About me

I’m Shivam. I sit on your side of the table.

I’m a software engineer of about nine years. CodeBonkers is how I work with founders: one senior engineer, directly, on the decisions that are hard to undo.

Shivam smiling in a white denim jacket by the sea
Ahmedabad, India
Why this exists

The expensive mistakes happen early

I’ve spent most of my career inside products after the early decisions were made: the stack, the vendor, the shape of the data, the first hire. Some of those calls held up for years. Others cost months to unwind.

The difference was rarely talent. It was whether someone senior was in the room, on the founder’s side, when the call was made. CodeBonkers is me being that person.

AI coding tools have made building much faster, and I use them every day. They haven’t made the judgment about what to build, and what not to, any cheaper.

Recent work

Where I’ve done the work

  1. 2024 – nowEverledgerSenior software engineer
    • Building a supply chain provenance platform for jewellery and precious metals.
    • Technical counterpart to clients from scoping to delivery, turning regulatory requirements into system design early.
    • Designed a certification platform where government auditors, member companies and the public each see the right slice of the same record.
    • Built multi-tenancy, role-based access control and the template engine behind public jewellery passports.
    • Introduced AI-assisted development to the team, with custom Claude Code agents and workflows, and mentor engineers on the platform.
  2. 2022 – 2023Source DigitalEngineering lead
    • Led cross-functional teams taking new products from idea to launch.
    • Built automated GitHub workflows that took routine code review off senior engineers.
    • Migrated Express endpoints to Hasura GraphQL and paid down tech debt along the way.
  3. 2021NovoLead engineer
    • Designed ACH payment processing for a fintech platform.
    • Moved a legacy Express codebase to NestJS and TypeScript.
    • Built automated testing that took most of the load off manual QA.
  4. 2019 – 2021EverledgerSenior software engineer
    • Led blockchain proof-of-concept work for provenance use cases.
    • Mentored the concept engineering team.
    • Wrote regularly on the company blog about what we were learning.
  5. 2016 – 2019EarlierProject lead and full-stack developer
    • Led app development for the Pepper humanoid robot, with little documentation to go on.
    • Looked after long-term client relationships as a project lead.
Tools I reach for

A boring stack, on purpose

I recommend what your team can hire for and run without me. These are what I know best, not what I’ll insist on.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Next.js
  • NestJS
  • Mastra
  • Claude Code
What you won’t get

The parts of consulting I left out

  • No bait and switch. No juniors behind a senior name. You get me.
  • No hourly meter. You shouldn’t have to think twice before asking a question.
  • No upsell. I don’t take a cut from agencies, vendors or hires I recommend.

If this sounds like the partner you need, let’s talk.

Thirty minutes. Bring the decision that’s keeping you up.

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