Ismoilkhon Salikhodhaev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack JavaScript Developer
Tashkent, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan
Toptal member since May 6, 2020
Ismail is an AI solutions architect with 8+ years of experience transforming software development through AI-first methodologies. He pioneers systems where AI agents generate 100% of production code, redefining the developer role from coder to context architect. Ismail trains development teams on prompt and context engineering, consults clients on AI implementation, and presents at developer conferences. He has a strong full-stack foundation spanning web, mobile, back end, and cloud platforms.
Portfolio
Experience
- Startups - 5 years
- AI Agents - 2 years
- Agentic AI - 2 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 2 years
- Machine Learning - 1 year
- Fractional CTO - 1 year
Work Experience
Fractional CTO / Technical Architect (Data & AI Systems)
Taisto Consulting, Inc.
- Led technology strategy and architecture for a US trucking analytics platform covering telematics ingestion, ETL, reporting, and AI-generated operational insights.
- Improved and extended Python ETL pipelines that ingest fleet telemetry into PostgreSQL, working across AWS, Airtable, and Metabase.
- Expanded integrations across Radius, Navistar (N2), Geotab, Thermo King, and TrackCam to support client reports and operational insights.
- Advised company leadership on product direction, platform maturity, system efficiency, vendor strategy, and cost control.
Senior Software Engineer
ADS Environmental Services / IDEX Corp.
- Implemented the majority of PRISM's UI for wastewater collection-system monitoring, enabling utilities, engineers, and ADS analysts to manage sensor networks, alarms, and telemetry.
- Built high-volume time-series charts, scattergraphs, and pivot analytics with Highcharts, LightningChart, and Flexmonster, using NgRx for state management.
- Built the SLiiCER for infiltration-and-inflow studies, including storm-by-storm and system-wide RDII analysis, rainfall depth-duration-frequency analysis, and hydrological workflows.
- Contributed to the C#/.NET backend on Azure and Cosmos DB and to the .NET MAUI mobile application.
- Defined business requirements with stakeholders and provided ongoing production support for the PRISM platform.
Principal AI Engineer | Agentic Systems & Harness Engineering
Valletta Software
- Architected and built AI agent harnesses for end-to-end software delivery, governing requirements analysis, technical planning, backend/frontend implementation, and validation through enforced stage gates.
- Extended harnesses into design and product intelligence, turning Figma designs into application code, backend data models, and complete product analyses.
- Established harness-driven development workflows that reduced client-project delivery cycles by up to 50–80%.
- Led AI engineering across dozens of teams concurrently, setting technical direction and driving adoption of harness-based software delivery.
- Designed and delivered training programs for dozens of engineering teams on AI engineering and harness-driven development workflows.
- Consulted multiple clients on AI strategy, solution architecture, and implementation of AI integrations.
- Presented harness-driven software development approaches and AI engineering methods at developer conferences.
Senior Software Engineer
MindGlow Health
- Built scheduling, session management, and secure messaging for a behavioral-health platform delivering therapy, psychiatry, and medication management, with AdvancedMD and Salesforce integrations.
- Architected patient-provider video-session workflows for telehealth delivery within HIPAA constraints.
- Built authentication and authorization systems protecting patient data and controlling access across the platform.
Founding Engineer & Tech Lead
RxBrio
- Led the engineering team and architected a US prescription-delivery platform from scratch, spanning the backend, pharmacy web application, and driver-focused mobile application.
- Built the pharmacy web application with inventory integration, order and shipment creation, and QR-coded label printing for dispatch.
- Built the Flutter driver application with optimized route generation and delivery workflows supporting medication-transport requirements.
- Designed a multi-role, order-type-driven delivery model for pharmacy-to-patient and pharmacy-to-pharmacy shipments, with pharmacy route monitoring and optional patient tracking and sign-off.
Founding Engineer & Tech Lead
CargoPrime, Inc.
- Architected and built a fully autonomous dispatch platform for a US trucking carrier on Amazon Relay, running load booking end to end through a self-scaling fleet of browser agents without manual operator intervention.
- Built a Telegram-controlled workflow that read load demand from Google Sheets, provisioned AWS EC2 capacity, and ran Chromium workers to monitor Amazon Relay.
