hello, i’m

CTO @ Something

I build AI-native products from zero to production — the agent loops, backend, infra, interfaces, deployment paths, and all the ugly things in between.

live footage of me
Illustration of Shinjan coding on a laptop beside a sunflower

psst — this whole page is a whiteboard. drag stuff. hit ✎ and draw on it.

standup energy
actual me
keyboard goes brrr
7teams shipped with2023 → now
15k+users on one appNRI investing · Indus
3hackathon winsMLH ×2 · IEEE ×1
−40%API latencyat Highperformr
▶ deep work playlist
day one, every startup

About

I’m the CTO at Something, where I own product and engineering end to end.

I’m most at home in systems that sit between AI, infrastructure, and product — agents that need to actually work, low-latency APIs, realtime voice, distributed systems, and developer tooling.

I studied Computer Science at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, graduating in 2026 with a 9.36 CGPA. Most of what I know came from shipping things much earlier than I probably should have.

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Shinjan Patra@shinjanpatra

i post what i’m building, what i shipped, and occasionally what i broke. come say hi.

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open to weird ideas

TODO
☐ sleep
☑ ship

7 teams in 3 years
ship it

latency −40%
uptime 99%
sleep: n/a

it worked first try

Experience

2023 — now
01

Something

Chief Technology Officer

May 2026 — PresentRemote · angel-backed
  • Own product and engineering end to end — builder UX, frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI architecture, and technical direction.
  • Built a chat-driven AI application builder with a structured planner + coding-executor loop for iterative software generation.
  • Built real-time SIP voice-agent infrastructure with CRM context, intent tools, indexed knowledge retrieval, and post-call summaries.
02

Amboras

Founding Engineer

Mar 2026 — May 2026Remote · YC P26
  • Built core product architecture across frontend, backend, and infrastructure in an early-stage environment.
  • Shipped production features with a bias toward performance, scalability, and rapid product iteration.
03
Jul 2025 — Mar 2026Remote · Venture Highway & Neon-backed
  • Built and optimized full-stack product workflows, improving workflow efficiency by 30%.
  • Developed APIs and backend infrastructure that cut latency by 40% while supporting 10K+ monthly active users.
04

Indus

SDE I

Jan 2025 — Jun 2025Remote · Rainmatter by Zerodha-backed
  • Engineered a fintech platform serving 15,000+ NRIs investing in Indian stocks and mutual funds with 99% uptime.
  • Streamlined API integrations and onboarding flows, reducing transaction processing time by 55%.
05

museLIVE Inc.

Backend Engineer

Jan 2025 — Feb 2025San Francisco Bay Area / Remote
  • Built Go backend services using gRPC, Protobuf, and PostgreSQL for distributed product infrastructure.
  • Designed low-latency communication between microservices.
06

Ionio.ai

SDE I

Nov 2023 — Jan 2025Remote
  • Engineered backend systems across Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and Express, increasing performance by 40%.
  • Built APIs powering Flutter, SwiftUI, and React clients with 10,000+ requests per day.
07

Swift Money

Product Engineer Intern

Jun 2023 — Sep 2023Remote
  • Led Flutter feature development for a finance advisor app, increasing engagement by 40%.
  • Improved backend performance through FastAPI and Django integrations.
on call

Flutter → Go → TypeScript → agents.
still shipping.

fuel

Now

building Something

Making software creation feel less like prompting a code generator and more like having an engineering team that keeps context, plans, executes, verifies, and ships.

MVP shipped
much agent. very plan.

idea: a planner model, but tiny.
(0.6B)

the roadmap

Projects

Something

AI application builder

An AI-native way to build software from conversation. Planner, coding executor, preview, deployment, integrations, and voice-agent infrastructure.

Next.jsTypeScriptAI agentsPostgresVoice

something-planner-0.6b

small planner model

A 0.6B planner for autonomous app-building loops. It consumes structured build context and returns schema-valid planner decisions instead of trying to be the coding model.

Qwen3MLXLoRAStructured output

RetailGPT

GenAI shopping app

Cross-platform shopping product with payments, passwordless auth, LLM recommendations, voice interactions, and retrieval over MongoDB + Elasticsearch.

FlutterSpring BootLLMsMongoDBElasticsearch

ScanProfit

Amazon reseller SaaS

Product scanning and reseller workflow app with Firebase, Node.js, Stripe, and MongoDB. Optimized product search speed by 30%.

FlutterFirebaseNode.jsStripe
post-deploy snack
re: “quick question”

Built around

TypeScriptJavaScriptGoPythonJavaC/C++RustNext.jsReactNode.jsFlutterSwiftUISpring BootFastAPI
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisFirebaseSupabasegRPCProtobufAWSDockerLinuxTensorFlowLangChainAI agentsVoice AI
code review
×3

3 hackathon wins in 3 months.
(2024)

1st place

pair programming
PR merged

Engineering, accurately

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prod, 3am. this is fine.
night before the demo
planner returned valid JSON
me after pushing on a friday

Before startups

Founder & Technical LeadDbug Labs, SRM · Mar 2023 — 2026
Technical LeadMicrosoft Learn Student Ambassadors, SRM · Aug 2023 — Jun 2024
App Development LeadSwift Coding Club · Oct 2022 — Apr 2023
Product Development LeadGenY · Nov 2022 — 2026

Hackathons & competitions

Winner — Best Use of KintoneWeb3Apps, MLH
1st PositionPROTOCOL 1.0, IEEE SRM SB
Winner — Best Use in EducationWeb3Apps 2.0, MLH

Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

B.Tech · Computer Science & Engineering

CGPA 9.36
2022: hello world

the end?