Amitai Erfanian

Los Angeles, California

I TURN IDEAS INTO PRODUCTS.

Amitai Erfanian in a blue suit
  • Company buildingCo-founder & CTO, PracticeAI
  • Systems.NET, microservices, AI & automation
  • LeadershipArchitecture, hiring & product roadmap
  • FoundationB.S. CS + M.S. Management, WPI

01 / About

I build reliable software &
the teams behind it.

I turn hard problems into dependable products—shaping the architecture, the team, and the work.

Builder

I take ideas all the way to working software.

I stay close to the work—from the first product decision through architecture and delivery.

Technical leader

I set direction people can build from.

I make ownership clear and create the structure that keeps good work moving.

02 / Experience

Products. Teams. Research.

Company building

PracticeAI

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Co-founded PracticeAI during my senior year at WPI and served as Chief Technology Officer.
  • Led engineering and technical strategy for AI and automation software serving legal professionals.
  • Built enterprise software with .NET and microservices while owning architecture, technical hiring, and the product roadmap.

Selected roles

  1. 01RacketLite

    Creator & Software Architect

    A compact C# and .NET interpreter for Racket’s Beginning Student Language.

  2. 02MedicalTracking

    Lead Software Developer

    A WPI team-built desktop application for a hospital equipment-tracking, navigation, and service-request brief.

  3. 03Backprop vs. Genetics

    Researcher & ML Builder

    Published research comparing the speed and accuracy of backpropagation and genetic learning algorithms on supervised data.

  4. 04BFT Simulation

    Systems & Hardware Developer

    A research prototype that models blunt trauma for a new batterer intervention program developed during COVID-19.

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) — B.S. Computer Science and M.S. Management, Software Development Management focus, completed through the combined program in May 2024.

Honors, awards & research

  • US National World Robotics Olympiad — 1st place in the Regular Senior Category and Robot Design (World Robotics Olympiad, Sep 2019).
  • Congressional App Challenge — Distinguished Recognition in California’s 33rd Congressional District (Congressman Ted Lieu, Nov 2018).
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  • VEX IQ United States Championship — 1st place in the Teamwork Challenge and Robot Design (REC Foundation, Apr 2016).
  • VEX IQ World Championship — top ten of 200 teams competing globally (REC Foundation, Apr 2016).
  • VEX IQ California State Championship — 1st place in the Teamwork Challenge (REC Foundation, Feb 2016).
  • President’s Interactive Qualifying Project Award finalist at WPI.
  • Co-authored “Supervised Data in the Genetics and Backpropagation Learning Algorithms.”
  • Co-authored “How to Give Imperfect Automated Guidance to Learners: A Case-Study in Workplace Learning.”

04 / Toolbox

Architecture, leadership, and hands-on execution.

I work across the layers required to move software from an early idea to a dependable product and a team that can carry it forward.

01

Leadership & delivery

  • Serial co-founder
  • Builder
  • Technical strategy
  • Product leadership
  • Engineering leadership
  • Technical hiring
  • Project management
  • Software engineering
02

AI, automation & systems

  • Agentic AI
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
  • System design
  • Microservices architecture
  • LLM application architecture
  • RAG
  • Evaluation and prompt pipelines
  • Robotics
03

Languages & frameworks

  • C#
  • .NET
  • ASP.NET Core
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL
  • C++
04

Platforms & tools

  • Azure
  • ElevenLabs
  • Twilio
  • Anthropic
  • Docker
  • GitHub
  • Visual Studio
  • Software Factory
  • JIRA
  • And more…

05 / Connect

Let’s build something useful.

I’m always glad to meet founders, teams, and people working through an ambitious product or technical problem.