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 →Clever Is Not a Feature
The best code I've written wasn't elegant. It shipped, it worked, and users never had to think about it. That took me years to understand.
The Mirror Problem: Self-Referential Loops in Modern AI
AI is writing code that trains AI. AI is judging AI outputs. AI is scraping AI-written content to learn from. Here's what the research says happens next.
Contact
If you're building something interesting, I'd like to hear about it.