Pasha Kalachev

Technical founder & forward-deployed AI product engineer.
I turn messy real-world workflows into working software.

Projects

Info

Pasha Kalachev is a technical founder and forward-deployed AI product engineer who builds software for operationally complex, real-world workflows. He embeds with the people doing the work, maps how it actually happens, and ships the system: discovery, architecture, payments, deployment, and production hardening. He deployed a revenue-generating platform used live during Davos week and has independently launched two commercial products with paying users.

Capabilities

  • Applied AI & human-in-the-loop systems
  • Full-stack product engineering
  • Native iOS (SwiftUI)
  • Payments, billing & entitlements
  • Workflow discovery & client implementation

Proof

  • Ask Kat: used live during Davos week, paying customers
  • Tattoo Pilot: live with paying users
  • Kratom Cut: live on the App Store with paying users
  • ConciergeOS: public guides live for Monterey Car Week and Miami Art Week

Experience

  • Independent products, 2024 to present
  • Ask Kat, 2023 to present
  • Founder, Before You Go Studios, 2017 to 2024 (clients incl. Google, The New York Times, World Economic Forum)

Stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node, Express, Postgres, Supabase, Convex, Clerk, Stripe, Cloudflare R2, OpenAI, fal.ai, Swift, SwiftUI, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Render

Contact

Open to forward-deployed and applied-AI roles, and to white-label event-guide projects.

pasha@pashakalachev.com