# Carson Rodrigues

> Engineering Leader & Technical Co-Founder. Ships production AI end-to-end — real-time voice agents (LiveKit, Pipecat, Deepgram, ElevenLabs), LLM pipelines (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini), MCP servers, and event-driven backends. Active Claude Code production user. Author of nine research papers on the same systems shipped in production — one accepted at ICANN 2026 (Springer LNCS), five more under peer review.

Carson Rodrigues is based in Bengaluru, India, available remote-first for senior AI / FDE / staff engineering roles. Co-founder at CELABE. Previously led 6 engineers at Ôdasie. Senior Software Developer at VoiceQube where he shipped Phiny.ai (AI career prep with real-time voice mock interviews), Crosslane (career counselling platform), Northway Tech (AI voice caddie featuring 2× US Open champion Andy North), and Brilliance (10-app academic operations monorepo). Earlier: enterprise IoT at Siemens. Co-founded V3NEX, a non-profit introducing kids to GenAI.

## About

- [Home — what I do](https://carsonrodrigues.com/): One-line value prop, featured projects, latest research, full experience.
- [Projects — production systems, papers, OSS](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects): Phiny.ai, Brilliance, Northway Tech, CELABE, Crosslane, SmokeMukti, Oravira; selected papers; everything-claude-code merged PR; Qubekit Voice AI Server.
- [Research — papers, DOIs, ORCID](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): Nine papers — one accepted at ICANN 2026 (Springer LNCS), five more under peer review — across voice-AI systems, LLMOps, MCP, multi-agent reliability, human–AI trust, and clinical ML. ORCID 0009-0001-7195-6742; live preprints on PsyArXiv and medRxiv.
- [Case studies — long-form deep dives](https://carsonrodrigues.com/case-studies): Six 1500-word write-ups on the AI products I shipped end-to-end. Each one walks through Problem → Constraints → Architecture → What I built → Trade-offs → Outcome.
- [Timeline — the path so far](https://carsonrodrigues.com/timeline): 2026 → 2019, founder + papers + employment.
- [Dashboard — career snapshot + live GitHub metrics](https://carsonrodrigues.com/dashboard): 9 papers (1 accepted at ICANN 2026, 5 under review), 5+ AI systems, 3 apps live on stores, 6 engineers led, 4+ years shipping, BITS Law, Mumbai speaker, Best Outgoing Student (CGPA 9.28).

## Case studies

- [Phiny.ai — AI career-prep platform with real-time voice mock interviews](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/phiny): Smart Recruiter unified backend (NestJS, 516 TS files / ~101k LoC) + FastAPI WebRTC microservice (~17k LoC). Pipecat + LiveKit + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram. Voice E2E p50 under 1.2s.
- [Northway Tech — AI voice caddie ft. Andy North](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/northway): Real-time voice caddie over LiveKit + WebRTC with 40,000+ courses geospatially indexed in MongoDB. Player-history loop personalises recommendations across rounds. ElevenLabs voice cloning of 2× US Open champion Andy North.
- [Brilliance — 10-app academic operations monorepo](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/brilliance): Hono backend + Drizzle ORM + PostgreSQL + Redis. 4,159+ TS/JSX files. Claude API for AI question generation with a faculty review queue. Live admin: dev.23yards.com.
- [CELABE — AI-powered wedding & events platform](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/celabe): Co-founded; React Native + Next.js across iOS, Android, web. ML-powered planning, vendor marketplace, viral QR photo-sharing. Live on App Store + Play Store.
- [SmokeMukti — ICMR-funded tobacco cessation app](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/smokemukti): React Native + Expo. Server-side AI chat (no client-embedded keys). Care-pathway state model. 1st place at AIDEC.
- [Oravira — oral health × HIV care-pathway app](https://carsonrodrigues.com/projects/oravira): Same care-pathway pattern as SmokeMukti applied to a new clinical domain. Local-first storage, server-mediated AI, App Store + Play Store live.

