Senior software engineer — backend, data, and AI systems
APIs and billing that stay correct under concurrency. Pipelines that turn messy third-party sources into records you can trust.
Six years remote. First or only engineer on the system, then owning it in production.
Work
The platform thousands of hosted agents ran on, at the edge on Cloudflare Workers. 15,000+ GitHub stars. Stayed through a $20M round. The project token peaked at $2.5B — I owned billing, not the token.
Five ATS APIs re-checked at the source. 351 companies live. 456 contacts. Every row stamped with the API that confirmed it.
TikTok’s private API, then one schema for TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram and Spotify. Data-layer response times down 60%.
Eliza Labs
Follows @samarth0x on X
Founder, Eliza Labs · @shawmakesmagic
Experience
Earlier, 2020–2021, dated only: Cryption Network, YFDAI Finance, Unbox Innovations, Google Summer of Code (Amahi). B.Tech Computer Science, Chitkara University.
FAQ
Samarth Gugnani is a senior software engineer working on backend, data, and agent systems. He builds billing that stays correct under concurrency, pipelines that turn messy third-party APIs into records you can trust, and the guardrails that decide where an agent runs alone and where a human signs off.
Senior engineer and core maintainer. One of the first engineers, reporting to the CTO. He owned the credits and API-key billing platform that thousands of long-running hosted AI agents ran on, at the edge on Cloudflare Workers. He did not found Eliza.
It is the peak market cap of the elizaOS project’s token. It is not the valuation of a company Samarth Gugnani founded or owns. He was an early engineer who owned billing.
No. He is not a blockchain developer. 2020–2022 included early web3 and a services company. Since 2023 the work has been data platforms, agent infrastructure, billing, and GTM systems.
Independent, April 2026–present. Eliza Labs, November 2024–March 2026. Camp Network, June 2023–October 2024 — one of the first engineers, on the data and AI layer, from pre-seed through Series A. Shield (a16z-backed), freelance, 2023. Earlier operator and engineering work at SignAssist and Intelli Chains is dated and is not current identity.
Email samarth.gugnani30@gmail.com. GitHub github.com/samarth30. LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/samarth30. X x.com/samarth0x. https://workwithsam.co
