Aksht
Jain.

Software engineer building products that move millions. Currently founding Ekly.ai — AI‑powered video editing.

Previously shipped global payment rails at Rippling and built a CRM from zero as Engineering Lead at Canvas Plus.

Experience

2026 — Present

Founder

Ekly.ai, Remote

  • Building full-stack AI video platform — timeline editor, agentic editing, auto shorts creator
  • Claude-powered editor with 11 integrated tools for natural language video control
  • LangGraph-based script generation pipeline with AI video gen, voice cloning, and Remotion rendering
  • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture with Stripe billing, SSR + Lambda render pipeline

Next.js · FastAPI · Remotion · Claude AI · LangGraph · AWS · GCP · PostgreSQL

2025 — 2026

Engineering Lead

Canvas Plus, Dubai, UAE

  • Built CRM + cloud dialer from scratch — migrated 4 call centers (300 users) from landlines
  • Architected monolithic backend with 12+ integrated services and 30+ database tables
  • Shipped AI-powered sales assistant for live customer rebuttal coaching
  • Stood up full observability stack: OpenTelemetry + self-hosted SigNoz on AWS

FastAPI · PostgreSQL · AWS · React · SQLAlchemy · OpenTelemetry

2022 — 2025

Software Engineer 2

Rippling, Bangalore, India

  • Migrated Rippling's payment infra from SVB to JPMC over a single weekend during the SVB collapse
  • Sole developer on JPMC payment rails integration — wires and ACH end-to-end
  • Expanded global wire coverage from USD to GBP, AUD, BRL, EUR with extensible frameworks
  • Built RBAC system for core internal tool used by every engineer at Rippling

Python · React · PostgreSQL · Payment Rails · CI/CD

2022

Software Engineer Intern

BNY Mellon, Remote

  • Built dynamic mobile-responsive web applications in Angular
  • Developed RESTful web services with Spring Boot

Angular · Spring Boot · JavaScript

Skills

LanguagesPython, TypeScript, Go, Java, C++

BackendFastAPI, Django, Spring Boot, Node.js

FrontendReact, Next.js, Flutter, Tailwind

Cloud & DataAWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

AI / MLGenAI, Deep Learning, Prompt Engineering

ToolsGit, Docker, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry

Education

Delhi Technological University

B.Tech in Mathematics & Computing

2018 — 2022 · CGPA 8.51

Recognition

ICPC 2020‑21 — Regionals Rank 124

Codeforces — Candidate Master (1917)

VP, MACS‑DTU— Math & Computing Society

Selected Work

01

LoanPilot

AI-powered financial document analysis — PDFs, Excel, and images via OCR. LLM-hybrid pipeline using Claude for loan data extraction with interactive charts and bank analysis dashboards.

Next.js · Claude API · Tesseract OCR · Recharts · Supabase

02

Image Search at 10B Scale

Multi-modal product search using OpenCLIP embeddings and FAISS vector similarity at 10 billion scale. Async Python backend with Redis caching and optional GPU acceleration.

FastAPI · PyTorch · OpenCLIP · FAISS · Redis · AsyncPG

03

AI Chat Navigator

Browser extension that adds floating index navigation to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Full-text search across providers, cross-device bookmark sync, and conversation export.

Next.js · Convex · Chrome Manifest V3 · Clerk · TypeScript

04

SmartSamadhan

Production HR suite with face-recognition attendance via Azure Face API. Multi-platform apps in React Native and Flutter, payroll calculation, leave management, and FCM push notifications.

FastAPI · React Native · Flutter · Azure Face API · PostgreSQL

05

ChronoForge

Cross-platform scheduling app with RPG gamification — glassmorphism UI, real-time WebSocket updates, haptic feedback, and a full PostgreSQL backend with Drizzle ORM.

React Native · Expo · Express · Drizzle ORM · PostgreSQL · WebSocket

06

Geopolitics

Real-time multiplayer strategy game with an AI-powered advisor built on Claude. Firebase backend, Motion animations, and dynamic game board rendering.

React · Vite · Firebase · Claude AI · Motion

07

Trupeer AI

GPT-4 Vision pipeline that converts documents into tutorial videos automatically. Go backend orchestrates the AI workflow, Next.js frontend for the interface.

Go · Next.js · GPT-4 Vision

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