shikhardb

- Own product and engineering for an AI EdTech platform built for the Indian market, from product vision and backlog through architecture and release, and work AI-native daily with Claude Code and Cursor. - Cut inference cost per request 80% by rerouting the production workload to most cost effective models, validated against an eval suite and human review before rollout, then held the saving as traffic grew through model routing, prompt caching, system-prompt compression and tuning retrieval to fewer chunks against measured recall. - Raised release cadence from roughly 1 to 8 releases per sprint within three months by establishing technical architecture across AI pipelines and using AI-native development tools for hands-on prototyping and shipping. - Maintained 99.99% platform availability across core services, tracked in Grafana and Prometheus over six months, through end-to-end engineering SLAs, automated sprint prioritisation and observability guardrails built with DevOps. - Held integration defect density under 1% in production, tracked in Sentry over the same six-month window, a 95% reduction, through technical design reviews, security audits and cross-functional QA release validation workflows. - Achieved 100% on-time milestone delivery using data-driven engineering updates, risk-mitigation roadmaps and trade-off frameworks written for executive leadership. - Built and run both the product and the engineering team.

- Led zero-to-one development of a self-sovereign AI engine, Web3 auth and ZKP authorisation, multi-chain wallet management, and an automated KOL community rewards system. - Built OSOL, an on-chain index of the leading AI tokens on Solana, structured as an S&P 100 for that sector, and owned the OSOL SDK. - Shipped Privy embedded wallets and the real-time messaging surfaces behind the product. - Architected and delivered “Ocean”, positioned as the industry’s fastest AI chatbot, while managing resource allocation, roadmap and release planning across 5 concurrent technical product tracks. - Drove 10x waitlist growth beyond target projections for the O.XYZ ecosystem Beta release, validating product-market fit within 30 days of launch. - Boosted sprint completion velocity 75% by modernising Agile practices, streamlining backlog refinement and clearing cross-functional blockers across distributed engineering teams.

- Product-managed end-to-end delivery of Shib Hub, a Web3 super-app combining ERC-4337 account-abstraction wallets, a decentralised exchange, an NFT marketplace and social/gaming dApps, mapped into one coherent platform surface rather than a bundle of modules. - Conceived and launched Shib Name Service, extending decentralised identity infrastructure to millions of global users, personally owning namespace design, registration and renewal mechanics, and the fee model. - Led the product for Shiba Inu’s privacy-preserving Layer 3 blockchain, the network on which the SHI ecosystem stablecoin was being built. - Led some unreleased prediction markets and derivatives products. - Expanded platform retention 50% by optimising UX workflows and onboarding pipelines so non-technical users could get started on their own, without weakening key-management security standards. - Ran wallet and key-management infrastructure on Fireblocks and MPC key management, alongside the real-time messaging systems behind the platform’s conversational and social surfaces.

- Pioneered India’s first automated market maker (WazirX AMM), capturing approximately $20M in total value locked at peak right at mainnet launch - Owned development, marketing and go-to-market for India’s first NFT marketplace as a single scope, personally running the community programme and driving adoption past 1,000,000 monthly active users against a modelled 500,000

- Architected a $10B+ natural-resource tokenisation pipeline with Central Asian government entities, overseeing agile development of 5+ sovereign-state products across under-the-ground mining reserves and finished metals: copper, zinc, gold and rare earth elements. Delivered as a live, government-backed RWA exchange platform on which multiple countries could trade tokenised assets among themselves. - Contributed to a $10M growth raise: built the pitch deck and the financial model, ran the diligence process and pitched alongside the founder. The funding scaled a crypto product suite of multi-currency wallets, Neo-Bank apps, liquid-staking DeFi protocols and DEX infrastructure. - Scaled and managed a 30+ person cross-functional organisation of engineers, designers and marketers to launch an NFT marketplace with fractional ownership and off-chain lazy minting. - Ran the counterparty relationship at government-entity level: requirement and diligence sessions, technical discovery, roadmap negotiation and expectation management across 5+ concurrent sovereign programmes whose readiness and technical maturity varied widely. - Digitised 100M physical trees and billions of blue-ocean carbon credits as carbon-credit RWAs for Save Planet Earth, turning verified plantings into on-chain carbon-credit assets as part of a multi-year digital transformation strategy. - Shipped KYC and on-ramp integrations and card issuing, built the mobile suite in React Native, owned the DEX SDK, and tracked product KPIs.

- Led development of the world’s first interchain token bridge on the Cosmos blockchain, a routing and settlement problem between networks that did not previously trust each other. - Increased e-sports platform throughput 600% by designing and deploying a custom high-performance decentralised ledger architecture. - Shortened product time-to-market by 5 months by harmonising technical workflows across 3 engineering teams and internal legal counsel. - Reduced user onboarding time 30% and improved platform usability efficiency 50% through UX conversion-funnel work.

- Built and launched a large-scale astrological gems and books e-commerce application, and sold the business for an undisclosed amount. - Generated $1.4M+ in annual revenue and grew brand recognition 20% year-over-year through targeted Google AdWords and Facebook Ads acquisition campaigns aimed at rural demographics. - Increased user retention 25% and in-app revenue 15% by redesigning multi-platform mobile and desktop applications using A/B experimentation and cohort analysis.

Conceived and deployed an enterprise blockchain milk-supply-chain tracking application, saving an audited $15M+ annually for the client over a one-year measurement period and reducing collection cycle times 12%. Sold and delivered directly to the enterprise counterparty, from first conversation to deployed system.

- Delivered client projects end to end as a consultant, from requirements through build, launch and iteration, for enterprise and consumer customers. - Architected and built a custom single-page application replacing a legacy web application: ~500% faster page loads, 30% traffic increase and a 3x revenue increase within 30 days of launch. - Co-led modernisation of a new web platform version for one of India’s largest health insurance enterprises, increasing average online renewal sales 7%. - Built a mobile application for the Latina community in North America, generating 20% compounding month-overmonth growth in nationwide traffic. - Built and open-sourced a mobile application for medical professionals to discuss case files, scaling organically to 5,000+ doctors and veterinarians worldwide. - Integrated data-driven ad placements for a medical tourism venture: 250%+ monthly impression gain and 70%+ revenue growth. - Deployed and maintained MERN-stack web applications at 99.95% uptime.