NIRBHAY · AGRAWAL
AVAILABLE
OPEN TO SELECT ENGAGEMENTS · 2026

Building scalable
products. Engineering
beyond limits.

Senior Product Engineer · AI Engineer · Tech Lead with 5+ years architecting enterprise-scale systems generating $50M+ in combined revenue, handling 200M+ API requests/month, and serving 150+ enterprise clients.

$70M+
Revenue generated
270M+
API requests / month
150+
Enterprise clients
5+ yrs
As Lead Architect
TRUSTED BY:ICICI BANKAXIS BANKBANK OF BARODABANK OF INDIAJIOPERFIOSPANDATERMINAL
ABOUT

A senior engineer who ships.

I'm a Technical Lead and AI Engineer who spends most days architecting distributed systems that survive real production load — banks onboarding millions of users, crypto desks indexing trillions of rows, AI agents classifying nine hundred thousand items overnight.

The work tends to look quiet on the outside: fewer demos, more uptime. Cleaner pipelines. APIs that used to take 94 seconds now take 2.4. Costs that used to scare CFOs, halved.

I've led engineering on products that have generated $50M+ in combined revenue, and I'm happiest when the org chart says “senior engineer” and the actual job is closer to resident systems thinker.

LOCATION
Remote · Available Worldwide
ROLE FIT
Tech Lead · Staff Engineer · AI Architect
ENGAGEMENT
Full-time · Fractional · Advisory
PRAISE5 VOICES · SCROLL TO ADVANCE

Words from people I've shipped with.

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Makesh Krishna01
Shashank Attrey02
Aishvarya Singh03
Gursimar Singh Chopra04
Himansu Sharma05
001

I've worked with engineers who use every AI tool available and still move slower than Nirbhay did before any of that existed.

MK
Makesh Krishna
CTO · RONI ANALYTICS
↳ PROJECT
PANDATERMINAL
002

The thing about Nirbhay is he doesn't treat engineering and product as two separate jobs. He'll be deep in the infrastructure one hour and then flag a UX problem in the next standup that the designer missed. We went from nothing to a working product in six weeks. Not a prototype — an actual product. Couldn't have asked for a better cofounder.

SA
Shashank Attrey
CO-FOUNDER · PAISA DEKHO
↳ PROJECT
0 → 1 BUILD
003

The frontend developer we had on the team was good but Nirbhay was moving at a completely different speed. Instead of slowing down or making it a management problem he just absorbed the work. Backend, frontend, didn't matter. He treated it like a problem to solve not a boundary to negotiate.

AS
Aishvarya Singh
FOUNDER & CEO · BETTRTECH
↳ PROJECT
BETTRTECH BUILD
004

He once fixed a bug he found that wasn't in his scope, wasn't in his sprint, and nobody had reported it. Just saw it, fixed it, mentioned it in standup. Small thing. But it tells you everything about how he thinks about work. It's never just a ticket to him. It's a product that real people are going to use and a product he cares about.

GS
Gursimar Singh Chopra
TECH LEAD · PERFIOS
↳ PROJECT
VIDEO KYC
005

He once fixed a bug he found that wasn't in his scope, wasn't in his sprint, and nobody had reported it. Just saw it, fixed it, mentioned it in standup. Small thing. But it tells you everything about how he thinks about work. It's never just a ticket to him. It's a product that real people are going to use and a product he cares about.

HS
Himansu Sharma
ENGINEERING MANAGER · PERFIOS
↳ PROJECT
VIDEO KYC
↳ ABOUT THIS PERSON
Makesh Krishna
CTO · RONI ANALYTICS
WORKED ON
PandaTerminal
↳ KEYWORD
slower
THE WORD THAT RECURS
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0106
CRYPTO · TRADING · DEFI
2022LEAD ARCHITECT

PandaTerminal - Crypto Analysis & Trading Platform

Institutional-grade crypto analysis and trading platform with ChartIQ integration, 100+ technical indicators, trusted by HNI traders.

BY THE NUMBERS04 METRICS
94s → 2.4s
API latency
$700K+
Revenue
4 Trillion+
Rows indexed
57%
AWS cost cut
97% LATENCY CUT
Node.jsReactPythonDjangoWebSocketsChartIQAWSPostgreSQLAuroraDBRedisERC20Web3.js
0206
E-COMMERCE · LUXURY · MIGRATION
2025LEAD ENGINEER

Scuderia Car Parts

Global distributor for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Maserati parts. World's first fully-indexed online catalog for prestige cars — 1M+ parts, 85+ countries.

BY THE NUMBERS04 METRICS
$55M+
Revenue ARR
1M+
Parts indexed
15+ yrs
Legacy migrated
1st
Indexed luxury catalog
WORLD'S FIRST FULLY-INDEXED PRESTIGE CATALOG
ReactNext.jsNestJSPythonPHPPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisAWS
0306
FINTECH · COMPLIANCE · AI
2024SENIOR MEMBER OF TECH STAFF

Video KYC Solution (Perfios)

RBI-compliant Video KYC for India's biggest banks — ICICI, Axis, BoB, BoI, Jio. 270M+ requests/month, 60M+ users served, real-time fraud detection at 70kbps.

