shiva

~/software engineer · indie hacker

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 six products live today.

Hyderabad, Indiashivaprasadmanupadi@gmail.comLinkedIn ↗Resume ↓
Experience13 yrs
Live today6 products

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, so your traffic data never touches anyone else's servers. A sub-1 KB tracker, a live visitor world map, real-time dashboards served from Durable Objects with history in Iceberg and R2 SQL, and daily-rotating visitor hashes instead of raw IPs. Open source and free for every Cloudflare user to run in their own account.

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

Visit traks.dev ↗Source on GitHub ↗

Postey

Self-hosted email

Self-hosted email for apps and agents, installed into your own Cloudflare account: Send, a Resend-compatible transactional email API with keys, templates, logs, suppressions, and webhooks, plus Inbox, which threads replies to the sends they answer. Ships a built-in MCP server so coding agents can send, read, and reply to email. Open source.

Cloudflare Workers · Email Service · D1 · R2 · MCP

Visit postey.app ↗Source on GitHub ↗

Temporium

Tempo wallet

A passkey-secured, payments-first wallet for the Tempo blockchain: send and receive stablecoins with sub-cent fees, batch and schedule payments, create TIP-20 tokens, and share public payment pages. Access-key management and TIP-1022 address mining run server-side on Cloudflare Containers. Open source under MIT.

React · Vite · Cloudflare Workers · Durable Objects · D1 · viem / wagmi

Visit temporium.xyz ↗Source on GitHub ↗

FlareDesk

Cloudflare dev dashboard

A native desktop dashboard for local Cloudflare Workers development. Browse and edit D1, KV, R2, Queues, and Durable Objects, tail request and console logs, replay any request with one click, profile every binding call on a waterfall timeline, snapshot and restore local state, and expose your dev server through a tunnel for webhook testing.

Rust · Tauri · React · Vite · Hono · Cloudflare Workers

Visit flaredesk.dev ↗

All six 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

Sep 2021 – Present

Independent Software Engineer

Self-employed · Hyderabad, India

  • Six developer products designed, shipped, and operated solo, from architecture and UI to billing, deployment, and on-call: PayWeave, OtterKit, Traks, Postey, Temporium, and FlareDesk.
  • Open source: Traks (cookieless analytics, 25 self-hosted installs in its first month) and Postey (self-hosted email for apps and agents).
  • Algorand developer tooling, 2020 – 2022: Dappflow, TealCraft, PixelNode, Asset Manager, App Manager, and Fundstack, backed by around US$450,000 in Algorand Foundation grants.

Apr 2016 – Sep 2021

ServiceNow

Hyderabad, India

  • Staff Software Engineer · 2021
  • Senior Software Development Engineer · 2018 – 2021
  • Software Engineer · 2016 – 2018
  • Full-stack engineer on the ITSM suite of the Now Platform for five and a half years; promoted twice, reaching Staff Software Engineer.
  • Core engineer on On-Call Management throughout: built rota and roster creation, scheduling, and escalations end to end, across the React and Angular frontends and the TypeScript platform backend; handled many customer-escalated incident tasks and fixed numerous high-priority incidents in production.
  • Delivered features across Incident Management, Problem Management, and Incident Alert Management, flagship ITSM products serving 12,000+ enterprise customers.
  • Co-inventor on US Patent 11,277,321 B2, Escalation Tracking and Analytics System (granted 2022).

May 2014 – Apr 2016

Product Developer

Kony, Inc. · Hyderabad, India

  • Early engineer on Kony Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS), working primarily on its Sync and Storage modules: built the customer-facing frontend portal in AngularJS and ReactJS, authored the platform's TypeScript SDKs, and contributed to Express.js backend services.

Dec 2012 – May 2014

Web Application Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions · Hyderabad, India

  • Started as a JavaScript developer, building Angular and React frontends for Verizon client portals.

Tools of the trade

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

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
MVSR College of Engineering, Hyderabad