arpit solanki

Hey, I'm Arpit. :)))

founding engineer at QuicShop. previously founded Scafffold, a legal AI startup and worked at AfterQuery (YC) as a freelance engineer.

so far

  1. age 10A school computer book in English. Learned English that year so I could read it.
  2. 2016First computer: my uncle's old office PC, no Network card. learnt how mac OS functions internally from books.
  3. 8th gradeLearnt Java from newspaper's tech section, modded GTA and Minecraft, played Pokémon on GBA emulators modded into android.
  4. 10th gradeLearnt Web dev. Started building websites for a local startups and MSMEs near me. Expanded to Clients in US, Europe, canada and Singapore.
  5. 2021–23IIT prep through COVID. worked on some content with my younger brother. Didn't scale. We started creating founder led content under "The Internet narrative" . I left that in sophomore year of college. Currenlty it's handled by a team of 5 people. My brother leads that now.
  6. 2023JEE Advanced, rank ~16,000 among ~1.2M , Didn't got into IIT, went to IIT Jais, Search google to find this IIT (lol). Did every hackathon I could find. Smart India Hackathon finalist.
  7. 2024Won the IEEE hackathon . Ran infra for an India–Russia BRICS hackathon, 15,000+ participants. PrimeMinister's Young Achiever Scholarship. Started working on Open source projects- PEcAn Project and Plone CMS (600+ stars).
  8. 2025Freelanced at AfterQuery (YC). Founded Scafffold, a legal AI startup. Stayed in Delhi for Three months with law firms; ~10 became customers (YC said talk to users :-p ).
  9. 2026Wound down Scafffold after ~7 months. Built Agent Yap. Joined QuicShop in June.

I grew up on farms in a village of Uttar Pradesh. got my first computer in 2016, an old office PC with no internet, and learned most of what I know from YouTube and the internet.

Currently, I'm a founding engineer at QuicShop, an AI-native store builder for Indian sellers. I pick up the problems founders don't have time to hand out, whether that's code, sales, growth or infra.

The whole thing is in the long version. Bios for intros and forms are on the press page.

work

QuicShopjun 2026 – now

Founding engineer. AI-native store builder for Indian sellers.

  • Razorpay subscription billing end to end: retries, webhooks, failed and partial charges, scoped per shop. Before this, the product was free.
  • Seller funnel: n8n finds Instagram sellers with no storefront, loads them into our CRM, and drafts a personalised WhatsApp DM for the team to review.
  • Real-time inventory sync across D2C and B2B; Shiprocket and WhatsApp automation.
  • Google address autocomplete at checkout, free through Google's startup program.
  • Replaced Salesforce with self-hosted Twenty: ~US$1,000 → ~US$50 a month.
Scafffold2025 – 26

Founder. Legal AI research and drafting assistant for Indian law firms.

  • Document chat with multi-provider tool use (Claude, Gemini, GPT), exact citations, Indian Kanoon and eCourts India.
  • Drafting workflows (CP checklists, agreement summaries) that output Word files with tracked changes.
  • Organization-level data with role-based access, scoped by practice area.
  • Three months in Delhi; ~10 firms as customers, some paying. YC Startup School and early conversations with a few investors.
  • Wound down: 5–6 month sales cycles, on-premise demands, no GTM partner.

A 199-slide course on AI agent architecture, built from my own notes.

  • 18 chapters, BM25 search, keyboard and swipe navigation.
  • Claude RAG answers that cite the exact slide; bring-your-own-key Gemini chat on every slide.
  • Designed in Paper, built with Claude Code.
AfterQuery (YC)aug – sep 2025

Freelance engineer, remote.

  • Docker-based debugging and DevOps tasks with deterministic test suites, aligned with Terminal-Bench.

open source

Plone CMSdec 2024 – feb 2026
  • Migrated Authomatic's Twitter/X provider from OAuth 1.0 to 2.0.
  • Documented plone.conf; 4 sprints on docs, bugs and validation edge cases with maintainers Steve Piercy and Victor Fernandez. Proof of work
PEcAn Projectcollege, year 2
  • Maintained the frontend that shows the project's research results.

on the side

A multi-LLM panel of experts. Opus researches, Codex and Cursor CLI models (Grok, GPT, Gemini) brainstorm in parallel, and it converges on a scored, red-teamed verdict.

also

  • US$25,000 in cloud and AI credits via Y Combinator, 2025
  • PrimeMinister's Young Achievers Scholarship, 2024
  • 3x hackathon winner - Smart India Hackathon finalist; IEEE hackathon winner
  • India–Russia BRICS hackathon: got judges and sponsors from Kyra, Clinsight AI and ProjectX

stack

languages
C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Bash
frameworks
Node.js, Express, Next.js, React, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI
infra
AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, n8n, Razorpay
dsa
150+ problems, codolio

say hi

email
arpitsolanki6825@gmail.com
phone
+91 82798 24227
elsewhere
github · linkedin · x