Experience & perspective
Amit Kumar
Full-stack Engineer & Founder — WetClay AI
Pune, Indiaamitgarg.cse@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/amikudevgithub.com/amit-kumar-cseportfolio.wetclay.org
Summary
IIT (BHU) and DCE alum with 15+ years of experience across Adobe, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, GE Healthcare, and founding two startups. Currently building WetClay AI — a suite of interconnected apps with shared authentication, data, and infrastructure. Ships with Claude Code, custom MCP servers, and agentic workflows.
Experience
Founder & CTO
Feb 2026 – PresentWetClay AI · Pune, India
- Building a suite of AI-powered apps with shared authentication, data, and infrastructure.
- Shipping with Claude Code as primary development tool — custom skills, MCP servers, and agentic workflows.
Staff Software Engineer, Co-founder & CTO
Oct 2020 – Jan 2026Prachet Lifetech Pvt. Ltd. · Pune, India
- Built PregVeda (Garbhasanskar) Android & iOS apps and web admin console from scratch. 4.9 rating, 3K+ downloads.
- End-to-end ownership: requirements, HLD/LLD, development, testing, usage monitoring.
- Built and led engineering, operations, and content teams. Product strategy and finance.
Technical Consultant
Oct 2023 – Jan 2024Studio Management · Pune, India
- Designed and developed a full-stack Next.js + Prisma + PostgreSQL web app for event management.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Sep 2019 – Oct 2020GE Healthcare · Bengaluru, India
- Designed, developed, and tested React-based components and web apps for the Tele Intensive Care program.
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2018 – Aug 2019Amazon · Bengaluru, India
- React-based frontend development for Amazon Advertising team.
- Awarded Best Innovation Sprint Lead for asset analysis tool.
Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer
Aug 2014 – Oct 2018Morgan Stanley · Mumbai, India
- Designed architecture for Settlement Instruction Renovation program.
- Defined UI architecture, selected frameworks, hired and led the UI team.
- Built a Google Maps-integrated web app for Real Estate Investments.
Assistant Professor
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012FIITJEE Limited · Delhi, India
Member of Technical Staff
May 2009 – Dec 2009Adobe Systems · Noida, India
- Automated peer review comments on code policy violations via Code Collaborator API.
- Built a Bugbot in Perl for unallocated bug collection and management reporting.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
2005 – 2009B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering
Best Innovation Prize at Technex '07 for Digital Economy concept with working model.
Delhi College of Engineering
2012 – 2014M.Tech., Computer Software Engineering
AI, Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering.
Key Projects
- WetClay — Curated stories for children, saved favourites, and push notifications (wetclay.org)
- AstroVibe — Vedic astrology matching: 6 match types, 4-level scoring, AI chat, Muhurta (astrovibe.wetclay.org)
- TadkaBook — Recipe manager with Ayurvedic 8-factor health scoring (tadkabook.wetclay.org)
- Dincharya — Ayurvedic daily routine tracker with Dosha Kala time blocks (dincharya.wetclay.org)
- Insight Scout — App review scraper with sentiment analysis and Excel export (insights-scout.wetclay.org)
- PregVeda — Garbhasanskar pregnancy app: yoga, diet, music, fetal communication. 4.9 rating, 3K+ downloads
Explore the full project collectionTechnical Skills
- Claude Code / AI SDK / MCP Servers / Agentic Workflows
- React 19, Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui
- tRPC, Connect-RPC, Fastify, Zod, TanStack Query + Virtual
- Node.js, Prisma 7, PostgreSQL (self-hosted on Hetzner), Firebase, Firestore
- pgBackRest PITR, ZFS branching, PgBouncer, CloudNativePG
- Agora RTC/RTM, tldraw, MediaPipe, HuggingFace Transformers, WebGPU
- React Native / Expo, Electron, PWA
- Swiss Ephemeris WASM (custom Vedic astrology engine — 15K lines, 459 tests)
- k3s on Hetzner + ArgoCD + Helm + Sealed Secrets, OpenTofu, Cloudflared Tunnel
- Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Uptime Kuma + Blackbox Exporter
- Vercel, Sentry, PostHog, GA4, Playwright, Jest, Turborepo
- Razorpay, LemonSqueezy (payment integrations)