Shobhit Srivastava
Hi, I’m Shobhit, an engineer at heart, living in Bangalore. I’ve spent more than a decade in technology, and what I love most is building - products, teams, and businesses.
What I’m building
At Shovel, we are building ‘Stevens’ — a personal agent for the family that keeps up with the constant work of running a home: it’s local-first, with privacy and identity as structural principles (not verbal promises). We operate with ‘User Agency’ at the core, that comes from a decade of experience in distributed systems, identity, and the protocols. We build ‘tools’ — as they hand people more agency.
Stevens
A personal agent for the family. It watches the household quietly — bills, the kitchen, birthdays, the appointment you keep meaning to make — and acts on your behalf, across health, money, and the people you care about.
Meet Stevens →The Creole Network
The substrate Stevens runs on — a user-controlled, local-first network that keeps a person’s data in their own hands. Everything else we’re building sits on top of it.
More at shovel.company →Writing
Talks
All talks →A little background
Before Shovel, I started a video startup that didn’t make it, built a DevOps company a few of us took into Gojek, and spent five years there helping the engineering grow as the company did. The longer story is on the about page.
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