Hire a Full-Stack AI Engineer for Australian Startups
Naman Gundaniya builds AI agents, RAG chatbots, SaaS products and automation for Australian startups and companies working remotely from India with a guaranteed overlap into Australian afternoons, at a significantly lower cost than a local agency for the same delivered scope. Top Rated Plus on Upwork; Australia is served on the same fixed-scope terms as every other market here.
100% Job Success · Top Rated Plus on Upwork · invoicing in AUD (A$) ·
Working hours that overlap yours
Australian Eastern time runs 4.5 hours ahead of India Standard Time, and 5.5 hours ahead during daylight saving in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart (October to April); Perth is 2.5 hours ahead year-round. In practice my morning is your afternoon: calls, demos and pairing sessions land between roughly 2 PM and 6 PM on the east coast, and anything you brief before you leave for the day is worked on through my afternoon and waiting for you the next morning.
| Your time | My time (IST) |
|---|---|
| 2:00 PM Sydney / Melbourne | 8:30–9:30 AM IST |
| 5:00 PM Sydney / Melbourne | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM IST |
| 11:00 AM Perth | 8:30 AM IST |
| 9:00 AM Sydney / Melbourne | 3:30–4:30 AM IST |
Why Australian companies hire an independent engineer in India
Senior AI and full-stack delivery from an Australian agency carries an agency's overhead on every invoice; the same scope from an independent engineer in India lands well below that with nobody between you and the person writing the code. Your repository holds the code from the first week, there is a weekly demo against a live deployment, and the timezone offset works in your favour: a brief written at the end of your day is picked up at the start of mine.
Contracts, IP and payment
Engagements run through Upwork (escrow, work-for-hire IP terms and dispute protection built in) or by direct contract with invoicing in Australian dollars. Either way: NDA on request, IP assignment on payment, and no subcontracting the person you scope the project with is the person who builds it.
Privacy Act and APP-aware engineering
Australian products handling personal information sit under the Privacy Act 1988 and its thirteen Australian Privacy Principles, with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme behind them. The engineering consequences are the ones already built in by default from healthcare work: collect only what the feature needs, keep an accurate record of what is held and why, encrypt in transit and at rest, and make deletion actually delete. Where a client prefers data to stay in-country, the build targets Sydney-region infrastructure (AWS ap-southeast-2, or Vercel's Sydney region for the application layer) so residency is a deployment setting rather than a rewrite.
Relevant work
AI Voice Agent for Education
An AI voice agent for education built with Next.js and the Gemini API. Students speak instead of typing; speech is transcribed, structured into organised notes, and made queryable. Built around the observation that voice removes the friction of note-taking during a lecture.
AVENUOR Home Asset Management SaaS
AVENUOR is a home and society asset management SaaS live at avenuor.com. It gives homeowners a central registry for appliances, vehicles and building assets with AI-powered invoice extraction, per-asset health scoring and warranty reminders and gives housing societies a multi-user console for shared registers, work orders and compliance documents. Built with Next.js and React, deployed on Vercel.
Frequently asked
Can you work Australian business hours from India?
The afternoon half, yes. Australian Eastern afternoons map to my mornings, so daily calls and demos between about 2 PM and 6 PM AEST are easy, and Perth overlaps for most of its day. Your morning is my night, which is where async delivery does the work anything briefed before you finish is ready when you start.
Have you worked with Australian clients before?
There is no published Australian review on this site yet, which is why this page shows delivered case studies rather than a testimonial. The published five-star reviews are from clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and India, and the engagement terms for Australia are identical.
Can data stay in Australia?
Yes. The application and database can be deployed to Sydney-region infrastructure, and AI API calls can be routed through providers offering Australian data-processing options where the project's privacy posture requires it. That decision is made at the architecture stage, before any personal information is stored.
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Scope the work, agree a timeline and get a fixed quote no obligation either way. Replies within 24 hours.
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