Indore, India · UTC+5:30 · Open to remote

Full-stack engineer
shipping production
AI systems.

I’m Akash Shah — I build the un-glamorous middle of modern software: RAG pipelines, streaming chat, silent-refresh auth, reload-safe state, and real-time collab that survives a shaky train wifi.

Role
Full Stack Dev
At
CIS Pvt. Ltd.
Since
Oct 2023
Neural network of glowing gold nodes on charcoal
fig.01 — a rough map of what I build
See selected work ↓
React 19Node.jsMongoDBOpenAI GPT-4oRAG · Vector SearchSSE StreamingFirestoreStripeMuxZoom APITanStack QueryTypeScriptReact 19Node.jsMongoDBOpenAI GPT-4oRAG · Vector SearchSSE StreamingFirestoreStripeMuxZoom APITanStack QueryTypeScript
02Systems, by the numbers

I like software that holds up in production.

Not toy repos. Live platforms, real users, real edge cases — the kind of surface area where every abstraction earns its keep.

65+
MongoDB models in production
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92
service files architected
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112+
API routes shipped
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18+
Firestore collections, real-time
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7
external platforms integrated
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1
hackathon won — MyWays.ai S1
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03Selected work
01

ThrivNPS

2024 —

AI Medical Board Exam Platform

A production AI platform for PMHNP / FNP students. RAG pipeline over 1536-dim vector embeddings, SSE-streamed chat, and an AI Case Simulator where the model plays the patient.

  • 3-tier memory system (short-term / summary buffer / long-term behavior) for infinite-length chat under token limits
  • Generic chat orchestrator — new AI products via config, no core changes
  • Study Plan generator with 3 adaptive modes + XP leaderboards
  • Video pipeline: Mux UpChunk, HLS, auto-transcripts feeding vector search
React 19Node.jsMongoDB + Atlas Vector SearchOpenAI GPT-4oSSE StreamingMuxStripeTanStack Query
Read the case study →
02

CRM 2.0

2024 —

Real-Time Team Collaboration Platform

Custom Firebase chat + workspace with typing indicators, @mentions, reactions, read receipts — plus a project-scoped Vault for team secrets.

  • 20+ real-time pages on Firestore onSnapshot with proper cleanup + offline persistence
  • Granular RBAC (admin / manager / employee) enforced by Firestore security rules
  • PWA with Vite PWA plugin — installable, service worker cache, FCM push
  • Sidebar 'new content' indicators via lastViewed timestamp diff
React 18FirebaseFirestoreLexicalTailwindVite PWAFCM
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03

Auth & Quiz Engine

2024

Cross-subdomain sessions · reload-safe assessments

The hard-to-see infra: silent JWT refresh with a request queue, and a quiz engine that survives a hard refresh mid-question with timer + answer state intact.

  • Axios interceptor queues failed requests during refresh, retries on new token
  • Cross-subdomain auth sync via BroadcastChannel API
  • PerformanceNavigationTiming + sessionStorage for reload recovery
  • Question prefetching keeps the next question 0ms away
JWTAxios interceptorsBroadcastChannelsessionStorageReact
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04About

A builder’s builder, working the AI-native way.

Since 2023 I’ve been a full-stack developer at Cyber Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. in Indore, shipping two live platforms end-to-end — from Mongo schema and Firestore rules up through streaming AI UX.

I work AI-first: features start as task-based specs and upfront test cases, with Claude for architecture and Copilot/Cursor for implementation. That workflow cuts delivery time and forces me to think in contracts before code.

Before that — BCA at OIMT (2020–2023), Uttarakhand. DS/algos, DBMS, OOP, web dev. Hackathon: MyWays.ai S1 winner for a Bookmark Manager.

Base
Indore, IN
Focus
AI + Web
Since
2023
Mode
Remote-ready
05Stack

Tools I reach for.

Languages

05
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • HTML5
  • CSS3 / SCSS

Frontend

07
  • React
  • React Router v7
  • TanStack Query v5
  • Redux Toolkit
  • Tailwind
  • Vite
  • Recharts

Backend

07
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • REST
  • SSE Streaming
  • JWT
  • Zod
  • WebSockets

Databases

03
  • MongoDB + Atlas Vector Search
  • Firestore
  • PostgreSQL

AI / ML

05
  • OpenAI GPT-4o
  • Embeddings
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • Claude / Copilot / Cursor

Cloud & Ops

07
  • Firebase (Auth · FCM · Storage)
  • Stripe
  • Mux
  • Zoom API
  • Cloudinary
  • Vercel
  • Git
06Contact

Have a hard problem?
Let’s build it.

Currently taking on new work_