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Arpit Solanki is a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Previously founded KD, a legal AI startup used by ~10 law firms. Plone CMS contributor. Ran infra for a 15,000-person India–Russia hackathon.

I'm Arpit Solanki, a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Previously founded KD, a legal AI startup used by ~10 law firms. Plone CMS contributor. Ran infra for a 15,000-person India–Russia hackathon.

Arpit Solanki is a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. First computer in 2016: an old office PC, no internet. Self-taught, mostly from YouTube.

At QuicShop: Razorpay subscription billing, an n8n seller-acquisition funnel, faster checkout, and CRM costs cut from ~US$1,000 to ~US$50 a month. ~30 pilot sellers signed up on day one.

Before that: founded KD, a legal AI assistant. ~10 Delhi law firms as customers, some paying. YC Startup School. Plone CMS contributor. Ran infra for a 15,000-person India–Russia hackathon.

I'm Arpit Solanki, a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. First computer in 2016: an old office PC, no internet. Self-taught, mostly from YouTube.

At QuicShop: Razorpay subscription billing, an n8n seller-acquisition funnel, faster checkout, and CRM costs cut from ~US$1,000 to ~US$50 a month. ~30 pilot sellers signed up on day one.

Before that: founded KD, a legal AI assistant. ~10 Delhi law firms as customers, some paying. YC Startup School. Plone CMS contributor. Ran infra for a 15,000-person India–Russia hackathon.

Arpit Solanki is a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers, and a B.Tech CSE student at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology.

Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Learned English at 10 to read a school computer book. First computer in 2016: an uncle's old office PC, no internet. Java from a phone app in 8th grade, websites by 10th. JEE Advanced 2023: rank ~16,000 among ~1.2 million candidates.

College: Smart India Hackathon finalist, IEEE hackathon winner, and infra lead for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon with 15,000+ participants. Plone CMS contributor since December 2024, including an OAuth 2.0 migration for Authomatic.

2025: freelanced at AfterQuery (YC), then founded KD, a legal AI assistant with exact citations and Indian Kanoon and eCourts integration. Three months in Delhi with law firms; ~10 became customers. YC Startup School. Wound down after ~7 months.

2026: built Agent Yap, a 199-slide course on AI agent architecture with Claude-powered answers that cite the exact slide, then joined QuicShop. Signed up ~30 pilot sellers on day one. Since then: Razorpay subscription billing, an Instagram-to-WhatsApp seller funnel, inventory sync, faster checkout, and a ~95% cut in CRM costs.

I'm Arpit Solanki, a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers, and a B.Tech CSE student at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology.

Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Learned English at 10 to read a school computer book. First computer in 2016: an uncle's old office PC, no internet. Java from a phone app in 8th grade, websites by 10th. JEE Advanced 2023: rank ~16,000 among ~1.2 million candidates.

College: Smart India Hackathon finalist, IEEE hackathon winner, and infra lead for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon with 15,000+ participants. Plone CMS contributor since December 2024, including an OAuth 2.0 migration for Authomatic.

2025: freelanced at AfterQuery (YC), then founded KD, a legal AI assistant with exact citations and Indian Kanoon and eCourts integration. Three months in Delhi with law firms; ~10 became customers. YC Startup School. Wound down after ~7 months.

2026: built Agent Yap, a 199-slide course on AI agent architecture with Claude-powered answers that cite the exact slide, then joined QuicShop. Signed up ~30 pilot sellers on day one. Since then: Razorpay subscription billing, an Instagram-to-WhatsApp seller funnel, inventory sync, faster checkout, and a ~95% cut in CRM costs.

Arpit Solanki is a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers, and a B.Tech CSE student at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. Works on whatever is blocking the company: code, sales, growth or infra.

Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Almost everyone around worked on farms; nobody coded. Educated parents who pushed in the right direction, and YouTube for everything else. Learned English at 10 to read a school computer book. First computer in 2016: an uncle's old office PC with no internet, used to learn every corner of Windows XP and mod GTA and Minecraft. Java from a phone app in 8th grade, websites by the end of 10th.

