Forward-deployed AI engineers

    We Build AI Systems That Do the Busywork For You.

    Uplift AI is a senior team of forward-deployed AI engineers headquartered in Denver, Colorado. We embed with your team, listen to the people doing the work, and automate the manual workflows costing them the most time — inside the tools you already use. No projects. No proposals. One monthly engagement.

    Our four-person team has automated workflows backed by over 326K+ lines of production AI code across 122 services for clients in gaming, consumer mobile, and enterprise. Every engagement is scoped from a Workflow-Audit-driven backlog and run as a monthly retainer with a 30-day exit after the 3-month minimum.

    The team

    Tim Schukar — Principal AI Engineer & Founder

    Tim Schukar

    Principal AI Engineer & Founder

    I've spent my career moving between deep technology and business strategy, with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA in Finance behind it. NASA, Disney, and Panasonic gave me a tour through aerospace, entertainment tech, and complex system integrations. I now run Fidelius, where I'm building AI memory and retrieval systems that push on what RAG and multi-tenant AI architectures can actually do.

    Frank Hernandez — Principal AI Engineer

    Frank Hernandez

    Principal AI Engineer

    My career has spanned mobile platforms, embedded systems, and enterprise software architecture, with a Master's and doctoral work in Computer Science from Florida International University grounding the engineering rigor I bring to every engagement. I led Android development at Motorola Solutions for the APX NEXT public-safety platform, then served as CTO at Last Gameboard, where I scaled the engineering team and shipped GameboardOS. As CTO of Fidelius, I architect the AI retrieval and memory systems that turn experimental work into production systems for regulated, multi-tenant environments.

    Agustin Renteria Beltran — Senior AI Engineer

    Agustin Renteria Beltran

    Senior AI Engineer

    I work on backend architecture and AI-driven systems. Five-plus years of building production services on Kotlin, Spring Boot, FastAPI, and AWS or Google Cloud. At Cobre I owned core money-movement rails for a Latin American fintech. At Panasonic Well's Innovation Team I built AI agent pipelines, RAG flows, and pgvector-based semantic search for the Play Together product. My focus at Uplift AI is grounding AI agents and retrieval systems in Clean Architecture, SOLID design, and event-driven infrastructure: the engineering rigor that keeps experimental AI projects running in production.

    Ivan Eusebio — Senior AI Engineer

    Ivan Eusebio

    Senior AI Engineer

    Full-Stack Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web, mobile, and AI-driven applications across fintech, SaaS, and emerging AI domains. Expert in React Native, Flutter, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, and modern backend platforms like Supabase. Passionate about AI engineering, AI systems, and AI agents that take action, with strong interest in automated workflows, coordination tools, retrieval systems that answer from company data, and developer tooling. Focused on clean architecture, elegant UX, and shipping high-impact products fast.

    Ready to get workflows off your team's plate?

    Start with the $10K, 3-week Workflow Audit. Forward-deployed engineers sit with your team, score the manual workflows they already know about, and hand back a ranked list with hours-back, cost, and time estimates per workflow.

    Schedule a Workflow Audit