Adeeb Shah · Founder & CEO, Pronttera

Founder & CEO, Pronttera · Pune · Auckland · Dubai

I build big things,and I ship them.

(01)Tijarah10,000+ customers (02)Frostique0% commission (03)FitStackBoarding

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Adeeb Shah, seated, in a dark pinstripe suit

Daily pushes to GitHub

10,000+Tijarah customers

15,000players online at 16

2013shipping since

The short version

I build software that lets small businesses own their customers. No marketplace in the middle, no commission on every order. Their name, their app, their data. I've been shipping things people use since I was sixteen, and in 2026 I learned to sell them too. Now I ship AI agents that do real work: read-only, every query shown, evals over vibes.

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Tijarah customers

Live on iOS and Android

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players online at 16

Acronoid Ragnarok servers

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Frostique customers

Zero commission

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Zerox Cloud users

Built for a client

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videos as TridentTM

On YouTube since 2013

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Discord members

Acronoid E-Sports, at its peak

The long version

Thirteen years, nine chapters.

01 / 09

01 2013 · Age 11

Hit record.

Started a YouTube channel as TridentTM. Gameplay, tutorials, then daily live streams. The channel taught him that if you ship every week, people show up.

285 videos
TridentTM
Weekly uploads, daily streams

02 2017 · Age 16

Built a world.

Ran two Ragnarok Online private servers, Acronoid and Zodiac, on the open-source rAthena emulator with kRO client files. Servers in India and the Philippines. The community grew on Facebook with players across the Philippines.

~15,000 players online
rAthena + kRO
India + Philippines

Select server2017

AcronoidrAthena · kROOnline

ZodiacrAthena · kROOnline

~15,000 players online · India + Philippines

Fan-run private servers · Ragnarok Online © Gravity

03 Teens · First business

Built the machines.

Assembled custom PCs and sold them to schools and colleges. Sourcing parts, building, delivering, supporting. The first time code and customers met hardware and invoices.

Custom builds
Schools and colleges
Pune

04 2019 · Acronoid E-Sports

Ran the tournaments.

Founded the Acronoid E-Sports Discord. Through lockdown he organised and live-streamed CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and Valorant community tournaments, casting finals for a crew that peaked above a thousand members.

1,000+ members at peak
CS:GO · PUBG Mobile · Valorant
Streamed on YouTube

05 2020 · Amazon

Went pro.

Joined Amazon as a database engineer. By night, taught himself the MERN stack and shipped a run of side projects: a chat app, a social network, scrapers and auth starters.

Database engineer
MERN stack
Side projects every month

06 2022 · Auckland

Typed, then flew.

Moved to TypeScript and NestJS as a product engineer at Smartle, then to Techwondoe in Auckland. Led the migration of an 18-year-old Django codebase to FastAPI, designed the AWS infrastructure and shipped a cross-platform app with Next.js and Capacitor.

18-year codebase migrated
AWS end to end
Mentored interns

07 2024 · December

Founded Pronttera.

Started the company solo from Auckland, incorporated in India, to take on a freelance pipeline that had outgrown one person. Went full time in April 2025. Pronttera Labs now trains new engineers on real product work.

Solo founder
Pronttera Labs
Clients in India and abroad

08 2025 · Products

Owns the product.

Tijarah and Frostique are live, FitStack is boarding. All three share one idea: the business keeps its customers, its data and every rupee.

Tijarah · 10,000+ customers
Frostique · 1,000+ customers
FitStack · in development

09 2026 · Dubai

Went to market.

Moved to Dubai to open new markets for Pronttera. The year the engineer learned to sell: prospecting, pitching, pricing, closing, and marketing from the ground up. And the year the agents went live: Rafai AI for a logistics company, ClinicSoft Agent for a clinic group, each answering plain-English questions from the client's own database under read-only permissions.

Dubai base
Sales and marketing
AI agents in production
FitStack boarding

The record.

Everything that shipped, with the number that proves it. Tap a row for the detail.

Acronoid and Zodiac, built on rAthena with kRO client files, hosted in India and the Philippines. Community grown on Facebook.
Assembled machines and sold them to schools and colleges in Pune. First customers, first invoices.
Organised and live-streamed CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and Valorant community tournaments through lockdown, casting the finals.
Started at eleven. Gameplay, tutorials, daily streams, tournament broadcasts.
Production data and server operations at scale, while teaching himself the MERN stack at night.
Led the move from a legacy Django monolith to a modern FastAPI architecture at Techwondoe, improving maintainability and performance.
EC2, RDS, S3, Cognito, SNS, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, with CodePipeline releases. Cut cloud costs by restructuring live resources.
Next.js and Capacitor for Android and iOS, backed by NestJS and AWS.
Incorporated in India in December 2024 to take on a freelance pipeline that had outgrown one person. Full time since April 2025.
Community marketplace. 8,000 members in the first month, 25,000+ members and 3,200+ verified providers across 48 cities since. Rated 4.8 and 4.7.
White-label ordering for bakeries: their own site and app, flat fee, no commission. One bakery stopped paying a 22% delivery-app cut.
Print marketplace with a vendor dashboard and three-day payouts. 40% faster orders, 20% cheaper than walk-in.
DICOM-native teleradiology: scan request to signed report and invoice in one flow. Revenue-generating from launch.
Inventory, GST point of sale and storefront on one 56-table PostgreSQL database. Row-level-locked stock, zero oversells.
An educational initiative training aspiring engineers on real product work.
Prospecting, pitching, pricing and closing for Pronttera. Learned sales and marketing by doing it.
Ask Rafai Technologies' operations anything in plain English: consignments, freight billed, vehicle documents, per-km costs. Answers come only from the views the signed-in role may read, every query is shown, and anything outside the role is refused rather than answered.
A plain-English agent over a ClinicSoft 9.0 database for a medical and dental group with three branches and about 977,000 records: revenue, claims, no-shows, stock, compliance. Role-based guardrails, charts on demand, and a page that explains what it will refuse.
Pronttera's rule for AI: evals over vibes, a tool layer (MCP) between the model and the data, and permissions enforced below the model so it can never see what the user cannot.
A social network for the gym floor. Gyms connect in, members get a community that is theirs.

