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A decade shipping software.
Now shipping my own.

A decade of experience — growing from JavaScript developer to Staff Software Engineer across ServiceNow, Kony, and Cognizant. Since 2021 I’ve been on my indie journey — building developer tools, earning grants along the way, sunsetting a few, and shipping the three products live today.

What I’m building

01 — indie, 2021–present

PayWeave

Agent payments

The payment & discovery layer for AI agents. Turn any API, serverless function, or file into a machine-payable endpoint — per-request USD pricing settled in USDC over MPP (Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol) and x402, with a marketplace where agents discover and pay for services autonomously. Built with co-founder Kapil Sutariya.

Cloudflare Workers · Hono · React · Drizzle · Tempo / Base / Solana

Visit payweave.app

OtterKit

Webhooks & tunnels

An agent-first alternative to ngrok: instant HTTPS tunnels to any local port, plus always-on webhook endpoints that verify signatures, answer senders, and forward events 24/7 — even with your laptop closed. Ships a CLI, a built-in MCP server for AI agents, and a native Mac companion app.

Rust · Tauri · Cloudflare Durable Objects · TypeScript · MCP

Visit otterkit.com

Traks

Analytics you own

Privacy-friendly, cookieless web analytics that deploys into your own Cloudflare account with a one-click wizard — your traffic data never touches anyone else's servers. A sub-1 KB tracker, real-time dashboards, and usage-based cost instead of a per-pageview subscription.

Cloudflare Workers · Durable Objects · Iceberg + R2 SQL · React

Visit traks.dev

All three run on Cloudflare’s developer platform end to end — Workers, Durable Objects, D1, R2, and Pipelines — designed, built, shipped, and operated by me.

Where I’ve worked

02 — 2012–present
  • 2021 — Present

    Independent Software Engineer

    Indie hacker

    Building my own developer tools since 2021 — several shipped, some backed by grants, a few sunset along the way. Today three products are live: PayWeave, OtterKit, and Traks — agent payments, developer tooling, and analytics, each owned from first commit to production operations.

  • Apr 2016 — Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    ServiceNow

    Hyderabad, India

    Five and a half years on one of the world’s largest cloud platforms, promoted twice along the way.

    • Staff Software EngineerMay 2021 — Sep 2021
    • Senior Software Development EngineerJul 2018 — Apr 2021
    • Software EngineerApr 2016 — Jun 2018
  • May 2014 — Apr 2016 · 2 yrs

    Product Developer

    Kony, Inc. · Hyderabad, India

    AngularJS developer on Kony’s enterprise mobile application platform.

  • Dec 2012 — May 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Web Application Developer

    Cognizant Technology Solutions · Hyderabad, India

    Started my career as a JavaScript developer building web applications for enterprise clients.

Tools of the trade

03 — stack
TypeScriptJavaScriptRustReactNext.jsNode.jsHonoCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsD1 / R2PostgreSQLSQLiteDrizzle ORMTauriMCPx402 / MPP paymentsTurborepoAngularJS

Education: MVSR College of Engineering, Hyderabad.