Kunal Shah
Backend engineer with hands-on experience building distributed systems, REST APIs, and cloud-native services. Deployed scalable infrastructure on Kubernetes and shipped production applications serving 500+ users. Experience across AI, Web3, and mobile at early-stage startups.
Experience
Founding Backend Engineer
Astyx AI
Bangalore, India – Remote
AI Trading Platform|Full-time
•Architected an AI trading platform serving 200+ beta users, processing 10,000+ daily stock signals with real-time analysis and automated strategy execution.
•Reduced average API response latency by 40% by orchestrating 5 distributed services in Python and Node.js with async task queues and Redis caching.
•Shipped 3 intelligent trading agents using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith, integrating live web retrieval and backtesting across 50+ stock tickers.
•Deployed self-hosted Supabase on Kubernetes for scalable auth and real-time data, and built high-throughput API services in Rust (Axum) handling 2,000+ req/s behind Nginx reverse proxy.
Mobile Application Developer
Nosis
Dubai, UAE – Remote
Production Mobile App|Internship
•Launched a full-scale Expo React Native application to bothPlay StoreandApp Store, reaching 1,000+ downloads within the first month.
•Implemented API integration with Redis cache layer, cutting average content load time by 60%.
•Optimized background processes for push notification delivery and user data synchronization, achieving 98% delivery rate.
Full-Stack Developer
WalletX
Bangalore, India – Hybrid
Gasless Smart Wallet Chrome Extension|Part-time
•Engineered aChrome extensionusing Wagmi and Ethers.js, enabling gasless transactions across 32 EVM chains and processing 500+ transactions.
•Integrated centralized authentication using WalletConnect SDK, onboarding 300+ users within 3 months and reducing sign-up drop-off by 20%.
•Delivered the WalletX Mineboard using Next.js, Redux Toolkit, and React Query, a real-time dashboard for blockchain reward games that increased daily active users by 35%.
Education
Somaiya Vidyavihar University
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Mumbai
SGPA: 9.8 | Minor in Data Science
Skills
Projects
Prangan Manager
NGO Operations Tool
Built an internal ops tool for Prangan Foundation, automating attendance tracking for 60+ students and 30+ educators, eliminating 5 hours/week of manual work.
Deployed at zero infrastructure cost using Vercel, Azure App Service, NeonDB, and Cloudinary free tiers, sustaining operations for 2+ years.
Invocta
Android AI Agent
Developing a device-level AI agent that automates Android via accessibility and vision modes, with Azure TTS (multilingual SSML), Supabase auth, floating overlay UI, and 30+ commits shipping features in under 2 months.
Insider
Polymarket Trading Extension
Built a Chrome extension that injects live Polymarket trading cards into Twitter/X, with EIP-712 typed data signing for gasless orders, HMAC-SHA256 Builder API auth, and Uniswap v4 swaps on Polygon via Universal Router.
Web3Ads.WTF
Decentralized Ad Platform
Shipped a decentralized advertising platform on Base L2 with 4 Solidity smart contracts, distributing revenue among advertisers, publishers, and viewers.
Implemented privacy-preserving ad tracking with zkProofs (Semaphore) and gasless withdrawals; won 1st Runner-up from 800+ submissions.
AgentMesh
Decentralized AI Agent Marketplace
Built a crypto-native multi-agent marketplace where AI agents discover, coordinate, and pay each other over an encrypted P2P mesh (4 AXL nodes), with on-chain registry, x402 USDC micropayments, and 0G Compute LLM orchestration; qualified in Round 1.
$wipe
DeFi Investment Bot
Crafted a Telegram-based DeFi platform enabling swipe-to-invest crypto UX with non-custodial architecture and multilingual AI chat, serving 50+ beta testers.
Achievements
ETH Mumbai 2026
HeyElsa AI Partner Track
1st Runner-up with 600 USDT bounty; selected from 800+ projects.
National Haryana Police Hackathon
1st Runner-up with INR 1 Lakh prize; selected from 2,000+ participants.
Agentic Hackathon
AgentKit Pool Prize Winner
for $wipe; recognized for intuitive Web3 onboarding UX.