Niket Shah

Full-stack engineer and Tech Lead. I take products from the first commit to production, and I make the product calls along the way.

Experience

ByteHint IT Solutions · Tech Lead · Remote

Aug 2025 – Present

Rebuilt a 16,000-user legacy desktop app from scratch as 2.0, as the sole core developer: the Electron client, an Express and MongoDB backend on AWS ECS, Stripe payments and a background Windows service.
The 2.0 grew from zero to 250,000+ users and 1,000,000+ downloads.
Moved into Tech Lead: I run sprints and releases, set technical direction, and lead the client relationship.

AiVirex Innovations · Project Lead Developer · Remote

Oct 2024 – Present

Leading a Next.js and Firebase product from zero, owning the architecture and the build-versus-buy calls.

scri8e · Co-founder · FastAPI, Next.js, Postgres, pgvector, Redis

Jun 2026 – Present

Cited, permission-aware answers over a team's Slack, Drive and Notion. Co-founded it and built most of it, from first commit to production. Live with paid plans ($99 and $249 a month), pre-revenue.
Hybrid search in one SQL statement: pgvector and full-text ranking fused by reciprocal rank, capped at 3 chunks per document. Took the right source in the top 8 from 80% to 90% of test questions.
Permissions checked at query time against each tool's sharing model; 8 end-to-end suites found no leaks.
Flags stale or conflicting sources using per-type half-lives: 16 of 16 seeded contradictions caught, 0 false alarms.
Found and closed a database grant that let the browser bypass the backend, before launch. 813 tests in CI.

Cafe chain POS and back office · Solo, contract · Next.js, Postgres, Supabase, Realtime

Sep 2026 – Present

Built the back office and table-service POS for a multi-outlet cafe chain in India, alone: two Next.js apps on one Postgres database, 73 screens. Six outlets went live in five days, with no downtime since.
Money rules live in the database: 144 row-level security policies, SQL-function-only writes, amounts in paise.
Gap-free bill numbers: 20 concurrent sends get 20 consecutive numbers, and retries return the original bill.
Got silent thermal printing working on ordinary Windows PCs through Chrome kiosk mode, then moved printers from polling to realtime push, cutting serverless requests by 96% (about 179K a day to 5K to 7K).

Would This Win? · Solo · Next.js, Claude Haiku, Supabase

Nov 2026

Three AI hackathon judges that read your repo, trace every README claim to the file that should implement it, then question you against a 30-second clock. Built and launched in two days.
A finding needs a verbatim quote from a file the code fetched. Odds are computed in code, never by the model.
Repo text is treated as untrusted, so prompt injection can't move a score. About $0.006 a session, 193 unit tests.

Wardro8e · Founder · React Native, Supabase, FastAPI, CLIP

2025 – 2026

AI fashion discovery: a three-stage feed, a 14-day interaction half-life, CLIP similarity with an 8s fallback.
Shipped it to real users, then shut it down in May 2026 when the affiliate economics didn't work.

HACKaMINeD 2025, Overall Winner. Computer vision that tracks restaurant stock and predicts spoilage.
NASA Space Apps 2024, local round winner and Global Nomination (top 947 of about 10,000 teams).
Ingenium 2025, Winner. AI credit scoring for farm loans, with crop disease prediction.
HackNuThon 6.0 (2025) and 5.0 (2024), Winner.

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Frameworks: React, Next.js, React Native (Expo), Electron, Node.js, Express, FastAPI
Data and infra: PostgreSQL (RLS, PL/pgSQL), Supabase, MongoDB, Redis, pgvector, AWS ECS, Vercel, Docker
AI and testing: Embeddings, hybrid retrieval, LLM output validation, CLIP, Playwright, pytest, GitHub Actions