Software Engineer

Gurmehar
Bakshi

Building fintech products at scale. Exploring AI. Shipping side projects.
Based in Mumbai.

About

I trained as an automobile engineer at MIT Manipal, but my curiosity pulled me toward software. I spent a few years doing UI/UX before co-founding Umbr, a startup I built and exited in 2021. That founder experience gave me a different lens on engineering — I care about what ships and what users actually need, not just what's technically elegant.

Today I'm a Software Engineer II at Summit (formerly Spenmo), a B2B fintech SaaS platform handling expense management, reimbursements, and invoicing across Southeast Asia. Outside of that, I keep building things at the intersection of AI, personal software, visualisation, and developer tooling.

What I'm Building

Summit

Software Engineer II

Full-time

B2B fintech SaaS — payment runs, expense management, corporate cards, reimbursements, and Xero integration at scale across Southeast Asia.

AI / ML Experiments

Personal

Open Source

Ensemble financial forecasting models (RF + LSTM, FinBERT, GDELT, FRED) and an economic simulation platform. Exploring what AI can do for markets.

NebulaTV

Creator

Open Source

Android TV launcher built around GeckoView with Firefox Sync integration. Browse-first, lean-back UX designed for big screens and low input overhead.

Homelab

Owner / Operator

Personal

Self-hosted lab running Proxmox across multiple machines with private tunneling. Where I run experiments, break things, and learn infra properly.

Projects

github →

Experience

Summit

Software Engineer II2021 — Present

Building and scaling B2B fintech SaaS products — expense management, corporate cards, reimbursements, invoicing. 4+ years of product-focused software engineering.

ReactNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQL

Umbr

Co-founder2019 — 2021

Co-founded and built a product from zero to exit. Owned product, engineering, and early customer relationships. Learned to move fast with high ownership.

FounderProductExited

MIT Manipal

B.Tech, Automobile Engineering2014 — 2018

Studied mechanical and automobile engineering. Pivoted into software through UI/UX freelance work during university. First code, first products.

EngineeringUI/UX

Stack

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Flutter

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • GraphQL

Infra & Tools

  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Vercel
  • Git
  • Linux
  • Proxmox

AI / ML

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • scikit-learn
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI API
  • FinBERT

Contact

Open to interesting problems — whether that's a senior engineering role, a co-founder conversation, or just a good technical discussion.