Personal site of Gaurav D. Sharma
Co-founder & CTO at WebLedger.in. 1st-rank CTO Certification from IIT Kanpur. Fifteen-plus years across SaaS, fintech and mobile — most recently building the platform powering thousands of accounting practices across India.
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When designing an AI agent workflow, selecting the right platform can be a game-changer. Whether you’re building a quick prototype or a production-grade AI system, understanding the landscape of avail
Why pinned Required reading if you're shipping an AI agent in 2026 — the practical platform comparison I wish I had a year ago.
Read the postThis Start-up framework can help to find the right idea and gives you a prominent solution design approach, without investing a single penny. Found a real-world wonderful problem, have faith to solve
Why pinned An evergreen primer for first-time founders — turn the buzzword soup into a real product idea and a fundable pitch deck.
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Long-form notes on engineering, AI agents, leadership, and the messy in-between of building product.
🚀 Building the Product: The Strategic Approach 🤝 Managing Co-Founder Ego A strong co-founder relationship is built on mutual respect, shared goals, and a focus on the startup’s success. Here’s how to
Why Cloud Computing? Before diving into what cloud computing is, let’s understand why it was needed. Traditional on-premises data centers (DCs) have several limitations, including high upfront costs,
Once someone asked me these questions: Who is the leader? How can we become a good leader? Describe three of your biggest strengths as a leader. Please give examples where you have demonstrated decisi
Suppose a situation where you want to store data in a way like <current_time+10min> but every time current_time + 10 mins return a new value, we want to settle time in a way like a store at 00, 10, 20
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Currently Co-founder & CTO at WebLedger — a fintech SaaS for Indian accounting practices. Before that, seven and a half years at PAR · Punchh, on the loyalty & ordering platform powering thousands of US restaurants. Earlier still — early App-Store-era native iOS apps.
Topics I write about
Tech-stack decisions, architecture, distributed systems, the boring stuff that ships.
02RAG, tool-calling, agent platforms — what works in production, what doesn't.
03Co-founder dynamics, team-building, culture, and the unglamorous craft of management.
04From idea to pitch deck to launch — picking ideas worth chasing.
Build the boring thing well, the exciting thing soon, and the impossible thing on Tuesday. Then write about all three.
Engineering decisions, AI in production, scaling a small team — happy to chat.