# Atharva Shah > Full-stack developer, AI builder, and growth strategist. I build tools, write content, and ship products at the intersection of code, AI, and marketing. ## About I'm Atharva Shah, a developer, writer, and product thinker based in Mumbai, India. I work at the intersection of AI, web development, cloud-native security, and growth marketing. Currently working at AccuKnox on product marketing, DevRel, and technical content for cloud-native security products. I build web apps, Python automation pipelines, AI agents, and content systems. I've published 17 books and guides, written 24 technical articles, shipped 23 projects, and hold 19 certifications across data science, web development, and cloud computing. ## Links - Website: https://atharvashah.com - GitHub: https://github.com/HighnessAtharva - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atharva-shah-tech/ - Substack: https://atharvashah.substack.com - Gumroad: https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com ## Sections - [Projects](https://atharvashah.com/projects.md): 23 shipped projects across tools, security, data & AI, productivity, and web apps - [Publications](https://atharvashah.com/publications.md): 17 books/guides and 24+ articles across FreeCodeCamp, AccuKnox, RealPython, and more - [Certifications](https://atharvashah.com/certifications.md): 19 certifications in data science, web development, computer science, and personal development - [Brag List](https://atharvashah.com/brag-list.md): 42 professional achievements with metrics - [Likes](https://atharvashah.com/likes.md): Personal favorites, covering books, games, music, films, tools, ideas, and more - [Services](https://atharvashah.com/work/knowledge-engineering.md): Freelance services in Knowledge Engineering, AI & Automation, Web Development, Growth Marketing, Technical Writing & Documentation, Product Management, and Gen-AI Creatives ## Services Offered - **Knowledge Engineering**: Your vault is a museum of ideas you never revisit, and no AI agent can read or write it without drifting. I build the knowledge base and graph that fix both, then wire AI into it. - **Technical Writing & Documentation**: Developers skip your docs once they go stale and start reading the source code instead. I write and maintain documentation that stays in sync with every release, so the docs earn the click back. - **AI & Automation**: A metered automation tool bills you more as it works harder, and its own editor still forces you back into custom scripts. I build the workflow once, priced once, and you own the code. - **Growth Hacking & Marketing Enablement**: Traffic is not the problem. Visitors get confused before they ever see the product and leave, while the SEO dashboard still reads green. I fix the conversion path and the AI visibility gap the dashboard cannot see. - **Web Development**: A platform site locks you into its own learning curve, and a non-developer founder ends up managing it alone. I build production sites in Next.js and React, and hand you code you can read. - **Gen-AI Creatives**: Raw AI output reads generic, and someone still has to fix the layout by hand before it ships. I run image, video, and audio through a pipeline with a human review step built in. - **Product Management & Roadmapping**: A PM platform can change its API right after your renewal and break your integrations, then force your product to fit its data model. I run the process in tools you already control. ## Skills - **Web Development**: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js - **Marketing and Growth**: SEO, Ahrefs, Semrush, Apollo, Clay.io, Factors.ai - **Data Analysis & Reporting**: Python, Pandas, NumPy, Streamlit - **Agentic AI & Automation**: LangChain, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Midjourney - **Ghostwriting & SEO**: Technical Writing, Copywriting, Content Strategy, SEO Optimization - **DevOps & Security**: Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker ## Featured Projects - **Jeff**: A bookshelf you can ask questions. Type a mood, a theme or a half-remembered plot, and Jev ranks 1,054 Goodreads books a... - **substack-cli**: Substack has no public API, so I wrote one. Push, pull, schedule and publish posts from a terminal on the Python standar... - **groundtruth**: Every factual claim in a document gets tied to the exact words in its source. The tool refuses a claim it cannot find in... - **quotecard**: Paste a link, get a PNG. An X post, a Substack note, a Substack article, a Threads post, or any line you type becomes a ... - **AgentZ**: Co-created at AccuKnox. A zero-trust platform for running AI agents in production. Every agent is a Kubernetes pod in a ... - **Text Rhythm Visualizer**: Paste any prose and see the shape of your sentences: a rhythm graph, a sentence heatmap, a Flesch readability score, and... - **10xDevRel**: A toolkit for developer advocates. Fifteen step-by-step playbooks across launch, community, content, events, metrics and... - **KubeArmor AI CTF**: Co-created. A browser-first AI security capture-the-flag platform, built in a day and run as a four-day live event in Ju... - **9x9 Goals Grid Harada**: