Most recently I led FanPro Studio's AI media generation platform — frontend, APIs, payments, auth, and the release train — from an empty repository to public beta. Before that, four years as the founding frontend hire at EximPe, an RBI-licensed cross-border payment aggregator, from launch to 50K+ monthly active users — on top of two years across passwordless auth and product engineering.
I lead frontends, write design systems, take the 2am pages, and unironically enjoy the part where you finally find the bug.
Stuff I'm good at
React TypeScript Design systems Claude Next.js Node Mentorship Code review Incident response Observability Perf Delegation A11y Root-cause Migrations Communication Release discipline Animation Stripe PostgreSQL GraphQL React Native
FanPro Studio
Mar '26 → Sep '26Lead Software Engineer · AI media · UAE · Remote · in production
- Took the platform from an empty repository to public beta in four months — 4 generation modes, 20 generation types, onboarding, an asset library, and a creator marketplace. Next.js 16 + React + TypeScript.
- Built the generation backend: API routes and server actions that submit jobs to AI model providers, background jobs that track status, provider webhooks that store results.
- Wired Stripe and WorkOS end to end — checkout, credit-granting webhooks, session handling — and social publishing to 11 platforms with OAuth, a content calendar, and a composer.
- Set up Datadog monitoring, a 4-environment gated release train, and product analytics from scratch: funnels, generation conversion, referrals, ads attribution.
- Cut explore-page CLS from 0.66 to 0.003, traced an 8.3s LCP to a 14.8MB chunk and defined the fix, mentored 3 engineers, and built the team's AI-assisted dev workflow.
EximPe
May '22 → Mar '26Lead Software Engineer · Founding frontend · Fintech
- Founding team hire. Built and owned the customer, admin, and sales web apps from launch to 50K+ monthly active users, on Django services and Java banking APIs.
- Led the frontend team — code review, testing, and release standards that cut production incidents by 60% (Sentry).
- Rebuilt core payment flows: transaction time down 30%, JS bundle down 40%, Lighthouse from 39 to 81.
- Raised mobile KYC completion from 25% to 85% with funnel analytics and A/B-tested redesigns.
- Built an 80+ component Storybook design system used across all 3 apps; shipped RBI-aligned payment and KYC flows, fixed VAPT findings, added CSP/CSRF/XSS defenses.
Sawo Labs · SDE II
Aug '21 → Apr '22 · Bangalore · RemoteQBurst · Software Engineer
Oct '20 → Jul '21 · KochiZomato · sales intern
Jul '19 → Aug '19 · Kochi · On-siteMoments: a thread-style social app. You don't post one-offs, you post a thread of moments strung together.
"Atomic Habits" (James Clear).
Techno, hard techno and schranz when shipping. Indie when I need to come back down.
A medium-roast cortado if I'm at a café, or a good French press if I'm home.
Any kind of development. I just want something that tickles my brain.
Two pages. PDF. No Comic Sans (here). Updated whenever I do something worth bragging about.
Let's build something.
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Reach out for staff/lead roles, founding-team gigs, any kind of development work (I'm a full-blown builder now), or honest opinions on your codebase.