Vraj Shah
Bengaluru, IN
cheesetosht@gmail.com
https://vrajshah.in
vraj-sh
cheesetosht

Product engineer specialising in frontend with 6 years at high-growth startups. Built component libraries, server-driven UI systems, and real-time interfaces from scratch. I care deeply about performance, visual craft, and code that scales.

Experience

Product Engineer
January 2026
 — 
February 2026
Wavelength
  • Designed and developed a user modeling agent that builds vector images of users from scratch from both product & tech aspects
  • Architected a rudimentary custom memory system for the agents
Product Engineer
June 2025
 — 
December 2025
Induced AI (Backed by Sam Altman, shut down Dec 2025)
  • Worked directly with founder & COO across backend, DevOps, applied AI, and design engineering on multiple client products
  • Oximy (enterprise AI observability): Architected LLM API proxy processing production traffic with <50ms overhead; engineered Redis-based distributed policy engine for sub-millisecond rule evaluation; built real-time analytics dashboard for metrics and logs
  • Venus (investment research intelligence): Built AI platform reducing analyst work from weeks to minutes via structured company profiling and RAG-based agents; engineered web crawler indexing hundreds of documents; migrated document serving to S3 for horizontal scaling; enabled background workflow orchestration with end-to-end traceability across Frontend, Backend, and Worker layers
  • DNTEL: Built dynamic form rendering framework and document processing pipeline
  • Induced Stack: Authored internal reusable package system covering email, auth, and notifications
Software Engineer
May 2024
 — 
May 2025
Loop Health (YC W20)
  • Built fullstack claims support tool saving ~9,000 agent hours monthly reducing context switching dependency on external tools
  • Designed a claim status normalisation layer integrated with 10+ TPAs for accurate claim status tracking, reducing support tickets by 50%
  • Owned features across 8 different projects along with initiatives in product excellence & developer experience
Founding Engineer
October 2021
 — 
April 2024
Bluelearn
  • First engineering hire, built & led a 5-person team. Established tech stack, coding standards & devops processes from scratch
  • Created custom Tailwind-based headless component library (pre-ShadCN era) used across all frontend products enabling consistent UI with minimal duplication
  • Built real-time chat system from scratch using Socket.IO (5,000+ messages/day) and Redis-backed reactive ranking system for hiring platform
  • Engineered internal services replacing 15L+ in annual external tool costs: IP-based user tracking and custom push notification system with granular SQL-powered targeting
  • Architected server-driven UI system for React Native platform; JSON schema from backend controlled dynamic UI rendering enabling rapid product experimentation without app releases

Projects

Hypersift
October 2024
 — 
November 2024

Real-time video calling platform for automated recruitment screening, built as a freelance engagement

  • Saved 1,000+ recruiter hours by automating preliminary screening with an AI interviewer
  • Architected real-time video/audio streaming using WebSockets and browser Media APIs
  • Eliminated transcription latency by streaming audio directly from browser to Deepgram via backend-vended ephemeral API keys (10-min TTL)
  • Orchestrated Groq, Deepgram, and OpenAI across distinct pipeline functions for voice and text processing
  • Delivered full-stack app in Next.js 14 with Tailwind and Shadcn
Dooreye
December 2024
 — 
January 2025

Privacy-first neighbourhood security app. Backend in Go + Postgres, React Native frontend with Unistyles.

    Hackathon Check-in Backend
    April 2022
     — 
    May 2022

    Full-stack check-in system for hackathon participant management, built for HackSVIT

    • Built in Go, integrated with a React Native Expo frontend featuring QR code scanning for checkpoint check-ins
    • Supported multi-checkpoint tracking across an event with 500+ participants

    Education

    Gujarat Technological University
    August 2019
     — 
    July 2023
    BE in Computer Engineering

    Volunteer

    Co-founder
    September 2021
     — 
    October 2022
    Hack Club SVIT
    • Built a 1,000-member community
    • Directed national hackathon (HackSVIT)
    • Led branding, tech, and team of 20

    Skills

    Languages:
    TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python
    Frontend:
    React, Next.js, Svelte, Astro, React Native, Tailwind, shadcn, GSAP, CSS/SCSS
    Backend:
    Node.js, Express, Hono, GraphQL, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Supabase, WebSockets, REST APIs
    AI & LLMs:
    Structured Outputs, Embeddings / Vector Search, RAG Pipelines, AI Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLM / Computer Vision Training
    Cloud & DevOps:
    systemd, Nginx / Caddy, Bare Metal Provisioning, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Vercel, Railway, Heroku, Temporal Workflows, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless, Cloudflare
    Architecture & Tooling:
    Monorepos (Turborepo), System Design, API Design, Microservices, CLI Tools, npm Package Publishing, Claude Code, Vim, Mixpanel, PostHog, Figma