I build products around problems that people have quietly learned to live with.
I don't build software just to use technology.
I build when I see something that could be made meaningfully simpler.
I'm a founder and product builder interested in fintech, AI, business software, and products that turn complicated real-world problems into experiences people can actually understand.
Most of my ideas begin with frustration.
A confusing process.
A broken workflow.
A problem people have accepted as "just how things work."
And usually, one question:
Could this be built better today?
If the answer is yes, I start building.
I enjoy working across the entire product — from the original idea and product thinking to design, engineering, deployment, and getting the product into the hands of real people.
I'm less interested in collecting technologies.
I'm more interested in building things that deserve to exist.
ESOP Value Clarity is my current product — a fintech SaaS platform built to help startup employees understand what their equity could actually mean financially.
A compensation letter might say:
10,000 ESOPs
But that number alone doesn't answer the questions employees actually care about.
How much has vested?
What could it be worth?
How does dilution affect it?
What happens at different company valuations?
What might different exit scenarios look like?
What could estimated tax impact do to the outcome?
And ultimately:
Is this equity actually meaningful to me?
That's the problem I'm building around.
Vesting
Understand how your equity changes over time.
Simulator
Model different assumptions and potential outcomes.
Dilution
Explore how future ownership changes can affect your potential value.
Exit Scenarios
See how different company valuations could change the outcome.
Estimated Tax
Bring estimated tax impact into the scenario.
Compare
Put different possibilities side by side instead of relying on one number.
Reports
Turn your analysis into a structured equity report.
History
Save calculations and revisit previous scenarios.
The bigger idea isn't another ESOP calculator.
It's an employee-first equity intelligence product.
Don't predict the startup. Understand the possibilities.
Equity is often presented as one of the biggest benefits of joining a startup.
But employees are frequently given a number without an intuitive way to understand what that number could mean.
The information exists.
The formulas exist.
The spreadsheets exist.
What's missing is the experience.
I wanted to build something from the employee's perspective.
Something that takes:
ESOPs → Vesting → Dilution → Valuation → Exit → Tax → Scenarios
and turns them into something a person can actually reason about.
The product doesn't pretend to know the future.
It helps people understand how their potential outcome changes when the assumptions change.
That's the distinction I care about.
ESOP Value Clarity is my current focus, but it isn't the only problem I've explored.
Some projects started as experiments.
Some became products.
Some taught me what not to build.
I value all of them because each one started with a question.
An AI-assisted market intelligence platform exploring how financial information can become easier to understand instead of simply producing more noise.
The question:
Can software help people understand markets rather than overwhelm them with data?
A product exploring whether software can encourage more thoughtful analysis and conversations around a deeply rooted social issue.
The question:
Can technology encourage better thinking around problems we've normalized?
An anonymous communication product built around simplicity, privacy, and honest expression.
The question:
What if people sometimes need a safe place to say something rather than another social network?
A product concept focused on modernizing the operational side of traditional chit fund businesses.
The question:
Why should established businesses still have to rely on outdated tools?
I don't believe the best products start with a technology stack.
They start with observation.
Something doesn't make sense.
Someone is doing too much manual work.
A process has become unnecessarily complicated.
A product solves only half the problem.
That's where I become interested.
My process is usually:
Observe → Question → Understand → Design → Build → Ship → Listen → Improve
The code is only one part of that process.
The real work is figuring out what deserves to be built in the first place.
Technology is the means.
The problem is the reason.
Software should absorb complexity rather than transfer it to the person using it.
A real user interacting with a product teaches more than another month of building in isolation.
The market gets the final vote.
A product doesn't need a giant team to solve a meaningful problem.
It needs someone willing to care enough to keep improving it.
The product is already live.
Now I'm focused on the part that matters most after shipping:
real users → real feedback → real usage → real improvement
I'm working toward making ESOP Value Clarity genuinely useful for startup employees trying to understand their equity and make better decisions around it.
The long-term vision is bigger than a calculator.
I want to explore what an employee-first equity platform could become.
Fintech
AI Products
Product Engineering
Startup Software
Financial Intelligence
Business Systems
Developer Tools
Human-Centered Product Design
Especially where:
Software × Finance × AI × Real-world Problems
intersect.
I use technology as a tool, not as an identity.
Languages
Python · Java · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · C++
Frontend
React · Next.js · Tailwind CSS
Backend
Spring Boot · Flask · Node.js · REST APIs
Data
PostgreSQL · MySQL · Supabase
Infrastructure
Git · Docker · Vercel
I'm always interested in talking to people building interesting things — especially around startups, equity, fintech, AI, and product engineering.
Email: sidhusheshank@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Sheshank Sidheshwar
Instagram: @devfordegree
GitHub: @sidhushesank
Phone: +91 7842638157
