// about

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

I’m Akash — a full-stack engineer based in Indore, India. Since 2023 I’ve been shipping two production platforms at Cyber Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., from Mongo schema and Firestore security rules up through streaming AI chat and real-time collaboration.

I lean into the un-glamorous middle of the stack — RAG pipelines, silent JWT refresh, reload-safe assessments, listener cleanup at scale. The features you don’t notice when they work.

Outside product work I write short notes on the blog about things I keep learning the hard way.

Base
Indore, IN
Since
2023
Focus
AI + Web
Mode
Remote-ready
Hackathon
MyWays.ai S1
Contact
akashshahngu@gmail.com
// experience

Where I’ve been

2023 — now

Full-Stack Developer

Cyber Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. · Indore

Owning two production platforms end-to-end. ThrivNPS (AI medical exam prep with RAG, streaming chat, video pipeline) and CRM 2.0 (Firestore realtime workspace + Vault). MongoDB schema up through streaming AI UX; no layer of the stack is somebody else's problem.

ReactNode.jsMongoDBOpenAIFirebase
2020 — 2023

BCA — Bachelor of Computer Applications

OIMT, Uttarakhand

Data structures, algorithms, DBMS, OOP, web dev. Built side projects that actually shipped, including the MyWays.ai Season 1 hackathon winner — a Bookmark Manager with browser-extension sync.

DS/AlgoDBMSOOPHackathon Winner
// how I work

Operating principles

Contracts before code

Every feature starts as a task spec with test cases. If I can't describe the contract in a paragraph, I don't yet understand the feature.

AI-native workflow

Claude for architecture, Copilot/Cursor for implementation. The bottleneck stops being typing speed and starts being clarity of thought.

Own the middle layer

The interesting bugs live between the database and the UI — memory tiers, auth refresh, realtime cleanup. That's where I spend my time.

Ship, measure, iterate

A live platform with real users teaches you things staging never will. I optimize for shipping small and correcting fast.

Have a hard problem to build?

akashshahngu@gmail.com →