During JEE prep in the COVID years, started a tech YouTube channel alongside a younger brother's gaming channel, built on breaking down what made content go viral. The channels didn't scale. The brother now makes videos for companies like MicroAGI and CodeAnt AI (YC), with Arpit still advising. JEE Advanced 2023: rank ~16,000 among ~1.2 million candidates.

College: Smart India Hackathon finalist in year one, IEEE hackathon winner in year two. Ran the site and infra for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon with 15,000+ participants on limited college resources, and brought in founders from YC- and a16z-backed startups as judges. Plone CMS contributor since December 2024: documentation sprints with core maintainers, bug fixes, and an OAuth 2.0 migration for the Authomatic library.

2025: freelanced at AfterQuery (YC) on Docker-based DevOps tasks. Then founded KD, a legal AI assistant built for what generic chatbots miss: exact citations, Indian Kanoon and eCourts integration, role-based organization data, and drafts that come out as tracked-changes Word files. Three months in Delhi with law firms; ~10 became customers, some paying. YC Startup School. Long sales cycles and on-premise demands ended it after ~7 months.

2026: built Agent Yap, a 199-slide course on AI agent architecture with Claude-powered answers that cite the exact slide. Joined QuicShop in June and signed up ~30 pilot sellers on day one, pitching stall to stall at a Bangalore seller event. Since then: Razorpay subscription billing, an n8n funnel that drafts WhatsApp outreach to Instagram sellers, real-time inventory sync, faster checkout, and Salesforce replaced with self-hosted Twenty, cutting CRM costs from ~US$1,000 to ~US$50 a month. Nobody assigned the user-acquisition work at QuicShop. It needed solving.

I'm Arpit Solanki, a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers, and a B.Tech CSE student at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. I work on whatever is blocking the company: code, sales, growth or infra.

Grew up in a farming village in Uttar Pradesh. Almost everyone around worked on farms; nobody coded. Educated parents who pushed in the right direction, and YouTube for everything else. Learned English at 10 to read a school computer book. First computer in 2016: an uncle's old office PC with no internet, used to learn every corner of Windows XP and mod GTA and Minecraft. Java from a phone app in 8th grade, websites by the end of 10th.

During JEE prep in the COVID years, started a tech YouTube channel alongside my younger brother's gaming channel, built on breaking down what made content go viral. The channels didn't scale. My brother now makes videos for companies like MicroAGI and CodeAnt AI (YC), and I still advise him. JEE Advanced 2023: rank ~16,000 among ~1.2 million candidates.

College: Smart India Hackathon finalist in year one, IEEE hackathon winner in year two. Ran the site and infra for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon with 15,000+ participants on limited college resources, and brought in founders from YC- and a16z-backed startups as judges. Plone CMS contributor since December 2024: documentation sprints with core maintainers, bug fixes, and an OAuth 2.0 migration for the Authomatic library.

2025: freelanced at AfterQuery (YC) on Docker-based DevOps tasks. Then founded KD, a legal AI assistant built for what generic chatbots miss: exact citations, Indian Kanoon and eCourts integration, role-based organization data, and drafts that come out as tracked-changes Word files. Three months in Delhi with law firms; ~10 became customers, some paying. YC Startup School. Long sales cycles and on-premise demands ended it after ~7 months.

2026: built Agent Yap, a 199-slide course on AI agent architecture with Claude-powered answers that cite the exact slide. Joined QuicShop in June and signed up ~30 pilot sellers on day one, pitching stall to stall at a Bangalore seller event. Since then: Razorpay subscription billing, an n8n funnel that drafts WhatsApp outreach to Instagram sellers, real-time inventory sync, faster checkout, and Salesforce replaced with self-hosted Twenty, cutting CRM costs from ~US$1,000 to ~US$50 a month. Nobody assigned the user-acquisition work at QuicShop. It needed solving.