shantanu.tech

I scale vibe-coded prototypes
into production systems.

Hey, I'm Shantanu, a top 3%* engineer. Co-founder at Medyog (acqui-hired by SigTuple), currently engineering at ECOMI/VeVe, and the engineer behind the apps at sportscondensed.com and the platform that took thesportsrush.com past 30M monthly readers. On the side, I help founders harden what AI coded yesterday so it survives real traffic tomorrow.

* Part of the Toptal network ↗

11+
years shipping
5
startups shipped
30M+
monthly readers
99.99%
uptime targets
Services

How I help

01

Scale readiness audit

A two-week deep-dive on your AI-generated or MVP codebase. I map the load path, flag everything that breaks at 100x, and leave you with a prioritized plan your team can ship.

  • ·Architecture review + bottleneck map
  • ·Database, cache, and query hot-paths
  • ·Observability + cost baseline
02

Hardening & rebuild

Hands-on engineering. I rewrite the parts that won't survive real traffic (auth, billing, data access, queues, background jobs) without stopping your product roadmap.

  • ·TypeScript / Python / Java backends
  • ·Next.js + React Native frontends
  • ·Postgres, Kafka, Redis, event-driven systems
03

Fractional platform lead

When you don't need a full-time VP Eng yet. I run your platform bar, review critical PRs, own on-call playbooks, and coach your team so you can keep hiring at founder pace.

  • ·Tech strategy + hiring loop design
  • ·Incident response + SLO definition
  • ·Weekly cadence with founders
Experience

11 years across the stack

Co-founded a healthcare startup. Scaled at Apna and ECOMI/VeVe. Built LIMS with medical-device integrations, shipped mobile apps, and pushed thesportsrush.com past 30M monthly readers.

Senior engineer

ECOMI (VeVe)

Digital collectibles platform licensing Marvel, Disney, Star Wars and more. Working across the wallet, marketplace, and high-traffic drop mechanics serving millions of collectors.

Consultant

thesportsrush.com

A long-running engagement scaling the content platform to 30M+ monthly readers. Site was sold in 2026.

Senior engineer

Apna.co

India's largest professional community for the next 250M workers. Shipped on product and platform through the hyper-growth phase that took Apna to unicorn status.

Engineer

SigTuple

AI-powered medical diagnostics. Joined via the Medyog acqui-hire. Built the Lab Information and Management System (LIMS) end-to-end, with integrations into Sysmex, Siemens Aptio, and other hematology and chemistry analyzers.

Co-founder & CTO

Medyog

Built a healthcare platform from zero: team, product, and infra. Acqui-hired by SigTuple.

Distributed systemsKubernetesKafkaAWSGCPTypeScriptPythonGoJavaJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsReact NativeTailwind CSSPostgresDynamoDBRedisElasticsearchMongoDBMySQLgRPCGraphQLHasuraRESTRabbitMQTerraformPulumiDockerNginxDatadogSentryStrapiWordPress
Let's talk

Got an app that works until it doesn't?

Send me what you've got. I'll tell you honestly whether it's a two-week tune-up or a three-month rebuild, and who should do it.