Changelog from my journey

I've been working at Kay.ai for the past 2 years. Here's a timeline of my journey.

Mar 2024 - Present

Founding Product Engineer · kay.aiAI that takes over the paperwork side of insurance broking.
  • Lead the product that checks a renewed insurance policy against what was actually agreed. 500 to 1,000 pages a job, spread across documents that are meant to match and frequently do not, and being close counts as wrong.
  • Built an AI co-worker that runs our first line support in Slack and escalates only what is genuinely critical.
  • Started out leading frontend architecture and UX.
React
Typescript
Tailwind
ShadCN
Python
LLM
AWS

Feb - Nov 2023

Co-Founder / CTO · DreamboatAITooling for teams building LLM apps, back when almost none existed.
  • Built the platform: monitoring, prompt management, debugging and evaluation.
  • Built proxy middleware on Cloudflare Workers holding sub-20ms responses.
  • Shipped apps on it: Divedash for ChatGPT prompt templates, Almada for LinkedIn icebreakers.
React
Typescript
Rails
Node
AWS
Cloudflare
TimescaleDB
Redis
PostgreSQL

Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

Co-Founder / CTO · EngageBudMarketing tools for D2C brands, sold through Shopify.
  • Raised $100K from Upekkha.
  • Built Influencerbit for influencer marketing, then Engagebud for gamification.
  • Scaled the backend past 13M users and 6M discount codes.
React
Typescript
Rails
PostgreSQL
Javascript

May 2020 - Jun 2021

Product Engineer · ProfileBudA Chrome extension that pulled sales leads out of Instagram.
  • Joined as an intern in my second year and ended up owning frontend, then backend.
  • Built a Go server handling 20M+ user records at 1K+ requests per second.
  • Reached roughly $7K MRR before Meta sent a cease and desist and we shut down.
React
Rails
GoLang
Gatsby
Javascript

Education

IIT Jodhpur, B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship, graduated June 2022. I was already working full time on startups by my second year.