## Research

- [Latency Optimization for Voice AI (Rodrigues, 2026)](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): Systems-level latency study of a production voice AI platform; concurrency between intent detection and TTS is the highest-leverage optimization. **−41.8% E2E latency.** **Accepted at ICANN 2026** (peer-reviewed, Springer LNCS).
- [MCP Server Architecture Patterns (Rodrigues, 2026)](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): Design patterns for production Model Context Protocol servers — taxonomy, anti-patterns, cross-cutting concerns — validated with an inter-rater study (**κ = 0.76**). Under review, ICSME 2026 Industry Track.
- [When Do LLMs Replace Fine-Tuned NLU?](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): A decision framework for intent detection on noisy transcripts; full-data TF-IDF reaches **95.2% on ATIS**. Submitted, EMNLP 2026 Industry Track.
- [LLM-OptFlow](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): LLM-driven hyperparameter optimization benchmarked against Optuna-TPE and random search on PMLB. In revision, TMLR.
- [Personality Traits & Trust in LLMs](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): Scoping review extended to agentic LLMs. PsyArXiv preprint live (doi:10.31234/osf.io/2mdu8). Submitted, AI & Society.
- [Context Drift in Multi-Agent LLM Systems](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): A Context-Drift Score (CDS) metric + structured verification protocol (SSVP). Under review, NeurIPS 2026.
- [DentaCoPilot — Dental Procedure Prediction](https://carsonrodrigues.com/research): Clinical ML on patient records; medRxiv preprint live (doi:10.64898/2026.05.07.26352635).

## Snippets — production-tested code

- [MCP server in TypeScript](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/mcp-server-typescript): Minimum-viable MCP server with one tool, exposed over stdio for Claude Code / Cursor / Desktop.
- [Claude streaming with prompt caching](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/claude-streaming-prompt-cache): Anthropic SDK chat with cache_control on the system prompt — fastest cheapest path to a chat product.
- [Claude agentic tool-use loop](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/claude-tool-use-loop): Run-until-stop agent loop in TypeScript. The core of every production agent.
- [Real-time voice agent (Pipecat + LiveKit)](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/voice-agent-pipecat): Production voice agent — Deepgram → Claude → ElevenLabs over LiveKit WebRTC.
- [LiveKit token server (Node)](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/livekit-token-server): Issue short-lived JWTs for browser/mobile to join a LiveKit room.
- [ASR intent detection with Claude](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/intent-detection-claude): Post-ASR LLM classifier with structured output (the 41.7% → 91.7% pattern).
- [RAG with Algolia + Claude rerank](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/rag-claude-rerank): Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + vector) plus Claude as a relevance judge.
- [n8n agentic webhook](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/n8n-claude-webhook): n8n + Anthropic node config + the system prompt that works.
- [Claude Code slash command](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/claude-code-slash-command): Custom /commands with shell inlining.
- [Claude Code pre-commit hook](https://carsonrodrigues.com/snippets/claude-code-hook): Block git commit unless lint + typecheck pass.

## Apps live on App Store + Play Store

- [CELABE](https://celabe.com): AI-powered wedding & events platform. iOS, Android, web. Co-founder.
- SmokeMukti — ICMR-funded tobacco cessation app. App Store + Play Store.
- Oravira — oral health × HIV care-pathway app. App Store + Play Store.

## Open source

- [everything-claude-code](https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code): Merged PR. 82k+ stars, 10k+ forks, 90+ contributors. Anthropic × Forum Ventures hackathon winner (NYC, 2025).
- Qubekit Voice AI Server: open-source LiveKit + Pipecat + Claude + ElevenLabs + Deepgram FastAPI reference implementation.

## Contact

- Calendly: https://calendly.com/rodriguescarson/new-meeting
- Topmate: https://topmate.io/rodriguescarson
- Email: rodriguescarson@gmail.com
- WhatsApp: https://wa.me/917020286635
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rodriguescarson
- GitHub: https://github.com/rodriguescarson
- X: https://x.com/carsonmarz

## Skills

Voice AI: LiveKit, Pipecat, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, WebRTC, WebSockets, SSE, real-time avatar.
AI / LLMs: Claude (Anthropic SDK), GPT-4, Gemini, OpenRouter, AI SDK, RAG, vector search (Algolia), MCP servers, agentic pipelines.
AI Dev Tools: Claude Code (production user + OSS contributor), MCP configs, n8n, AG-UI.
Backend: Node.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Hono, Express, microservices, event-driven, BullMQ.
Frontend: React, Next.js 15, React Native (Expo), Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion.
Data: PostgreSQL (Drizzle), MongoDB (Mongoose, geospatial), Redis, vector databases.
Cloud / DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, Bedrock, MediaConvert, CloudFront, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, SES), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Run, Netlify, Coolify.
Observability: Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, PostHog.
Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++.

## Speaking

- BITS Law, Mumbai — AI for Marketing Masterclass (3-hour technical workshop): creative AI tooling, content + distribution automation, zero-code CRM pipelines, hands-on with LLM and image-gen tools. https://workshop.carsonrodrigues.com

## Recognition

- Certificate of Reviewing — European Journal of Computer Sciences and Informatics (2026).
- Best Outgoing Student Award — Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa. B.E. (Honours) Computer Engineering, CGPA 9.28.