Tech Lead · AI-native engineering

I make teams AI-native, so they ship faster with guardrails.

Subham Saha — Travelopia · 7+ years · NIT Agartala · Bangalore

  • Agentic delivery30 skills and 4 agents take a ticket from spec to verified PR.
  • Scale with guardrailsAgents never merge or deploy; humans keep every decision.
  • AI-enabled business teamsBusiness teams build on AI layers I architect, across brands.
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Agent loopIllustrative
  1. /grill-with-docsdecisions recorded
    • researcher ×N · one per area, read-only
  2. /to-specEpic published
  3. /to-ticketstask graph · Verify steps
  4. /workflowtests green · draft PR
    • implementer ×N · own worktree + test DB
    • merger · keeps both sides
  5. /code-reviewfindings fixed
    • standards ∥ spec · separate contexts
  6. /prove-itVerdict: PASS
    • verifier · didn’t write it, tries to break it
  7. youreview and merge

∥ sub-agents run in parallel, each in a fresh context. Agents never merge, deploy or touch secrets.

Shipped for
  • Travelopia
  • MediBuddy
  • BuildSupply
  • Sinclairs
  • IIT Kharagpur

Why teams hire me

A Tech Lead who ships, secures and decides, with AI in the loop.

Skills

Skills

Frontend
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • React Query
  • Framer Motion
  • Chakra UI
  • Storybook
Backend
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • NestJS
  • tRPC
  • Zod
  • Prisma ORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • DynamoDB
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices
Cloud & Infra
  • AWS (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, Amplify, CDK)
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Husky
  • Lint-Staged
GenAI & LLMs
  • Google Gemini
  • AWS Bedrock
  • OpenRouter
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Cursor AI
  • Claude Code (Skills, Subagents, Worktrees)
Testing & Observability
  • Jest
  • Vitest
  • React Testing Library
  • Datadog APM
  • Sentry
  • New Relic

Selected work

Travelopia 8 stories

MyTCS performance · Travelopia

Cut page load from 12s to under 400ms for three luxury brands.

Page load
12s → 400ms
Brands, 1 codebase
3
Teams managed
2

Brought a slow, Salesforce-bound portal for three luxury brands down to sub-second pages.

Read the story
Internal tool
MyTCS login, TCS World Travel brand
All 8 Travelopia stories →

MediBuddy 9 stories

Core Web Vitals · MediBuddy · Live

Raised Lighthouse Accessibility from 65 to 80 and SEO from 75 to 92.

Accessibility
65 → 80
SEO score
75 → 92

Platform-wide improvements to semantic HTML, images and metadata on a digital healthcare platform in India.

Read the story
https://medibuddy.in
medibuddy.in home page
All 9 MediBuddy stories →

BuildSupply 2 stories

Material Manager · BuildSupply

A construction inventory platform processing 1,000+ bulk orders a month.

Bulk orders / month
1,000+
Better order monitoring accuracy
30%

Procurement in one place and real-time tracking of material inventory across multiple projects, for real estate and construction teams.

Read the story
All 2 BuildSupply stories →

Freelance & founder 3 stories

Sinclairs Hotels website · Freelance & founder · Live

Built a hotel website and booking engine that brought in ₹35L+ in revenue.

Revenue via website
₹35L+
Conversion, first month
15%
Products shipped
2

End-to-end Next.js site with direct booking, ICICI payments, an AI layer for business users, and UAT and production pipelines.

Read the story
https://sinclairshotels.com
Sinclairs Hotels home page with the booking search
All 3 Freelance & founder stories →

AI enablement

Your business, AI-enabled in weeks, not years. Safely.

I set up the foundations, teach your people, and put guardrails in place, so your team ships faster with AI and you stay in control of every decision.

  1. STEP 01

    Foundation

    I set up your infrastructure, code and first version, ready to grow.

    → A solid base

  2. STEP 02

    Context

    I write down how your product works and why each decision was made, so AI understands your business like a senior teammate.

    → AI that knows your business

  3. STEP 03

    Training

    Your people, technical or not, learn to work with Claude every day.

    → A confident team

  4. STEP 04

    Skills and plugins

    Your best ways of working become one-click skills and plugins, so everyone gets the same great result.

    → Consistent results

  5. STEP 05

    Safe autonomy

    AI handles the routine on its own, risky actions are blocked, and people approve what matters.

    → Speed without risk

  6. STEP 06

    Ship, learn, repeat

    Ship faster, learn from every release, and turn each lesson into an automatic check.

    → Faster every cycle

Secure from day one

Built in from the first commit, not added later.

  • Secrets never live in codeKeys and passwords are blocked from every commit and kept in a secure store.
  • Nothing goes live without a personAI prepares the change; a person approves and releases it.
  • Test and live stay separateEvery change is tried safely before your customers see it.
  • Least access by defaultAI gets only the permissions a task needs, and destructive actions are blocked.
  • Every change tested and reviewedAutomatic tests, plus an independent check for security, privacy and access.
  • Every decision recordedA clear history of what was decided and why, for audits and new joiners.