From architect to founder.

2026 was the year the range widened: the engineer who designs the system now also sells it, markets it, ships agents with it, and leads the people building it.

Systems that hold.
- React, Next.js, React Native
- Node.js, NestJS, FastAPI
- AWS end to end, Docker, Kubernetes
- Multi-tenant SaaS, DICOM, payments
Ship what people pay for.
- Discovery to launch, weekly demos
- Three products on the app stores
- Pricing, onboarding, retention
- Zero-commission as a principle
Learned in 2026, in the field.
- Prospecting and pitching in Dubai
- Positioning and pricing
- Campaigns, content, brand
- Closing, then keeping the client
The person running the company.
- Solo founder, co-creating with a team
- Pronttera Labs mentoring
- Communities of 1,000+ since nineteen
- A personal brand, built in public
Agents that do work, not demos.
- LLM agents over live databases
- RAG, MCP tool layers, evals
- Role-based guardrails below the model
- Two agents live in 2026

Engineering · since 2013

Systems that hold.

React, Next.js, React Native
Node.js, NestJS, FastAPI
AWS end to end, Docker, Kubernetes
Multi-tenant SaaS, DICOM, payments

On the AI bubble · 2026

Yes, the valuations are a bubble.The usefulness is not.AGI is a headline. An agent that answers a clinic's revenue question at 11pm, from its own records, without leaking a thing, is a product.

01Evals, not vibes

Every agent ships with a test set. If the eval doesn't pass, it doesn't go live.

02Read-only by default

Agents answer from the views a role may read. Permissions sit below the model, not in the prompt.

03Every query shown

The user sees the SQL. Trust is earned by showing the work.

04A tool layer in between

MCP-style tools between the model and the data, so the model never touches raw infrastructure.

Two agents, live.

Built through Pronttera in 2026. Both answer plain-English questions from the client's own database, under the signed-in role's permissions.

Rafai AI

Rafai Technologies · logistics

Open ↗

Ask about operations in plain English: consignments in transit, freight billed by month, expired vehicle documents, per-km cost.

Rafai AI · query shown · answered from allowed views only

Read-only
Every query shown
Role-based guardrails
Refuses out-of-scope

ClinicSoft Agent

Medical and dental group · 3 branches · 977k records

Open ↗

Revenue, claims, no-shows, stock and compliance, answered from the practice's own ClinicSoft 9.0 records, and only what your role may see.

ClinicSoft Agent · query shown · answered from allowed views only

Read-only
Every query shown
Role-based guardrails
Refuses out-of-scope

Things I own
and ship.

Three Pronttera products, co-created with the team. One idea runs through all of them: the business keeps its customers.

Community marketplace · iOS and Android

Tijarah

The talent was always there. The directory wasn't.

Find, chat with and book verified local providers: home kitchens, tailors, tutors, caterers and boutiques. Reviews only come from real bookings, and providers keep every rupee.

10,000+customers

25,000+members

3,200+verified providers

48cities

61%women-led

4.8★App Store

Visit Tijarah

White-label ordering for bakeries

Frostique

Your bakery. Your app. Zero commission.

Every bakery gets its own ordering site and app in its own name, for a flat fee. Custom-cake builder, WhatsApp orders, advance bookings, next-day payouts. One bakery stopped paying a 22% delivery-app cut.

1,000+customers

0%commission

22%fee one bakery stopped paying

14 daysfree trial

Visit Frostique

Gym community platform · In development

FitStack

A social network for the gym floor.

Gyms connect in, and their members get a community that is theirs: talk, train together, share the work. Opening soon.

Soonopening

Gymsconnected, not booked

Opening soon

Live from GitHub

Shipping, live.

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··repositories

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Public activity only. Most client work lives in private repositories.

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Built for clients.

Through Pronttera: healthcare, fintech, retail and AI, from discovery to production on AWS.

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Working with this team has been a game-changer for Rixura.

Shahzeb Shaikh · Product Owner, Rixura

As published in Pronttera case studies

Ask the terminal.

It's real. Type a command, or tap one. Try ragnarok, or sudo hire-adeeb.

adeeb@pronttera: ~

adeeb-os 2026.11 · type 'help' or tap a command below

The stack · move through it

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQLReactNext.jsReact NativeCapacitorTailwindNode.jsNestJSExpressFastAPIDjangoGraphQLRESTPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBAuroraAWSLambdaECSEC2RDSS3CloudFrontCognitoDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDRazorpayCashfreeLLM agentsRAGFigmaSalesforce

Off the clock.

Before the companies there was the pitch, the court and the lobby. They never left.

Football

Played professionally.

Badminton

Court whenever the week allows.

Valorant · CS2

Still TridentTM in every lobby.

YouTube

285 videos since he was eleven.

TridentTM · Acronoid E-SportsThe Discord that ran CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and Valorant tournaments through lockdown.

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