Forward Deployed Engineer · Open Source · Bangalore

Rohit
Suthar.

Forward Deployed Engineer — full-stack since fourteen. Shipping AI agent infrastructure in public — building Agentguardian (open source) and Voura (still under the hood).

Bangalore · IN rohit.suthar.leo@gmail.com open to FDE work
Isometric illustration of Rohit Suthar's AI agent workbench — terminal, server rack, and deploy pipeline. A stylized isometric rig representing a Forward Deployed Engineer's setup for building and shipping AI agents: a cream plinth, an open cross-section housing with a code terminal running agent.run(), a server rack with four units and a spinning cooling fan, and a terracotta deploy tower with a ship button. agent.run() stack 01 · terminal 02 · agent runtime 03 · ship
Now Shipping Agentguardian (OSS · this quarter) Voura (stealth)
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02 ship log reverse chronological

The Work.
Five builds,
four years.

Every line below shipped to users who noticed when it broke.

01 ↳

✦Agentguardianoss

2026-04 → nowmaintainerpythonin progress
A control plane for catching silent failures in production AI agents — cost spikes, prompt-injection in tool outputs, behavioral drift after model updates, calibration rot across pipelines. Built after watching every agent I shipped fail in a different way each week: one burned $400 in a hallucination loop, one leaked a secret through a poisoned RAG doc, one quietly regressed 30% on eval after a provider silently updated the model. Intercepts tool calls, RAG retrievals, and reasoning steps; correlates weak signals into one circuit breaker. Framework-agnostic, <100ms overhead, CPU-only.
coming soon
overhead<100ms
runtimeCPU-only
statusin progress
02 ↳

Vourafounder

2025-03 → nowunder the hood
Still under the hood. Building in public — the real story, thinking, and loom walkthroughs will land in the writing section as chapters drop. If you're curious, follow along there.
statusunder the hood
detailsin writing ↓
rolesolo founder
03 ↳

Stealth · annotation platform

2024-04 → 2025-02full-stack
Built the internal platform for a 40-person annotation team — AI-in-the-loop review surfaces, custom data pipelines, role-scoped admin. React + Node + AWS. Shipped the thing the ops team used every day, for nine months, with no PM.
team served40
annotations / mo180k
pipelines12
04 ↳

Enthu.AI

2023-03 → 2024-03full-stacknext · node · postgres
EdTech call-quality monitoring. Shipped features across the product serving 5,000+ active users — speech-analytics glue, scorecard dashboards, long-tail CRM integrations. Learned what 3am PagerDuty feels like.
active users5,000+
tenure12 mo
features shipped34
05 ↳
Earlier — frontend and full-stack roles at BetaCrew Labs, Thinkreals, and NEVERLESS (2021 → 2023). Started professional work at fourteen, building dashboards for teams twice my age.

/stack · daily

TypeScript Next.js 15 Node Postgres MongoDB AWS Vercel AI SDK Claude Code Tailwind

/stack · comfortable

Python FastAPI Postgres + pgvector Redis Docker Temporal MCP
03 about

About Rohit Suthar — Forward Deployed Engineer shipping AI agent infrastructure from Bangalore

I started writing production code at fourteen. I'm nineteen now, which means I've had four years of real engineering before most of my peers even started. No CS degree — I learned by shipping to users who noticed when things broke.

In 2024 I took a year away from salaried work to sit in the AI-native builder community full time — YC Startup School India, long Claude Code sessions, a lot of weekend prototypes, and the early prototype of Voura. I came out the other side with a different thesis: the next generation of software is AI agents deployed in messy real customer environments, and the people who can do that work — Forward Deployed Engineers — are rare.

I'm building an open-source slice of that thesis in public now, while taking Forward Deployed Engineering work on the side. If you're deploying AI agents at customers and something keeps breaking, I'd like to hear about it.

04 writing & launches

Writing & launches — notes on Forward Deployed Engineering and AI agent infrastructure

Agentguardian: A control plane for catching silent failures in production Draft
What Forward Deployed actually means in 2026 Draft
The 14-month gap, and what I built in it Draft
Shipping Voura's first paid deployment Draft
Evals are product work, not QA Draft

Still drafting. Live posts land here as they ship.