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Salish Kumar
Open to work · Full-time, remote or relocation.

Salish Kumar

Full-Stack, Mobile & Gen AI Engineer.

Full-stack, mobile, and Gen AI engineer with 5+ years shipping production software to 4M+ users across energy, education, retail, and transportation. I write production TypeScript and Python, build cross-platform apps in Flutter and React Native, and design LLM systems (RAG, agents) that hold up on a real phone call and a real oil rig. Published at USENIX Security and IISE, with an MS in Computer Science from Texas Tech.

5+
years experience
4M+
users served
2
publications
USENIX Security ’25IISE 2026 (NASEM-funded)Gold Medalist, BS CS

Featured work

All projects

Agents built from your documents that answer real phone calls.

Designed and built end to end: retrieval, the telephony pipeline, and the provider abstraction.Cut cost per minute 3.5x and turn latency in half by replacing the managed platform with a self-hosted pipeline.
Next.jsTypeScriptTwilioDeepgramOpenAISQLite

SURE Safety

Mobile / AI Research

AI-powered safety reporting for offshore oil and gas.

Mobile + AI engineering. Designed the architecture, built the app, wrote the paper.First-author paper at IISE 2026, funded by NASEM Gulf Research Program.
FlutterFirebaseGPT-4o VisionRAGPineconeFastAPI

Steinsaltz Platform

Production Scale

Classical Jewish texts on web and mobile, in Hebrew and English.

Lead engineer. Owned web, mobile, backend, and the AI translation pipeline.100k+ readers, 50k+ Android installs. French AI translation pipeline at 99% accuracy.
Next.jsFlutterFirebaseFastAPIGPT-4Algolia

Tripper Bus Platform

Production Scale

Bus ticketing for a DC to New York operator, 2M+ riders a year.

Lead developer. Architected the database, API, and frontend.2M+ annual riders. Cut load times 35% on the booking funnel.
ReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLTypeScript

Canada's largest bookseller, moved from Magento to Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

Order side, on a team of 25. Order data for the OMS, and Vertex tax.National retailer live on Commerce Cloud. Tax correct across US and Canadian jurisdictions.
Salesforce B2C CommerceMagentoVertexSFRAJavaScript

getScholarSite

AI / Full-Stack

Upload a CV, get an academic website in about ninety seconds.

Full-stack development.Live SaaS. 13 themes, publication import from Google Scholar and OpenAlex.
Next.jsSupabaseTypeScriptOpenAlex

Experience

Full timeline

April 2025 – August 2026

Mobile & AI Developer

·Texas Tech UniversityCurrent

Built SURE Safety (Flutter + GPT-4o Vision + RAG). First-author paper at IISE 2026. 4.0 GPA.

July 2022 – August 2024

Software Engineer

·Royal Cyber

Salesforce Commerce Cloud for enterprise retail: replatformed Indigo off Magento, built the Syndigo PIM connector, and owned Vertex tax for the US and Canada.

December 2020 – July 2022

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

·Gorin Systems

Built Steinsaltz (100k+ users) and Tripper Bus (2M+ riders) from the ground up.

Publications

All publications
First AuthorAccepted

AI-powered Safety Reporting Mobile App for Offshore Energy Industry: Preliminary Findings

Salish Kumar, Changwon Son, Kerk Kee, Tyree Mitchell, Marshall Watson, Janet Okoroji, Austin Vaughn, Ariana Medina

IISE Annual Conference 2026, Arlington, TX

First Author · Funded by NASEM Gulf Research Program

Co-AuthorPublished

No Way to Sign Out? Unpacking Non-Compliance with Google Play’s App Account Deletion Requirements

Jingwen Yan, Song Liao, Jin Ma, Mohammed Aldeen, Salish Kumar, Long Cheng

34th USENIX Security Symposium, 2025, pp. 3277–3296

Co-Author · ~16% acceptance rate

Tech stack

Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptDart
Frontend
React.jsNext.jsFlutterTailwind CSS
Backend
FastAPIDjangoNode.jsNestJSGraphQL
AI / LLM
GPT-4oClaudeLangChainLangGraphRAG PipelinesPineconeCohere
Mobile
FlutterReact NativeFirebase
Infrastructure
AWSGCPVercelDockerGitHub Actions
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLRedisPinecone

Education

Aug 2024 – Aug 2026

Lubbock, TX

MS Computer Science

Texas Tech University

GPA 4.0 / 4.0AI safety systems, LLM applications

Sep 2018 – Aug 2022

Karachi, Pakistan

BS Computer Science

Dha Suffa University

GPA 3.74 / 4.0Gold Medalist, Highest CGPA in cohort

Certifications

Salesforce Certified B2C Commerce Cloud Developer (May 2023)

Hiring engineers?
Let's talk.

I'm open to full-stack, mobile, and Gen AI engineering roles, remote or relocation. If you have a team building something real, I'd love to hear about it.

Open to

Full-Stack EngineeringMobile (Flutter / React Native)Gen AI / LLM Engineering

Languages

English (Fluent)

Urdu (Native)

Hindi (Fluent)