Devansh Tiwari

AI Product Builder

Overview

Co-Founder @Metis

Product Manager Fellow @NextLeap

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About

  • I started coding to pay my own college fees. No passion story. Just guilt from spending my parents' money on JEE coaching that didn't work out, and a decision to figure it out myself.

  • Taught myself through YouTube tutorials and docs. Got into open source, landed my first freelance client, and slowly built up to 50+ clients globally. At peak I was closing 5 to 6 lakh projects and earning close to 2 lakh/month.

  • But I only ever saw version one. Never scale. Never retention. I knew how to build. I didn't know how to think long term. That pushed me toward product.

  • Joined Helium, an AI startup doing e-commerce personalization. Built recommendation engines, behavioral tracking, and reduced recommendation latency by 60%. Merchants saw 20 to 30% sales uplift. First time my work directly moved business numbers.

  • Co-founded Zashit, an AI credit card reward optimizer. 50+ waitlist signups. Built the MVP including an OCR pipeline for transaction data. Applied to YC. Eventually shut it down over cofounder alignment issues. Learned more from that failure than any success.

  • Now co-founding Metis, an AI stock analysis tool for Indian swing traders. Surveyed 70+ traders before writing code. Shipped concept to beta in 20 days.

  • I moved to product not because it's trendy. But because every time I felt stuck, it wasn't because I couldn't build. It was because I wasn't strong at selecting the right problems. Product thinking directly attacks that weakness.

Testimonials

GitHub Contributions

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • OpenAI
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Drizzle
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • Git
  • Figma
  • PostHog

Work(11)

How I Work

01
70+surveys

Validate first, build second

70+ trader surveys and 3 deep interviews before writing a single line of code for Metis.

02
26days avg

Ship in weeks, not months

UnifyHQ: 471 endpoints in 26 days. Nateeq AI: infra to product in 6 weeks. Metis: concept to beta in 27 days.

03
8products

Own it end-to-end

User research to system design to deployment. 8 products shipped as sole engineer across 5 domains.

Blog(11)

Experience

Metis

Current Employer

AI-powered stock analysis for Indian swing traders. Shipped 0-to-1 from concept to 25-user beta in 20 days across 20 product decisions. Drove product-led acquisition by shipping 7 free tools targeting 650K+ monthly searches. Reduced per-session API cost by 52% through a hybrid model routing system.

  • Product Strategy
  • User Research
  • SEO
  • LLM/AI Systems
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • AARRR Metrics
  • Product Discovery
  • Shopify
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Analytics
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Competitive Analysis
  • RICE Framework
  • Analytics Pipelines

Zashit

  • User Discovery
  • MVP Scoping
  • OCR Pipeline
  • AI/LLM
  • React Native
  • Next.js

OSIT

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • RTL/i18n
  • SEO
  • System Design
  • Docker

Available for opportunities

I ship AI products from zero to production

Open to product roles, contract work, and co-founding conversations.