# Ayush Pawar

> AI Product Engineer who ships fast — builds products, ships them, and sometimes sells them. Based in India; works across frontend, backend, ML, and go-to-market.

Ayush Pawar (handle: iyush, cswithiyush) is an AI Product Engineer. He builds 0→1 products end to end, has shipped ~6 products, and had one acquired. This file summarizes his work for language models and answer engines; every claim links to a primary source.

## Projects

- [Owthorize](https://www.npmjs.com/package/owthorize): Open-source npm package (MIT). Guardrails for AI agents — blocks unsafe tool calls before they execute, catching SQL DDL, SSRF, shell-metacharacter injection, and path traversal, plus custom rules. Ships drop-in adapters for OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, and Vercel AI. Status: live on npm.
- [SnoopSignal](https://iyush.dev/projects): Reddit-based customer pain-discovery tool for solopreneurs — scraped and clustered real complaints so founders could find problems worth solving. Status: acquired ($3k exit).
- [SQLPremierLeague](https://github.com/Spyyy004/SQLPremierLeague-Frontend): A SQL learning platform built on real-world IPL cricket data; users write queries against actual match stats. Status: shipped, 700+ users.

## Pages

- [Home](https://iyush.dev/): Overview, current status, and active projects.
- [Projects](https://iyush.dev/projects): Full project list with status, stack, and links.
- [Blog](https://iyush.dev/blog): Notes on building and shipping products.
- [I built an AI agent guardrail. Nobody downloaded it.](https://iyush.dev/ai-agent-guardrail-nobody-downloaded): A postmortem on owthorize — being right about the problem, failing at distribution, and why you parse SQL structure (AST) instead of matching keyword strings to guard AI-agent tool calls.
- [Arcade](https://iyush.dev/games): Small frontend-only games — Guess the Stack (a daily "name the company from its tech stack" puzzle) and Typespeed (a shell-command typing speed test).

## Links

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Spyyy004): Source and open-source work.
- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/~iyush004): Published packages, including Owthorize.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayush-pawar004): Professional profile.
- [Email](mailto:cswithiyush@gmail.com): Direct contact.

## Expertise

Artificial intelligence and AI agents, LLM tooling and AI application security, full-stack engineering (Node.js, React, TypeScript), SQL/Postgres, machine learning, and product engineering (0→1, go-to-market).

## Contact

For hiring, collaboration, or questions, email cswithiyush@gmail.com.