I'm Vashishta a product-focused Founding Engineer who loves building 0-to-1 AI applications.
I have a proven track record of architecting and shipping production-ready MVPs for international startups, obsessing over performance, scalability, and clean system design.
Experience
Founding Engineer
LiteThink AI
HybridOct 2025 — Jan 2026
- Led end-to-end development of SPM (Super Product Manager), an AI-powered product management assistant, building the product from scratch.
- Architected and shipped a Chrome Extension and a web app for real-time product management workflows.
- Built scalable frontends using React.js with a strong focus on performance and UX.
- Designed backend systems using Firebase and Supabase, including third-party OAuth integrations.
- Integrated OpenAI APIs to enable AI-driven product insights, requirement analysis, and task generation.
- Owned system design, technical direction, and rapid MVP iteration from concept to delivery.
Next.jsReactFirebaseSupabaseOpenAIOAuth
Full Stack Developer
Persist Ventures
RemoteMar 2025 — May 2025
- Built and launched the backend for Soulmegle, a video chat platform matching users via shared interests and behavior analysis.
- Designed a user matching system using OpenAI embeddings stored in Mongo Vector DB, leveraging cosine similarity for interest-based matching.
- Integrated AI (OpenAI APIs, AssemblyAI) for matchmaking, content safety, and real-time speech analysis.
- Developed with React.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
ReactExpressMongoDBOpenAIAssemblyAIVector DB
Skills? (I mostly work with;)
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSNode.jsPythonSolidityWeb3AI/MLRAGFast APIFramer MotionPostgreSQLSupabaseDrizzleDockerAWSGCPCloudflareArduinoIoT
