I’m Ashish—an engineer at heart, CTO by experience, and startup founder by passion. With 17+ years building scalable systems and high-performing teams, I’ve worked across everything from enterprise-scale platforms at financial institutions to bootstrapped products like Experlio. As a Tech Co-founder, I’ve taken products from zero to one—shaping the architecture, managing cloud infrastructure, hiring dev teams, and leading full-stack delivery. I’ve worked hands-on with Java, Golang, React, GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, OPA, Kafka, Temporal, and many more tools/platforms and led initiatives integrating GenAI into product roadmaps. Whether it’s debugging race conditions at 2 AM, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, or turning vague ideas into live apps, I thrive at the intersection of code, product, and people. ### What I Can Help You With For Early-Stage Founders: - Building MVPs that scale without overengineering - Choosing the right tech stack & architecture - Balancing cost, security & speed in early infra decisions - Translating messy business ideas into structured engineering plans For Engineers & Tech Leads: - Mastering system design and cloud-native architecture - Navigating the transition from intern to tech lead or EM - Building CICD workflows, dev environments, and release strategies - Scaling apps, fixing performance bottlenecks, and writing production-grade code For Tech Enthusiasts & Side Project Hackers: - Open-source, blogs, and thought leadership on modern APIs, cloud-native, and AI tools - Staying productive and relevant across multiple stacks - Balancing career growth with curiosity and deep-dive exploration ### Why Me? - Built systems handling millions of daily API calls - Mentored engineers and led cross-geo teams - Tech agnostic and polyglot at heart - Immense experience across full industry spectrum from startups to enterprises - Grew Experlio from idea to a live, scalable platform - Still coding, still learning, still excited to build Lets connect!!