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Ali Taquie - Forward Deployed Engineer in Santa Cruz, CA

Ali Taquie

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

PaystandUC Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CA2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.

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Key Strengths

  • Built LLM-enabled demo environments to secure ~$100K in technical buy-in pre-development
  • Customer-centric discovery: eliciting pain points and translating them into tailored demos
  • Strong observability-first approach to diagnosing LLM/agentic workflows (end-to-end logging/tracing with Grafana/Loki/Tempo)
  • Able to tailor technical communication across audiences (developers, sales, non-technical stakeholders)
  • Effective sales partnership: enabling sales teams to demo and troubleshoot in real time

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Experience

Forward Deployed EngineerPaystand · Jun 2025 – Present
Software DeveloperDigital NEST · Aug 2024 – Jun 2025
Software Engineer InternSkyIT Services · May 2024 – Aug 2024internship
Open-Source Contributor — Meta AI Research (Animated Drawings)Meta AI Research

Education

UC Santa Cruzbachelor, Computer Science (2025)

Awards

  • First Place — CruzHacks 2025 (Best Education Hack) - UC Santa Cruz

Languages

English

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Ali TaquieJunior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments