--- title: "Arpit Solanki · founding engineer" description: "Founding engineer at QuicShop. Grew up in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Previously founded Scafffold, a legal AI startup." url: https://arpitsolanki.in/ --- Canonical page: https://arpitsolanki.in/ # Hey, I'm Arpit. :))) founding engineer at [QuicShop](https://quicshop.in/). previously founded [Scafffold](https://www.scafffold.com/), a legal AI startup and worked at AfterQuery (YC) as a freelance engineer. ## so far - **age 10** — A school computer book in English. Learned English that year so I could read it. - **2016** — First computer: my uncle's old office PC, no Network card. learnt **how mac OS functions** internally from books. - **8th grade** — Learnt Java from newspaper's tech section, **modded GTA and Minecraft**, played Pokémon on GBA emulators modded into android. - **10th grade** — Learnt Web dev. Started building websites for a local startups and MSMEs near me. Expanded to **Clients in US**, Europe, canada and Singapore. - **2021–23** — IIT prep through COVID. worked on some content with my younger brother. Didn't scale. We started creating founder led content under ["The Internet narrative"](https://theinternetnarrative.com/) . I left that in sophomore year of college. Currenlty it's handled by a team of 5 people. My brother leads that now. - **2023** — JEE Advanced, rank **~16,000 among ~1.2M** , Didn't got into IIT, went to IIT Jais, Search google to find this IIT (lol). Did every hackathon I could find. **Smart India Hackathon finalist.** - **2024** — Won the IEEE hackathon . Ran infra for an [India–Russia BRICS hackathon, 15,000+ participants](https://gobricshackathon.org/). PrimeMinister's Young Achiever Scholarship. Started working on **Open source projects- [PEcAn Project](https://pecanproject.org/) and [Plone CMS](https://github.com/plone/volto) (600+ stars)**. - **2025** — Freelanced at **AfterQuery (YC)**. **Founded [Scafffold](https://www.scafffold.com/)**, a legal AI startup. Stayed in Delhi for Three months with **law firms; ~10 became customers** (YC said talk to users :-p ). - **2026** — Wound down [Scafffold](https://www.scafffold.com/) after ~7 months. Built [Agent Yap](https://agent.scafffold.com/). Joined [QuicShop](https://quicshop.in/) in June. 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](https://quicshop.in/), 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. The whole thing is in [the long version](https://arpitsolanki.in/story.html). Bios for intros and forms are on the [press page](https://arpitsolanki.in/press.html). ## work ### [QuicShop](https://quicshop.in/) jun 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. ### [Scafffold](https://www.scafffold.com/) 2025 – 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 Yap](https://agent.scafffold.com/) 2026 *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 CMS dec 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KESzAiaWlKK-Sdoeh2kr5IGSEnsvZlQ-qgHscgBwfos/edit?usp=sharing) ### PEcAn Project college, year 2 - Maintained the frontend that shows the project's research results. ## on the side ### [BrainStorming](https://github.com/boss6825/BrainStorming) 2026 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 - PrimeMinister's Young Achievers Scholarship, 2024 - 3x hackathon winner - Smart India Hackathon finalist; IEEE hackathon winner - India–Russia BRICS hackathon: got judges and sponsors 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](https://codolio.com/profile/Arpit%20Solanki) ## say hi **email:** [arpitsolanki6825@gmail.com](mailto:arpitsolanki6825@gmail.com) **phone:** [+91 82798 24227](tel:+918279824227) **elsewhere:** [github](https://github.com/boss6825) · [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpit-solanki-b6033a298/) · [x](https://x.com/boss6852)