Hello, I'm Atharva Chirde
Software Engineer
Software Engineer at Shastack — I build custom coding assessments for enterprise clients through a leading technical assessment platform, plus real-world web and mobile apps.
Day-to-day: Cursor, Claude Code, MCP tooling, local Ollama when it matters—AI in the loop, not on autopilot.
Stack & tools I use
Career Objective
I build things that work on both ends — interfaces people enjoy using and servers that don't fall over at 3 AM.
Started with curiosity, stayed for the craft. Software engineer: clean APIs, crisp UIs, MERN production apps, and AI in the product—Langchain, LLMs, pipelines—plus tools people actually use day-to-day.
In practice: Cursor (rules & Skills), Claude Code, MCP, Ollama when it should stay local. I use AI hard to move faster and build stronger apps—not to ship blind output—then I read every diff before it goes out.
Full-time at Shastack: I build custom coding assessments for clients including Amazon, Capgemini, and Dell Technologies through a leading technical assessment platform.
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Experience
Where I've worked
Building real products for real clients.
Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal tools and interview-style applications end-to-end.
- Frontend across React, Next.js, Angular, and React Native.
- Backend and APIs with Node.js and Laravel.
- Write and review custom coding assessments for enterprise clients, including assessments for HackerRank, on a leading technical assessment platform.
- Curate assessments across React, Angular, Laravel, Node.js, TypeScript, Cypress, Playwright, React Native, and Swift.
- Own end-to-end REST API integration and deployment workflows.
- Manage repos, scope features, and ship with a small product-focused team.
Notable Achievements
- Shipped Emploire end to end, a multi-organization workforce SaaS that replaced scattered spreadsheets with a single source of truth for HR teams across leave tracking, work logs, milestones, team calendars, role-based access control, and billing.
- Contributed to Staffcoder, the company's flagship coding assessment platform, working on the assessment engine, execution infrastructure, and enhanced UI/UX.
- Built AI-assisted development workflows with Cursor, Claude Code, and MCP agents that cut assessment creation time by 40%.
- Improved SEO and page performance through ISR, metadata optimization, and Core Web Vitals fixes.
- Focused on system design, backend architecture, and AWS infrastructure, with PostgreSQL for relational data modeling.
// Previously joined as an intern before transitioning to full-time.
Skill-Set
What I work with
Agentic tooling first, then stacks and shipping—Cursor, MCP, production AI, the usual web/mobile depth.
AI-assisted engineering
I don't vibe-code and hope—Cursor rules & Skills, Claude Code for deep refactors and greenfield loops, MCP to plug models into real tools (files, APIs, repos), Ollama when inference should stay local. Models speed me up; I still own architecture, review diffs line-by-line, and ship.
Selected work
Things I've shipped
Staffcoder is a hands-on coding platform for practicing real engineering work. Candidates get a full remote IDE, the backend spins up an isolated environment per session, tests run and results are collected, with learning paths, session budgets, billing, and an admin console around it.
Activity
GitHub contributions
Committing day & night — small commits, steady momentum. Each brighter cell is another day of shipping.
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Let's build something
Open to roles, freelance, and interesting collaborations.