Hi, I'm Scott Hardy—a Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer with over 7 years building SaaS products, backend APIs, cloud services, and AI-enabled workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into scalable systems that users love. In my recent roles, I led end-to-end development from frontend UX to backend services, focusing on performance, reliability, and thoughtful AI integration. I'm passionate about building practical AI-powered features, mentoring teams, and delivering robust production-ready software. When I'm not coding, I enjoy learning new AI tooling and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product outcomes.

Scott Hardy

Hi, I'm Scott Hardy—a Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer with over 7 years building SaaS products, backend APIs, cloud services, and AI-enabled workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into scalable systems that users love. In my recent roles, I led end-to-end development from frontend UX to backend services, focusing on performance, reliability, and thoughtful AI integration. I'm passionate about building practical AI-powered features, mentoring teams, and delivering robust production-ready software. When I'm not coding, I enjoy learning new AI tooling and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product outcomes.

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Hi, I’m Scott Hardy—a Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer with over 7 years building SaaS products, backend APIs, cloud services, and AI-enabled workflows. I enjoy turning complex problems into scalable systems that users love. In my recent roles, I led end-to-end development from frontend UX to backend services, focusing on performance, reliability, and thoughtful AI integration.

I’m passionate about building practical AI-powered features, mentoring teams, and delivering robust production-ready software. When I’m not coding, I enjoy learning new AI tooling and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive product outcomes.

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Language

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Work Experience

Founding Engineer | Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer at Infosys
June 1, 2024 - April 1, 2026
Built enterprise AI workflow features with React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, FastAPI, and cloud services (Azure OpenAI, AWS/Azure). Created LangChain-based RAG services with embeddings, citations, vector search, and fallback logic, reducing document lookup time by roughly 25–35% in pilot workflows.
Founding Engineer at Artifact
March 1, 2023 - May 1, 2024
Joined as founding engineer and built core AI news discovery features across feed personalization, onboarding, article views, saved content, and feedback loops.
Full-Stack Software Engineer at EZLease
March 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023
Built lease accounting SaaS features, data models for lease records, payment schedules, amortization views, reports, approvals, and audit history; improved dashboard pagination and overall workflow.
Software Engineer at DockYard
July 1, 2019 - February 1, 2022
Built client web apps with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js; implemented authentication and RBAC, CRUD services, and custom dashboards; improved form validation and reusable UI patterns; contributed to QA and deployment, reducing issues by ~15–20%.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of South Florida
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2019

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other