Building Sanchay: Why I Created an Open-Source AI Finance Co-Pilot
The story behind Sanchay - from a personal frustration with tracking expenses to building an AI-powered finance assistant that actually understands your spending patterns.
Building AI-powered products and scalable systems. Led development of MEL AI that increased daily active usage by 150%. Passionate about developer tools and open source.
I'm a Senior Product Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable systems and AI-powered products. I love turning complex problems into elegant solutions.
Currently at Radius Agent as a Senior Product Engineer, where I led the development of MEL AI - an NLP-based contract intelligence system that increased daily active usage by 150%.
I'm passionate about building developer tools and have created several open-source projects including Scrapebit (AI-powered web data SDK) and Sanchay (AI Finance Co-Pilot).
When I'm not coding, I conduct hands-on AI workshops to help teams integrate AI into their workflows - improving engineering productivity by ~70% at my current company.
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"150% DAU growth (MEL AI)",
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};8+ years of building products that scale, from startups to enterprise solutions
Bangalore, India
Senior Product Engineer
May 2021 - Present
Bangalore, India
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Bangalore, India
Full Stack Developer
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Products and tools I've built - from AI-powered platforms to developer SDKs
AI-Powered Web Data SDK
Built an AI-driven web data extraction platform and SDK enabling developers to programmatically scrape, structure, and automate workflows across dynamic websites with anti-bot handling.
Open Source AI Finance Co-Pilot
AI-powered finance assistant that analyzes user financial data and generates spending insights using NLP workflows with extensible architecture for transaction parsing.
Cohort Platform MVP
Built and shipped the MVP for a cohort-based learning platform from 0 to production, enabling educators to manage sessions, enrollments, and payments. 1,000+ unique visitors in first month.
Contract Intelligence System
Led development of an NLP-based contract intelligence system at Radius Agent that increased daily active usage by 150% and reduced contract review time by 40%.
Writing about AI, engineering, building products, and lessons learned along the way
I'm currently open to new opportunities. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I'll try my best to get back to you!
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