Akhtar Khan
Founding backend engineer at Ryvn
4+ years7 products shipped
I'm a backend engineer working on distributed services, AI agents and real-time systems, mostly in Go, TypeScript and Python. I care about latency, clear boundaries between services, and going down to the native layer when a feature needs it.
I'm currently a founding engineer at Ryvn. Before that I worked at Infloso AI and Finportal, and built a few products on the side. A background in application security keeps auth and abuse cases in the design from the start.
Outside of work I keep picking up new things. I've made small games in Unity, spent time on the offensive side of security, and gone deep on cloud infrastructure. Learning is the part of this job I enjoy most.
Open to early-stage startup roles · Mumbai, IST
Work
Domains
- AI agents · memory · automation
- Marketplaces dispatch · payments · payouts
- Fintech investing · lending · dashboards
- Social & real-time chat · multiplayer · push
- Health patient community · risk screening
- Security VAPT · API testing · auth
Experience
ZanEvra Inc. · Founding Backend Engineer 2026 —
- Backend services, agent runtime integration and background workflows for Ryvn.
- Live Activities, lock-screen voice and device integrations on iOS and Android.
Infloso AI · Full-Stack Engineer 2024 — 2026
- Built the campaign and collab module connecting brands with creators.
- AI workflows for content generation, social scraping and sentiment analysis.
- Resilient scraping infrastructure, with queue-backed background jobs.
Finportal · Software Engineer 2023 — 2024
- Built the investment-factory and loanshop web apps, with real-time dashboards.
- Integrated payment gateways, auth flows and admin panels.
Languages & tools
- Languages
- Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, Java, SQL, Ruby, PHP, GDScript
- Backend
- Actix, Node.js, Bun, Deno, Express, Hono, Axum, Fastify, Echo, ASP.NET Core, Django, Flask, gRPC, REST, WebSockets, Socket.IO
- Web & mobile
- React, Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, Tailwind, React Native, Expo, SwiftUI, Live Activities
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Qdrant, Neo4j, Elasticsearch
- Infra
- Docker, AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Nginx, Temporal, BullMQ, Kafka
- AI
- LLMs, MCP, RAG, Stable Diffusion, NSFW detection, agent orchestration
- Automation
- Playwright, Puppeteer, Cheerio, Telegram bots, Discord RPC
- Security
- VAPT, API testing, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Wireshark, Frida, AES
On the side
Education & security
- B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Mumbai
- Certified Information Security Consultant (CISC)
- API Penetration Testing, APIsec
- SQL (Advanced), HackerRank
Contact
The best way to reach me is email. You can also find me on GitHub or read my resume.