Mohammad Arif · Principal Software Engineer, Advisor360°

I build AI agents
that ship real code.

Twenty-four years of web platforms taught me what production needs. Now I build the harnesses, reviewers and guardrails that let agents work on it safely.

currentlycarrying an Nx monorepo through an Angular upgrade, with agents

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Mohammad Arif

  1. 2002

    Flash and multimedia

    Delhi studios

  2. 2006

    Frontend architecture

    Publicis Sapient

  3. 2014

    Component platforms

    NatWest Group

  4. 2022

    Micro frontends at scale

    Advisor360°

  5. Now

    AI agents and harnesses

    Advisor360° and GitHub

Every era of the web, built hands-on. The frontend depth is what keeps the agent work grounded in shipping software.

What I'm building

Agents that ship real code

The hard part of AI engineering is everything around the model: what the agent may touch, who checks its work, and what proof it brings back.

How work moves through my agents

  1. Taska ticket, an upgrade, a repeatable chore
  2. Agent in a harnessskills · hooks · MCP tools
  3. Subagent panelindependent reviewersauditcross-checkverify
  4. EvidencePlaywright runs · evals
  5. Human reviewsees only verified findings

Harnesses and tooling

Skills, plugins, hooks and MCP integrations that turn repeatable engineering work into agent workflows someone can review.

Multi-agent orchestration

Subagents that audit and cross-check each other, so a finding is verified before a person spends time on it.

Model routing and governance

Open-weight models through OpenRouter, with zero data retention, cost tracked per session, and control over which region serves each call.

Agent-driven modernization

Agents carrying a large Nx monorepo through a major Angular upgrade, with Playwright checks and evidence in hand before release sign-off.

Experience

Twenty-four years, three long chapters

  1. Dec 2022 – now 3 yrs 11 mos

    Principal Software Engineer · Advisor360°

    • Own the architecture of the Nx monorepo and Module Federation platform that Advisor360°'s WealthTech applications run on.
    • Running the platform's Angular major-version upgrade with agents doing the migration and Playwright evidence gating every release.
    • Build agent tooling for the engineering org: skills, plugins, MCP integrations and review panels of subagents.
    • Leading a proof of concept for open-weight models on OpenRouter, with zero data retention, regional routing and cost measured per session.
    • Coach engineers on working well with AI agents.
    AngularNxModule FederationMCPOpenRouterPlaywright

  2. Mar 2014 – May 2022 8 yrs 3 mos

    Principal Engineer · NatWest Group

    • Built WebSDK, a React component library that cut web app development time by 30%.
    • Built the bank's in-house deployment and release tool on React, microservices, AWS and PCF.
    • Moved monolithic applications to single-page apps backed by microservices.
    • Trained 20+ backend developers into frontend engineers.
    ReactStorybookJestAWSYou Make a Difference awardServing Customers award

  3. Sep 2006 – Feb 2014 7 yrs 6 mos

    Manager, Interactive Development · Publicis Sapient

    • Designed frontend architecture for Merrill Lynch, TD Bank, Citigroup, ESPN, Coca-Cola and Vodafone.
    • Wrote the JavaScript boilerplates that sped up development by 20%.
    • Ran hiring, mentoring, code review and training for a 40+ person interactive studio.
    JavaScriptBackbonejQuerySuperNova award

  4. 2002 – 2006

    Frontend Developer at R Systems · UI Designer at Brightpoint India · Web Architect at Innovative Software · Multimedia Designer at Angelus InfoTech. Flash, Director, ASP and hand-built HTML.

Delivered for

  • Merrill Lynch
  • TD Bank
  • Citigroup
  • Coca-Cola
  • ESPN
  • Vodafone
  • JCPenney
  • Michelin
  • NCL
  • Moët Hennessy
  • Diesel

Toolbox

The stack I work in

Each layer is what the one above it stands on. The agent work only holds up because the platform work underneath it is solid.

  1. AI engineering

    what I build now

    • Coding agents
    • Agent harnesses
    • MCP
    • Subagents
    • Evals
    • Guardrails
    • Model routing

  2. Product platforms

    what the agents work on

    • Angular
    • Nx
    • Module Federation
    • RxJS
    • React
    • Playwright

  3. Foundations

    under everything

    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Node.js
    • Docker
    • AWS
    • GitHub Actions

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