How KYC and AML Actually Work Behind the Scenes
What really happens when a user submits a passport photo on your fintech app — the document parsing, the screening, the manual review queues, and the…
Aashish Solanki 9 min read
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Fintech CRM and dashboard engineering insights from production
What we have learned shipping fintech platforms, CRMs, and dashboards.
Product engineering vs traditional development: the real difference
Most teams hire engineering thinking they bought engineering. They actually bought ticket-takers. The difference between product engineering and traditional…
Aashish Solanki 8 min read
Integrating LLMs into your product without breaking it
AI features inside production B2B SaaS earn their keep under cost, latency, and safety pressure. Here is the architecture we ship — model routing, evals, and…
Aashish Solanki 8 min read
Real-time analytics dashboards that don't buckle at scale
Real-time analytics dashboards earn their keep when they stay fast under load. Here is the architecture we ship — streaming, materialized views, latency…
Aashish Solanki 8 min read
Building a Scalable Payment Gateway Architecture in 2026
What a production payment gateway looks like in 2026 — the orchestration layer, ledger, retries, and the boring decisions that decide whether your platform…
Aashish Solanki 9 min read
Building a Custom CRM Your Team Will Actually Use
Most custom CRMs fail not because the engineering is wrong, but because the data model fights the way the team actually sells. Here is the build approach that…
Aashish Solanki 9 min read
How we design fintech ledgers that survive scale and audits
A field guide to designing append-only ledgers that hold up under volume, regulation, and the kind of edge cases that only show up at 3 a.m.
Aashish Solanki 3 min read
When to build a custom CRM and when to extend Salesforce
A practical decision framework for choosing between a custom CRM build and extending an existing platform, drawn from the engagements we have run on both sides.
Aashish Solanki 3 min read
Why your dashboards feel slow, and the seven fixes that actually help
Most dashboard slowness comes from a small set of repeating mistakes. Here are the seven fixes that consistently move the needle on real production systems.
Aashish Solanki 3 min read
Treating internal tools like products, not throwaways
Internal tools shape how your team works every day. Here is the case for funding them like products, with the same rigor you bring to customer-facing software.
Aashish Solanki 3 min read
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