# Experience | Achal Bajpai - Page: https://achal.works/experiences - Markdown: https://achal.works/experiences.md The work history behind this site, most recent first. 6 roles. ## Confidential - Role: Software Engineer - Full Stack (AI) - Type: Contract - Period: Aug, 2026 - Present - Location: Remote, Miami - Current: yes - Tags: TypeScript, Next.js, Cloudflare D1, Cloudflare R2, ClickHouse - Architected and implemented an ownership model across the platform’s object storage, closing a cross-tenant security gap, and shipped a per-workspace Documents library on top of it - Led a major architecture revamp of review editing end to end, changing how it works under the hood and making sure version history holds up across a workflow re-run, reviewed and merged - Introduced self-serve white-label branding across the platform, letting owners update branding information, and centralized report state and rendering into a single system used across the app ## Hyperverge - Role: Software Development Engineer - Type: Internship - Period: Sep, 2025 - Jul, 2026 - Location: Onsite, Bangalore - Tags: TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Playwright, Grafana, Slack Bolt JS - Part of the HyperVerge One platform and Link KYC product teams, building core infrastructure and developer tooling for a platform HyperVerge publishes as having processed 2B+ identity verifications for 500+ enterprises across India and the US. The platform serves close to 200 million requests a day - Designed and built a label configuration system spanning the platform's application and API layers, a single config-driven mechanism that lets enterprise clients customize interface text without a code deployment - Redesigned the platform's Analytics Dashboard end to end, owning both the product direction and the implementation, and extended it with the same per-client customization the label configuration system introduced elsewhere on the platform - Led load testing across major services, alongside UI/UX and feature improvements shaped by product and client direction - Built the end-to-end testing pipeline to stay dependable as more of the codebase shipped through an agent-driven SDLC, lifting engineering velocity by roughly 50-60% - Built three internal Slack bots used across the company's roughly 400 people: trial-expiry alerts that kept renewal conversations and payment on schedule, a structured approval workflow for platform access that cut turnaround from days to minutes, and a request tracker giving the team one accurate, trackable record of every bug, feature request, and client ask across Jira and Google Sheets - Led a cost-optimization pass on the platform's logging infrastructure, cutting spend by roughly $1,800 a month - Resolved client-impacting production outages on tight timelines by tracing issues across multiple microservices to their root cause ## OpenMS - Role: Software Developer - Type: Internship - Period: May, 2025 - Aug, 2025 - Location: Remote, Germany - Tags: Python, Streamlit, pyOpenMS, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD - Built production-ready web applications on pyOpenMS, used by thousands of researchers across the proteomics community - Shipped the Peptide m/z Tool, a full-stack tool for mass spectrometry calculations with mzML file processing and data visualization - Set up automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and containerized deployment via Docker - Worked directly alongside the OpenMS core maintainers at ETH Zurich, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Toronto ## Stealth Startup - Role: Frontend Developer - Type: Internship - Period: Dec, 2024 - Jan, 2025 - Location: Remote, India - Tags: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Figma - Built the product's entire UI end to end as the sole frontend engineer, working from shared Figma designs, from the landing pages through the full dashboard - Partnered directly with the founding team on design and implementation decisions as the product took shape ## Intel - Role: Machine Learning Trainee, Unnati Industrial Training Program - Type: Traineeship - Period: May, 2024 - Jul, 2024 - Location: Remote - Tags: YOLOv8, Python, Machine Learning - Built a machine learning model for vehicle cut-in detection - Orchestrated a YOLOv8-based detection system, achieving 80% precision across diverse road conditions ## Symphony Music - Role: Lead Developer Team - Type: Self-initiated - Period: Mar, 2020 - Sep, 2022 - Location: Remote - Tags: Node.js, Discord.js, YouTube API, Spotify API, FFmpeg - Architected and scaled a high-performance Discord music bot serving 300,000+ users across 300+ servers - Implemented 40+ real-time audio filters and multi-platform streaming from YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud - Maintained and shipped continuous performance improvements over 2+ years with zero-downtime deployments ## Open source ### Agent Orchestrator - Repository: https://github.com/Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator - Language: TypeScript - Merged changes: 2 - Stars at time of writing: 10874 - Built the Cmd/Ctrl+K command palette from scratch for an Electron IDE that manages fleets of coding agents, then extended it with session drill-in and inline task creation - Shipped a macOS menu-bar tray across the Electron main process, preload bridge, and renderer, localized into 8 languages ### Gumroad - Repository: https://github.com/antiwork/gumroad - Language: TypeScript - Merged changes: 6 - Stars at time of writing: 9651 - Built a full-stack mail subscription flow for chat updates, including subscribe/unsubscribe UX, backend handlers, and database migrations - Shipped notification plumbing so users received email updates for conversations they subscribed to - Merged 6 PRs across UI, APIs, and developer experience, with maintainer appreciation for code quality (★9,651) ### GitLab Orbit - Repository: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit - Language: Rust - Merged changes: 4 - Stars at time of writing: 57 - Contributed to GitLab Orbit, a unified knowledge graph and context API that maps codebases, MRs, pipelines, and dev lifecycle metadata for AI agents via MCP - Merged 4 MRs spanning Rust backend logic, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails API layers, and test coverage ### OpenMS/OpenMS - Repository: https://github.com/OpenMS/OpenMS - Language: Python - Merged changes: 10 - Stars at time of writing: 616 - Worked on OpenMS WebApps, browser-based tools that make mass spectrometry analysis accessible without local setup - Shipped pyOpenMS integrations for mzML file processing, data visualization, and automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Docker - Merged 10 PRs into the core OpenMS codebase (★616)