Pranav Yadav
I ship products end-to-end — from LLM pipelines to pixel-tight frontends. 9 years across fintech, insurance, and AI; ex-CTO; 4 on Toptal.
Now
What I'm focused on at the moment — current direction, not history.
- Story of a Stock — a personal AI platform turning dense company disclosures into investment decisions. Vector retrieval gives fundamental investors a breadth of analysis that wasn't reachable pre-LLM.
- Toptal client engagements across a cruise-booking platform and a freight-domain marketing site.
- gstack — Garry Tan's open-source toolkit of Claude Code skills for agentic coding scaffolding.
- Token-efficient visual RAG — extracting signal from diagram-heavy investor decks without blowing the token budget.
Last updated May 14, 2026
Projects
A slice of what I've shipped recently — from consumer platforms to AI-driven tooling.
What I build
Four capabilities, each anchored in named client work below.
AI in production
Provider-pluggable LLM pipelines. JSON-contracted, output-verified.
Service & API integrations
Auth, retries, batching, caching — the boring half done right.
Webflow ⇄ Next.js hybrids
Marketing in Webflow, scale in Next.js. Migrations, integrations, edge.
0-to-1 architecture
Backend, app, infra — comfortable owning the whole call.
Experience
Fintech, consumer health, entertainment, and 0-to-1 startups. Individual contributor to CTO.
Front-end Developer
Citibank
2018 — 2019
Built an Angular client app from scratch to production — multiple AG Grid data tables, auth, and session management.
Java Developer
Citibank
2019 — 2021
Owned business logic and CI/CD; pipeline improvements saved ~1 hour of dev effort per day.
JavaScript Back-end Lead
Nuclei Sports
2020 — 2021
Designed a microservices architecture (Node.js, Express, Loopback) and built a proprietary player-performance algorithm. 1-5 reports.
Node.js Developer
Spark · via Toptal
2021
Third-party integrations (ClickUp, Airtable), webhooks, and RabbitMQ for a UK edtech publisher.
Senior Node.js Developer
Xendit · via Toptal
2022
Built a lean billing/revenue system on a transactional dataset for SEA's largest payment gateway.
CTO · Founding engineer
On The Move
2022 — 2024
Founded and led engineering for an AI-powered fitness SaaS. 6-10 reports. Took the product from a Webflow MVP to a fully integrated platform.
Automation Consultant
Journey Entertainment · via Toptal
2025
Automated payment-request approvals and built a JotForm → Airtable pipeline plus a relational DB for crew, cast, and project management.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer · AI & Automation
Risk Management & Compliance · via Toptal
2025 — now
Provider-pluggable LLM pipeline (OpenAI + Gemini) generating underwriter-grade Letters of Experience. Zoho CRM sync with concurrent attachment streaming, GCS uploads, and NHTSA VIN verification.
Senior Full-Stack Developer · Webflow + Next.js
Very Big Things · via Toptal
2025 — now
Webflow → Next.js 15 migration of a vacation booking platform; edge-native on Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext. KV-backed cache fans out to 6 Webflow collections in parallel and serves a pre-joined dataset globally.
Webflow Developer
Rox Radar · via Toptal
2026
Stabilized a Webflow + Airtable + Mapbox event platform; refactored interactive components and cut bug turnaround.