Hi, my name is
Aksht Jain.
I ship products that move millions.
Founder of Ekly.ai — AI-powered video editing. Previously shipped global payment rails at Rippling and built a CRM from zero as Engineering Lead at Canvas Plus.
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Where I've worked
4+
Years shipping production code
300+
Users migrated to cloud
5
Global currency rails
12+
Services architected
Founder
Ekly.ai / Remote
Mar 2026 - Present
- Building full-stack AI video platform — timeline editor, agentic editing, auto shorts creator
- Claude-powered editor with 11 integrated tools for natural language video control
- LangGraph-based script generation pipeline with AI video gen, voice cloning, and Remotion rendering
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture with Stripe billing, SSR + Lambda render pipeline
Engineering Lead
Canvas Plus / Dubai, UAE
Feb 2025 - Mar 2026
- Built CRM + cloud dialer from scratch — migrated 4 call centers (300 users) from landlines
- Architected monolithic backend with 12+ integrated services and 30+ database tables
- Shipped AI-powered sales assistant for live customer rebuttal coaching
- Stood up full observability stack: OpenTelemetry + self-hosted SigNoz on AWS
Software Engineer 2
Rippling / Bangalore, India
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
- Migrated Rippling's payment infra from SVB to JPMC over a single weekend during the SVB collapse
- Sole developer on JPMC payment rails integration — wires and ACH end-to-end
- Expanded global wire coverage from USD to GBP, AUD, BRL, EUR with extensible frameworks
- Built RBAC system for core internal tool used by every engineer at Rippling
Software Engineer Intern
BNY Mellon / Remote
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
- Built dynamic mobile-responsive web applications in Angular
- Developed RESTful web services with Spring Boot
Skills & Tools
Languages
Backend
Frontend
Cloud & Data
AI/ML
Tools
Education
Delhi Technological University
B.Tech in Mathematics & Computing
2018 - 2022 | CGPA: 8.51
Achievements
- ICPC 2020-21 — Regionals Rank 124
- Codeforces — Candidate Master (1917)
- VP, MACS-DTU — Math & Computing Society
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Things I've built
Ekly.ai
FeaturedAI-powered video platform with a professional timeline editor, Claude-powered agentic editing (11 integrated tools), auto shorts creator with AI script generation and voice cloning, and Remotion-based rendering pipeline. Multi-tenant SaaS with Stripe billing.
CRM & Cloud Dialer
FeaturedFull CRM and cloud dialer built from zero at Canvas Plus. Migrated 4 call centers (300 users) from landlines with integrated PBX, AI-powered sales coaching, and real-time post-call analytics.
SVB to JPMC Payment Migration
FeaturedEmergency weekend migration of Rippling's entire payment infrastructure during the SVB collapse. Subsequently integrated global payment rails across 5 currencies as sole developer on the JPMC integration.
Trupeer AI
FeaturedGPT-4 Vision pipeline that converts documents into tutorial videos automatically. Go backend with Next.js frontend.
Other projects
Smart Samadhan
Production SaaS for attendance and payroll with face recognition-based check-in. Flutter mobile app + FastAPI backend.
Pathfinding Visualizer
Interactive visualization of Dijkstra's, A*, BFS, and DFS with animated grid exploration.