About
Samarth Gugnani builds backend and data infrastructure and the LLM systems on top of them: billing that stays correct under concurrency, pipelines that turn messy third-party APIs into records you can trust, and the guardrails that decide where an agent runs alone and where a human signs off.
Now
Independent, April 2026–present. I build backend and data infrastructure and the LLM systems on top of them. Remote. Six years remote for distributed teams. Overlap hours US, EU or APAC.
Samarth Gugnani. GitHub samarth30. X samarth0x. LinkedIn in/samarth30. samarth.gugnani30@gmail.com.
Eliza Labs
Senior Software Engineer, November 2024–March 2026. San Francisco Bay Area, remote. One of the first engineers, reported to the CTO. Core maintainer of elizaOS, an open-source AI-agent operating system with 15,000+ GitHub stars and 100+ contributors.
I built the credits and API-key billing platform that thousands of long-running hosted AI agents ran on, at the edge on Cloudflare Workers: key issuance, usage metering, accounting, quota enforcement. Correctness under concurrency was the constraint. I also built a plugin autocoder from a spec; setup time down about 70%. I reviewed and merged work from 100+ contributors and mentored interns fully async across a 12-hour time difference.
I stayed through a $20M funding round. The project became a large open-source agent ecosystem; its token peaked at a $2.5B market cap. I did not found Eliza. I did not own the token. I was an early engineer and core maintainer who owned billing.
Independent GTM data stack
April 2026–present. I built a revenue / GTM data stack from scratch and ran it in production: a hiring-signal crawler over five ATS APIs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Teamtailor) with 351 companies verified live at the source and 456 contacts across 219 of them; technology detection from DNS, response headers, cookies and resource hosts; sequencing and deliverability against a sending-platform API; a 13-prompt LLM pipeline over 5,000+ accounts that drops any claim it cannot trace to the source page; Clay CLI enrichment with quarantine for unverified rows; an operator UI in Next.js where a human accepts or rejects before anything ships.
Camp Network
Full-stack engineer, June 2023–October 2024. One of the first engineers. Owned the data and AI layer from pre-seed through Series A. Reverse-engineered TikTok’s private API. Entity resolution across TikTok, YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram and Spotify. Data-layer response times down 60%. An AI chatbot on metrics: satisfaction +30%, support tickets −40%.
Shield, SignAssist, Intelli Chains
Shield (a16z-backed), freelance, March–June 2023: zero-to-one in four months, sole engineer on the build, data model and APIs, customer acquisition +25%.
SignAssist, CTO, June–December 2022: engineering for a seven-person company through a full pivot. Chrome extension, then API-as-a-service that landed Frontier.xyz. Early operator/engineering experience, not current identity.
Intelli Chains, founder, August 2021–June 2022: engineering services, 15+ international clients in under a year. APIs, distributed systems, real-time indexing bots over high-throughput event streams.
Earlier, 2020–2021
Cryption Network (intern from August 2020, then second employee through September 2021): early fintech, core transaction systems and test suite as assets scaled to about a $10M market cap. YFDAI Finance, part-time 2020–2021, blockchain lead — dated early experience only. Unbox Innovations internship, 2020. Google Summer of Code, Amahi, 2020: system reliability PRs and non-admin user login. B.Tech Computer Science, Chitkara University.
Skills
Languages
- Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL
Backend / APIs
- REST, webhooks, microservices, API-key issuance, usage metering, quota enforcement, rate limiting, idempotency and retries, concurrency correctness, third-party APIs where docs are wrong or absent
Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DuckDB, Parquet, modeling, ETL / incremental pipelines, entity resolution and dedup across disagreeing sources, warehouse querying
AI
- Anthropic Claude API, OpenAI API, Claude Code, Cursor, MCP, prompt engineering, multi-agent pipelines with adversarial verification, embeddings / vector search, extraction from unstructured text, confidence gating and abstention
Infra / frontend
- Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Vercel, Railway, Docker, Git, CI/CD, async HTTP crawlers, Playwright, DNS and certificate-transparency analysis, response-header fingerprinting, Next.js, React, Tailwind
GTM systems (secondary)
- Clay, Apollo, Instantly, Smartlead, n8n, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, qualification/routing, waterfall enrichment, email verification, deliverability, GDPR / CAN-SPAM aware sending
Contact
samarth.gugnani30@gmail.com
https://github.com/samarth30
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarth30
https://x.com/samarth0x