Twenty-plus years of engineering dependable systems: sub-second web platforms, offline-first field-data instruments deployed in 12+ countries, and grounded AI workflows that cite their sources instead of guessing.
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Fault-tolerant mobile data collection for research that cannot afford bad numbers.
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High-availability applications engineered for the tenth year, not the launch day.
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Agentic systems anchored to your documents, with the guardrails to prove it.
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London, UK · 2010 · current platform 2021 Premier accredited executive training platform with custom booking and automated enrolment. Continuous 99.9% uptime since 2021, sub-second pages under real traffic.
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International research consortia · 12+ countries Enterprise SurveyCTO/ODK architecture behind 600+ complex instruments. 1.5M+ high-integrity submissions across health, agriculture and socio-economic research.
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New Delhi & Lucknow · 2013 – present Corporate portal, secure research repository and field-operations infrastructure for roughly 400 studies covering ~20M surveyed respondents.
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Ministry of External Affairs & UN IOM · 10+ states · 2022 – 2023 Nationwide baseline on safe, orderly and regular migration, run on multilingual CAPI instruments. 10,000 migrant youths surveyed across more than ten Indian states.
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Research partners include University College London · University of Chicago / EPIC India · Macquarie University · University of Notre Dame & UC Santa Cruz · CEEW, Johns Hopkins SAIS & Yale-NUS · MEA & UN IOM
“Shobhit designed and maintained our mission-critical training booking platform with extraordinary attention to performance, security, and uptime. Over 15 years, his technical stewardship has been exemplary and dependable.”
— Peter Souters, Director, Souters Training (London)
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8000 Founder & Principal Architect · since 2005 The engineering studio behind the deployments on this page: field-data systems, web platforms and AI for research organisations and businesses worldwide. |
Founder & CEO · since 2024 AI assistants and custom RAG chatbots for small businesses and teams: one knowledge base, answers that cite their sources, any model with no lock-in. |
Founder · since 2026 A toolkit for the real cost of UPI payments: fee calculator, QR tools, an AI bill reader and the Ask Pikoo chat assistant. |
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Python CLI suite on Sarvam AI: speech-to-text with diarization, document intelligence, image analysis, SEO cataloguing.
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AI photo editor: retouch, filter and adjust images with plain-text prompts.
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One-click Wan2GP video-generation install for RTX 50-series GPUs.
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Image-pair voting and EVM-style ballot plugins for SurveyCTO Collect, plus an XLSForm → printable codebook tool.
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Client-side image safety checks plus reverse search for matching and duplicate images.
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The Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter, rebuilt in the browser. Pure nostalgia, no disks harmed.
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The full toolkit · languages, platforms, field data, AI and cloud
I take on a small number of engagements at a time, personally — architecture, build or rescue.
Bring the messy version of the problem; that is usually the interesting part.
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24×7 · answered by my AI assistant |
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India working across time zones |
We don't build toys; we engineer systems that operate reliably in production.
