I write the spec and the pull request.
I'm an engineer who got hooked on the why, not just the how. Now I'm in the user calls and the codebase in the same afternoon. Off the clock, I'm chasing badminton tournaments across the US and watching way too many K-dramas.
Hi! I’m Sailesh. I am a builder, a competitive badminton player, a K-drama binge-watcher, a first-year snowboarder, a traveler, and a cat dad to three very spoiled cats. I care about making software that helps the person using it, not software that just ships features.
As a product-focused software engineer, I specialize in building full-stack applications that solve real problems for real users. I’ve spent 3 years shipping products used by 50,000+ people, and my best work has always been at the intersection of engineering and product: talking to users, writing specs, prioritizing roadmaps, and figuring out what to build next.
When I’m not building products, you’ll find me chasing shuttlecocks at tournaments across the US, traveling with my wife, snowboarding with friends, or being lazy on the couch watching K-dramas with our cats.
AI-powered couples finance app
When my wife and I got married, no app handled 'yours, mine, and ours.' Every solution either forced us to merge accounts or created awkward IOUs. So I built one. Duo lets couples toggle transactions between Personal and Joint with one tap.
Automated first-pass review for merge requests
Code reviews were eating my week and the same issues kept coming back. I built a reviewer that runs four specialists in parallel, each one locked by the runner to read-only access, so the agent cannot change our code even if the prompt tells it to. An orchestrator dedupes the findings and checks every line number against the real file before the report goes out, because one wrong line number discredits the whole report. Demoed to my team in August 2026.
Live tournament-day operations tool
Bracket software builds the draw and goes quiet the moment the tournament starts. CourtOps runs the part that breaks down on the day: which court is free, who plays next, what is running behind. The organizer fixes one exception and the floor plan, the schedule, and every affected player's phone update together in real time.
Gamified AI wellness app
87 teams. 24 hours. My team built MindGarden, where daily mood check-ins grow a virtual garden, with a coordinator routing requests across 7 specialized AI agents that deliver CBT-style insights. We were selected as finalists and shipped a working prototype to judges.
Also at work: the RAG vs. fine-tuning evaluation behind our AI documentation assistant, presented to IT leadership.
On Duo, I shipped the whole app myself, from the Next.js front end to the Postgres schema, and I ran the user interviews and wrote the PRD along the way. Most teams split that across three people. I like owning the whole line.
Looking for my next role building product at a company where engineers own what they ship. I bring engineering depth, fast iteration, and a real obsession with the problems users actually have.
