STAFF ENGINEER & FOUNDER — DELHI NCR

I build products end-to-end — from the data pipeline to the pixel.

Shipping AI-heavy web products across fintech, healthcare, and developer education. I own the whole stack — the data model, the backend, the interface — and the AI systems that keep the data honest.

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BITEMPORAL — ONE ENGINEER, PLOTTED OVER TIME
rolecurrentproduct
CAREER
Informatica · Lead → Principal
Agoda · Staff
Informatica · Lead → PrincipalAgoda · Staff
20182020202220242026 · now
BehindScale · liveMatchMyCard · in buildClinicKhata · in pilot
01

Approach

the edge
A

Systems that stay honest

MatchMyCard runs a monthly pipeline that scrapes UAE bank sites and pulls every cashback rate, offer, and benefit into structured data — each figure traceable to the bank's own page. Cards get quietly devalued and no one re-reads the fine print; this keeps what users see accurate and provable.

B

AI as infrastructure

LLM extraction turns messy inputs — bank PDFs, handwritten dental slips — into structured data behind validation gates. At ClinicKhata a correction loop learns each clinic's handwriting, so extraction gets more accurate the more it's used.

C

One engineer, a fleet of agents

I architect and review, then direct AI agents on the work — coding agents on implementation, and at BehindScale a fleet that researches, drafts, and reviews. The job is the guardrails and checks that keep them on-goal and off slop, so one engineer can run several products at once.

02

Selected work

3 products, in parallel
01

BehindScale

behindscale.comLive
System-design learning for staff-level engineers

A system-design learning tool for senior and staff engineers, built from real production engineering write-ups — not the usual “design WhatsApp” exercises. Every case pairs a plain-language breakdown with an interactive artifact you can poke and break to feel the real trade-offs behind the architecture. Authoring runs on a coordinated fleet of agents — researching, drafting, building the artifact, reviewing, and making share images — that I direct end to end.

SIGNATURE  Every case ships with a runnable model of its own failure.

STACK
Next.jsReactInteractive simulationsMulti-agent authoringAgent orchestration
ROLE
Author · engineer
FOCUS
  • Real-world case research
  • Interactive failure artifacts
  • Plain-language editorial
02

ClinicKhata

clinickhata.comIn pilot
Practice management for small Indian dental clinics

A patient-ledger SaaS whose wedge is extraction, not data entry: AI reads a clinic’s existing handwritten registers and slips, so a clinic goes digital with zero migration. A feedback loop sharpens it over time — the AI mis-reads a slip, the dentist corrects it, and extraction accuracy climbs for that clinic with every correction. Patient data stays resident in India, built to comply with the DPDPA. In pilot with two clinics and open for public signup.

SIGNATURE  Every correction a dentist makes trains the model for that clinic — accuracy compounds instead of plateauing.

STACK
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseLLM extractionHandwriting OCRFeedback loop
ROLE
Founder · engineer
FOCUS
  • Handwriting feedback loop
  • Zero-migration onboarding
  • India residency · DPDPA
03

MatchMyCard

matchmycard.comIn build
UAE credit-card matching · net-value scoring

Ranks UAE credit cards by real net value — in dirhams, for your actual spending — through a gamified quiz that profiles how you spend, surfaces a “Money Personality,” and shares bank commission back with users. Under the hood it is two systems: an AI pipeline that turns bank product pages and Schedule-of-Charges PDFs into structured card data, and a scoring engine that computes each card’s net annual value against your habits.

SIGNATURE  Every scored number traces to a verbatim quote in a dated, content-addressed snapshot.

STACK
Next.jsTypeScriptPythonLLM extractionAI workflowsAgent orchestrationAI harness
ROLE
Founder · lead engineer
FOCUS
  • AI extraction pipeline
  • Net-value scoring engine
  • Bitemporal snapshots
03

Experience

12+ years, full-stack
Jun 2024 – May 2026

Agoda

Staff Software Engineer · Full Stack
30+partner products
$230M+annual revenue
90d→7donboarding time
  • Tech lead on a 10-engineer platform team owning Agoda’s white-label booking experience — one shared frontend embedded in 30+ partner products, powering $230M+ a year.
  • Isolated every partner’s theming on a single shared codebase via CSS Custom Properties and an in-house design-token system: distinct identities, zero style leakage, no per-partner forks.
  • Automated partner onboarding to scale the roster from 3–4 to 30+; enterprise launches went from ~90 days to 2–3 weeks, and simpler partners now launch in 7.
  • Built a11y-fixer, a Claude-based agentic SDLC skill that emits targeted accessibility fixes from a ticket ID — ~60% resolved one-shot, ~85% yielding a high-quality starting PR.
Oct 2018 – Jun 2024

Informatica

Lead → Principal Software Engineer
45production components
25+SaaS products
1→5engineers grown & led
  • Founding engineer of Droplets, Informatica’s company-wide React + TypeScript design system; grew the India team from one (me) to five engineers and a manager.
  • Shipped 45 production components consumed by 25+ SaaS products — every new product launched on Droplets by the time I left.
  • Built and reviewed Lit-based Web Components (Shadow DOM, Custom Elements) so consumers got native primitives that embed cleanly outside React.
  • Drove the company-wide WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility initiative across all 25+ products — a prerequisite for enterprise and government B2B sales.
EDUCATIONB.Tech (Honors) + MS by Research, Computer Science·IIIT-Hyderabad2007 – 2013
04

Stack

tools of record
Frontend
ReactTypeScriptCSSDesign systemsA11yNext.jsFrontend architectureRESTGraphQL
Backend & Data
Node.jsPythonScalaPostgresKafka
AI & LLM systems
Claude CodeOpen-source modelsContext engineeringAgent orchestrationAI harnessAI workflows
Infra & tooling
GitGrafanaGitHub ActionsCI/CD
05

About

I spent twelve years making shared UI trustworthy at scale — founding a company-wide design system at Informatica, then leading frontend platform work at Agoda — before turning that same obsession with correctness toward products of my own.

What I care about is consistent across all of it: systems where every number can be traced to a source, AI doing real infrastructural work instead of demos, and one engineer — with the right build loop — running several serious products without cutting the corners that matter. I review the parts that count and let the agents handle the rest.

06 — CONTACT

Let's build something that stays honest.

Open to full-stack and AI-systems work, collaborations, and good conversations. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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