GBA One — solo engineering practice

One engineer.
Whole products,
built and shipped.

GBA One is the independent practice of Jeevan Bakshi. I design, build and run complete products on my own — web, mobile and data systems — using AI-assisted engineering, on top of 18 years in network and security engineering.

Available for new workSolo-built & operated, end to end18 yrs network & security engineeringRemote · CET & EST overlap
01 / Work

Things I’ve built

Real products, each designed and shipped end to end by one person — not concepts or contributions. Several are live and in daily use.

01

Shri Ashtang Health

Wellness commerce

An Ayurveda and wellness business run end to end — storefront, ordering, payments, fulfilment and nationwide dispatch. Also ships as a native Android app from the same codebase.

Next.jsNodePostgresCapacitorPayments
02

underneathV2

Automated trading engine

A Python options-trading system: signal logic, order execution and risk controls with fully isolated data and a shadow-to-live promotion path. Runs unattended, on schedule, with real discipline.

PythonPostgresSchedulersRisk controls
Running · private
03

Garbage Truck Tracker

Real-time civic app

Live truck location for one Kurukshetra sector — GPS over Firebase, 50 m geofenced alerts, and background location running as a proper Android foreground service. Distributed as an installable APK.

CapacitorLeafletFirebase RTDBAndroid
In the field
04

Polytechnic Friends

Community network

A network for polytechnic students and alumni — started in Cheeka, open to everyone. Design, copy, build and hosting, all in one pair of hands.

WebSelf-hosted
Live
05

hearmefriend

Voice-first AI companion

An AI companion built to actually listen and hold a real conversation — voice in, voice out. Node backend, in active development.

NodeRealtime audioLLM
In development
06

This server, and the rest

Infrastructure & automation

Every project above runs on infrastructure I set up and maintain myself — Linux, nginx, Postgres, TLS, n8n automations and custom MCP servers. I don't just build the product; I run it.

LinuxnginxPostgresn8nMCP
Always on
02 / Build

How the work gets done

One person covering design, engineering and operations — with AI-assisted development providing the speed and 18 years of infrastructure work providing the rigour.

01

Product design & full-stack build

From a rough idea to a designed, working product — interface, frontend, backend and data. Web with Next.js and React, mobile with Capacitor, services in Node and Python.

02

AI-assisted engineering

Modern AI-assisted development is how one person now covers the ground a small team used to. Idea to prototype in days, prototype to production without the handoffs.

03

Infrastructure & operations

The parts most solo builds skip: deployment, TLS, backups, monitoring, uptime. I ship on infrastructure I run, so what launches keeps running.

04

Direct, single-thread collaboration

You talk to the person doing the work. No account managers, no requirements lost in translation, no junior hand-off. I scope it, build it, and stay reachable after launch.

03 / Background

Where the rigour comes from

Before building products full-time, I spent 18 years as a network and security engineer — designing, migrating and hardening infrastructure for clients across Europe and the US.

That work was mostly on Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and Cato Networks (SASE): zero-trust segmentation, firewall deployments, platform migrations and security audits. It’s the habit of building things that have to stay up and stay safe — and I still take on security engagements alongside product work.

Experience18 years in data networking & security engineering — Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Cato Networks (SASE), zero-trust architecture.
Still available forNetwork & security architecture, firewall / SASE migrations, and independent posture audits — remote, fixed-scope or ongoing.
Based in / hoursIndia, with working hours that overlap Europe and US East Coast.

Have something to build?

Tell me what you’re making — product or security work. I reply within a day.

jeevanbakshi@gmail.com