Ali Akhtari

Full-stack AI engineer

I build a lot of things. I ship the ones that earn it.

I'm a full-stack AI engineer: I build platforms end to end, with AI as the load-bearing part — turning models into products people actually use, not demos. Right now that's small language models, agents, and the question under all of it: can you trust what they produce? Quieter underneath runs a long thread of security and reliability.

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The map, speaking.

Ask about the work, the approach, or what has his attention now. The voice is narrow by design: it answers from approved public material and points back to real pages.

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    The public map is awake. Ask a useful question and I will point to what I know.

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01 The one that shipped

SpotifyScraper — the one people actually use.

A Python library that pulls clean, typed data out of Spotify's public web player — tracks, albums, artists, playlists, and podcasts — without official API keys. It isn't a demo or a placeholder: it's a real package on PyPI with real users, a documentation site, and the unglamorous maintenance that keeps a library alive across breaking changes. If you want to see how I build and support something other developers depend on, this is the honest example.

2026 · active · open source

SpotifyScraper

A Python library that turns Spotify's public web player into typed data — without official API credentials.

PythonWeb scrapingOpen sourceAutomation
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259 Stars
28 Forks
334 Commits

02 Everything else

The wider range.

Beyond that one shipped library the surface is broad — AI tools and agents, full-stack platforms, automation, and a steady undercurrent of security work. Most of it is private or client work, so I'd rather point to one thing I fully stand behind than a wall of half-claims.

A few of the public signals are real, though, and worth being honest about. The numbers below are fetched live when the site builds — never invented, never rounded up.

259 GitHub stars
1,312 SO reputation
32 Answers shared
25 Questions asked
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03 Now

What has my attention.

  • 01Learning small language models properly — what they can really do at sizes you can afford to run, and how to tell when one is actually any good.
  • 02Building agents with guardrails I trust: structured output, moderation, rate limits, hard cost caps. (The little 'ask' on this site is one of them.)
  • 03Treating verification as a feature, not an afterthought — proving that model output is faithful to its source before anything depends on it.
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