Build real-time AI products that work beyond the demo.
HackerTank helps founders and technical teams design, fix, and ship voice AI, WebRTC, video, agentic AI, and developer-platform products.
Every engagement is led directly by Vikram Dham, who has shipped real-time systems across more than 20 million devices.
Complex problems at the boundary of media, AI, and product.
Real-time systems that feel slow or unreliable
Diagnose latency, turn-taking, barge-in, telephony, WebRTC, media quality, streaming, and production reliability problems.
AI prototypes that need to become products
Design agent workflows, model and tool integrations, MCP systems, evaluations, observability, and human-in-the-loop experiences.
Developer platforms that are difficult to adopt
Improve API and SDK strategy, reference applications, onboarding, packaging, pricing, and platform positioning.
How HackerTank works with teams.
Production Readiness Audit
A focused review of a voice, video, or agentic AI system against real-world conditions: latency variance, endpointing, barge-in, network resilience, observability, and failure handling.
Architecture Review
An independent assessment of a real-time or AI system design before or after a major build decision: media pipeline, model and tool integration, MCP and agent orchestration, scaling, and cost.
Developer Platform Strategy
API and SDK strategy, reference applications, onboarding, packaging, pricing, and positioning for teams whose platform is technically sound but hard to adopt.
Fractional Product Leadership
Ongoing senior product and technical leadership for a team shipping a real-time or AI product, embedded part-time.
The free consultation clarifies the problem and identifies the right engagement. Every engagement is scoped in writing before work begins.
Built in environments where reliability and adoption matter.
Real-time networking and streaming infrastructure shipped at consumer scale.
Real-time networking, connectivity, and media systems.
Programmable video and AI products at Vonage and TokBox, [PLACEHOLDER: one concrete metric — revenue, developers, or customers].
At Vonage and TokBox, engagement leadership spanned the Vonage Video API (formerly TokBox OpenTok), WebRTC, AI media capabilities, APIs, SDKs, cloud infrastructure, and developer experience. More recent work covers agentic AI systems using LangGraph, MCP, retrieval, evaluations, and enterprise integrations.
Field notes from the boundary of media, AI, and product.
Who leads the work.
HackerTank is led by Vikram Dham, a product and technical leader with more than 15 years across real-time communication, networking, programmable video, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and AI. At Vonage and TokBox he led products spanning programmable video, WebRTC, AI media capabilities, APIs, SDKs, and developer experience. He holds five patents in real-time networking and NAT traversal, an MBA from Duke, and an MS from Virginia Tech, and founded a 3,000+ member Silicon Valley technology community.
“I am most useful when a problem does not fit neatly inside one function — when architecture affects product strategy, latency affects user trust, or developer experience determines whether a platform succeeds. Those are the problems HackerTank takes on.”
Bring the problem your team cannot afford to get wrong.
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