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Sid Verma

Senior AI Full Stack EngineerTech Lead

4x founding engineer · 7 years · Remote from India

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer, Reap

    Hong Kong SAR · Remote
    • Built the EventBridge module the microservices talk through.
    • Added role- and permission-based authorization middleware across services, with new RBAC roles for the admin dashboard.
    • Brought KYB status into Zendesk tickets from the internal CRM.
  2. Technical Lead, Navicater

    Vancouver, Canada · Remote
    • Led a maritime social network and several SaaS products from scratch.
    • Shipped a RAG chat on self-hosted GPUs with GPT, Claude and Ollama.
    • Designed the microservices, Kafka events, connection pooling, read replicas and caching.
    • Wrote the Dockerfiles, CI/CD and Nginx setup behind every deploy.
  3. Senior Software Engineer, ANQ Finance

    Bengaluru, India · Hybrid
    • Built a DeFi banking platform from scratch and scaled it to 1.4 million users.
    • Hired and led a team of 6 and wrote the team’s coding standard.
    • Shipped prepaid cards (Pine Labs), credit cards (Yes Bank) and gold and Bitcoin rewards.
    • Hardened the app against injection, brute force and APK reverse engineering.
  4. Senior Software Developer, Qiraad Inc

    USA · Remote
    • Built a stock trading platform with live prices over WebSockets and custom watchlists.
    • Split the frontend into micro frontends and built client-side load-balanced services.
    • Built a strategy builder that combines technical and fundamental indicators.

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Kotlin
Frontend
React, Next.js, React Native, Flutter, Tailwind CSS, Redux Toolkit, Zustand
Backend
Node.js, NestJS, Fastify, Express, FastAPI, Prisma, GraphQL, Socket.io
Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
Architecture
Software architecture, system design, microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka, EventBridge), RBAC
Cloud
AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS), GCP, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI
LLM apps, agentic coding with Claude Code, RAG pipelines, Pinecone, LangChain, Claude, GPT and Ollama

Building now

  • Pivu

    A hiring platform with a browser extension that fills job applications from your résumé.

    pivu.io

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications · 8.53/10 CGPA

2016 – 2019

Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research

Awards

  • “Pine Master” award, ANQ Finance

    For building the prepaid card (Pine Labs) and credit card (Yes Bank) modules.

    Sid receiving the Pine Master trophy at ANQ Finance
  • MLH Hackathon winner

    A timetable app for Android, at an event held in 40 countries at once.

  • IEEE Age of Innovation, 2nd place winner

    A carpooling app, built solo against 15 teams of three and four.