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Talha Aftab
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in usage-based metering, FinOps, and GenAI platforms
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Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.
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Key Strengths
- Zero-to-one MVP delivery under 1–2 week deadlines via tight scope management
- Hands-on technical leadership across product roadmap, architecture, and coding for an AI Gateway MVP
- Designed scalable control-plane/data-plane SaaS architecture with regional deployments to manage latency
- Deep expertise in real-time metering and pricing for LLM usage (12 meters; automated provisioning and pricing rules)
- Built production AWS stack and CI/CD (ECS, API Gateway, S3 warehouse, DynamoDB/RDS, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation)
- Reduced infrastructure bill by 65% through optimizations and containerization
- Led execution quality with testing culture (unit/integration/E2E) and daily delivery cadence
- Built and scaled teams (hired ~50–60 engineers; coached via 1:1s; strong bar for self-starters)
- Supported venture fundraising as technical domain expert through Seed ($5M) and Series A
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