$ whoami

Shivam Chopra. Engineer.

Real-time AI you talk to face to face, built solo. Before that, a 110-person engineering org and 18+ products.

WARNbuilding problem detected. continuing anyway.

location: bengaluru
now: saaya.ai
team: 1 human + a squad of agents
upwork: top rated

Upwork Top Rated

Scroll turns the figure. Arrow keys work too.

2009 to 2012

$ git log --since=2009

2009. Very little idea how it was built.

Independent technologist and editor. Film and TV edits, educational content, open-source projects.

Built it anyway.

years: 2009-2012
role: independent technologist & editor
scope: film, tv, open source

boot.log

Early twenties. macOS on ordinary PCs.

Founding member of an OSx86 project.

WARNunsupported hardware. booting anyway.

role: founding member
project: osx86

2012

$ team --count

2012. Twelve of us. One table.

Joined Miles Education as a founding member, when the whole tech team fit around one table.

2012 join miles education, founding member | tech team: 12 | table: 1

tech_team: 12
table: 1
role: founding member

2012 to 2026

$ scale --from 12 --to 110

Twelve became 110.

A 110-person engineering org across India, the US and the Caribbean.

Technical Co-Founder and CTO, 2012 to 2026. Fourteen years.

engineers: 110
regions: india, us, caribbean
span: 2012-2026
title: technical co-founder & cto

Each figure is one engineer. 110 of them, not 110 of me.

$ ls products | wc -l

18+ products.

₹500 Cr+ (~$50M+) in revenue those products helped bring in.

MilesOne, a student app with 50k+ users. Milesforce, an AI CRM.

products: 18+
revenue_helped_bring_in: ₹500 Cr+ (~$50M+)
milesone_users: 50k+

INFO shipped

A national digital school.

Built for the Government of Guyana.

INFOshipped: national digital school, government of guyana

for: government of guyana
shipped: national digital school

$ stream --engine proprietary

Miles Masterclass.

A Netflix-style learning OTT on a proprietary streaming engine.

It is, technically, a cinema.

product: miles masterclass
engine: proprietary streaming

2020 to 2026

$ agents --assign scheduling payments follow-ups

The agents get the jobs nobody wanted.

Scheduling, payments, follow-ups.

70% of manual work automated across admissions, finance, HR and learner support.

automated: 70% of manual work (admissions, finance, hr, learner support) | sales efficiency +55%

sales_efficiency: +55%
manual_work_automated: 70%
years: 2020-2026

ls ~/awards

Somewhere along the way, someone noticed.

Salesforce Future First AI Visionary, 2025.

Edvocate Leadership Award, 2022.

salesforce: future first ai visionary (2025)
edvocate: leadership award (2022)

Now

$ ./saaya --now

Saaya.ai. AI you talk to face to face.

Voice, video and chat, in 20+ Indian languages. Built for under 300 ms voice round-trip, over WebRTC.

From leading 110 engineers to being all of them.

The rest of the team is a squad of AI agents that plan, code, test and review each other's work. They never ask for leave.

saaya.ai | voice + video + chat | 20+ indian languages | built for <300 ms voice round-trip (webrtc) | built solo

languages: 20+ indian
voice_round_trip: built for <300 ms
transport: webrtc
built_by: 1
leave_requests: 0

saaya.ai

ls ~/side-builds

Also built. Old habits.

CerebroA multi-agent framework, with MCP.
PenWizardA generative AI creative studio.
MacBook DuoA macOS app driven by the laptop's lid-angle sensor.
Retro iPodA web app. The click wheel, with haptics and audio.

Now showing

ls ~/studio

Also a film studio.

The studio is illusionart Studios: human-directed video ads and short films, made with AI.

People develop the story, direct the images, and shape the edit.

studio: illusionart studios
directed_by: a person
made_with: ai

The other pill is still on the table.

Films directed by a person, made with AI.

AISATS and Shahrukhz by Danube are outside clients.

Outside clientAISATS Ramp Safety & Aircraft Marshalling *Training film*

Outside clientAISATS Customer Service *Demo*

Outside clientShahrukhz by Danube A Private Yacht *Dubai property reel*

My own productSaaya More Human Than You'd Expect *Ad film*

Human-directed. Made with AI.

Open the filmmaker door

Scroll slowly.

$ git merge filmmakerAlready up to date.other_branch: filmmaker | status: merged

Same hands.

The choice was the illusion.