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15+ Years in Software Engineering  ·  Ex‑Amazon  ·  Ex‑Microsoft

AI systems,
deployed where they actually have to run.

Built end-to-end - on your infrastructure, with your messy data. Three systems currently in production.

LLM quote engine Zero-data-entry follow-up reports Analytics retrofitted onto Tally ERP ~$5/month serving costs

Work with me

The systems on this page are the interview - everything below was built, deployed, and is running in production.

Contract & forward-deployed engineering

You've sold or scoped an AI capability. I deploy it inside your customer's actual environment. I embed with the customer, ship the integration end-to-end, document it, and hand it over. Per-deployment fixed price or monthly retainer.

Fixed-scope builds

A production-ready pilot of your system in 3–4 weeks. Fixed price, deployed in your environment, documented and handed over. Pilots convert to full builds when they earn it.

Legacy ERP modernization

New capability on top of systems that already run - dashboards, integrations, automation - without forcing a migration. StockIQ below is the pattern: retrofitted onto Tally ERP with no plugin and no process change.

15+ years across Amazon, Microsoft, startups, and two years shipping production Rust to Ethereum and Starknet mainnets - environments where bugs cost real money.

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QuoteAssist
In production
Quotes in seconds. From a WhatsApp message.

What it does

  • Generates PDF quotations and proforma invoices from a plain WhatsApp message - text, voice note, or a photo of a handwritten list
  • Regular updates for copper and aluminium prices
  • Handles multi-turn conversations - follow-ups carry context forward
  • Pricelist updates via a simple admin interface
  • Works on WhatsApp and Telegram
  • Supports a shared team workspace on a web interface
Fits: electrical cable distributors, wire dealers, industrial goods distributors
⚙ Technical Architecture
<2s Response time
99.9% Uptime
3 Input modalities
~$5 Hosting / month
Backend
Rust (Tokio, Axum)
AI / LLM
Claude API, Groq (switchable at runtime)
OCR / Transcription
AWS Textract, Whisper
Messaging
Telegram Bot API, Twilio (WhatsApp)
Database
PostgreSQL (Supabase)
ERP Integration
Tally XML API via WebSocket
Deployment
Docker, DigitalOcean App Platform
Hot reload
LLM and pricelist switchable at runtime - no restarts
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Action Search
Built & deployed
Know what entered your site. Know when it left. Search it later.

Smart Alerts and Google like search for your CCTV Feed.

Action Search connects to existing CCTV cameras and continuously analyses the feed. It identifies vehicles, cranes, and people - tracking each one over time - and logs a structured event every time something arrives at or departs from the monitored area. Those events are instantly searchable. Alerts arrive in Telegram the moment an event is detected. No footage leaves the premises. No cloud subscription required. Works on commodity hardware.

Fits: warehouses, logistics hubs, manufacturing facilities, industrial sites
⚙ Technical Architecture
Architecture diagram - coming soon
40ms Per frame (pipeline)
2–3 FPS processed
100% On-premise
Language
Rust
Detection model
YOLO v11 segmentation
Classification
CLIP (zero-shot, OpenAI)
Tracking algorithm
Hungarian (LAPJV) + visual re-ID
ML runtime
ONNX Runtime 2.0
Video input
RTSP / FFmpeg
Database
SQLite (local) / Turso (cloud sync)
Alerts
Telegram Bot API
QuoteWatch
In production
A zero data entry CRM for quotation follow-ups.

QuoteWatch watches the sales mailbox and turns quotation conversations into a clean daily action list. It shows which customers still need a quotation and which sent quotations need follow-up, without asking the sales team to maintain a pipeline.

What it does

  • Detects quotation requests and commercial replies directly from Gmail threads
  • Separates quotation pending and follow-up pending work into a simple daily report
  • Ignores unrelated mail such as invoices, logistics updates, newsletters, and internal chatter
  • Uses Gmail labels like Ignore, Order Received, and Order Closed as lightweight cleanup signals
  • Gives owners and sales managers a daily view of missed replies and follow-ups
Fits: B2B trading, distribution, manufacturing, and project-supply businesses selling by email quotation
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StockIQ
In production
The modern analytics layer Tally doesn't give you.

StockIQ connects to Tally's built-in API - no plugin, no modification to how your team uses Tally - and presents a modern operational dashboard directly in a browser. Accessible from any device on the local network.

What it does

  • Cut-length analysis - identifies cable batches below sellable threshold
  • Reorder dashboard across different products
  • Colour-coded wire stock grid by brand and size
  • Per-item movement metrics: turnover ratio, days inventory on hand, margin, ROI
  • Full purchase and sales history per item in a single view
  • Runs on the same Windows machine as Tally - no extra hardware
  • No internet connection required. No data leaves the local network
Fits: electrical cable and wire distributors using Tally ERP
StockIQ wire grid view
⚙ Technical Architecture
Browser (HTML / JS / WASM) ←HTTP→ Rust Server ←HTTP/XML→ Tally ERP (port 9000)
Server
Rust (Axum, Tokio)
Analysis engine
Rust → WebAssembly (wasm-bindgen)
Frontend
Vanilla HTML / JS / CSS
Data source
Tally ERP XML API
Caching
Local JSON file (daily, IST timezone)
Deployment
Single executable + static folder

From First Call to Live System

From first call to production in weeks, not quarters. Most engagements move fast because the hard patterns - LLM pipelines, multimodal input, ERP integration, on-prem inference - are ones I've already shipped and run in production. We're not starting from a blank page. We're assembling proven pieces around your specific problem.

1

Scope

One or two calls to understand your workflow, fix the deliverable, and agree on the price.

2

Build

I build the system and show progress weekly, so there are no surprises at the end.

3

Deploy & hand over

Shipped into your environment, documented, and yours to run.

Built by someone who understands the problem.

Avant Garde Labs is a focused, one-person software studio. I was an engineer at Microsoft and Amazon, built two startups, and shipped production Rust, Solidity and Cairo smart contracts to Ethereum and Starknet mainnets.

I've also spent a decade running an operations-heavy distribution business - which is why the systems on this page exist: I built them for my own operations first, and I've been my own first customer and my own forward-deployed engineer. I know what breaks between the demo and the daily grind.

Working with Avant Garde Labs means working directly with the engineer who built the system. No account managers, no handoffs.

AI & LLM Systems

  • LLM integration
  • Agent workflows
  • Multi-modal pipelines (voice, images, text)
  • Production deployment
  • Observability & cost tracking

Software Engineering

  • Rust
  • WebAssembly
  • Real-time / WebSocket systems
  • ONNX / ML inference pipelines
  • Performance optimisation

ERP & Integration

  • Tally ERP (XML API)
  • Legacy system modernisation
  • Webhook & messaging APIs
  • PDF generation pipelines

Production Rust at Stake

  • Cairo / Starknet
  • Solidity / EVM
  • Substrate runtimes
  • Systems shipped to mainnet

Let's Talk.

Interested in our products?

Get in touch with details about your business and which product interests you. A short conversation is usually enough to establish whether it's a fit and what adaptation would involve.

automation@avantgardelabs.in

Looking to hire or consult?

Available for contract and forward-deployed engineering, fixed-scope builds, and legacy ERP modernization. Share the customer environment, the workflow, and what has to run in production.

automation@avantgardelabs.in