Replaced Tally with accounting software of our own, inventory across 5,000+ SKUs, an expense system 40+ people use daily. One Postgres-backed modular monolith at its core: production, accounts and warehouse all depend on a single truth. Event production is still harder than anything software prepared me for.
Samkit Kundalia
Building · Ahmedabad
TL;DR
I find gaps and broken workflows and fix them fast. Radio co-founder at 18, fintech CTO twice, now building operating systems for real world businesses, usually on timelines that were due yesterday.
How I work
SpeedSayF's payments system went from first commit to processing over Rs 4 crore in a matter of days.
HatsThe radio station meant running tech, operations and culture at once, and the hats haven't stopped changing: founder, CTO, backend lead, accounts, event production, technical production for sound and LED, and whatever the day needs.
Self-startingNobody could teach me internet radio, so I figured it out and shipped the station's entire stack alone. That pattern has repeated everywhere since.
ParallelMost days I'm deep in one repo while already thinking through what the next one needs, down to the deploy commands.
OwnershipAt BharatX I joined as an intern and fell hard for the idea: first one in, last one out, because I wanted to be there. By the end I'd designed the hiring pipeline, built the Shopify Pay-in-3 app that drove 80% of revenue, and the consumer-vendor disputes system.
Work
From zero we built the only app where one swipe applied across every demat account you own. All of it feels cute when regulation and unit economics come knocking at the door together.
invoiceFlo
We turned down a term sheet out of conviction, then watched demand work while the supply side choked. Innovation alone doesn't make a business; the right model at the right time does.
Antler India
A month in cohort five, fast tracked, with a straight answer at the end: will they invest or not.
As their single lead backend engineer, I built the recurring payments and subscription tracking Fleek runs on, then gift cards, partner integrations and new revenue GTMs, keeping the tech on par with the demand.
SayF
Built a modular system across payments, orders, auth and deployments on a very tight clock. Clean module boundaries are what made that speed survivable.
A cold email on 12 May 2022 landed me friends for life. The all nighters taught me the only way to work is to have fun along the way; Flipkart acquired the company later, and the journey mattered more.
Stepwell Radio
Scaled to 3000+ listeners and 50+ shows at 99.9% uptime. That's where I learned not knowing how is a weak excuse.
Consulting
An autoparts business running 200+ drivers across 7 hubs. Their invoicing system was locked down with no API, only a printer output, so I built a virtual printer that intercepts the print job, parses the invoice, and forwards it to my system and the real one, unchanged for staff. Also built: order tracking, delivery assignment, the driver app, the website, HRMS, payroll, attendance.
The Gujarat government's yoga board. I build the systems behind their public events: registration, attendance and certificate generation.
About
At 18, I co-founded a community internet radio station: 42 people, no budget, held together by late nights and stubbornness. I knew nothing about the tech behind internet radio and set all of it up single-handedly anyway. Hacky, but it ran, for two years.
That set the template: find something broken or missing, convince people it matters, and build it fast.
The years since have been fintech: payments infrastructure, lending rails, MSME credit, IPO markets, two companies of my own. Both ran into the walls of heavily regulated industries, and both taught me more than anything that worked.
Right now I'm in Ahmedabad, running that template inside businesses I care about. Software is how I do it, not who I am, and AI keeps shortening the gap between finding a fix and shipping it. The world keeps telling me it's okay to take it slow; I believe the opposite: speed of execution beats every other metric. I'm 25, proud of the distance covered, and more ambitious about the distance left.
Thinking about
The offline world: physical spaces, live experiences, real communities, and how to build for them as carefully as we build software. I keep coming back to whether technology can make people more present instead of less, and where social impact fits into all of it.