Hire a Full-Stack AI Engineer for US Startups
Naman Gundaniya builds AI agents, RAG chatbots, SaaS products and automation for US startups and companies — working remotely from India with guaranteed overlap into US mornings, at a significantly lower cost than a US agency for the same delivered scope. Top Rated Plus on Upwork with published reviews from US clients.
100% Job Success · Top Rated Plus on Upwork · invoicing in USD ($)
Working hours that overlap yours
India Standard Time runs 9.5–10.5 hours ahead of US Eastern and 12.5–13.5 hours ahead of Pacific. In practice that means your morning is my evening: standups, demos and pairing sessions land in US mornings, and work you brief at the end of your day is usually waiting for you the next morning.
| Your time | My time (IST) |
|---|---|
| 9:00 AM New York | 6:30–7:30 PM IST |
| 9:00 AM San Francisco | 9:30–10:30 PM IST |
| 5:00 PM New York | 2:30–3:30 AM IST |
Why US companies hire an independent engineer in India
US agency rates for AI work commonly run $90–$200 per hour; the same senior full-stack delivery from an independent engineer in India lands far below that without a layer of account managers on the invoice. You work directly with the person writing the code, the code lives in your repository from day one, and there is a weekly demo against a live deployment — so the usual offshore risk, opacity, is engineered out.
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 USD. 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.
Healthcare and data-sensitive builds
Day-to-day work at Mediflow 360 is healthcare software, so the engineering habits US regulated products need are the default: minimise the personal data collected, encrypt it in transit and at rest, keep audit logs, and choose infrastructure vendors that will sign the agreements your compliance posture requires. For HIPAA-adjacent products that means designing so protected health information touches as few systems as possible — a decision made at the schema stage, not retrofitted.
What US clients say
“Extremely talented front end developer with great communication skills and detail oriented.”
Relevant work
Task-Flow - AI Task Management
Task-Flow is a MERN-stack task management application with role-based access control and AI-assisted prioritisation. It covers team task tracking, assignment and collaboration, with the AI layer suggesting priority order and surfacing productivity patterns rather than replacing human judgement.
ScanX - AI Note Taker
ScanX is an AI note-taking web app built with Next.js, Convex and LangChain. Users upload a PDF, the text is chunked and embedded into a vector index, and a retrieval-augmented chat answers questions against that document with citations back to the source pages.
Frequently asked
Can you work US business hours from India?
Overlap is guaranteed, full US hours are not. US Eastern mornings map to my evenings, so daily calls, standups and demos are easy; Pacific teams get scheduled evening-IST calls plus async delivery. Most US clients find the offset an advantage — work briefed at their end of day is ready the next morning.
Have you worked with US clients before?
Yes. Published Upwork reviews include a US SaaS platform engagement (frontend development, 5 stars), alongside work for clients in the UK, Canada and India. The reviews on this site are real, named Upwork contracts.
Do you sign NDAs and assign IP for US companies?
Yes. Upwork engagements carry work-for-hire IP terms by default; direct contracts include IP assignment and an NDA when you need one. Code is committed to your repository from the first week, so ownership is never in escrow.
Start with a 30-minute call
Scope the work, agree a timeline and get a fixed quote — no obligation either way. Replies within 24 hours.
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