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Product Engineer

Koushith Amin

Product engineer with a design background. I like working across the stack and care a lot about how software feels, not just how it works. Most of what I build lives at the intersection of developer tools and product interfaces.

Currently leading core tech at Consuma AI, building v2 of the product and growing the engineering team. Previously founding team at Reclaim Protocol and Consenso Labs.

Resume

Experience

Mar 2026 - Present

Consuma AI

Senior Software Engineer

Leading v2 of the product, rearchitecting the platform. Hiring engineers and defining how the team builds and ships.

2023 - Dec 2025

Reclaim Protocol

Founding Team, Senior Software Engineer

Owned the developer-facing surface area: Web SDKs, DevTool platform, and Provider Hunt. Reduced provider onboarding from days to under 20 minutes. Led technical demos and sales engineering.

2021 - 2023

Consenso Labs

Founding Team, Frontend Engineer & UI Designer

Built a component library from scratch (inspired by Chakra UI). Shipped Safient, Signchain, and Arbchain. Transitioned from design to engineering.

2019 - 2020

Infosys Limited

SAP GRC Consultant

Enterprise governance, risk, and compliance for SAP systems.

Selected Work

Products I've built end-to-end

SideNotes

Solo, Product, Design, Engineering

2026

1 / 16

Problem

Notion is easy but locks your notes inside a cloud database. Obsidian is local-first and powerful but the editor feels intimidating to non-power users. I wanted both: the Notion editor experience on top of the Obsidian file format, with none of the cloud lock-in.

A quiet, local-first second brain for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Notion-easy block editor, Obsidian-deep linking. Notes stay as plain markdown on your machine. No cloud, no account, no lock-in.

Key outcomes

—Plain markdown files on disk. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in
—Ships on macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single Electron codebase
—Editor, graph, and canvas share one CSS-variable theme system across 6 palettes × light/dark
—Reload-on-watcher-change so external edits never get silently overwritten

Stack

Electron 33React 18TypeScriptVite 6TipTap + tiptap-markdownSigma 3 + Graphology@xyflow/react (canvas)Tailwind 3Zustand

github.com/Koushith/sidenotes

Vortex

Solo, Design, Architecture, Engineering

2025

1 / 5

Problem

Traditional tab-based browsing loses context. Researchers and power users juggle 100+ tabs with no spatial awareness of how pages relate to each other.

Transforms your browser into an infinite spatial canvas where websites live as interactive nodes. Instead of 100+ messy tabs, every link spawns a new node, mapping your journey visually. Inspired by Figma.

Key outcomes

—Entirely client-side. No server, no telemetry
—Figma-style layer panel, minimap, and keyboard shortcuts
—Auto-save via Chrome Storage API

Stack

React 18ViteChrome Manifest V3TypeScriptChrome Storage API

github.com/Koushith/vortex

Archqo

Solo, Full-Stack, AI Integration, Product Design

2026

1 / 12

Problem

System design interviews are hard to practice alone. Existing resources are passive (videos, articles). Engineers need interactive, real-time practice with feedback.

AI-powered system design interview practice platform. Simulate real interviews with voice interaction and a collaborative whiteboard.

Key outcomes

—Voice-based AI interviewer with real-time feedback
—Built-in whiteboard for live architecture diagramming
—Covers key patterns: load balancing, caching, sharding, etc.

Stack

Next.jsTypeScriptAIWebRTCTailwind CSS

archqo.com

Hive

Contract, Client Engineering

2026

1 / 7

Problem

Traditional agent frameworks require manually wiring workflows, defining graphs, and handling failures reactively. Aden needed a client that could visualize goal-driven, self-improving agent pipelines in real time.

Built the client for Aden's open-source agentic framework. Goal-driven AI agents that self-improve. Define outcomes in natural language, auto-generate agent graphs, and evolve on failure.

Key outcomes

—Interactive dashboard with live agent graph visualization
—Real-time WebSocket streaming for execution monitoring
—Open-source, Apache 2.0, YC-backed

Stack

Next.jsTypeScriptReact FlowWebSocketTailwind CSS

github.com/adenhq/hive

Shipped & Sunset

Things I tried, learned from, and moved on from

Indie products I shipped end-to-end. Some found users, some didn't. All of them taught me something.

2025

QuiteInbox

Privacy-first, local-first Gmail subscription manager. All email processing happens in your browser. Zero data transmitted to external servers.

2025

Pentax17-Mobile-App

A premium React Native mobile app that faithfully emulates the shooting experience of a Pentax 17 half-frame film camera.

2025

RoomCraft AI

AI-powered interior design tool. Upload a room photo, pick a style, get three photorealistic redesigns in 30 seconds.

2025

CryptoTally

Crypto accounting and portfolio management for startups and freelancers who get paid in digital assets.

2025

DeFinVoice

Open-source invoicing platform bridging traditional billing workflows with crypto payments for DAOs and freelancers.

Tiny Tools

Silly little tools I built to scratch my own itch

Weekend-sized utilities that fix one small annoyance each. Not products, just things I wanted to exist. Each one links straight to its repo.

2026

PortTray

A macOS menu bar app that shows which ports are open, what app is holding them, and the full command behind each one, then kills the process in a single click. Built because I was tired of running lsof and kill -9 every time a server hit "address already in use".

A+ People I've Worked With

Kind words from founders, engineers & collaborators

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Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Writing

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If you're working on something cool and need an engineer, reach out.

koushith97@gmail.com

Koushith Amin

Consuma AI

Reclaim Protocol

Consenso Labs

Infosys Limited

Products I've built end-to-end

SideNotes

Vortex

Archqo

Hive

Things I tried, learned from, and moved on from

QuiteInbox

Pentax17-Mobile-App

RoomCraft AI

CryptoTally

DeFinVoice

Silly little tools I built to scratch my own itch

PortTray

The psychology of streaks

Short onboarding was never the point

Vortex Failed. Here's What I Learned.