Dubai · Open to Dubai and remote roles

Saumya Tiwari

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Software engineer building web products since 2018. Based in Dubai and open to senior frontend and full stack roles in Dubai or remotely. Six years at VdoCipher, building search, customer dashboards, and video processing systems. Current work includes evaluating AI-generated code at Micro1 and building applications with LLMs.

Experience

Software Engineer, AI Training & Evaluation · Micro1

Nov 2025 - Present

Evaluate AI-generated software and help improve model responses.

  • Review AI-generated code for debugging, refactoring, and feature work. Check that it works and meets the requirements.
  • Create prompts, test cases, and scoring guides. Explain repeated mistakes and provide clear technical feedback.
  • Build and assess projects with Claude Code and Antigravity.
  • Added tool use, data analysis, human approval steps, and fraud-analysis workflows to a dashboard AI copilot.

Independent Software Engineer · Personal projects

May 2025 - Present

Build applications with LLMs, document retrieval, and real-time collaboration.

  • Built AskBase: document questions and answers with streaming responses and source citations.
  • Built Mesh: group chat with AI responses and extracted decisions and tasks.
  • Built RoastMyResume: AI feedback on a resume against a job description.

Senior Full Stack Engineer · VdoCipher

Jun 2022 - May 2025

Search, customer dashboards, and video processing for a video streaming platform.

  • Built distributed search with OpenSearch, cutting response time from 2-3 seconds to about 200 ms and database CPU use by 40%.
  • Moved the frontend build from Webpack to Vite, reducing build times by 90%.
  • Helped move video processing from AWS to GCP for workloads of more than 100 TB per month.
  • Built real-time encoding progress updates with Server-Sent Events and Kinesis.
  • Mentored 5+ engineers and conducted technical interviews.

Frontend Engineer · VdoCipher

May 2019 - Jun 2022

React interfaces for video management, playback, and customer onboarding.

  • Built customer dashboards with React, Material-UI, and Redux.
  • Developed player customization used by more than 1,500 education platforms and anti-piracy interfaces covering 57,000+ blocked sessions.
  • Migrated the main website from React SSR to Gatsby and improved performance.

Full Stack Engineer · Expedition (remote)

Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

Improved the product UI, fixed bugs, and added a Discord bot and developer tooling.

JavaScript Engineer · Pesto Tech

Jun 2018 - Oct 2018

Built a React and Express dashboard with GitHub and WakaTime integrations and automated tests.

Software Engineering Intern · Samsung R&D

2018

Test automation and quality assurance for mobile and smart device applications.

Technical skills

frontend
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, Tailwind CSS, Material-UI, Vite
backend
Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, REST, GraphQL
cloud
AWS, GCP, Docker, Terraform, Kinesis, BigQuery
AI
LLM evaluation, RAG, pgvector, tool use, OpenAI, prompt design

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering · 2014–2018

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, Delhi

Let’s work together

Looking for Senior Frontend Engineer and Senior Full Stack Engineer roles in Dubai or remotely, with EMEA-friendly working hours.

saumyatiwari.29@gmail.com