- Built real-time booking logic matching loads to driver GPS location, work hours, and shift availability, automatically securing suitable loads as they appeared.
- Built a React dashboard and Node.js/Express backend with WebSockets for live monitoring and control of the automation fleet; managed deployment and operations on AWS.
Tech Lead
Symbiotries, Inc.
- Led InHome Accountants from early-stage development to release, creating a US marketplace connecting individuals and businesses with accountants for contract accounting and tax work.
- Directed frontend and backend engineering across profiles, job posting, bidding, job tracking, and payments, with accounting and tax requirements reflected in the workflows.
- Built Twilio-based text, audio, and video communication between clients and accountants inside the platform.
- Built an Electron desktop file-sync application connected to the backend, keeping local documents synchronized with the web platform and eliminating manual uploads.
Senior Software Engineer
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme
- Served as the sole engineer attached by UNDP to Uzbekistan's General Prosecutor's Office for a national e-learning and qualification-attestation platform for government employees.
- Built instructor tools for authoring lectures, courses, and examinations, and learner workflows for study, testing, and qualification attestation.
- Owned technical decisions and delivered the Java and Angular platform from kickoff through implementation and deployment.
Software Engineer
Unicon-Soft
- Developed a secure inter-agency document and order exchange system serving government institutions up to the Office of the President.
- Built an elections application tracking military personnel's participation in government voting, working with large personnel datasets and a high-load backend.
- Delivered full-stack functionality across JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular and AngularJS, Node.js/Express, and PostgreSQL for government applications.
Project History
AI Production Harnesses
Creator & Architect | Independent | March 2026–Present
I architect and build AI harnesses for complete production lifecycles: from a brief to deployed applications and bots, a concept to a release-ready game, and an idea to a mastered movie.
• Built typed DAG orchestration, structured-output contracts, mechanical and semantic validation, and automated repair.
• Built parallel-agent execution in isolated Git worktrees, coordinated merges, and crash-resumable state.
• Engineered Figma workflows, Unreal Engine verification, Blender scene/camera tooling, and controlled media-generation queues.
• Built model evaluation and benchmarking, regression and mutation checks, artifact traceability, and budget controls.
Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, C++, Unreal Engine 5, Blender, Figma API, Claude and Codex agent runtimes.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Systems
Westminster International University in Tashkent - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Highcharts, REST APIs, AngularUI, React, React Redux, Node.js, Telegram Bot API, NgRx/store, Google Maps, Firebase Web SDK, PostgREST, D3.js, Facebook API, Google APIs, Doctrine, Stripe, Telegram Messenger API, Vue 3, Google Sheets API
Tools
GitHub, Angular CLI, AngularFire, Sequelize, NPM, Git, Bitbucket, Figma, Prisma, Knex.js, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Mocha, Slack, Postman, pgAdmin, Trello, Jira, Angular Universal, Blender
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Dart, C#, GraphQL, PHP, Python, Java, Rust, C++
Frameworks
NestJS, Material UI, Angular, Angular Material, Express.js, Bootstrap, Ionic, Redux, Selenium, Electron, MUI CSS, Ionic 4, Vanilla JS, AngularJS, Protractor, Jasmine, Symfony, Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Jest, Flutter, .NET, .NET MAUI, Unreal Engine
Platforms
Amazon EC2, Firebase, Azure, Docker, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mobile, Windows, Twilio, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Salesforce
Storage
MongoDB, JSON, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Azure Cosmos DB
Paradigms
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), ETL, Automated Testing
Other
APIs, Full-stack, Startups, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Serverless, Web Development, Front-end, Design, Flexmonster, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Agents, Agentic AI, Vibe Coding, AI-generated Code, AI Tools, Large Language Models (LLMs), Software Architecture, SEO Tools, CTO, Fractional CTO, RPC, WebSockets, Angular Elements, Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Machine Learning, Medical Software, Cloud Architecture, Airtable, Metabase, Technical Leadership, Browser Automation, Process Automation, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Model Evaluation, Benchmarking, Multi-agent Systems, Workflow Automation, Regression Testing, Mutation Testing, Observability, AI Harness Engineering
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