Already done, for real teams

AI skills rolled out to engineering teams
30
AI agents, every change signed off by a person
4
Products running on the AI workflow
3
  • Moved the TCS engineering team from AI-assisted to AI-delivered.
  • Shared skills adopted by DX teams across Travelopia brands.
  • Sinclairs’ business team builds on the AI layer I set up.

Ready to make your team AI-enabled?

Tell me what slows your team down. I’ll show you where AI can help, safely.

Learnings

What I learned scaling AI

From AI-assisted to AI-delivered, across teams and brands — the journey, and the lessons worth sharing.

  1. StartV1 AI-assistedPersonal practice
  2. Apr 2026V2 AI-deliveredFY26 AI-SDLC playbook
  3. Jun 202612 Domain skillsDX team skills
  4. Jul – Oct 2026v2.0 Released Oct 2026TCS plugin
  5. Now3 Products on the workflowAcross brands and teams
All learnings →

Experience

Oct 2023 — Present
Travelopia

Senior Product Engineer — Tech Lead

Own architecture and delivery across MyTCS, Payments, Call Compass and the TA Portal; moved the team from AI-assisted to AI-delivered.

  • 12s → 400ms page load
  • 30 AI skills · 4 agents
  • 500+ calls / week analysed
  • 3 brands, 1 codebase
  • MyTCS login, TCS World Travel brand
  • MyTCS dashboard, Four Seasons brand
  • MyTCS destination page, Smithsonian Journeys brand
  • Login, Four Seasons
Read 8 stories
Jul 2020 — Oct 2023
MediBuddy

SDE II

Improved Core Web Vitals and built a real-time case data sync for insurance analytics across production microservices.

  • Accessibility 65 → 80
  • SEO 75 → 92
  • 70K+ daily requests
  • medibuddy.in home page
  • Buy MediBuddy Gold offer on doctor.medibuddy.in
  • Phlebo app sign-in, MediBuddy BeWell
Read 9 stories
Jun 2019 — Jun 2020
BuildSupply

Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Built BuildSupply’s e-commerce store for building and construction materials, and Material Manager, its construction inventory platform with real-time material tracking across multiple project sites.

  • 1,000+ bulk orders / month
  • +30% order monitoring accuracy
Read 2 stories
May — Jun 2018
IIT Kharagpur

Summer Intern

Worked on a project with the Central Government of India and built the Essential Drug Information System: a doctor dashboard with a medicine search engine for prescription management.

  • Central Govt of India project
  • Doctor dashboard
  • Medicine search engine

Education

Jul 2015 — May 2019

National Institute of Technology, Agartala

B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering

Freelance · client spotlight

A hotel website and booking engine that brought in $40K+ (₹35L+) in revenue.

Sinclairs Hotels · Hospitality · Freelance · built end to end

Sinclairs Hotels Ltd · listed on NSE & BSE

https://sinclairshotels.com
Sinclairs Hotels home page with the booking searchLive site ↗
Revenue via the website
$40K+
Conversion, first month
15%
Products shipped
2

Engagement value: undisclosed

What I delivered

  • Booking engineDirect booking across properties
  • ICICI paymentsPayments and refunds
  • AI layerBusiness teams build on the architecture
  • Secrets guardrailsGitHub Actions to UAT and production
  • Staff portalBookings, enquiries, task assignment
  • Inventory and ratesCalendar view; commission, breakfast and child rates
  • Vouchers and quotationsGuest and travel agent vouchers
  • NotificationsEmail, business notifications, newsletters
  • Data backupBusiness data kept safe

How I worked

  1. Discovery
  2. Build
  3. UAT
  4. Production
  5. Results

Built with

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Vercel
  • Neon Postgres
  • ICICI Payments
  • GitHub Actions

Want numbers like these for your business?

Read how it was built: Website and booking engine story · Staff portal story

Recognition

What people say

  • “Subham is an excellent software engineer. His ability to single handedly manage big projects and super fast closure is what makes him special. He also focuses a lot on the quality of code written and is good at mentoring others. I'm sure he'll make a great addition to any team!”

    Arnab MukherjeeSDE2 - ML @ Raft.ai | Ex - MediBuddy
  • “I had the pleasure of working with Subham on insurance tech projects, and I can confidently say that he is an asset to any team. Subham has a fast execution and is open to new ideas. He has a learning mindset and is open to experimentation.”

    Avinash Kumar JhaSenior Product Manager at Intuit
  • “I had the pleasure of working with Subham for almost 3 years involving a lot of projects. He is a very talented engineer with deep knowledge of how systems work. His expertise in frontend and backend helped our team complete projects in time and with utmost perfection.”

    Vamsi Krishna GeelapaturuBuilding scalable backend at MediBuddy

Contact

Let’s build something that moves a number.

Hiring, referring, or have a project in mind?

contact@subhamsaha.com