Ayush Sharma

Outputs, outcomes, and how I work.

Currently shipping
Ayush Sharma - CTO and founding engineer

I don't need a
job description.

Tell me the outcome. I'll ship it.

AI-first engineer. CTO at Kakiyo. I build crazy fast, iterate in production, and ship custom plugins for every tool I use. Best fit for founders who don't write tickets and judge on what's live.

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Receipts

Numbers, not narratives.

What I've shipped, who's paying for it, and what changed because of it.

Performance
140× faster
P50 latency at Kakiyo

Cut response times from 2.8s to 20ms (P90: 90ms). Same product, completely different feel.

2.8s → 20msP90: 90ms
Infra
−50%
Infrastructure cost

Rearchitected the stack at Kakiyo, halved the monthly cloud bill.

Velocity
End-to-end
Multiple features at Kakiyo

Owned features from product spec to production rollout. Frontend, backend, infra, the whole loop.

Scale
Millions
Rows migrated, zero downtime

Moved live production data from Appwrite to PlanetScale without dropping a single request.

Trajectory
0 → CTO
in 11 months

Full Stack Dev → Lead Developer → Chief Technology Officer. Promoted twice in under a year.

Production
Looks good in production
Built end-to-end, ready to monetize

Every product I ship is production-grade — clean codebase, auth, infra, and the rails to plug a payment provider in tomorrow.

Production-gradePayment-readyManageable codebase
OSS
4+
NPM packages live

Plnr · Zenox · MemContext · and counting. Built, published, maintained — used by real developers.

How I Work

This is the deal.

Four principles. They show up in every project I ship.

AI-first, not AI-enabled.

I don't just use AI tools — I build the plugins, agents, and CLIs that extend them. Zenox for OpenCode, Plnr for codebase planning, MemContext for any MCP client. If a tool I use is missing something, I ship the extension myself.

Zenox · OpenCode pluginPlnr · AI CLIMemContext · MCP layer

Ship first. Polish in production.

I'd rather have it live and rough than perfect and unreleased. Real users teach you more than planning sessions ever will. Iterate against feedback, not against assumptions.

No tickets. Just outcomes.

Tell me the user problem and the constraints. I'll handle scope, architecture, and trade-offs. Skip the JIRA ceremony — give me a definition of done and I'll get there.

I own the whole stack.

Frontend, backend, infra, AI integrations, code review, hiring. I work like a founding engineer because that's how startups actually win. Specialization slows founders down.

Beyond The Code

I'm not just into tech.

The work doesn't end at the IDE. Here's the other half of how I show up.

The TL;DR

I'm not just into tech. I love building internal tools for the team, and I'm a team player.

I build the team's tools.

Admin dashboards, hiring pipelines, code review workflows, deploy scripts, internal APIs. If something is slowing the team down, I'll automate it before anyone files a ticket.

I lift the team.

I review code, mentor juniors, write docs that don't suck, unblock teammates daily. I work like a co-founder, not a contractor — your team becomes my team.

People over frameworks.

Users, teammates, founders — they matter more than the framework du jour. I optimize for what actually works for them, not what trends on Twitter this week.

Experience

Work History

Building scalable solutions and leading development teams

Kakiyo OÜ logo

Kakiyo OÜ

Current

Chief Technology Officer

Full-timeApr 2026 - Present

Lead Developer

Full-timeSep 2025 - Apr 2026

Full Stack Developer

Part-timeJul 2025 - Sep 2025
July 2025 - Present
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLPlanetScaleAWSDockerTailwindCSSPrismaGraphQL
  • Migrated millions of rows from Appwrite to PlanetScale.
  • Lowered latency from 2.8 seconds (P50) to 20 ms (P50) and 90 ms (P90).
  • Removed latency bottlenecks across critical user flows.
  • Crafted end-to-end features from product requirements to production rollout.
  • Created the hiring pipeline for the company.
  • Managed the team across delivery, reviews, and technical direction.
  • Reduced the overall infrastructure cost by 50%.
Hand It Over

What you can hand me.

Pick one. Or all of them. I work end-to-end.

Zero-to-MVP

Idea to live product in weeks, not quarters. Full stack, AI included, shipped to real users — not a Figma deck.

Build your AI layer

Agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, the infra around models. Production-grade and observable — not demoware.

Custom plugins & integrations

MCP servers, CLIs, IDE plugins, browser extensions. I extend the tools your team already lives in.

Rescue a stalled codebase

Take over, stabilize, ship. I'll find the bottlenecks, kill the dead weight, and unblock the team in weeks.

Fractional CTO / founding engineer

Deeply embedded, long-term. Architecture, hiring, reviews, infra, AI direction — the whole engineering function.

Public Receipts

I ship every day.

No LeetCode theatre. Just GitHub — the only proof that actually matters.

Final call
If you're a founder
building something real,
let's talk.

30 minutes. No deck needed. Just bring the problem and what done looks like — I'll handle the rest.

Book a 30-min call

Tell me what you're building, where you're stuck, and what shipping looks like. I'll tell you exactly how I'd approach it — whether or not we end up working together.

  • No sales pitch, no roadmap theatre
  • Concrete next steps you can run with
  • Honest take on scope, time, and trade-offs
DM me on Xhi@aysh.me