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Product Engineer

Koushith Amin

Product engineer with a design background. I like working across the stack and care a lot about how software feels, not just how it works. Most of what I build lives at the intersection of developer tools and product interfaces.

Currently leading core tech at Consuma AI — building v2 of the product and growing the engineering team. Previously founding team at Reclaim Protocol and Consenso Labs.

Experience

Mar 2026 — Present

Consuma AI

Senior Software Engineer

Leading core tech for v2 of the product — rearchitecting the platform from the ground up. Hiring and building out the engineering team, setting the technical bar, and shaping how we ship.

2023 — Dec 2025

Reclaim Protocol

Founding Team — Senior Software Engineer

Owned the developer-facing surface area — Web SDKs, DevTool platform, and Provider Hunt. Reduced provider onboarding from days to under 20 minutes. Led technical demos and sales engineering.

2021 - 2023

Consenso Labs

Founding Team — Frontend Engineer & UI Designer

Built a component library from scratch (inspired by Chakra UI). Shipped Safient, Signchain, and Arbchain. Transitioned from design to engineering.

2019 - 2020

Infosys Limited

SAP GRC Consultant

Enterprise governance, risk, and compliance for SAP systems.

Selected Work

Products I've built end-to-end

SideNotes

Solo — Product, Design, Engineering

2026
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Problem

Notion is easy but locks your notes inside a cloud database. Obsidian is local-first and powerful but the editor feels intimidating to non-power users. I wanted both — the Notion editor experience on top of the Obsidian file format, with none of the cloud lock-in.

A quiet, local-first second brain for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Notion-easy block editor, Obsidian-deep linking. Notes stay as plain markdown on your machine — no cloud, no account, no lock-in.

Key outcomes

  • Plain markdown files on disk — no proprietary format, no vendor lock-in
  • Ships on macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single Electron codebase
  • Editor, graph, and canvas share one CSS-variable theme system across 6 palettes × light/dark
  • Reload-on-watcher-change so external edits never get silently overwritten

Stack

Electron 33React 18TypeScriptVite 6TipTap + tiptap-markdownSigma 3 + Graphology@xyflow/react (canvas)Tailwind 3Zustand
github.com/Koushith/sidenotes

Shipped & Sunset

Things I tried, learned from, and moved on from

Indie products I shipped end-to-end. Some found users, some didn't — all of them taught me something. Kept here because the wins and the lessons both belong in the record.

A+ People I've Worked With

Kind words from founders, engineers & collaborators

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Faraj Farook

Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Faraj Farook

Faraj Farook

Sr Engineering Manager, PageUp Ltd

Harsha Karamchat

Harsha Karamchat

Co-founder, Reclaim Protocol

Madhavan Malolan

Madhavan Malolan

Co-founder & CTO, Reclaim Protocol

Rohan Reddy

Rohan Reddy

Co-founder & Tech Lead, Brewit Money

Swathi Jain

Swathi Jain

Co-founder, The Pineapple Pads

Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey

Founder & Exec Producer, Ownoss Studio

Adithya Dinesh

Adithya Dinesh

Ecosystem & Growth, StarkWare

Srijith Padmesh

Srijith Padmesh

Ecosystem Lead, Aztec

Writing

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Get in touch

Open to interesting engineering problems, product collaborations, or just a good conversation about systems and craft.

koushith97@gmail.com