Hire Augusta Bhardwaj.
AI engineer and forward deployed engineer. IIT Guwahati, class of 2024, two years building and deploying AI at YC-backed startups, and a company of my own since 2026. Based in Bangalore.
1,000+Agent interactions a day at Avoca
35%Booking rate lift from prompt work
99.5%Uptime across deployed agents
9Products shipped and running
Four roles, one engineer.
Each with the work that shows it. Every figure is from a role or a product on this site.
AI engineer
Agents, retrieval and evals, built into products people pay for.
- Auditant: the compliance system of record for AI agents.
- LLMs on AWS Bedrock with a retrieval pipeline at Fegmo.
- Elyos AI: streaming, cancellable, tool-calling chat.
Forward deployed engineer
AI agents put into a customer's business, then kept working there.
- Conversational agents handling 1,000+ interactions a day at Avoca.
- Booking rate up 35% through prompt work.
- 99.5% uptime across deployed agents.
Software engineer
Full stack: the extension, the API, the dashboard and the deploy.
- A Next.js Chrome extension for lead generation at Fuse AI.
- Fuse Agent: 40% improvement in task automation.
- Compass: a job search Chrome extension.
Founding engineer
Zero to running, alone, more than once.
- Founded 4UGUSTA Systems Private Limited in May 2026.
- Nine products on this site, all running.
- Four paid tools for Indian businesses.
Stack
AI agentsRetrievalEvalsPythonTypeScriptReactNext.jsFastAPIDockerAWSChrome extensionsMCP servers
Questions hirers ask.
- Who is Augusta Bhardwaj?
- Augusta Bhardwaj is an AI engineer and founder based in Bangalore, India. He studied engineering at IIT Guwahati (class of 2024), has built AI products at YC-backed startups since 2024, and founded 4UGUSTA Systems Private Limited in 2026.
- What kind of engineer is he?
- An AI engineer who works across the whole stack. He builds AI agents, retrieval pipelines and evals, and the product around them: the API, the interface, the Chrome extension and the dashboard that shows whether it works.
- Has he done forward deployed engineering?
- Yes. As deployment engineer at Avoca, a YC-backed startup, he puts conversational AI agents into customers' businesses and keeps them running. Those agents handle more than 1,000 interactions a day at 99.5% uptime, and his prompt work raised the booking rate by 35%.
- What has he built?
- Nine products that are running today, among them Auditant (the compliance system of record for AI agents), Admiral (AI for paid ads that never acts without approval), Compass (a job search Chrome extension) and four paid tools for Indian businesses. Each one has a case study on this site.
- Which languages and tools does he use?
- Python and TypeScript, with React, Next.js and FastAPI, deployed with Docker on AWS. His AI work covers agents, retrieval, evals and MCP servers.
- Where is he based, and what time zone?
- Bangalore, India, on India Standard Time (UTC+5:30). His company is registered in Gaya, Bihar.
- How do I contact him about a role?
- Email augusta@4ugusta.agency or b.augusta1103@gmail.com, or message him on LinkedIn. For a project rather than a role, the agency side of his company takes it on at 4ugusta.agency.
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