Hey, I'm Arpit. :)))

founding engineer at QuicShop. from a village in Uttar Pradesh. i pick up the problems nobody else has time for.

so far

age 10A school computer book in English. Learned English that year so I could read it.
2016First computer: my uncle's old office PC, no internet. Learned every corner of Windows XP, modded GTA and Minecraft, played Pokémon on emulators.
8th gradeRead about a Java app in the newspaper's tech section. Learned Java on a phone.
10th gradeHTML and CSS. Building websites by the end of the year. Did some freelance work for a local startups.
2021–23JEE prep through COVID. Started a tech YouTube channel; my younger brother ran our gaming one. Didn't scale. We started creating founder led content under "The Internet narrative". I left that in sophomore year of college and now it is handled by a team of 5 people. My brother leads that now and they have made videos for companies like MicroAGI and CodeAnt AI (YC).
2023JEE Advanced, rank ~16,000 among ~1.2M , Didn't got into IIT, went to IIT Jais, Search google to find this IIT (lol). Started B.Tech CSE. Every hackathon I could find. Smart India Hackathon finalist.
2024–25Won the IEEE hackathon at college. Ran infra for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon, 15,000+ participants. PEcAn Project frontend. PM Young Achievers Scholarship. Started on Plone CMS.
2025Freelanced at AfterQuery (YC). Founded KD. Stayed in Delhi for Three months with law firms; ~10 became customers (followed YC's advise of talking to users :-) ). YC Startup School.
2026Wound down KD after ~7 months. Built Agent Yap. Joined QuicShop in June and signed up ~30 pilot sellers on day one.

I grew up on farms in a village of Uttar Pradesh. got my first computer in 2016, an old office PC with no internet, and learned most of what I know from YouTube and the internet.

Currently, I'm a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. I pick up the problems founders don't have time to hand out, whether that's code, sales, growth or infra.

tldr:

Founding engineer at QuicShop since June 2026
Founded KD, a legal AI startup. ~10 Delhi law firms as customers, YC Startup School
open source contributions in Plone CMS, worked there from Dec 2024 to Jan 2025
Ran infra for a 15,000+ person India–Russia hackathon
B.Tech CSE, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, 2023–27

The whole thing is in the long version. Bios for intros and forms are on the press page.

work

QuicShopjun 2026 – now

Founding engineer. AI-native store builder for Indian sellers.

Razorpay subscription billing end to end: retries, webhooks, failed and partial charges, scoped per shop. Before this, the product was free.
Seller funnel: n8n finds Instagram sellers with no storefront, loads them into our CRM, and drafts a personalised WhatsApp DM for the team to review.
Real-time inventory sync across D2C and B2B; Shiprocket and WhatsApp automation.
Google address autocomplete at checkout, free through Google's startup program.
Replaced Salesforce with self-hosted Twenty: ~US$1,000 → ~US$50 a month.

KD2025 – 26

Founder. Legal AI research and drafting assistant for Indian law firms.

Document chat with multi-provider tool use (Claude, Gemini, GPT), exact citations, Indian Kanoon and eCourts India.
Drafting workflows (CP checklists, agreement summaries) that output Word files with tracked changes.
Organization-level data with role-based access, scoped by practice area.
Three months in Delhi; ~10 firms as customers, some paying. YC Startup School and early conversations with a few investors.
Wound down: 5–6 month sales cycles, on-premise demands, no GTM partner.

Agent Yap2026

A 199-slide course on AI agent architecture, built from my own notes.

18 chapters, BM25 search, keyboard and swipe navigation.
Claude RAG answers that cite the exact slide; bring-your-own-key Gemini chat on every slide.
Designed in Paper, built with Claude Code.

AfterQuery (YC)aug – sep 2025

Freelance engineer, remote.

Docker-based debugging and DevOps tasks with deterministic test suites, aligned with Terminal-Bench.

open source

Plone CMSdec 2024 – feb 2026

Migrated Authomatic's Twitter/X provider from OAuth 1.0 to 2.0.
Documented plone.conf; 4 sprints on docs, bugs and validation edge cases with maintainers Steve Piercy and Victor Fernandez. Proof of work

PEcAn Projectcollege, year 2

Maintained the frontend that shows the project's research results.

on the side

BrainStorming2026

A multi-LLM panel of experts. Opus researches, Codex and Cursor CLI models (Grok, GPT, Gemini) brainstorm in parallel, and it converges on a scored, red-teamed verdict.

also

US$25,000 in cloud and AI credits via Y Combinator, 2025
PM Young Achievers Scholarship, 2024
Smart India Hackathon finalist; IEEE hackathon winner
India–Russia BRICS hackathon: judges from Kyra, Clinsight AI and ProjectX

stack

languages: C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Bash
frameworks: Node.js, Express, Next.js, React, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI
infra: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, n8n, Razorpay
dsa: 150+ problems, codolio

say hi

email: arpitsolanki6825@gmail.com
phone: +91 82798 24227
elsewhere: github · linkedin · x