tools

Claude Code ChatGPT Cursor GitHub Copilot Windsurf

Mobile

Expo React Native iOS Android App Store Play Store

Frontend

React Next.js Vite TypeScript Redux Zustand Tailwind CSS Shadcn Three.js Framer Motion

Databases & Caching

PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Redis Prisma pgvector

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Docker Podman GitHub Actions Nginx Heroku


📈 Professional Experience

🏢 Full Stack Developer — AI Agent Platform · Mascotte.AI, Remote (Europe) · Nov 2024 – Present
  • Built end-to-end delivery of a B2C AI agent SaaS (Mascotte.AI v1) on Next.js 14, TypeScript, MySQL/AWS RDS — shipping 67 pages, 50+ API routes, real-time 3D avatars, voice chat, subscription billing, and a full admin panel across 12 languages
  • Designed and built the architectural migration to a decoupled B2B developer platform (v2) — splitting the Next.js monolith into a React 19 + Vite 7 frontend and a standalone Express.js + Prisma 6 API, unlocking enterprise embed, SDK, and white-label use cases
  • Built the real-time voice AI pipeline — LiveKit WebRTC + Deepgram STT + OpenAI GPT (via OpenRouter multi-model proxy) + ElevenLabs/Google Cloud TTS — delivering sub-second conversational avatars with per-avatar system prompts and RAG knowledge bases for context-aware responses
  • Integrated Arcware Pixel Streaming, Three.js/React Three Fiber with VRM avatars, Canvas 2D editor, head tracking with calibration, and Rhubarb WASM lip-sync — combining photorealistic and stylized avatars in a unified UX
  • Built the developer platform from scratch — encrypted API key management, webhook system, SDK session tracking, request logging, and embeddable widget with usage analytics — opening a new B2B revenue channel
  • Shipped Stripe + PayPal subscriptions with a credit-based usage system, multi-tier plans, coupon/ambassador programs, OAuth (Google/Apple/Facebook/Discord) via NextAuth v4, AWS S3 media storage, and Pusher/Socket.IO real-time events
  • Used Claude (Sonnet & Opus, Claude Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as daily development partners — accelerating boilerplate generation, agent-prompt iteration, integration testing, and TypeScript refactors while keeping a tight code review loop
🏢 Senior Full Stack & Mobile Developer · VulnCheck, USA (Remote) · Jan 2024 – Sep 2024
  • Built a fintech SaaS platform end-to-end (NestJS, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Next.js, AWS) — scaling to 1M+ active users, reducing system-wide latency by 35%, and improving API throughput by 20%
  • Shipped the core AI layer integrating OpenAI GPT-4o and Anthropic Claude APIs with streaming, function calling, and structured outputs — powering conversational financial copilots used daily by thousands of users
  • Built a production RAG pipeline (pgvector, hybrid semantic/keyword search, Redis caching) tuned for financial documents — cutting LLM inference costs by 40% and P95 answer latency by 55%
  • Built multi-step AI agent workflows with tool calling, retries, guardrails, and fallback strategies — deflecting 30% of support tickets without human involvement
  • Shipped a cross-platform Expo + React Native mobile app (iOS & Android) with offline-first sync, biometric auth, push notifications, and an embedded AI assistant — growing mobile to 40% of total platform traffic within 6 months
  • Built out AWS infrastructure (EC2 auto-scaling, ALB, CloudFront, S3, Bedrock fallback) and contributed to team development practices (PR reviews, CI gates, prompt/eval workflows) — reducing hosting costs by 15% and lifting team velocity by 18%
  • Adopted Cursor and Claude (via Claude Code) for prompt iteration, RAG pipeline debugging, and integration test scaffolding — speeding up the agent-workflow development loop and reducing time to ship new tool-calling features
🏢 Senior Full Stack Developer · MERCURY DASHA, Remote · Sep 2022 – Dec 2023
  • Contributed within a 3-developer cross-functional team to 100% on-time sprint delivery with Jest + React Testing Library coverage gates above 85%
  • Integrated OpenAI GPT-4 and text-embedding-ada-002 into search, recommendation, and content generation flows — lifting content discovery engagement by 25% and unlocking a premium AI tier that drove 18% revenue lift
  • Built and shipped an Expo + React Native mobile app serving 1M+ users — becoming a core channel contributing 35% of total revenue
  • Built distributed Redis caching across expensive API endpoints, LLM responses, and PostgreSQL queries — absorbing 3x traffic growth with no additional infrastructure spend
  • Built the core NestJS + TypeScript + MongoDB API layer and multi-environment AWS + Heroku infrastructure with blue-green deploys — reducing deploy failures by 90% and eliminating environment drift incidents
🏢 Full Stack & Mobile Developer · PXN Phantom Network, Remote · Mar 2019 – Jul 2022
  • Delivered 30+ production features on a high-traffic global platform (Next.js, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS) with full Jest + React Testing Library coverage and zero post-release regressions
  • Prototyped and shipped the company's first LLM-powered features using early OpenAI APIs (text-davinci, GPT-3.5) — content summarization, semantic tagging, and a support Q&A assistant that cut response time by 45%
  • Designed and launched an Expo + React Native app for iOS and Android end-to-end — reaching 250k+ downloads and opening a new mobile-first user segment
  • Contributed to a full-stack migration from a legacy PHP monolith to Next.js + TypeScript + Django REST + Prisma — improving maintainability by 40%, halving onboarding time, and enabling independent frontend/backend deployments
  • Built SSR/SSG strategies in Next.js 14 that reduced TTFB by 60% and lifted conversion and revenue by 10%; built a Three.js/WebGL 3D marketing experience reaching 2M+ visitors across 12 markets
🏢 Freelance Full Stack Developer · Independent, Remote · Jun 2017 – Feb 2019
  • Delivered 10+ web and mobile projects for small businesses, startups, and agency clients across e-commerce, SaaS dashboards, and marketing sites — owning scoping, estimation, build, and handoff end-to-end
  • Built full-stack Node.js + Express + MongoDB and Django + PostgreSQL applications with React frontends — including payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal), email automation, and admin dashboards
  • Designed REST APIs and React component libraries that clients reused across product lines — cutting their internal build time on follow-on projects by an estimated 30–40%
  • Managed direct client relationships, weekly progress reporting, and structured handoff documentation — building the remote-collaboration habits that carried into every later role
🏢 Junior Web Developer · Local Web Studio, On-site · Feb 2015 – May 2017
  • Started as a junior developer building responsive marketing sites and small web apps on PHP, WordPress, jQuery, and early Node.js — shipping 20+ client projects under senior code review
  • Picked up JavaScript ES6, React, and Git workflows on the job — learning to work within feature branches, code reviews, and CI gates from day one
  • Contributed to backend modules in Node.js + MongoDB for an internal CMS — building the database, API design, and authentication fundamentals that the rest of my career has built on
  • Wrote unit tests, fixed production bugs, and learned how to ship to real users — the foundation for the senior delivery discipline I bring today

🏆 Impact at a Glance

👥 1M+ Users Served 🤖 40% LLM Cost Reduction 📱 Mobile Apps Shipped
☁️ 15% Infrastructure Cost Reduction ⚡ 55% P95 Latency Improvement 📦 30+ Production Features
🎯 18% Delivery Velocity Improvement 🔗 30% Support Ticket Deflection 📈 250k+ Mobile Downloads

🎓 Education

🎓 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science — Singapore Institute of Technology


🤝 Open to remote opportunities worldwide

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⚡ Built systems at scale · 🤖 AI/LLM production developer · 📱 Shipped to App Store & Play Store · 🌍 Remote-native developer

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