available June 2026 · Pune, India
Founder-engineer.
218K monthly users.
8 production apps.
I run engineering at Date Panchang (110-year-old astrology business — 218K MAU across 5 platforms) and co-build PairForge, an AI product studio. Available for senior contract work on AI products and full-stack MVPs from June 2026.
Powering
01 SERVICES
How I work with you
Fixed-scope project engagements. I quote on call after understanding the brief. Hourly is available for retainers; default is per-project.
AI Product Sprint
Idea to deployed AI product.
- LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq)
- RAG pipelines, knowledge-graph RAG, agentic automation
- Voice-to-form, smart assistants, document processing
- Backend + mobile/web + deployment included
Full-Stack Build
Complete apps. Not piles of code.
- Cross-platform mobile (Flutter — iOS, Android, web, desktop)
- Web apps (Next.js, SvelteKit, Astro)
- Backend APIs (FastAPI, .NET, Postgres)
- Auth, payments, CI/CD, monitoring — all wired in
Automation & Integration
Bots, bridges, glue.
- Slack & WhatsApp bots, custom MCP servers
- n8n / webhook pipelines, data sync tools
- Self-hosting migrations (Hetzner, Docker + Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare Tunnels)
- Disaster recovery + health monitoring setups
02 FEATURED WORK
Selected builds
Six recent products across AI, mobile, full-stack and infrastructure. All shipped to real users (or to me).
Eventoo →
PairForge · case studyAI-powered event management platform
End-to-end product for event planners: cross-platform Flutter app + FastAPI backend. AI voice-to-form event creation, role-based access (manager / employee / client portal), Google Sign-In, task & vendor management. Fully deployed with CI/CD and automated health monitoring.
Akshara
Personal8-agent novel-writing pipeline
Autonomous content-production system: research → world-building → writing → editing → continuity-checking. 8 specialized agents (Lore Master, World Architect, Character Designer, Plot Architect, Writer, Editor, Continuity Checker, Reader Analyst) collaborate to publish a serialized web novel on Royal Road. Agentic automation applied beyond software.
Date Panchang →
DPDS · case studyFull digital stack for a 110-year-old astrology business
Tech lead and CTO → Partner. Built and operate end-to-end products: B2B and B2C Flutter apps (iOS / Android / Web / Windows / macOS), .NET 8/10 + Python backends, astronomical & panchang calculation engine, payment & order processing, and self-hosted Docker infra on Hetzner with Nginx Proxy Manager + Cloudflare Tunnels.
Oratix
PersonalDesktop dictation app
Native macOS dictation built on Rust + Tauri + React, with OpenAI Whisper for speech-to-text. Single-key trigger (F9), auto-transcribe-on-stop, paste into focused field. Faster and more accurate than the system default.
Triage Agent
PairForgeSlack → GitHub MCP that spawns headless Claude
PairForge's internal automation: Slack thread comes in, MCP server evaluates whether it's actionable, creates a GitHub issue, then spawns headless Claude Code instances to investigate or fix. Turns a Slack message into a PR with minimal human time. Powers our small team's outsized throughput.
03 ROLES
Where I've shipped
7 years of production work. Founder roles + senior engineering.
CTO
· Date Panchang 2019 → now110-year-old astrology business. Built the calc engine (Panchaanga Yantra), the consumer Flutter app, the Sanhita B2B platform, and the .NET 8/10 Azure Functions orchestrator. Drove the SvelteKit website to ~2.1M monthly requests.
Partner
· Date Panchang Digital Solutions (DPDS) 2024 → nowEquity partner in the digital arm of the family business. Run engineering + infrastructure: self-hosted Docker + NPM + Cloudflare Tunnels across two Hetzner boxes, on-prem PN41 production target, Sankatmochan (Azure replacement) in flight.
Co-founder & Lead Engineer
· PairForge 2026 → nowAI-native product studio. Full-stack mobile + web + AI delivery. First product: Eventoo.
Full-Stack Developer
· BreathAI (Innoscent) 2022 → 2023AI breath-diagnostics app. Time-series analysis + Flutter mobile.
04 STACK
Tools I reach for
Polyglot by choice. The right stack depends on the problem — I pick based on fit, not familiarity.
AI / LLM
Backend
Frontend / Mobile
DevOps / Infra
Other languages
Practices
05 CONTACT
Got a product to ship?
The fastest path is a 30-min call. Send a one-liner about what you're building and a couple of times that work for you — I'll reply within a day.
vedangdate@gmail.com →