Hi, I'm Avinash Zala 👋

Senior .NET & Full-Stack Engineer | AI Integration | 7+ years

I build enterprise web apps, APIs, and ERP systems — and I'm currently adding AI/LLM capabilities to my stack. Based in Surat, India. Open to remote opportunities.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend & Frameworks .NET 8/10 ASP.NET Core C# WPF SignalR Hangfire Redis SSO / PASETO Entity Framework Core

Frontend React TypeScript Angular JavaScript Three.js HTML/CSS Bootstrap Vite

AI / LLM Ollama RAG Pipelines OpenAI API LangChain Vector Search (cosine / pgvector) ChromaDB Semantic Kernel

Databases MSSQL PostgreSQL MySQL Redis

DevOps & Cloud Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Azure (Basics) AWS (Basics)

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🚀 Featured Projects

Project	What it does	Stack
🧱 dotnet-clean-architecture-starter	Production-shaped .NET 8 reference: Domain/Application/Infrastructure/Api layers, EF Core, JWT, Swagger, xUnit tests, Docker, CI	.NET 8, EF Core, FluentValidation, Serilog
🐍 rag-from-scratch-python	~500-line fully local RAG pipeline. PDF → chunk → embed → ChromaDB → Ollama answer. No API keys	Python, pypdf, Ollama, ChromaDB
📄 AI Document Chatbot (RAG)	Upload a PDF → ask questions → get AI answers grounded in the document, fully local & free	.NET 8, React, Ollama, Docker
🛠️ Smart Log Analyzer & Self-Healing API Gateway	Captures runtime errors, streams them via SignalR, and uses AI to suggest root cause + code fix	.NET 10, SignalR, Hangfire, Semantic Kernel, Groq
🎨 3D Portfolio	Immersive Three.js portfolio — scroll-driven camera through a 3D scene, click-to-inspect projects	Three.js, Vite, Vanilla JS

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💼 Work Highlights

• 7+ years delivering enterprise .NET applications
• Migrated a large ERP system (.NET 4.5 → .NET Core) at Aether Industries
• Built real-time systems with SignalR, Docker, Kubernetes & CI/CD pipelines
• Integrated LLM APIs (OpenAI, Groq) into production apps for AI-assisted features
• Designed clean-architecture solutions separating API, Worker, Core, and Infrastructure layers
• Developed full-stack apps across insurance, ERP, social, and IoT domains

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📈 Currently Exploring

• 🐍 Python for AI/ML — now shipping real RAG pipelines (see rag-from-scratch-python)
• 🔗 Vector databases hands-on — using ChromaDB in production-shaped code, learning pgvector
• 🏗️ Clean Architecture as a default — see dotnet-clean-architecture-starter for the reference template
• ☁️ Azure AI-900 certification

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📫 Let's Connect

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Building reliable systems today, adding intelligence to them tomorrow.