# Shubham Vishwakarma Product Manager & Tech Lead · 3x Founding Engineer · Open Source Author ## age 11 I wrote my first program when I was 11. Nobody taught me; I broke things and read documentation until they worked again. ## age 13 By 13 I was contracting and freelancing, mostly thanks to WordPress. My first real sale was an automated WordPress store a client paid me $500 for. Over the next few years I built more than 25 systems for clients around the world. ### Contractor & Consultant - Independent: Fiverr · Upwork - Products shipped: 25+ - Rating: 4.9 · 150+ reviews on Fiverr - First sale: $500 ## 2020 onward · hackathons In 2020 I found hackathons, and I haven't stopped since. I've built through the night in the offices of Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, Paytm, Devfolio, Anakin, Delhi Technological University, GeeksforGeeks and won six national titles along the way. At CodeClash 2.0 we beat 1,200 teams with an AI that takes customer complaints over the phone. ### Achievements - **2nd** _· Live the Code 3.0_: ADGIPS, New Delhi - **Top 15** _· Code the Cubicle 3.0 · 3,500+ teams_: Mastercard, Gurugram - **Best Rookie Hack** _· Tech Ingenium 5.0_: Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad - **Top 10 & Special Mention** _· InnovateX_: DTU, New Delhi - **3rd & Top 10** _· Code for WIE 3.0 · 300+ teams_: MSIT, New Delhi - **Top 10** _· Code for Bharat · 3,000+ teams_: Microsoft, Gurugram - **Winner** _· CodeClash 2.0 · 1,200+ teams_: Google, Gurugram - **Top 10** _· HackBLR_: Bengaluru ## 2022 · high school In high school I was hooked on robotics. From 2022 to 2023 I led the team that built DHISHTI, a pair of glasses that tells a blind person what's around them, through headphones. We trained our own TensorFlow model to recognise surroundings and ran it on a Raspberry Pi and Arduino, wired together on a lab bench. DHISHTI later went on to win the CBSE Robotics Competition. ### Hardware ![Demoing DHISHTI, August 2023](https://vshubham.com/photos/dhishti-demo.webp) - **Winner** _· CBSE Robotics Competition_ - Team Lead _· Technical & Project Lead_: 2022–23 - Custom-trained model _· TensorFlow on Raspberry Pi_ ## 2022 · corporate The same year I joined corporate. Since then I've worked across roles: SDE, senior engineer, founding engineer three times over, contractor and consultant, and now product manager and tech lead. Along the way I've helped and contributed to many companies as they grew to scale, taking products from 5,000 to more than 100,000 monthly users, and working on platforms that serve a million. ### Scale - **5K → 100K+** _· monthly users, products I helped grow_ - **1M** _· monthly active users, platforms I've worked on_ ### Work - **GameStacy** _· SDE · 95 PageSpeed_: 2022 - **HotelCode** _· 40% faster_: 2024 - **BlocksBridge** _· SDE · −70% infra cost_: 2024–25 - **OmniDimension** _· SDE · 5K → 25K MAU_: 2025 ## Throughout · founder Through all of it, I kept founding companies of my own. I built them, ran them, closed them, and burned $15,000 along the way. Each one taught me something no job could, mostly about what people will actually pay for. ### Startups - **Dyn8n** - **Adlivate** - **TechVisitora** - **WhatHacked** ## Throughout · open source And I kept publishing what I built. There are 73 projects on my GitHub, from a brand-crisis radar in Go to a voice assistant that never leaves your laptop. ### Open source - **[BrandPulse](https://github.com/Shub3am/BrandPulse)**: Catches brand crises before customers do. Watches Reddit, Amazon, YouTube, the Play Store and Indian news for mentions of your brand. When a thread starts to blow up, it raises an alert with a reply already drafted in your voice, so the team answers before the complaint spreads. - **[HeyDot](https://github.com/Shub3am/heyDot)** ([live](https://hey-dot.vercel.app)): A voice assistant that never leaves your laptop. Say “Hey Dot” and it captures your screen, runs a vision-language model locally and speaks back a short answer. No cloud APIs, no internet connection, and no data leaving your machine. - **[RecallEngine](https://github.com/Shub3am/RecallEngine)**: Search engine toolkit, built toward RAG. A search toolkit for JSON datasets: text normalisation, stemming, an inverted index and boolean queries, usable as a library or a CLI. Next up are BM25 and TF-IDF ranking, on the way to a retrieval engine for RAG workloads. - **[RecordScrape](https://github.com/Shub3am/RecordScrape)**: Record a browser session once, scrape it forever. Record your clicks in a real browser, pick the elements you want visually, then replay the session headless on a schedule. Results export to JSON or CSV from a Flask dashboard. No selectors or scraping code to write. - **[PostPilot](https://github.com/Shub3am/PostPilot)**: Write once, post to LinkedIn, X and Dev.to. A Chrome extension that drafts a post with images and tags, then publishes it to several platforms at once and keeps a history of everything sent. [All 73 repositories →](https://github.com/Shub3am?tab=repositories) ## Now · 2026 Now I'm a product manager and tech lead at Tvaram, which mostly means deciding what's worth building before building it. Alongside it I study computer science with a specialisation in AI/ML, and keep taking new ideas to real users: testing them fast, and hyperscaling the ones that stick. ### Now - **Tvaram**: PM & Tech Lead · Bangalore - _Built and Scaled:_ InboxValid, InboxReady, Clearbol and More - **University of London**: BSc Computer Science - _Specialisation in AI/ML_ - **Startups** - _Taking Ideas to Users: Testing Fast, Hyperscaling What Sticks_ ## After work After work, it's sport. I skated competitively to district level and played badminton to state level. These days it's bodybuilding, which rewards the same thing shipping does: showing up every day. I love driving. Fun fact: I once drove 1,800 km (1,118 miles) in one stretch without switching drivers. The rest of the time I'm back at a bench wiring an ESP32 to see what it can do. ### Sports & Hobbies - **Skating**: Competed, District Level - **Badminton**: Competed, State Level - **Bodybuilding**: Training Daily - **Robotics**: ESP32 · Arduino · Raspberry Pi **Fun Fact:** Drove 1,800 km (1,118 mi) in one stretch, without switching drivers. ## Stories Longer versions of these live on the Stories page. - [How we won CodeClash 2.0](https://vshubham.com/stories/how-we-won-codeclash-2) (1 min read)