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Aaryan
@aaryanm_  ·  Manchanda
● ONLINE / last seen shipping
Final-year CS student who ships production financial infrastructure. Building an open-source MCP pipeline builder in Go, Python and TypeScript.
Stats LVL 22 · 2027
HPBackend Systems72/75
MPBilling & Payments Infra70/75
ATTGo46/75
DEFReliability & Crash-Safety68/75
SPDShipping Speed66/75
DEXPython · TypeScript71/75
VITObservability & Tracing63/75
WISDebugging & Root-Cause69/75

ATT is low on purpose. It was 12/75 in May 2026; three months ago I didn’t know what a protobuf was. Leveling fast.

Character
Class
Backend Systems Engineer
Subclass
Billing & Payments Infrastructure
Realm
Delhi-NCR  /  Bangalore
Guild
Soundverse AI, Google Startup Accelerator ’26
Fame
VIT Chennai · B.Tech CS · grad 2027
Status
● Open to SDE roles, now
Mood
shipping
Now Playing
the hum of docker compose up
Collects
pinned insects, odd word origins
Certs
Anthropic: Building with the Claude API · GCP Cloud Foundations
Contacting Aaryan
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aaryan.manchanda.work@gmail.com
About Me

Final-year CS student at VIT, graduating 2027. I write production financial infrastructure: real-time billing for a multi-agent AI API, crash-safe ledgers, a seven-figure enterprise migration. Right now I’m building mcp_studio, an open-source MCP pipeline builder in Go, Python and TypeScript, fully in public.

My constraint has never been capability. It’s that most of my best work sits behind an NDA. This page is the part I can show you.

Who I’d Like To Meet

Founders and engineering leads at seed–Series C startups in devtools, infra, agent infrastructure, observability, and fintech infra. If you’re building where MCP, gRPC and money touch, I’ve run exactly that in production, and I can start contributing from day one.

Reach me at aaryan.manchanda.work@gmail.com.

Quest Log Guild: Soundverse AI
Soundverse HackDay 🏆 1ST PLACE
Won 1st place. Shipped Agent One Enterprise’s billing system plus a live demo of a Soundverse MCP connector for Claude Desktop, with real per-user OAuth (Logto, RFC 9728 protected-resource discovery). Then took the connector from demo to a production integration on mcp.soundverse.ai: a token-verifying OAuth resolver wired ahead of the trusted-header path, multi-audience JWT support, a public OAuth client and a docs page, so Claude users authenticate as themselves. Also shipped studio_get_state, a read-only MCP tool that hands a direct Claude session the same Studio project context so users could use Claude INSIDE studio sessions!
Loot: INR 10K, merch and a working MCP connector
Seven-Figure Ledger Migration BOSS · CLEARED
Production queries showed a live legacy enterprise ledger worth $1M+ across ~100 real customers. I designed a decoupled ledger schema and a crash-safe billing flow, landed 4 schema migrations on production, then wrote and ran an idempotent migration that moved every dollar across accounts with 0 errors, reconciled to the cent by an automated post-run audit. Then cut live Stripe subscriptions over in a canary staged rollout (3 first, then the rest) behind a crash-safe skip-list that guarded a legacy webhook consumer still running on the same account.
Loot: decoupled ledger schema, crash-safe overage flow, a zero-error migration harness
Observability for 1.8M req/day TERRITORY UNLOCKED
Stood up the whole stack from scratch: an Azure VM, self-hosted SigNoz (OTel-native, ClickHouse), a Caddy reverse proxy with bearer-token auth on the OTLP ingest, and distributed tracing (W3C trace-context, log and trace correlation) across 6 microservices (Python FastAPI / gRPC and Go) serving ~1.8M requests a day. Cleared 10 blocking issues on the way, including an OpAMP-pushed nop pipeline that had silently switched the collector off, and an exporter version deadlock that shipped empty telemetry with zero errors. Made triages quicker and more efficient!
Loot: end-to-end tracing, guided triages, 26+ panels
Deterministic Billing for Agentic Music Gen LEGENDARY CRAFT
Designed the billing architecture for Agent One, Soundverse’s multi-agent music-generation API, from a design doc weighing three approaches through to a production FastAPI SSE proxy. It reads tool_response events as they stream, meters per-tool charges across 9 MCP tool types whose per-call cost spans more than an order of magnitude, enforces Redis-backed rate limits, and makes every charge deterministic and exactly-once with idempotency keys and disconnect detection. Added a weighted orchestration-cost formula and an opt-in max_budget cap per run.
Loot: an exactly-once SSE metering proxy, 3 pricing tiers derived from real cloud-cost data
Enterprise API Gateway, From Scratch SHIPPED · ON-CALL
Designed and built a standalone FastAPI gateway (Python 3.14, Hypercorn) to replace a legacy enterprise REST API: API-key auth, Redis rate limiting, a resolve → estimate → reserve → queue enforcement pipeline, and a background reconciler that reaps zombie tasks. Shipped the full POST /v1/agent/chat billing endpoint end to end (idempotency, pre-flight balance-floor checks, per-tool SSE billing intercepts, budget-cap enforcement), verified in production. Then carried the pager for it: on-call for the enterprise API, dropping into enterprise customers’ live traffic to reproduce and resolve billing and integration issues, shipping fixes the same day. Half SRE, half forward-deployed engineer.
Loot: a gateway from empty repo to prod, and the rotation that keeps it up
The Rate-Limit Outage TRACED · FIXED
Some enterprise API accounts was silently pinned to the platform’s default floor of 15 requests an hour and returning nothing but 429's. It was invisible on dashboards, no log line, and no spans for rate-lims. I traced quota resolution through a proto-embedded SQL resolver, the API-key auth path, and a Redis fixed-window limiter down to a cross-system identity mismatch: per-account limit overrides had been written against legacy Mongo ObjectIds while the gateway resolves quota by migrated UUID, so every negotiated override was dead on arrival. A prior same-day hotfix turned out to be a no-op too, its verification query passing the ObjectId by hand instead of the UUID the gateway actually sends. Shipped the remap while on-call, then added structured logging and metrics on the previously silent rejection path so it can never hide again.
Loot: quotas that actually apply, and telemetry on the path that had none
gRPC / Protobuf Migration ARCHITECTURE
Designed the migration of Agent One off a bespoke HTTP service and onto the standard generic tool-worker pipeline (core-tool-agent), reusing the existing enforcement pipeline with zero changes needed in the gateway. Deleted an ~18KB SSE-proxy module written for an architecture that got abandoned, and fixed a cross-repo sub-tool license-inheritance bug.
Loot: a simpler system, ~18KB of code deleted
Blessed Loot Projects
mcp_studio Legendary Featured
Aug 2026 – present · in progress · open source

