Fractional leadership · Product engineeringMumbai, India

Fractional CTO.
AI-equipped
builder.

I help founders and teams turn ambiguous requirements into dependable software—owning product discovery, architecture, full-stack development, deployment, and maintenance.

Experience
2013 → now
Work files
28 engagements
Engagement mode
Fractional · advisory · delivery
Portrait of Shrikant Shet
Product ↔ Technology
AI ↔ Engineering

Current coordinates Fractional CTO at Callify
Consultant at Rance Computer

01 / Testimonials

What collaborators noticed.

Short reflections from colleagues and clients across software delivery and product work.

Point of view

Hire me when the useful work lives between disciplines—where a business question becomes a product, a product becomes a system, and somebody must own the result after release.

Working philosophy

Own the outcome, not only the task.

02 / AI-equipped engineering

AI-equipped before it was a checkbox.

    Skills / searchable inventory

    Tools change. Range compounds.

    technologies, practices, and working domains used across real engagements.

      03 / Work files

      A searchable record of things built, led, and untangled.

      The archive brings together product delivery, technical consulting, program leadership, and industrially grounded software work. Filter by the kind of problem, not just the job title.

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      04 / Timeline

      A career is not always a ladder.

      Mine has moved through overlapping lanes: building software, leading technology and delivery, teaching and research, and working inside mechanical industry.

      05 / Practice

      Range, without the blur.

      Breadth is only useful when it improves the hand-off between strategy and execution. These are the three modes I move between most often.

      06 / Foundations

      The mechanical engineer never left the room.

      Before product and software leadership came industry, academia, and research. That training still shapes how I model systems, ask questions, and explain difficult ideas.

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      Research

      Two journal papers

      Published research in energy and low-carbon technology journals; presented at the 12th IIR Natural Working Fluids Conference.

      Academia

      Teacher and researcher

      Teaching roles at DBATU and Chh. Shahu College of Engineering, plus research and sponsored project work at IIT Madras.

      Industry

      Mechanical beginnings

      Graduate Engineer Trainee experience at JSW Steel and Sudarshan Chemical Industries, supported by research in refrigeration and low-carbon thermal systems.

      Education

      M.Tech University Gold Medallist

      A mechanical-engineering foundation, three GATE qualifications, and a habit of learning across domains.

      07 / Community timeline

      Work beyond the job title.

      Advisory, service, and community roles—ongoing or bounded by clear start and end dates.

      08 / Start a conversation

      Need a technical owner, not another hand-off?

      Tell me what you are building—or what is stuck.

      • Fractional CTO and technology advisory
      • Full-stack product engineering
      • Architecture, modernization, and delivery rescue