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Aravind K.
Senior AI Engineer · Agent Architect
Builder Index
947
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Anthropic
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Linear
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Builder Index™

A score that rewards what you've built — not where you worked.

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@aravind · Senior AI Engineer
947
+38 this month
Top 0.3% globally
Open source impact24%
AI agents shipped18%
Startups launched16%
Research & patents12%
Revenue & traction14%
Peer & employer reviews16%
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Aravind K.

Senior AI Engineer · Agent Architect
Verified Top 1% Agent Pro
Asking
$340K + 0.5% equity
Remote · US/EU · Open to founding role

ScoutAgent

★ 2.4k

Autonomous research agent used by 4 YC startups. 18k MAU.

LangGraphGPT-5RAG

Loop.so (acquired 2024)

EXIT

Real-time analytics for AI products. Acquired by Datadog.

FounderSeries A$8M raised

agent-kit

★ 11.2k

Open-source toolkit for multi-agent orchestration.

TypeScriptMIT
Agent Marketplace

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Publish autonomous agents with live demos, benchmarks, and API endpoints. Employers can try them, license them, or hire you to build more.

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@dani

Sources & qualifies candidates from 12 sources.

$0.04/run184k runs

PR-Reviewer

@theo

Reviews PRs with team-specific style rules.

$0.02/run92k runs

DataPilot

@kavi

Natural-language warehouse queries with cite.

$0.10/run61k runs

OpsScout

@mira

Monitors 50+ ops signals, drafts incidents.

$0.06/run44k runs
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Lin Wei@linwei
Founder · Voice agents
994
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Aravind K.@aravind
Sr. AI Engineer · Agents
947
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Sara Holm@sara
ML Researcher · Multi-agent
921
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Diego Alvarez@diego
Data Eng · Streaming
908
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Priya Shah@priya
Cloud Architect · AWS
894
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