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Ashwani Arya

@ashwaniarya

Contract founding engineer for EU & US startups: React, Next.js, Node, FastAPI, Stripe. First engineer at getbujo (YC P26), $0 → $150K ARR.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm available for contract and fractional work with EU and US startups: hourly, fixed 2-week sprints, or 2 days a week inside your team. I own a product surface end to end, from Postgres schema and FastAPI/Node APIs to Stripe billing and the React/Next.js frontend.

At AIClicks, I ship features and fixes across a React and TypeScript analytics app, including brand action pages with subscription-based access and prompt tagging. I also improved dashboard speed with memoized charts and batched analytics queries.

At getbujo (YC P26), I was the founding frontend engineer and built the live-video product from widget to dashboard. It reached 100K sessions a day across desktop and mobile browsers as the company grew from $0 to $150K ARR.

I also built an AI shopping-assistant Chrome extension with streaming UI, later reused for an AI sales copilot and dashboard. Moving the copilot from REST to WebSocket helped win a long-term LG US contract.

At Tap Invest, I laid the frontend foundation and created a server-driven page-render engine and design system. Across my work, I’ve built React and React Native products, accessible component libraries, and data-heavy interfaces.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founding Engineer, Full Stack

Current

AIClicks

Apr 2026 - Present (6 months)

Contract, end to end across React, FastAPI and Python workers (~950 commits). Raised AI mention-detection accuracy from 90% to 98% and scraping success from 98% to 99% across 6 platforms. Rebuilt prompt discovery (multi-step LLM, ranking, embeddings, clustering, LLM-as-judge). Built the LLM comment pipeline, the per-brand action page, and Stripe top-ups (PaymentIntents) on an idempotent ledger.

React TypeScript fastAPI Python Redis Stripe Datadog

Founding Engineer, Frontend

getbujo

Dec 2024 - Feb 2026 (1 year 2 months)

First engineer, 0 → 1 while the company went from $0 to $150K ARR. Built the live-video product end to end, widget to dashboard: 100K sessions a day across Chrome, Safari, iOS Safari and Android WebView. Multi-tab live video whose audio keeps playing across server-rendered page navigation, on desktop and mobile Safari, Android Chrome and in-app web views. ~5s connect on the Zoom Video SDK.

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind Shadow DOM WebSockets Zoom Video SDK PostHog

Senior React Native Consultant

Msquare Labs

Feb 2024 - Aug 2024 (6 months)

React Native apps and landing pages for multiple client products, including karo.chat.

React Native Mobile Development

Software Development Engineer 2, Frontend

UiPath

Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 (4 months)

Configurable React node component plugging 200+ third-party APIs into the low-code builder; improved production-failure alerts.

React Low Code API Integration

Founding Engineer, Full Stack

Tap Invest

Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Architected the entire frontend: state management, component library, pages, and CI/CD, on an atomic-design system (atoms, molecules), so each new feature only meant designing the product page. Owned investment and payment flows: processing cut from 2–3 days to 3–4 hours. Built a server-driven page-render engine (~10x less ops work). Roughly 10x faster feature delivery.

React React Native Design Systems Server Driven UIs Payments

Software Engineer

GeekyAnts

Feb 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Sole developer for Mobile Premier League's Indonesia app (React Native): payments, login and KYC flows. Built the in-house design system (tooltips, carousels, dialogs).

React Native Payments KYC Design Systems