Founding Engineer · 0 to 1 · AI products

I take products from zero to revenue.

One of Stamina.io's first engineers while ARR grew from $250K to $2M+ in 9 months, and solo founder of FastBowlingLab, an AI coaching app with 1,200+ users and paying customers.

Mumbai, India · Remote

Govind Sharma

Founding Engineer

Stamina.io · 9 months

One of the first engineers: I built the CRM core, Zara, calling and the workflow engine while ARR went from $250K to $2M+.

8x

ARR growth as a founding engineer

1,200+

FastBowlingLab users

5,000+

workflows/day

5,000+

calls/day

70%

lower LLM cost/lead

Career Journey

Staff Engineer — Head of Engineering

Stamina.ioFull-time ContractJun 2025 - PresentNew York, United States · Remote
  1. Founding Backend Engineer — Lead Jun 2025
  2. Staff Engineer — Head of Engineering Apr 2026

AI sales, CRM and marketing SaaS used by 1,000+ customers in 50+ countries.

Joined as one of the first engineers and built the core platform (CRM data model, outreach, AI and workflows) while ARR grew from $250K to $2M+ in 9 months and the team grew from 4 to 10; promoted to Staff Engineer and Head of Engineering.
Designed and built Zara, Stamina's AI SDR agent (LangGraph, tool calling, structured outputs): enriches 20K leads/day, doubled reply rates and cut lead response time from 24 hours to instant for 1,000+ customers in 50+ countries.
Architected the workflow automation engine (5,000+ workflows/day, 50+ triggers and actions, 10+ integrations) to start exactly one run per event on at-least-once delivery: transactional outbox to Google Pub/Sub, layered dedup in PostgreSQL, a durable step machine with leases, version pinning and at-most-once CRM writes, and stateless, autoscaling workers with connection pooling to protect the database.
Designed the credit ledger behind usage billing: serializable, idempotent spends across concurrent workers, expiring grants spent soonest-first, an append-only ledger enforced in the database, and Stripe sync that survives late and duplicate webhooks.
Built the Twilio power dialer used by 200+ customers making 5,000+ calls/day: row-locked lead claims so no lead is dialled twice, signed per-call tokens re-checked in the voice webhook, and per-brand Twilio subaccounts.
Kept the platform cheap and safe to change: per-task model routing with LLM evals (70% lower LLM cost per lead), 40% lower cloud spend by scaling idle queue workers to zero, per-PR preview environments, and a PR check that boots the full service fleet before merge.

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What Colleagues Say

Colin Harman

Colin Harman

Colin managed Govind directly at Nesh · July 3, 2025

Govind was an incredible asset on the Nesh team and a wonderful colleague to work with. He took full responsibility for every area that he worked on, and constantly provided us with true software engineering rigor: attacking tech debt, designing for maintainability, enhancing availability, and identifying risks long before they became production problems. I quickly found that Govind could take the thorniest, most confusing problems and return promptly with bulletproof forever solutions already implemented. He has a true engineer mindset, and in addition to his impressive skills he was a very positive presence on the team, leading by example and collaborating actively.

Govind's manager at Nesh

Jai Jalan

Jai Jalan

Jai managed Govind directly at Better Software · June 4, 2025

Govind gets things done, communicates well, and writes clean code. He has a positive attitude and makes it fun and easy to work with him. He also possesses strong problem solving skills and always gets things done. Happy to recommend him for software engineering related roles.

Founder at Better | Operate (operatex.dev), AI for production incident resolution | Ex-Microsoft | IIT Alum

Siddhartha Gupta

Siddhartha Gupta

Siddhartha worked with Govind on the same team at Nesh · May 2, 2025

I'm excited to recommend Govind, who joined Nesh as a Full-Stack Developer and quickly became indispensable. Govind architected and shipped a suite of AI-powered agents — everything from product recommendation and comparison engines to account-planning and cross/upsell tools — that unlocked new revenue streams and delighted our customers. His deep technical chops let him move from concept to production in record time, and his clean, maintainable code kept our platform rock-solid. What really sets Govind apart is his sharp intellect and candid collaboration style. He iterates at great speed, isn't afraid to speak up when he sees a better solution, and helps the whole team level up by sharing his insights. He plugged into our cross-functional squad seamlessly and raised the bar for the rest of us. Any organization looking to accelerate its AI roadmap and build robust, user-centric features would be lucky to have Govind on the team.

Building AI for Manufacturing | Growth & Product at Docket | Founder of Nesh (Acquired)

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Writing

Engineering Notes

Write-ups on systems I have built and the trade-offs behind them.

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Skills

Product and 0 to 1

  • MVP scoping
  • Shipping to first users
  • Payments (Stripe, Razorpay)
  • Cost-aware architecture
  • Hiring the first engineers

AI and Vision

  • Generative AI
  • LLMs
  • Agentic AI
  • AI agents
  • LangGraph
  • Tool calling
  • LLM evals
  • Guardrails
  • Computer vision
  • Pose estimation (MediaPipe)
  • Video processing

Full Stack

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • tRPC
  • Next.js
  • React Native (Expo)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Inngest

Infrastructure

  • AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS)
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Kafka
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • OpenTelemetry

AI Dev Tools

  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • GitHub Copilot

About

Beyond Engineering

What I do when I am not shipping.

Govind Sharma outside work
Govind Sharma

Outside work I travel, train at the gym, and build small products of my own. All three keep me honest about what real users need.

Travel

New cities and local food whenever I can. It is a regular reminder that users live in very different contexts from mine.

Fitness

I train on a fixed routine. Showing up consistently beats any single great session, in the gym and in engineering.

Building Tools

Side products like FastBowlingLab keep me close to the whole job, from first idea to real users.

Contact

Hiring for AI or platform work? Let's talk.

Open to founding engineer roles at early-stage AI companies, remote with US/EU overlap or based in India.