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title: "Affan Shaikhsurab - Chief Technology Officer in Karnataka | Tal"
description: "Meet Affan Shaikhsurab, Building tools that democratise technology based in Karnataka. AI stack includes hermesagent, Langflow, and Pinecone. Explore public work links including github, youtube.com, and affanshaikhsurab.com."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/affan-shaikhsurab/share-image"
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# Affan Shaikhsurab on Tal

## Headline

Building tools that democratise technology

## Location

Karnataka

## AI stack

hermesagent

Langflow

Pinecone

Tavily

Vercel AI SDK

vLLM

## Work experience

Chief Technology Officer at ChipiX, Mar 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, March 2026: Chip verification costs $50K/year\. Closed\. Locked\. The industry just accepts this\. Software has GCC, Linux, VS Code free and open\. Chip industry deserves the same\. So we built Chipix: the world's first open\-source, AI\-native chip verification platform\. Every startup, every student, every team regardless of size should have frontier tools\. Not just the giants\. AI plans verification\. You approve\. It runs\. OPEN SOURCE forever\. GPL v3\. https://github\.com/Chipix\-Company/Chipix

Mentor at GirlScript Summer of Code, Sep 2025 \- Oct 2025 · 2 mos, Acted as a Project Mentor for my programming language SimplyLang\.org

Founder at Needfit, Dec 2024 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, India

Open Source Developer at Flutter, Jan 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, India, Added router parameter functionality to Google's Flutter framework, enabling more flexible navigation patterns for mobile applications\. Pr: https://github\.com/flutter/packages/pull/8232

Founder at Oncash, Apr 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 11 mos, India, Founder & Lead Developer at Oncash Developed the entire application from the ground up while managing client communications, industry partnerships, and marketing efforts to drive growth in a competitive fintech market\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum

Diploma of Education, Computer Science, Motichand Lengade Bharatesh

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/affanshaikhsurab
- youtube\.com: https://youtube\.com/@affanshaikhsurab
- affanshaikhsurab\.com: https://www\.affanshaikhsurab\.com/

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