Hi, I'm Shreyas

AI-first Lead Engineer with 10+ years in backend engineering and cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. I build agentic systems and GenAI applications from architecture through production. Co-founded two startups.

Now Lead Engineer at Velotio (an R Systems company), leading a 15-engineer CPQ team.

Pune, Maharashtra · Open to remote
Shreyas Ponkshe

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About

Lead Engineer at Velotio (an R Systems company) with 10+ years of experience in backend engineering and cloud platforms. I lead a 15-engineer CPQ team building a unified configure-price-quote platform for a global industrial manufacturer, and authored a custom MCP server deployed organization-wide. I led an AI coaching chatbot from architecture to production on LangChain, LangGraph, and Vertex AI, and a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team within Pure Storage's IT GTM organization. Co-founded two startups, including Boltpics, which reached ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years.

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F), Anthropic
AWS Certified Developer, Amazon Web Services

Experience

  • Lead Engineer
    Velotio (an R Systems company) · Pune
    Apr 2021 – Present
    • Authored a custom MCP server deployed organization-wide
    • Leading a 15-engineer CPQ (configure-price-quote) team, building a unified CPQ platform for a global industrial manufacturer
    • Led an AI coaching chatbot from architecture to production using LangChain, LangGraph, and Gemini/Vertex AI: RAG over structured and unstructured data (FAISS, pgvector), Langfuse tracing, and an evaluation regression suite gating deployments on accuracy and latency
  • Co-Founder & Lead Software Engineer
    Boltpics · Pune
    Feb 2019 – Apr 2021
    • Co-founded and led engineering for a smart photo-distribution startup, growing it to ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years
    • Designed the AWS architecture and facial-recognition pipeline, processing 1M+ images/day
    • Owned the technology end to end, including infrastructure cost
  • Co-Founder & Software Engineer
    Busflix · Pune
    Aug 2016 – Jan 2019
    • Built software/hardware WiFi infotainment systems for intercity buses: media servers, captive-portal connectivity, and OTA updates
    • Built the Raspberry Pi software framework and the link from the device fleet to the cloud, in Node.js
    • Implemented hardware locking, source-code protection, network throttling, and serial and I2C interfaces

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune · 2012 - 2016
Full background

What I do

Backend engineering, cloud platforms, and GenAI, from architecture through production.

  • Build agentic systems and GenAI applications, from architecture through production
  • Build backend services and APIs in Node.js, TypeScript, and Python
  • Design cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Lead engineering teams and work directly with enterprise clients

Technologies

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java/Kotlin
  • Bash

Runtime & Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Nest.js
  • GraphQL
  • TypeORM
  • Serverless Framework

Frontend

  • React
  • Angular
  • Next.js

GenAI & Agents

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • Gemini
  • Vertex AI
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Ollama
  • RAG
  • Vector search (FAISS, pgvector)
  • Langfuse
  • Evals
  • MCP servers
  • Agent orchestration

Cloud & Tools

  • AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, EKS)
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Snowflake
  • Datadog
  • Okta (SSO)
  • CI/CD

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • Firestore
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch

Work I've led and built

AI Coaching Assistant

Led an AI coaching chatbot from architecture to production on LangChain, LangGraph, and Gemini/Vertex AI.

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Gemini
  • Vertex AI
  • FAISS
  • pgvector
  • Langfuse
  • Slack API
Details

The chatbot runs inside Slack, so people get answers where they already work.

RAG over structured and unstructured data with FAISS and pgvector, Langfuse tracing, and an evaluation regression suite that gates every deployment on accuracy and latency. When retrieval finds nothing relevant, the assistant declines instead of guessing.

  • Retrieval: RAG over structured and unstructured data (FAISS, pgvector)
  • Quality: Evaluation regression suite gates deployments on accuracy and latency
  • Observability: Langfuse tracing in production

Engineering Manager for Agents

Open-source Claude Code plugin for hierarchical delegation across a multi-agent fleet, with per-task token and cost budgets.

  • Bash
  • tmux
  • Git worktrees
  • GitHub CLI
  • Claude Code
Read the write-up
Details

A supervisor agent plans the work and directs worker agents, each isolated in its own git worktree, and ships through git and the GitHub CLI.

