Devansh Tiwari — AI Product Engineer, freelance and consulting
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- 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.
- From February to April 2026, I worked on Metis, an AI stock analysis tool for Indian swing traders, as a side project. Surveyed 70+ traders before writing code. Shipped concept to beta in 20 days. Stopped working on it in April 2026.
- 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.
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Work(15)
UnifyHQ
Sole Engineer · OSIT
Enterprise facility management platform. 471 API endpoints, 194 pages, 8 languages. Built in 26 days.
471
API Endpoints
194
Frontend Pages
90
DB Models
Deliverist AI Chatbot
Sole Product Engineer · OSIT / Deliverist
Conversational commerce for Saudi logistics. RAG pricing, 5 AI tools, speech-to-text, bilingual.
5
AI Tools
13
Wizard Steps
17
API Routes
Nateeq AI
Lead Engineer · OSIT
White-label platform for deploying branded AI voice assistants. Multi-tenant SaaS with embeddable widgets.
6 weeks
Built In
Monorepo
Architecture
Schema-per-tenant
Tenancy
How I Work
Validate first, build second
70+ trader surveys and 3 deep interviews before writing a single line of code for Metis.
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.
Own it end-to-end
User research to system design to deployment. 8 products shipped as sole engineer across 5 domains.
Blog(13)
Experience
OSIT
Shipped 8 products across 5 domains (logistics, AI, enterprise SaaS, government, HR) for the Saudi Arabia market. Built a 25-module platform in 4 weeks as sole engineer. Shipped bilingual Arabic/English with RTL support across 3,000+ translation keys.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- RTL/i18n
- SEO
- System Design
- Docker
- Product Discovery
- Shopify
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Analytics
- RICE Framework
Zashit
- User Discovery
- MVP Scoping
- OCR Pipeline
- AI/LLM
- React Native
- Next.js
Freelance
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Tailwind CSS
Available for opportunities
I ship AI products from zero to production
Open to product roles, contract work, and co-founding conversations.