Alaa Otay

About

Most AI looks impressive in a demo. I care about the version that still works on a Tuesday, in production, when nobody's watching.I'm a builder — I take messy, manual operations and turn them into software that runs itself: governed, auditable, and cheap enough that the cost is a rounding error.At eSteps Health, a US digital-health startup, I lead engineering and go-to-market across two products building AI for human movement — the eSteps care platform and Mitus AI. On a given day I design the backend, build the AI automation, and engineer the pipeline that turns strangers into customers.A few things I believe:→ The boring parts are the moat — tests, audit trails, cost ledgers, GDPR. That's what puts AI in front of a hospital.→ The best AI knows when to stop and ask a human. I build the handoff, not just the model.→ Go-to-market is an engineering problem, not a headcount problem.The proof's in my Experience below. The number I'm proudest of isn't: 19% of the time, our AI stopped itself and asked a human. That restraint is the point.I'm building toward a world where AI makes movement visible — so risk is seen before an injury happens.Building in AI, GTM, or movement science? Let's talk.📩 ao@estepshealth.com · alaaotay8@gmail.com🔗 alaaotay.netlify.app 💻 github.com/alaaotay8Stack: Python · FastAPI · Vue 3 · n8n · PostgreSQL · Docker · AWS · LLMs

Company history

1. 
   Mitus AILead Engineer & AI Architect2026-07 – present · 1 mo
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   5DSBackend Engineer Intern2025-06 – 2025-07 · 1 mo
3. 
   NovalizeBackend Engineer Intern2025-07 – 2025-09 · 2 mo
4. 
   Yes2devWeb Developer Intern2024-07 – 2024-08 · 1 mo
5. 
   eSteps Health 🐜AI Ops & GTM Engineer Intern2026-02 – 2026-07 · 5 mo
6. 
   eSteps Health 🐜Lead Engineer & GTM Architect2026-07 – present · 1 mo

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