Each task has a token and cost budget that hard-pauses the worker at 100%. JSONL audit logs act as durable agent state, so every run can be inspected after the fact.

  • Structure: One supervisor directs many workers through a single point of coordination
  • Budgets: Per-task token and cost budgets hard-pause at 100%
  • Isolation: Each worker runs in its own git worktree and branch
The supervisor view: per-task status across the fleet, the audit timeline for one task, and its budget.

OffGrid Vision: Local Multimodal CLI

Open-source CLI that runs image analysis on a local Ollama model instead of billed cloud multimodal tokens.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Ollama
  • Multimodal LLMs
Details

No runtime dependencies, and images never leave the machine. Output follows a semver-versioned JSON contract, and the CLI installs as an Agent Skill, so agents can call it as a local vision step.

  • Cost: Local inference replaces billed multimodal tokens, cutting cost per request
  • Privacy: Runs fully offline, so images never leave the machine
  • Integration: Semver-versioned JSON contract; installs as an Agent Skill
A preflight check against the local model, then a screenshot described in 4 ms without leaving the machine.

Screen Booking & Media Asset Management

Led backend engineering for screen-booking and media asset management software used in-house at a major streaming company.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • AWS
  • Airtable
  • Google Calendar API
Details

Built approval workflows and the Google Calendar and Airtable integrations, and owned the product's data pipelines, including their monitoring.

  • Workflows: Approval workflows for bookings and media assets
  • Integrations: Google Calendar and Airtable
  • Ownership: Data pipelines and their monitoring

Cloud Apps & APIs (Pure Storage GTM)

Led a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team within Pure Storage's IT GTM organization.

  • AWS Step Functions
  • Lambda
  • EKS
  • Kafka
  • Snowflake
Details

Cloud-native automation used by 5+ teams: event-driven services on AWS, a workflow scheduler on Step Functions, and the analytics path from Kafka into Snowflake.

  • Team: Led a 12-engineer Cloud Apps team; platform adopted by 5+ teams
  • Scale: Workflow scheduler running 1,000+ workflows daily
  • Architecture: Event-driven services on AWS, with analytics running Kafka into Snowflake

Digital Evidence Management (iCrimeFighter)

Primary backend developer on a digital evidence management platform for law enforcement agencies.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Docker
  • Serverless Framework
  • AWS ECS
  • Angular
Details

Built resumable uploads for large files captured over unreliable field connections, duplicate detection across a case, case workflow tasks, and API integrations with partner evidence platforms.

  • Reliability: Resumable uploads survive dropped connections mid-transfer
  • Storage: Duplicate detection avoids storing the same file twice
  • Interoperability: Partner API integrations for exchanging evidence

Photo Distribution Platform (Boltpics)

Co-founded and led engineering for a smart photo-distribution startup that reached ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years.

  • Node.js
  • AngularJS
  • Firebase
  • TensorFlow
  • AWS
Details

Event photographers upload a shoot, and a facial-recognition pipeline sends each attendee only the photos they appear in.

Designed the AWS architecture behind it and owned the infrastructure cost alongside it.

  • Scale: AWS architecture processing 1M+ images/day
  • Business: Grew to ₹1 Cr (~$120K) revenue in two years

Yoga Pose Feedback

Real-time yoga coach that scores how closely you match an instructor's pose, entirely in the browser.

  • React
  • Vite
  • TensorFlow.js
Details

Uses on-device pose estimation with TensorFlow.js MoveNet, so the camera feed never leaves the device.

Built confidence-weighted pose matching that ignores low-certainty joints, an offline pipeline that generates reference poses from instructor video, and a compact binary pose format for fast loads on mobile.

  • Privacy: Fully client-side, so the camera feed never leaves the device
  • Accuracy: Confidence-weighted scoring that discounts low-certainty joints
  • Performance: Custom binary pose format for a fast first load on mobile

Notes from production

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What are you working on?

Open to conversations about agentic systems, GenAI applications, backend and cloud platforms, and senior or staff roles. Remote or Pune-based.

Pune, Maharashtra, India · Open to remote

Shreyas Ponkshe