BY THE NUMBERS04 METRICS
270M+
Requests / month
60M+
Users served
70kbps
Real-time fraud
11
Languages
270M+ REQUESTS/MONTH
PythonFastAPIComputer Vision/AIWebRTCReactAWSRedisMicroservicesPaaSLua
0406
EDTECH · MOBILE · SPACED REPETITION
2025TECH LEAD

Cerebellum Academy Flashcards

EdTech platform for medical aspirants prepping NEET PG and INICET. Smart spaced-repetition flashcards.

BY THE NUMBERS04 METRICS
150K+
Users served
78%
Retention rate
2 months
Time to ship
Mobile
First
150K+ USERS SERVED
React NativeReactNode.jsPythonMySQLMixpanelRedisMobile First
0506
AI · VIDEO · AUTOMATION
2025TECH LEAD

ViddyScribe

AI-powered video editing pipeline that turns raw footage into polished clips — captions, b-roll, pacing — fully automated.

BY THE NUMBERS03 METRICS
Award
Gemini App of the Year
End-to-end
Automated pipeline
LLM
Driven pacing
GEMINI APP OF THE YEAR
PythonFFmpegOpenAI WhisperReactAWSRedis
0606
WEB3 · ANALYTICS · ACCESS CONTROL
2023LEAD ARCHITECT

T.A.R.A - Web3 Analytics & Access Control

Web3 analytics dashboard with NFT-gated access control. Bridges Web2 interfaces with Web3 assets.

BY THE NUMBERS03 METRICS
$500K+
Lifetime
Sub-sec
Wallet gate
On-chain
Access control
$500K+ LIFETIME
FlaskNode.jsWeb3.jsBlockchainAnalyticsRedis
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EXPERIENCE4 ROLES · 2021–2026

Where the systems lived.

OCT 2025 - PRESENT · REMOTE

Senior Product Engineer / Tech Lead

at The Product Highway

Leading, architecting and developing multiple enterprise systems from scratch, including ViddyScribe (Won Gemini App of the Year), Cerebellum Academy, Scuderia Car Parts, and Grayporter, generating combined revenue over 50 million USD.

  • Leading, architecting and developing multiple enterprise systems from scratch (ViddyScribe (Won Gemini App of the Year), Cerebellum Academy, Scuderia Car Parts, Grayporter) generating combined revenue over 50 million USD.
  • Engineered an AI agent to automatically determine HTSUS codes for over 900,000 items with 96% accuracy, saving thousands of hours in manual work.
  • Developed a custom domain-specific chatbot that increased sales by 16% and reduced cart abandonment by 31% since launch.
  • Built custom AI models to improve sales performance, increasing conversion rates from 27.6% to 32.1%.

The toolkit, by domain.

AI & ML
LLMsRAGsLangchainAgentic AIMCPVector DBsRetrievalPrompt EngineeringEVALSAI AutomationML Pipelines
FRONTEND
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptAngularJSD3.jsCSSHTMLWebRTCWebSockets
BACKEND
Node.jsPythonExpress.jsFastAPIDjangoFlaskGoJavaRustGraphQL
CLOUD & DEVOPS
AWSLambdaAPI GatewayECSRDSCloudWatchDockerGCPDigitalOcean
DATA & INFRA
PostgreSQLNoSQLSQLRedisElasticsearchNeo4JRabbitMQHAProxy
ACHIEVEMENTS4 ENTRIES

A few things worth noting.

01

Graduated as top of batch, receiving Gold Medal for academic excellence

RECOGNITION
02

Placed First in Hack-day, sponsored by Amazon-Alexa

RECOGNITION
03

President of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

RECOGNITION
04

Mentoring underprivileged kids for Devsnest Organization

RECOGNITION
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WHAT I WORK ON
01

0 → 1 Product Engineering

From whiteboard to shipped product — full ownership across the stack.

02

Agentic Systems

Designing and shipping production-grade AI agents — tool use, MCP, retrieval, evals, and autonomous workflows.

03

AI-Accelerated Development

Leveraging LLMs and AI tools for faster shipping cycles and higher quality output.

04

Scalable System Architecture

Designing distributed systems built to handle hundreds of millions of requests.

05

ML Infrastructure

Production ML pipelines, real-time inference, and model serving at scale.

WRITING4 ESSAYS · CITED

Notes from production.

  1. 01

    Deploy Your Own Models to GPUs

    A 2026 operator playbook: when self-hosting wins, which inference engine to pick, the GPU buying matrix, quantization that actually works, and the four metrics you autoscale on.

    LLMsInferenceGPUvLLM
    02 MAY 2026
    16 MIN READ
  2. 02

    How to Think About Product

    The engineer-as-tech-lead view of product thinking — why most roadmaps are theatre, how the engineer gains leverage on what to build, and the discipline of writing your "no" list in public.

    ProductEngineering LeadershipStrategy
    30 APR 2026
    10 MIN READ
  3. 03

    How to Think About Systems

    Notes from operating distributed systems at scale: where leverage lives, why root causes are a coping mechanism, and the architecture diagrams nobody draws but everyone runs.

    SystemsArchitectureReliabilityEngineering
    26 APR 2026
    12 MIN READ
  4. 04

    Practical vs Theoretical Agentic Systems

    Most production wins called "agents" are workflows with one tool-calling node. A field report on what actually ships, where the loops break, and why MCP — not the planner — was the real unlock.

    Agentic AILLMsMCPEVALS
    22 APR 2026
    11 MIN READ
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