Engineer-for-hire by day. Builder by night.
I'm Aditya. I lead engineering at Renewalytics out of Pune, building forecasting, reporting, and realtime monitoring software that renewable plants depend on. On the side I ship indie products, break most of them, and learn from the rubble. If you need an MVP built or a workflow automated with AI, I take on freelance work too.
The non-traditional path
No CS degree. My formal education is a Mechanical Engineering diploma from 2020, and I'm wrapping up a PGDM in IT Management at MIT School of Management right now. Everything I know about code, I picked up myself.
It actually started with games. I wanted to build my own, so I taught myself C# and Unity, spent late nights chasing tutorials and breaking things until something moved on screen. Some of that early work still lives at @arcadeaart on Instagram. That obsession with seeing code do something real is what kept me going.
From there I jumped into web. Picked up PHP at my first internship at Climate Connect Digital and shipped it for two and a half years, mostly building ARS, their automatic reporting system for wind and solar. Got promoted twice, then got laid off in the 2024 round. Somewhere in the middle of that I started learning the MERN stack on the side, then went deep on vanilla JavaScript, then TypeScript, then everything modern around React and Node.
In June 2024, I joined Renewalytics as a Software Engineer, got promoted to Lead Software Engineer on the back of what I shipped. This is where it clicked. Real stakes, 3,400+ MW of capacity flowing through systems I built, SCADA integrations that have to stay live, reporting automation for 33+ plants that runs every single day. You don't learn this stuff from tutorials. You learn it by being on call when something breaks at 6 AM.
Where I've worked
Software Engineer → Lead Software Engineer
Jun 2024 – PresentRenewalytics · Promoted to Lead based on what I shipped
Full-stack development, backend architecture, Docker infrastructure, realtime monitoring systems, SCADA integrations, reporting automation. Owning technical architecture for a platform serving 3,400+ MW of renewable energy capacity.
Software Engineer
Jul 2022 – Jan 2024Climate Connect Digital
Built ARS (Automatic Reporting System) for wind and solar plants, full-stack PHP development. Owned features end-to-end and led frontend architecture decisions.
Full Stack Engineer
Nov 2021 – Jul 2022Climate Connect Digital
PHP, database design, full-stack feature delivery on the renewable energy product surface.
Engineer Intern
Jun 2021 – Nov 2021Climate Connect Digital
Onboarding, learning PHP and modern web development on the job. First real exposure to production software development.
Formal background
PGDM, IT Management
MIT School of Management, Final Semester
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
2020
What I'm working on now
I want to be an indie hacker who pays the bills with his own products. The day job at Renewalytics is real and I love it, but the long game is shipping AI-native SaaS that earns on its own. Pieter Levels is the template. Ship fast, kill faster, keep what works.
Right now I'm in the "ship and learn" phase, not the "scale a winner" phase. Here's what that actually looks like:
- Social Copilot (MVP) , Social media scheduler with AI video generation. My main indie bet for the year.
- Learning AI agents , Going deep on agent frameworks and AI workflow tooling. Every indie product I ship from here is AI-native by default.
- SEO experiments , MSMEVault.in and GoSolarIndex.in started as weekend tests. Built with Claude Code, indexed with Claude AI, and they're actually pulling organic traffic now.
- Day job at Renewalytics , Leading engineering on forecasting, reporting automation, and realtime monitoring for 3,400+ MW of renewable capacity.
Systems I've built
Work with me
I take on a small number of freelance projects on the side. I'm most useful to you if you need one of these:
- Full-stack MVPs for founders. Idea to deployed product in weeks. Next.js, Prisma, Postgres, Docker. I've done it enough times to know the shortcuts and the landmines.
- AI workflow automation for businesses. If your team is doing repetitive manual work in spreadsheets or email, there's a good chance I can replace most of it with an AI-driven pipeline. This is exactly what I do at the day job, just for someone else.
Not the right fit if you want pure design, pure mobile native, or a 6-month enterprise rollout. I work best on scoped, shippable things.