Software Engineer
Gurmehar
Bakshi
Building fintech products at scale. Exploring AI. Shipping side projects.
Based in Mumbai.
About
Degree in automobile engineering. Stumbled into founding. Stayed for the engineering. I co-founded Umbr, built it through COVID, and wrapped in 2021. Founding taught me the gap between clever engineering and useful engineering.
Today I'm a Software Engineer II at Summit — 4+ years shipping fintech at scale across Southeast Asia. Beyond that, I build at the intersection of AI, developer tooling, and personal software.
What I'm Building
Summit
Software Engineer II
Payment runs, expense management, invoices, reimbursements, and Xero integration — shipped at scale across Southeast Asia.
NebulaTV
Creator
Browse-first Android TV launcher with Firefox Sync. Lean-back UX built for big screens and low input overhead.
Homelab
Owner / Operator
Where I run experiments, break things, and learn infra properly. Proxmox cluster with private tunneling — always something running.
AI / ML Experiments
Researcher
Exploring how forecasting financial markets works with ensemble ML — RF + LSTM, FinBERT for sentiment, GDELT and FRED for macro signals.
Projects
github →NebulaTV
Android TV launcher with GeckoView/Firefox Sync integration. Browse-first, lean-back experience for Kotlin.
boomer-driver
Driver-side companion app for the boomer-rider ridesharing platform. Real-time trip management.
boomer-rider
Ridesharing app built with Flutter. Real-time matching, driver tracking, and multi-city support.
metaface
Face detection web app with real-time image analysis. Full-stack with auth, detection history, and API.
Experience
Summit
Software Engineer II2021 — Present4+ years shipping enterprise fintech end-to-end — expense management, corporate cards, reimbursements, invoicing. Product-focused, not just code-focused.
Umbr
Co-founder2019 — 2021Built from scratch, ran it through COVID, and wrapped in 2021. Owned engineering, product, and early customer relationships end-to-end.
MIT Manipal
B.Tech, Automobile Engineering2014 — 2018Automobile engineering by degree, software by curiosity. First code and first products came through UI/UX freelance work during university.
Stack
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Shadcn UI
- Flutter
Backend
- Node.js
- Express
- NestJS
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Go
Infra & Tools
- Docker
- AWS
- Vercel
- Git
- Linux
- Proxmox
AI / ML
- Python
- Tableau
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- LangChain
- OpenAI API
- FinBERT
Writing
all posts →The Through Attack: The AI Security Threat Nobody's Naming
Two attack directions dominate AI agent security. There's a third — the Through attack. It doesn't touch your files. It controls what your agent believes. And it's already in the wild.
The 43-Point Gap
Experienced developers using AI were 19% slower — but believed they were 20% faster. That 43-point perception gap explains more about the state of AI-assisted development than any benchmark.
Velocity Is a Feedback Loop
Most teams think velocity means shipping more. In practice, velocity is how quickly you learn what to stop building.
Contact
If you're building something interesting, I'd like to hear about it.