I do computers.

Ish Chhabra

I do computers.

Available to hire

I do computers.

Work Experience

Founding Engineer at Clap Inc.
May 1, 2025 - Present
First engineering hire; owned product-critical systems and execution from day one. Built LLM-powered workflows with the Vercel AI SDK. Designed real-time game replay and re-rendering by reconstructing gameplay from event streams using Remotion and AWS Lambda. Built an admin panel using RefinEd to provide AI quality control and payment approvals for the CX team. Implemented AI-powered onboarding with audio integrations via Deepgram to create a wow-factor in the first minutes, and integrated AI-generated music in gameplay via ElevenLabs.
Founder at Evrel
December 1, 2024 - Present
Building a compiler-based JavaScript security engine evolved from a JavaScript AOT compiler to detect risky code behavior before execution.
Software Developer II at Nuna Inc.
January 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025
Developed a Flutter mobile app to encourage healthy behavior in high-risk patients through gamification and rewards. Implemented core product features including education library, in-app update flows, and localization. Optimized CI pipelines to reduce build times from 30 minutes to 7 minutes.
Co-Founder, CTO at Kniru
April 1, 2023 - Present
Led product and engineering for Kniru’s AI-driven wealth management product. Architected, built, and scaled the mobile app in Flutter to production. Built and shipped the web app in React and NextJS, and migrated the mobile app from Flutter to React Native, using a monorepo to increase cross-platform velocity. Wrote a data visualization library using the Skia graphics engine for high-fidelity financial charts. Architected a generative AI rendering protocol for embedded UX in chat. Hired, led, and mentored a 10-person engineering team, owning technical direction and product execution.
Software Developer at Nuna Inc.
August 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024
Built the Program Development Kit, a configurable CMS for value-based care programs, doubling contract management velocity. Later scaled the solution as a central Nuna project. Architected an advanced UI framework for dynamic page creation inspired by BI tools. Implemented Playwright end-to-end test automation, reducing manual QA by 30+ hours per release.
Software Developer Intern at Nuna Inc.
May 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
Co-maintained the component library. Built a generalized JSON-driven configuration system for frontend pages to improve maintainability and adaptability. Optimized SQL (ClickHouse) queries, improving performance by ~17% for the value platform product. Designed and integrated an integration testing framework into the development pipeline using Cypress.
Software Developer Intern at Gordian Software
May 1, 2021 - August 1, 2021
Built web scrapers for airline data and developed solutions to bypass SOTA anti-bot protections (Akamai, Incapsula). Created internal tools and automated tests to improve development speed and reliability of client-facing software.
Founder, CTO at Hungry Stabbers Gaming
August 1, 2017 - March 1, 2019
Founded and scaled India’s #1 Counter-Strike 1.6 gaming community to 2000+ members. Built game servers on AWS with custom mods written in AMXMODX, a C-based scripting language.

Education

B S in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2022

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Gaming