Dmitry (Dee) Kargaev

Hi, I'm Dee 👋

I design AI products and I build them. End to end. One person.

AI Engineer + Product Designer based in Los Angeles. 15 years shipping software. 5 years as the only product designer on VALK (now DatAI Network), a fintech platform used by 70+ financial institutions. Now I architect multi-agent systems, build RAG pipelines, fine-tune models with LoRA, and ship full-stack AI products from idea to production.

I came at AI from product design first. Most of my engineering decisions are really design decisions in different clothes — what to expose, what to hide, who's actually using the thing.

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🐟 Latest

Dory — shared memory layer for AI agents. I use Claude, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw daily, and they all started every session from zero. So I built the layer underneath: markdown files as the source of truth, SQLite as a disposable index, five verbs. Didn't make my agents smarter — made them continuous. Open-source, MIT, runs locally.

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📚 Other recent work

• 📖 Don't Replace Me — book on surviving the AI job market, March 2026. 24 chapters of practical career advice for non-engineers.
• 🌐 deeflect.com — projects, writing, case studies, contact.
• ✍️ blog.deeflect.com — AI engineering, multi-agent systems, build logs.
• 🛠 dee.ink — 31 small Rust CLI tools for AI agents.

🔧 What I work with

Multi-agent orchestration RAG LLM fine-tuning (LoRA) Vector databases Agentic workflows MCP servers
React Next.js TypeScript Python Rust Solidity PostgreSQL Docker
Design systems UX research Figma Information architecture

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🤝 Connect

• 🌐 deeflect.com
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 🐦 @deeflectcom on X
• 📚 Goodreads — Don't Replace Me
• 🔖 Wikidata Q138828544
• 📧 [email protected]

*Available for AI engineering and senior product/AI design roles — full-time or contract. Based in LA. Remote preferred.*

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