Shivam Dave

Pune, IndiaSoftware developer

Yiruma, on the turntable.

Fast to ship.
Careful with the details.

I build agentic systems, live collaboration, and the infrastructure behind them at Unravel.tech. From Ahmedabad, now in Pune.

Off-screen: reading, then probably sleeping.

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Code, craft, and things in progress.

Projects and Open Source

5 projects. Scroll to explore.

In progress

Blockbs

A browser extension that adds a mindful pause before distracting sites, prompting you to state your intent before continuing.

  • JavaScript
  • Chrome Extensions
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In progress

trajectorr

A contextual AI habit-tracking app focused on behavior systems over outcome-chasing, helping users improve daily life through consistent routines.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Gemini API
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gitm8

GitHub collaboration intelligence with AI-assisted compatibility scoring and contribution insights.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • GraphQL
  • Gemini API
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eth-deposit-tracker

An Ethereum deposit tracker, fully dockerized with Grafana and Prometheus for end-to-end observability.

  • Node.js
  • Docker
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
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PingPollz

A real-time polling system built with an Express backend and React frontend, using Socket.IO for live updates and React Query for API state management.

  • Express.js
  • React
  • Socket.IO
  • React.js
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A Philosophy of Software Design

John Ousterhout

Pick a spine. Browse the shelf.

Experience

Unravel.tech

SDE-2

May 2026 – Present

Pune, India

  • Built live co-browsing with WebRTC and SSE: synced cursors, smooth camera tracking, and resilient reconnects.
  • Scaled real-time delivery across machines with Redis Pub/Sub, self-healing sticky sessions, and readiness checks.
  • Built replay-based LLM evaluation and release gates; hardened error recovery, fixed telemetry, and parallelized extraction.

Deloitte

Software Engineer

July 2025 – April 2026

Bangalore, India

  • Built reusable React workflows and stateful product surfaces for internal enterprise tools.
  • Shipped large export pipelines using PostgreSQL and Azure Blob Storage: chunked streams, background jobs, SAS URLs for secure delivery.

Private Pay

Software Engineer (Freelance)

Nov 2025 - Dec 2025

Remote

  • Rebuilt the UI with a security-first approach: clear permission flows, masked sensitive fields, and contextual warnings to reduce user error.
  • Configured wallet integrations including TrustWallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect for seamless on-chain payment flows.

OpenBio

Software Engineer / AI Engineer (Freelance)

Sep 2025 - Oct 2025

Bangalore, India

  • Integrated multiple tools over the course of the contract, including preprint platforms such as bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, and medRxiv.
  • Shipped a talk to Research Paper feature by utilizing txyz.ai's API efficiently, keeping context and sessions in check.

Mercor

Software Engineer (Freelance)

Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

Remote

  • Contributed to data annotation pipelines in Python: labelling, cleaning, and structuring datasets for ML model training.

GobbleCube.ai

Software Development Intern

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Gurugram, India

  • Worked across FastAPI microservices, React TypeScript interfaces, and Cube.js-backed data workflows.
  • Engineered UI layouts for 5+ q-commerce platforms using a Python-based BFF architecture.
  • Orchestrated an internal product-matching dashboard with 95% accuracy using OpenAI CLIP.

Kaabil.me

Software Development Intern

May 2024 – Jul 2024

Ahmedabad, India

  • Built responsive interfaces for 9 screens using React and Tailwind CSS.
  • Wired LLM-driven interactions through Node.js and REST APIs, handling 60+ concurrent users.

Einfochips

Tech Intern

Sept 2023 – Oct 2023

Ahmedabad, India

  • Built a food ordering Android app with Firebase: 7 screens, secure auth, full CRUD.

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Stack

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
Python
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
TailwindCSS
Docker
AWS
AWS
FastAPI
JavaScript
C++
Azu
Azure
Vercel
GitHub
Git
Postman
Jupyter
Figma
Redis
Posthog
Snowflake
Fly.io
Lan
Langfuse

Education

VIT Vellore

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

2021 – 2025

Four years building across web, backend, Android, and ML-adjacent projects. Committed to FAFO. Interned at a few startups and made some good friends along the way. Ended university ranked 9th in my batch.

Writing

Notes from things I have actually built. What broke, and what the fix turned out to be.

Field noteJuly 8, 2026

Voice is Not a Model Problem

My first voice agent sounded like a robot on a bad line. Swapping the model fixed nothing. What fixed it was a latency budget, a streaming pipeline, real barge-in, and keeping the LLM out of decisions it had no business making.

Voice AI · Streaming · Architecture14 min readon unravel.tech
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