§01 · Co-founder, engineering lead
Naman Barkiya.
Owns the architecture, the codebase, and the AI stack on every SingleBit engagement. If it runs in production, the answer comes from him directly.
Naman leads engineering at SingleBit end to end: architecture, build, deployment, and the AI infrastructure when it shows up. Every client's technical point of contact is him, not a project manager in the middle.
He trained on trading-desk infrastructure at UBS, where he worked on AI-assisted tooling used by global P&L teams and on structured response validation for LLM-driven workflows. That background shapes how he builds AI into client products: grounded in evaluation, measured against production behaviour, and built to hold under real load rather than demo load.
He maintains open-source infrastructure used by other studios and engineering teams to stand up production systems, including a Next.js SaaS kit and a FastAPI backend template. Most of the work he ships for clients is invisible by design, which is usually the right outcome.
Selected work
- Delivered SIT Manager end to end, a full institute management system that replaced an eight-year legacy stack on a production cutover the incumbent team had failed to achieve across two previous engagements.
- Architected the retrieval-augmented system behind LaunchProd, a Carnegie Mellon University founded AI startup, and simplified it in production to cut response latency roughly 35% while raising answer reliability through a refuse-to-answer quality gate.
- Publishes production-grade open-source tooling relied on by teams shipping Next.js and FastAPI products in the wild.
