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Himanshu Shrivastava

9+ years building and scaling fintech & SaaS platforms. Expert in Node.js, React, TypeScript, AWS, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

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The Tech Lead's New Job: Directing AI Agents Across 3 Workstreams

The role of tech lead has fundamentally shifted from writing code to orchestrating AI agents. Here's my framework for managing three concurrent engineering workstreams with AI teammates that never sleep.

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Engineering insights from 9+ years of building at scale.

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When Reliability Meets Abuse: Rate Limits and Request Signing as SRE Controls

How I implemented rate limiting and request signing to protect a fintech platform serving 400K+ users from abuse — while keeping the system reliable for legitimate traffic.

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Beyond the Hype: How We Actually Cut Boilerplate by 30% with AI Coding Assistants

AI coding assistants didn't magically write our features—but a disciplined, three-lane workflow cut boilerplate-heavy effort by 30%. Here's exactly what worked and what didn't.

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How We Stopped Node.js Container OOM Crashes Under Heavy Load by Switching to jemalloc

Our Node.js containers kept crashing under load despite 40% heap headroom. The culprit wasn't a memory leak — it was the allocator itself.

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Automating Accessibility Audits in React with CI/CD

Discover how to integrate automated accessibility auditing tools directly into your React development workflow and CI/CD pipelines to guarantee WCAG 2.1 AA compliance before shipping code.

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The 3-Layer Observability Stack That Cut Our MTTR by 30%

How we stopped relying on disjointed dashboards to debug production issues, and built a unified telemetry pipeline using SLOs, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging.

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Building an Agentic PR Generator: A Deep Dive

Learn how to build a local AI agent that autonomously commits code, manages versioning, and creates Pull Requests — complete with the exact system prompt and GitHub MCP setup.

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About Me

Engineer, leader, and builder — driven by impact at scale.

Senior Full Stack Engineer and startup technology leader with 9+ years of experience building and scaling fintech, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms. Deep expertise in Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, AWS, microservices, CI/CD automation, accessibility engineering, and AI-assisted developer workflows. Proven track record of architecting systems that scaled to 400k+ users, improving deployment speed by 50%, driving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, and applying agentic engineering automation to improve code quality, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.

Node.jsReactTypeScriptAWSPythonCI/CD

9+

Years Experience

400K+

Users Served

99.9%

Uptime Achieved

WCAG 2.1 AA

Accessibility

Technical Toolkit

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonPHPDart

Frontend

React.jsAngularHTML5CSS3Electron

Backend

Node.jsMicroservicesREST APIsRabbitMQRedis

Databases

MySQLMongoDBDynamoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDockerTerraformAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsCI/CD

Data & Observability

AirflowSupersetNewRelicCloudWatchMixpanel

AI Engineering

Claude CodeGitHub CopilotAI-based PR ReviewAgentic CI/CD

Experience

9+ years of building products that scale and matter.

Senior Software Engineer

Incubyte

CurrentSep 2024 – Present
  • Lead full-stack development of enterprise applications using React.js, Node.js, and Python, delivering 14+ scalable features across front-end and backend systems for 3 tier-1 client engagements.
  • Spearheaded WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility initiatives across key client projects, authoring 40+ engineering standards and reducing compliance risk by 100% for broader user segments.

Co-Founder / Head of Engineering

ByajBook

Oct 2021 – Aug 2024
  • Architected a peer-to-peer lending platform serving 400k+ users and led the migration from a monolithic MVP to a microservices architecture using Node.js, Redis, and AWS ECS, achieving 99.9% uptime and reducing infrastructure costs by 35%.
  • Built and led a cross-functional team of 8 engineers, QAs, and designers, introducing Agile delivery practices and bi-weekly release cycles that reduced feature time-to-market by 40%.

Senior Software Engineer

CyberInfraStructure

Mar 2019 – Sep 2021
  • Led a team of 6 engineers to build a localised real estate platform using crypto-based smart contracts for fractional property ownership, driving end-to-end delivery of a $1.2M blockchain-enabled product.
  • Diagnosed performance bottlenecks in high-load Node.js services and optimised database indexing strategies, improving system efficiency by 40% under production workloads.

Senior Software Engineer

DreamCyber Infoway

May 2017 – Feb 2019
  • Spearheaded the migration of 20GB+ of data from WordPress to a custom Node.js platform, engineering migration pipelines that delivered 0% data loss and reduced query latency by 60%.
  • Independently designed and developed a marketing CRM with RBAC, drip campaigns, and funnel tracking capabilities, while optimising infrastructure usage to reduce hosting costs by 30%.

Software Engineer

Argalon Technologies

Sep 2016 – Apr 2017
  • Built web application features using Node.js, jQuery, Angular, and early React.js, contributing across both front-end and backend development.
  • Developed and delivered project modules aligned with business requirements, supporting on-time feature implementation across active client work-streams.

Software Engineer

Hyffins

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016
  • Developed a food delivery platform using Node.js, Express, and MySQL, building scalable backend functionality to support responsive user experiences and operational workflows.
  • Designed and implemented internal tools for delivery management and food manufacturing operations, improving workflow efficiency across internal teams.
6roles across fintech, SaaS, blockchain & consulting

Projects

Impactful systems built from scratch — with measurable results.

Credit Repair CRM

Automated credit bureau monitoring & dispute system

A system to monitor credit reports of users from different bureaus and provide automated corrections.

  • Implemented automated triggers with custom workflows to initiate defined sequences based on bureau report data.
  • Eliminated manual work for creating workflows, automating the process for infinite user cases.
  • Boosted sales team productivity by enabling simultaneous client management with minimal manual intervention.
Key Metrics
40% reduction in manual intervention50% reduction in system load via async triggers60% increase in client handling capacity
Node.jsReactMySQLRabbitMQRedis

MarketDojo

Procurement management system at scale

Node.js / RoR / React-based procurement management system handling heavy front-end workloads.

  • Managed customer feature requests, issue resolution, and system scaling to support heavy workloads on the front-end.
  • Enhanced overall user experience and reduced response time by 50% through optimized front-end performance.
Key Metrics
50% improvement in response timeImproved user satisfaction and engagement
ReactNode.jsRuby on RailsPostgreSQL

TourneyBot / Manager

Cross-platform Discord & WhatsApp tournament bot

A cross-functional bot integrated with a tournament management system, deployed on Discord and WhatsApp.

  • Architected and deployed a chatbot integrated with a tournament management system.
  • Developed integrations with WhatsApp and Discord, facilitating seamless user registration, verification, and communication.
  • Implemented automated notification systems to alert users about critical events such as qualification and disqualification.
Key Metrics
Real-time communication across two major platformsAutomated end-to-end tournament lifecycle management
Node.jsDiscord.jsWhatsApp APIMongoDB

Get In Touch

Open to exciting opportunities, collaborations, or just a good engineering conversation.

Based in India · Available for remote & hybrid roles