An open-source, self-hostable visual pipeline builder: Blender / ComfyUI style, but MCP-native. Drag MCP-wrapped tool nodes onto a canvas, wire inputs to outputs, configure each with your own API keys, and run. It never holds a shared key and never bills on your behalf. An integrator, not a wrapper. Core differentiator: a BFS wire-compatibility engine that auto-inserts visible, cost-estimated converter nodes when two sockets don’t share a schema.

Go orchestrator · Python / TypeScript runners · React + React Flow + Zustand · Connect-RPC (frontend↔orchestrator) · gRPC / protobuf via buf (orchestrator↔runner) · MCP (runner↔tools) · Postgres · MinIO · BullMQ + Redis · Docker Compose
Status: the proto contract, 3-language codegen and a Go↔Python gRPC round-trip proof are shipped and verified, alongside a live Connect-RPC node-manifest registry and a stdlib AES-256-GCM secrets vault. The canvas is now coming up: drag-to-add / move / select nodes driven by the live registry, with the wire-compatibility resolver being built now. Phase 2 of 6.
GitHub ▸
latest commit: feat(02-04): wire the resolver into the connect gesture with the anchored blocked message
Reado
May 2025 – present · reado.co.in

Production full-stack book platform: REST APIs (Node + Express), MongoDB Atlas, React served via AWS CloudFront + S3, Google Books integration, LLM-based NSFW & spoiler detection. Dockerized with multi-stage builds and commit-SHA artifact tagging; deployed on EC2 behind Nginx with a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline and Prometheus SLO-based deploy validation.

Live site ▸
Hivemind
2025

A social knowledge-graph app where [[wiki-style links]] between notes become graph edges, modeled in PostgreSQL with an adjacency-list schema. Transactional note CRUD with link parsing that keeps referential consistency across the graph atomically.

Deep Learning Projects
Dec 2024 – Feb 2025

A violence-detection system (ResNet + VGG + LSTM) on CCTV footage served via a Flask REST API, and fetal-health abnormality detection using an Attention U-Net on ultrasound images.

Realm Chat git log · mcp-studio
e1f3757 08-30 feat(02-04): wire the resolver into the connect gesture with the anchored blocked message
32e7ec8 08-30 feat(02-04): compatibility resolver skeleton, exact match and blocked
9528807 08-30 feat(02-04): canvas surface, drop-to-add, move, select, delete
9011f15 08-30 chore: gitignore local build-in-public working notes
af84cc9 08-29 feat(02-03): four-category node palette driven by the live manifest registry
ddb099d 08-28 feat(02-03): wire generated Connect-RPC client into Zustand registry store
gitlive from github.com/aaryanmanchanda/mcp-studio
Substack essays

When I’m not shipping backends I write essays about philosophy, Delhi, and the people around me. Subscribe ▸

I Met Nietzsche Twice
The Folly of True Enlightenment
19 Jul 2026
Zepto Buddies and Montaigne
On Friendship, and Cigarettes
17 Jun 2026
The Quintessential Gossip Machine
Let the Aunties Breathe
10 May 2026
Drake as the apragmosyne
“I can never love her, she a busybody” and the fallacy of the willing leader
23 Apr 2026
Let’s maximize my life at the cost of yours!
Delhi’s bourgeoisie and house-help
14 Apr 2026
Top 8 Weapons equipped
Goorchestrator
TypeScriptrunners + UI
PythonFastAPI
gRPC / bufcontracts
Postgresledgers
Redislimits + idem
Dockercompose up
OTel / SigNoztraces