A brutalist, privacy-first take on the Harada Method. Turn one abstract goal into 81 concrete steps. No login, no databa... - **Algorithm Listens**: Computational text analysis of an artist through their complete body of work. Each essay rests on full lyrical analysis,... - **Reputation Analysis**: A machine learning tool that reads brand reputation across platforms using natural language processing and sentiment ana... - **What You Doing Right Now**: Real-time activity tracking with time logging, goal setting, and analytics on where the hours actually went.... - **Criterion Collection Scraper**: A scraper that turns the Criterion Collection catalogue into structured data: films, directors, release dates, and spine... - **Elden Ring Gallery**: An interactive gallery of Elden Ring screenshots and artwork, with filtering and search across the set. Built in React a... - **Food Online**: A food delivery application with user authentication, restaurant management, and real-time order tracking.... - **Media Analysis**: Analytics for social media content: sentiment scoring, engagement metrics, and trend identification, in Python with NLTK... ## Books & Guides - [Zero Trust Agentic AI Security](https://www.amazon.in/Zero-Trust-Agentic-Security-Governance-ebook/dp/B0G491VNQ6/), Runtime governance for agentic AI, written for teams that have to block a bad action before it executes. - [AI-Powered Zero Trust CNAPP Guide](https://www.amazon.in/AccuKnox-AI-Powered-Zero-Trust-CNAPP-ebook/dp/B0FH1QD9VY/), How a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform works once AI drives the triage instead of a human queue. - [KubeArmor, Runtime Security Enforcement](https://www.amazon.in/KubeArmor-Security-Enforcement-Atharva-Shah-ebook/dp/B0D33W522H/), Runtime policy enforcement for Kubernetes with KubeArmor, from the first policy to a cluster-wide rollout. - [The Python Decorator Handbook](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-python-decorator-handbook/), Every decorator pattern in Python, from a plain wrapper to a class-based decorator that keeps state. - [Databricks Delta Lake with SQL Handbook](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/databricks-sql-handbook/), Query and version a Delta Lake table from SQL, including time travel and the merge patterns teams get wrong. - [The FastAPI Handbook](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fastapi-quickstart/), Build, document and test a FastAPI service, with the request validation and dependency wiring done properly. - [Buyers Guide to CNAPP](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/advanced-cloud-security?layout=profile), What to ask a CNAPP vendor before you sign, and which answers signal a scanner wearing a platform badge. - [Zero Trust LLM Security](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/ai-llm-security), A security model for large language models in production, covering prompt abuse, model theft and data exit paths. - [Accelerate Cloud-Native Security with Ask Ada](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/ai-cloud-security), How an AI assistant reads cloud findings, ranks them by real blast radius, and hands back a fix. - [AppSec and CloudSec 2025 Definitive Guide](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/appsec-cloudsec-security), Where application security and cloud security overlap, and which control belongs on which side of the line. - [Application Security Posture Management, A Definitive Guide](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/gjmdk), Stand up ASPM across a code base, from asset inventory to the policy that actually fails a pipeline. - [Zero Trust Kubernetes Security, The Definitive Guide](https://accuknox.com/ebooks/zero-trust-kubernetes-security-definitive-guide), Zero Trust applied to a Kubernetes cluster, covering identity, network policy and runtime enforcement together. - [Runtime Security for Agentic AI Systems](https://accuknox.com/white-papers/runtime-security-ai-agents), A white paper on holding an autonomous agent to a policy while it runs, rather than auditing it afterward. - [Data Structures and Algorithms, Arrays](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/dsa-python-array), Array problems from LeetCode worked in Python, each one with the reasoning that gets you to the solution. - [Data Structures and Algorithms, Dynamic Programming](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/dsa-python-dynamic-programming), Dynamic programming in Python, built up from the recurrence rather than from a memorized table. - [Data Structures and Algorithms, Searching and Sorting](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/dsa-python-searching-sorting), Search and sort routines in Python, with the cost of each one stated before the code arrives. - [Data Structures and Algorithms, Graphs](https://highnessatharva.gumroad.com/l/dsa-python-graph), Graph traversal and shortest-path problems in Python, from the adjacency list to the interview answer. ## Contact - Email: hello@atharvashah.com - Booking: https://atharvashah.com (contact widget on site) --- Canonical: https://atharvashah.com Last updated: 2026-10-26