Building in public

Shivam
Dhruva

Founder building practical AI at Tagmark. Growing ByteClub.10 years of pattern recognition, now AI-accelerated.

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About

I stopped chasing perfection and started focusing on systems and processes — things that move even when clarity is incomplete.

Turns out, momentum creates confidence faster than planning ever did.

My work sits at the intersection of applied AI, community building, and creative problem-solving. Clarity over hype.

IQ — Technical depth

15 years of engineering patterns. ACH algorithms, GraphQL migrations, blockchain POCs, legacy modernization. Now solving the same problems 10x faster with AI.

EQ — Human understanding

Mentored teams, built community from zero, published 20+ thought-leadership pieces. Innovation requires both technical skill and human understanding.

The intersection

AI amplifies both, but the human insight remains irreplaceable. That's where I operate.

Experience

Tagmark Consultancy

Sep 2023 — Present

Founder | AI-Accelerated Problem Solver

  • —MVP Development — founder conversations to working prototypes in 3 weeks, not 3 months
  • —Codebase analysis & optimization using AI tools for teams drowning in tech debt
  • —Custom automation workflows and CrewAI agents eliminating manual runway burn

"The same problems I solved traditionally over 15 years can now be solved in a fraction of the time."

Source Digital

Jan 2022 — Aug 2023

Engineering Lead

  • —Led cross-functional teams, reducing time-to-market by 20%
  • —Built automated GitHub workflows — optimized 30% of senior engineer time
  • —Migrated Express to Hasura GraphQL, cutting tech debt by 40%

"The best optimizations solve problems before they become problems."

Novo

Jul 2021 — Dec 2021

Lead Engineer — Financial Systems

  • —ACH processing algorithms — increased output by 30%
  • —Express → NestJS + TypeScript migration, code quality up 40%
  • —Testing automation that eliminated 45% of QA effort

"Precision and speed aren't mutually exclusive."

Everledger

Aug 2019 — Jul 2021

Senior Software Engineer — Blockchain & Team Leadership

  • —Mentored 5-person concept engineering team — 60% goal achievement rate
  • —Led blockchain application POCs with 20% efficiency gains
  • —Published 20 influential blog posts establishing thought leadership

"Innovation requires both technical skill and human understanding."

Weboffice Webdevelopment

Jul 2016 — Feb 2019

Project Lead

  • —30% increase in client retention through relationship-first approach
  • —Led development of 12 Pepper robot applications with minimal documentation
  • —30% decrease in defect rates, 25% improvement in product quality

"Constraints breed creativity."

Projects & Subdomains

Each project lives on its own subdomain. The main site is the hub — everything else branches out from here.

Tagmark

active

AI-accelerated consulting. MVP dev, codebase optimization, process automation.

tagmark.co

ByteClub

growing

A community of curious builders, creatives, and students learning how to think, not just what to use.

thebyteclub.org

DotVault

active

Discover, catalog, compare, and encrypt every .env file across all your projects.

dotvault.vercel.app

Synesthesia Machine

active

A cross-modal translation engine. Translates text, images, audio into visual and sonic output. Zero AI, pure math.

synesthesia.shivamdhruva.com

Datum

active

A statistical autopsy engine. Drop a CSV to profile columns, discover distributions, compute correlations, and generate narratives. Zero AI, pure statistics.

datum.shivamdhruva.com

Coming soon

Lab

Experiments, prototypes, and things that might become something.

lab.shivamdhruva.com

Writing

Long-form thinking on AI, building, and the creative process.

writing.shivamdhruva.com

Tools

Internal tools and utilities, open-sourced when ready.

tools.shivamdhruva.com

Philosophy

If you're ambitious but unsure, curious but overwhelmed — you're not behind. You're just earlier in the process than you think.

Ship imperfectly

Momentum creates confidence faster than planning ever did. Build in public, learn in public, iterate.

Clarity over hype

Applied AI, not abstract AI. Systems that get used, not just talked about.

Patterns compound

15 years of solving the same categories of problems means the tools change but the instincts don't.

Learning together

Learning together beats learning alone. That's why ByteClub exists — curious builders lifting each other.