Backend & database engineer turned indie AI-product builder.
Five years going deep on PostgreSQL, performance, and data at scale.
Now I design, build, and ship AI-native products end to end, solo, under soupup.ai.
📍 Mumbai, India · 🛠️ build in public · 🔒 local-first by default
The Soup Up family of tools (idea, design, code, and deploy, all solo):
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| soupup.ai | The umbrella brand: AI tools that supercharge how you work |
| Crucible | A 10-lens idea-assay engine that pressure-tests any startup idea before you build it |
| SoupBrain | A conversational second brain, MCP-first, with pgvector recall and a credits wallet |
| SoupDraw | Draw on your live camera with hand gestures, 100% on-device, for any video call (Firefox + Chrome) |
| soupdraw (npm) | The gesture-drawing engine as a framework-agnostic browser SDK (source) |
| NaviLearn | A multi-stakeholder, Indic-first edtech platform |
| cptsd.in | Complex-PTSD awareness platform |
Yocket · Software Developer (2019 to 2024, ~5 years) Backend and database engineering for a study-abroad platform:
- Migrated the entire database, 200+ tables, from MySQL to PostgreSQL
- Cut RDS downtime ~80% with an emergency-management + RCA / recovery playbook
- Cut server cost ~40% and RDS CPU usage ~70 to 80% through query and performance tuning
- Built Node.js / TypeScript APIs, plus procedures for DB documentation, subsetting / cloning, and PII removal
Seekora.ai · Software Engineer (~1 year) Product and backend engineering.
Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · PL/SQL · Go Backend & data: Node.js · PostgreSQL (performance tuning, stored procedures, triggers) · Knex / Objection · data modeling AI & product: LLM orchestration · MCP · pgvector · Astro · Cloudflare Workers How I work: local-first, ship in public, solo end to end
Turning localhost projects into products people can pay for.