A senior software engineer for New York teams, working your morning
SaaS first versions, AI features and second opinions on code built in a hurry, for New York founders and product leads, with the start of your day inside my evening in Mumbai.
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Why New York teams bring me this work
This page is for New York founders and product leads, often in fintech and media, who need senior engineering against a date that won't move: a first version before the next raise, an AI feature a customer has already been promised, or an app that was built quickly and now slows down whenever real traffic arrives. I build the first version at a fixed price, add AI features with evaluations behind them, and audit rushed code before it costs you a customer. The closest proof is a voting platform that held up for a whole campaign.
What teams across the United States bring me
- You need a production-grade first version before your next raise, and hiring a senior engineer full time would take longer than building it.
- You want AI features that hold up in production, with evaluations and cost control, not a demo that works once.
- An app built in a hurry, by an agency, a contractor or AI tools, is now slow, fragile or risky to change, and customers have noticed.
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The hours we share with New York
Your 09:00 is 19:30 in Mumbai in winter and 18:30 while New York is on daylight saving time, so a call at the start of your day lands in my evening. Decisions go in that call; the build runs through your night, and a written update is waiting when your next day starts.
Each city's 09:00–18:00 working day on the clock in Mumbai (UTC+5:30), in January and in July, so daylight saving is accounted for.
| City | In January | In July |
|---|---|---|
| New YorkUTC−5 / UTC−4 | 19:30–04:30 (next day) | 18:30–03:30 (next day) |
Clocks Daylight saving time runs from 2:00 a.m. local time on the second Sunday in March to 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November (15 U.S.C. 260a). India keeps one clock all year, so only your side moves.
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Rules a New York team's software meets
The SHIELD Act
New York's SHIELD Act, signed on 25 July 2019, requires any person or business that keeps New York residents' private information to maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards. The Attorney General enforces it, with penalties of up to $5,000 per violation for failing to keep reasonable safeguards.
Breach notification
New York's breach law (General Business Law § 899-aa) requires notice to affected residents in the most expedient time possible and no later than thirty days after the breach is discovered.
Source: New York State Senate: General Business Law § 899-aa
Children's data
The New York Child Data Protection Act (General Business Law §§ 899-ee et seq.) took effect on 20 June 2025. It limits the processing of personal data of users known to be minors, or of services primarily directed to minors, without informed consent, unless the processing is strictly necessary for a listed purpose.
Source: New York Attorney General: Child Data Protection Act guidance
AI in hiring, inside the city
New York City's Local Law 144 of 2021 bars employers and employment agencies from using an automated employment decision tool unless it has had a bias audit within the past year, a summary of the audit is public and the required notices are given. The city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection began enforcing it on 5 July 2023.
Source: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection: Automated Employment Decision Tools
Across the United States: State privacy laws · SOC 2 and security questionnaires
This is engineering guidance, not legal advice: confirm what applies to your business with your counsel.
Further reading
- Article: US state privacy laws and Global Privacy Control: a guide for engineers · 11 October 2026
Which regulators say a business must honour the GPC signal, what the Sec-GPC header means in code, and the consent and data-request plumbing around it.
- Article: How long a SaaS MVP takes: the method, not a number · 10 October 2026
Why any single number for an MVP is a guess, what actually decides the time, the published time-boxes product teams use, and how to fix dates you can keep.
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Contracts and invoicing
Invoices in US dollars, monthly or per milestone, paid through Wise or Payoneer. I can work under your master services agreement and statements of work, with intellectual property assigned to you, and provide a W-8BEN.
More on working with teams in the United States is on the United States page.
Tax and legal treatment depends on your company and country: confirm it with your accountant or counsel.
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Where New York teams usually start
MVP Sprint
A production-grade first version of your product, at a fixed price and on dates fixed after the scoping week.
- Price
- Fixed price, agreed at the end of the scoping week
- Timeline
- Set at the end of the scoping week
AI features in your product
LLM features that work on your real data, measured before they ship.
- Price
- Fixed-price scoping sprint, then a fixed-scope quote
- Timeline
- A scoping sprint first, then a timeline agreed per project
Security audit and penetration test
An attacker's view of your application and infrastructure, and a fix list you can act on.
- Price
- Fixed price per scope
- Timeline
- Agreed per project after scoping
Performance and Core Web Vitals audit
Find out in five working days exactly why your application is slow, and what to fix first.
- Price
- Fixed price
- Timeline
- Agreed per project
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Case studies
- Case study: InfluencerX · Real-time voting platform
- users over the campaign
- 1.6M+
- Case study: Digital Wardrobe · AI pipeline
- average time per image, upload to result
- 3–8 s
- Case study: Exhibit Social · B2B SaaS platform
- influencers indexed
- 10,000+
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Questions from New York teams
What hours do we share with New York?
Your 09:00 is 19:30 in Mumbai from early November to mid-March, and 18:30 from mid-March to early November, while New York is on daylight saving time. A call at the start of your day lands in my evening; the rest of the work runs on written updates you can read on your schedule.
Which rules apply to a New York team's app?
If you keep New York residents' private information, the SHIELD Act asks for reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards, and the breach law makes thirty days the outer limit for telling affected residents. A service for minors falls under the Child Data Protection Act, and an automated hiring tool used in the city needs a bias audit within the past year under Local Law 144. That's engineering guidance, not legal advice: confirm what applies with your counsel.
Do you have an office in New York?
No. I work remotely from Mumbai, with no office, address or staff in New York, and I don't offer in-person meetings there. We talk on video at the start of your day, and everything else is in writing.
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