Building at the edge of product and customer

Anthony Rojas

Forward Deployed Engineer · Lead AI Engineer · Engineering Leader

I turn ambiguous enterprise problems into production software and AI systems — working from customer discovery and workflow design through architecture, deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

Founded two companies TryAgent.ai ↗ PlatformBridge.ai ↗

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20K+: daily AI conversations
2×: user engagement
60%: throughput improvement

Core expertise

From field signal to durable systems.

Customer-facing architecture, hands-on engineering, and production ownership — one continuous loop.

01 Forward Deployed Engineering
02 Solution Architecture
03 Enterprise Integrations
04 Rapid Prototyping
05 Agentic Workflows
06 LLM Orchestration
07 Retrieval / RAG
08 Evaluation Pipelines
09 TypeScript & Node.js
10 NestJS & React
11 AWS & GCP
12 Event-Driven Systems
13 CI/CD & Observability
14 Stakeholder Engagement

Selected experience

Engineering leadership, close to the work.

Jul 2026 — Present

PlatformBridge.ai

Founder

Founded an embedded Forward Deployed Engineering practice helping AI companies move complex enterprise deployments from pilot to production.
Work directly with product and customer teams to unblock integrations, build deployment-specific glue code, and turn field learnings into reusable product infrastructure.

Jul 2025 — Sep 2026

Austin, TX

AI Startup

Lead Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineer) → Engineering Manager (AI Transformation)

Embedded directly inside portfolio companies to understand operations, identify repetitive knowledge work, and build AI employees that automate those workflows.
Owned transformation end to end, from discovery and workflow design through engineering, deployment, and continuous improvement in production.

Apr 2022 — Jul 2025

Remote

Chegg

Senior Engineer → Lead Engineer → Engineering Manager

Built Chegg's next-generation AI platform, transforming its flagship human Q&A product into a conversational AI experience serving 20,000+ daily conversations and doubling user engagement.
Led engineering from prototype to production, creating the AI infrastructure, evaluation pipelines, and production systems that powered reliable LLM deployment.
Led the flagship product team through a leadership transition and delivered iterations focused on quality, user experience, and core business metrics.

Jun 2021 — Apr 2022

Remote

AutoFi

Lead Engineer

Led engineering for an end-to-end automotive retail platform spanning vehicle discovery, dealership financing, F&I product selection, and purchase.
Improved engineering throughput by 60% through process optimization while delivering reliable, scalable software in a high-growth fintech environment.

Jun 2019 — Jun 2021

Remote

Cigna

Lead Software Engineer

Built an internal analyst platform that unified contract modeling, claims anomaly investigation, and day-to-day insurance workflows.
Designed the component framework, event-driven architecture, and shared knowledge platform used to standardize development across products.

Earlier engineering experience

2015 — Jun 2019

Freshtoweb, Inc

Lead Software Engineer / CTO · Springfield, MA

Partnered with startup teams to deliver MVPs, secure APIs, mobile applications, web platforms, and technology foundations for product launches.

2017 — Apr 2018

United Technologies

IT Security Architect / Hacker · Connecticut

Identified and mitigated security risks across internal systems, developed remediations, and improved overall system security.

2016 — 2017

iRacing

Web Developer · Boston, MA

Applied full-stack engineering to high-traffic web applications, improving performance, reliability, scalability, and user experience.

2015 — 2017

IMCORP

Software Developer · Manchester, CT

Developed internal applications and automated data processes for a mobile diagnostic testing fleet, reducing manual handling and improving reliability.

2015 — 2016

VetX

Lead Software Engineer · Boston, MA

Directed technical strategy for web and mobile platforms and developed iOS applications and full-stack backend software.

2014 — 2015

Nufern

Web Applications Developer · East Granby, CT

Managed internal and external web properties and delivered full-stack solutions across cross-functional teams.

2013 — 2014

Martino & Binzer

Software Engineer · Farmington, CT

Developed applications, alert systems, landing pages, and internal tools that improved operations and product functionality.

2011 — 2013

University of Connecticut

Web Developer · Storrs, CT

Built graphical interfaces for electrical engineering graduate projects and coordinated communication between engineers and end users.

2008 — 2013

Freelance Web Development

Freelance Software Engineer

Built custom applications and software directly with clients, translating business objectives into effective web products.

What’s next

Bring the hard deployment problem.

I work best where customer reality, product direction, and engineering execution meet.

anthony@hiredbyreact.com

Education

Thomas Edison State University

B.S. Computer Science

In progress · Expected 2027