proudest.build
A player-matching algorithm for a real-money gaming app, plus infrastructure built to handle thousands of concurrent players.
Shubham Somani
Taking on new builds through The Boring Crew
Founder of The Boring Crew. For nearly a decade I've built AI products that people actually use.
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Interface React · Next.js · Vue · Flutter Map-heavy trip planning for Pathloom and live group ordering for Zabbit.
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Components Tailwind · MUI · Stimulus Reusable filters and date-range pickers for Apex Dental's dashboards.
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Real-time & payments Socket.IO · WebRTC · Stripe Connect Player matching for Savvology and bulk vendor payouts for Lowheads.
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APIs & services Node.js · NestJS · GraphQL · Laravel Back ends behind 50k+ launch-week downloads and 10k+ golfers.
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Data PostgreSQL · PostGIS · MongoDB · Redis Heavy queries cut from several minutes to milliseconds.
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Cloud & DevOps AWS · Firebase · CircleCI Automated deploys on Elastic Beanstalk, and smaller cloud bills.
- 100,000+app downloads across products
- 50,000+downloads in week one for Savvology Games
- 10,000+golfers on Thousand Greens
- 25+apps shipped with The Boring Crew
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01 / about
Clean code. Loud results.
I've been shipping production software since 2017, across web, mobile and cloud, from the first architecture sketch to the 3 a.m. pager. Today I run The Boring Crew, a small senior team that takes startups' AI products from idea to production in weeks.
My apps have passed 100,000+ downloads. I care about boring, reliable systems: code that's easy to change, and products that hold up when thousands of users arrive at once.
focus.areas
Full-stack · Front-end UI · Back-end · AWS · DevOps · PWA · Stripe managed accounts
now.building
LLM apps, RAG and agent workflows with evals, guardrails and cost controls.
02 / experience
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Founder & Principal Engineer @ The Boring Crew
- Run a senior product studio that designs, builds and launches AI MVPs, AI features and automations for seed to Series A startups.
- Ship LLM apps, RAG and agent workflows with evals, monitoring, guardrails and cost controls built in.
- Lead every engagement hands-on, for clients in the US, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia. 25+ apps shipped.
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Associate Lead Software Engineer @ DianApps Technologies
- Shaped planning, design, architecture and code review across a cross-functional, multi-site team.
- Built complex Stripe marketplace flows, including service and processing fees with managed, custom and Express accounts.
- Automated Node.js and React deployments on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and cut infrastructure costs for clients.
- Migrated PHP APIs to Node.js with unit tests, and shipped pixel-perfect UI from Figma, Sketch and XD.
- Mentored junior engineers on best practices and professional conduct.
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Stripe Expert @ Lowheads LLC
- Built bulk vendor payouts through Stripe, plus automatic approval of payments for items in transit.
- Optimised SQL queries and improved overall site performance.
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JavaScript Front-end Developer @ Apex Dental Partners
- Built a multi-filter custom select in Stimulus and a date-range picker with presets (MTD, QTD, YTD, LTM).
- Made the app fully responsive for mobile and tablet, with print-friendly CSS.
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Senior Software Engineer @ DianApps Technologies
- Led development and code reviews, and helped grow the company from 12 people to more than 80 by interviewing, onboarding and mentoring engineers.
- Used the Haversine formula to find the nearest of thousands of geo-coordinates to a user in real time.
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Software Engineer @ DianApps Technologies
- Brought heavy SQL queries down from several minutes to 1–2 seconds, and some to milliseconds.
- Designed an offline-first mobile app that syncs once it's back online.
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Full-stack Developer @ Mythengaa Websol
- Designed school-management software and a portal for school profiles, programmes, events and scholarships.
- Integrated Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Sentry and a payment gateway.
03 / selected work
Things I've shipped
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Pathloom
outdoor trip planning · maps
The first all-in-one app for planning outdoor trips. I owned the front and back end and designed the architecture with my team. I improved Mapbox clustering for performance and built rich map overlays and interactions.
Visit pathloom.com02
Savvology Games
skill gaming · real-time · since acquired
Purely skill-based real-money games. I oversaw the whole product, organised the workflow, wrote the player-matching algorithm and designed infrastructure for thousands of concurrent players.
50k+ downloads in launch week
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Zabbit
contactless dine-in · payments
A new take on dining in, with contactless menus and group orders. As lead developer I set the architecture and built the core feature, real-time group ordering. I used Stripe Express for payouts and branding, and Stripe for contactless payments.
Visit zabbit.io04
Thousand Greens
golf community · subscriptions
A close-knit community of private-club golfers. I took over a half-finished codebase, planned the launch with my team, delivered it, and built Stripe subscriptions.
10k+ golfers on the platform
Visit thousandgreens.com05
Oberit
mental health · habits
A recovery app that rewards healthy, consistent habits. We built the APIs that sync HealthKit data and process it on the back end, and a notification engine driven by user activity.
View on the App Store06
Field-ops compliance
construction · uk & eu · offline-first
Mobile capture for crews who work where Wi-Fi doesn't. It records geo-tagged evidence, syncs when back online, and turns it into auditor-ready PDFs.
300+ live sites · 97% first-time approval
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Payments & marketplaces
fintech · subscriptions · pos
Stripe Connect marketplaces, and subscriptions reconciled across Stripe, Apple and RevenueCat. It also covers 1099-NEC tax automation and hybrid in-person and online payments.
40% manual ops removed · 25% fewer payment errors
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Civic polling
media · spiky traffic · real-time
Polling flows tuned for completion, with real-time results by city and topic, editorial dashboards, and infrastructure built for traffic spikes.
36k+ leaders polled across 4 districts
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Finance & tax automation
advisors · accountants · integrations
Intake with conditional logic and secure document collection, two-way sync across CRM, accounting and banking data, and reviewer workflows.
~15× faster: 4-hour jobs in 15 minutes
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Campus platform
edtech · multi-tenant
One product for students, administrators and recruiters: a student app for social, classifieds and events, plus admin and employer portals on one shared codebase.
3 audiences, 1 codebase, live on campuses
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Clinical operations
pharmacy · dental · primary care
Guided patient intake through to prescriptions and referrals, with appointments that account for inventory and staff, and admin dashboards across practices.
Live across multiple practices
04 / stack
The toolbox
ai & llms
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Gemini
- RAG
- pgvector
- Agents & workflows
- Evals & guardrails
- n8n
languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
- GraphQL
- PHP
- Python
- HTML5
- CSS
frontend & mobile
- React
- Next.js
- Vue
- Nuxt.js
- Quasar
- Tailwind
- MUI
- Flutter
- React Native
backend
- Node.js
- Express
- NestJS
- Laravel
- Apollo GraphQL
- Socket.IO
- WebRTC
- REST / OpenAPI
data
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- DynamoDB
- Elasticsearch
- Algolia
- Hasura
cloud & devops
- AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EB, CloudFront)
- Firebase
- DigitalOcean
- Cloudflare
- CircleCI
- Sentry
payments & apis
- Stripe Connect / Express
- Stripe Subscriptions
- PayPal
- RazorPay
- Twilio
- SendGrid
- Mapbox
- Google Maps
education
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Cloud Computing & Information Security
Poornima University · 2015 – 2019
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