Hakkan Shah — Fullstack AI Engineer

01 — THE DOSSIER

One of the Persistians.

Persist pays overlooked builders to become founders. I'm one of them — found, funded, and shipping. This is the file.

IDENTITY

Fullstack AI engineer who treats the model, the backend and the pixels as one single product.

Hakkan ShahHAKKAN.PERSIST.ORG

EST. FEB 2026 → ∞

SUBJECT — HAKKAN SHAHSTATUS — SHIPPING

BASE

India · Remote

Building for four continents from one desk.

LOCAL TIME

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IST · usually still online.

MODE

Agents × Interfaces

AI that acts, wrapped in UI that feels obvious.

02 — SELECTED WORK

Two systems, shipping.

One shipped and maintained, one being built in the open — real products with real users, inside Persist.

EDTECHPersist✓ Shipped — MaintainingEnrolling · Fall 2026

OHMSCHOOLa school shaped like the student

K-12 was built in 1894. OHM rebuilds it around each kid — an adaptive engine that reroutes the curriculum through whatever the child already loves, with a 24/7 AI mentor.

Adaptive learning paths

24/7 AI mentor

Interest-driven lessons

Multilingual by default

Visit OHMSchool ↗

Eli's learning mapON TRACK

✓Linear functions — mastered

✓Quadratics — mastered

▶Skateboard physics — math of an ollieNOW

🔒Structural engineeringNEXT

✦Eli skates daily — so we teach quadratics through ollie arcs and ramp angles.

FLAGSHIPPersist Ventures⚒ Building — v0.2 Beta

AURAthe UI for OpenClaw

Chat or speak your intent — AURA drives your computer like a human. It books the flight, applies to the job, summarizes the inbox. No code. No setup. Just outcome.

Full DOM reasoning

Always-listening voice

Local, isolated execution

Verify-before-act protocol

Launch AURA ↗

AURA · DESKTOP

On it. Working in your browser…

NAVIGATING

✓DONE

PROJECT 03 — CLASSIFIED

SOMETHING WITH AGENTS

// DECRYPTS WHEN IT SHIPS

BUILD STATUSIN THE LAB

03 — THE CRAFT

Own the whole loop.

01 /01

AI Agents & LLM Systems

Planning, tool use, DOM reasoning, verification. Agents that act on real interfaces — not brittle scripts that break on Tuesday.

AGENTSRAGTOOL USE

02 /02

Fullstack Engineering

From empty repo to production. APIs, data, auth, deploys — the unglamorous machinery that makes the magic reliable.

NEXT.JSNODEPYTHON

03 /03

Product UI / UX

Motion, hierarchy, feel. Interfaces that make intelligence legible — because a smart product that feels dumb is dumb.

DESIGNMOTIONCANVAS

04 /04

Ship Velocity

Two live products in months, not years. Persist's whole thesis is speed with a spine — I build at that clock rate.

0→1ITERATIONOPEN BUILD

04 — THE JOURNEY

Short story. Steep curve.

The Grind — B.Tech CSE Years

Engineering student by day, builder by night

Computer Science on paper, shipped projects in practice — including a portfolio with its own working terminal and minigames. The kind of builder Persist scouts for.

B.TECH CSEHAKKAN.IS-A.DEV

Feb 2026 — The Tryout

Won Persist's Startupathon — out of 250+ builders

Startupathon is Persist's talent hunt: no résumé screening, no pedigree filter — just build. One winner walked out with the job. Merit beat the credential.

🏆 STARTUPATHON CHAMPION250+ COMPETITORS

Feb 2026 — The Bet

Rejected two campus placements. Joined Persist.

Two safe placement offers on the table — declined both, still in final year, to build real products as a Fullstack AI Engineer. Salary to build, equity in the work, zero safety net.

2 OFFERS DECLINEDPERSIST · FULLSTACK AI

Jul 2026 — The Proof

Graduated already shipping

B.Tech in CSE completed — degree in one hand, real products in the other: OHMSchool shipped and enrolling worldwide, AURA deep in open-beta build. The bet paid out in five months.

B.TECH CSE ✓AURA · v0.2OHMSCHOOL · FALL '26

Now — In Motion

Building the next thing

The curve only bends one way from here. Watch this space — or better, build something with me.

STATUS: SHIPPINGOPEN TO COLLABS

05 — THE ARSENAL

Weapons of choice.

Not a logo wall — every tool here earns its place in a shipped product. Pick a system, or let it cycle.

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