# Sohab Sk Senior Software Engineer at Skillsoft / Codecademy. 6+ years of professional experience. Based in India, remote. Focus: Reliable AI Agents & scalable software systems. Leading agentic AI product work at Skillsoft / Codecademy: multi-agent authoring, learning-by-building engines, and the reusable frameworks behind them. Previously built enterprise blockchain SaaS at EY GDS. --- # Experience ## Senior Software Engineer, Skillsoft / Codecademy (Jun 2024 - Present) Technical lead for AI-native product work across Skillsoft and Codecademy: agentic authoring, learning-by-building engines, and the shared frameworks behind them. - Originated (with my team) and architected next-generation agentic authoring for LX Design Studio, owning product direction, engineering, and architecture from idea to a production beta with 20+ enterprise customers. - Designed its in-house vectorless retrieval pipeline: a non-LLM ingestion step that converts arbitrary document formats into heuristic trees and exposes tree-aware agent tools with in-memory BM25 search, improving grounding and citation fidelity while cutting LLM input tokens on large documents. - Shipped Codecademy's Vibe Learning Platform to 10M+ active learners within two months by building a LangGraph-based agentic engine that generates full-stack, learn-by-building projects. - Created Agentor, a reusable framework for multi-agent workflows, MCP tools, guardrails, source ingestion, conversation state, and LLM evaluations; reduced agent scaffolding for 8+ teams and earned CTO recognition. - Served as technical lead for Skillsoft's first AI-native Builder pod, a three-engineer team that owned product delivery end to end and shipped two products in under six months; the model expanded to 11 additional pods. - Built the frontend foundation for LX Design Studio with Next.js, React, TypeScript, reusable routing and design-system patterns, and modular integration across a shared monorepo. - Built internal AI developer tooling and release automation, including ACE workflows for sharing reusable skills, subagents, and plugins across 15+ engineering teams. Stack: LangGraph, RAG, VectorDB, Next.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Ruby On Rails, GoLang, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Redis, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ ## Software Engineer, Ernst & Young GDS (Aug 2022 - Jun 2024) Full-stack blockchain SaaS for EY's OpsChain ecosystem, from smart contracts to Kubernetes delivery. - Built full-stack blockchain SaaS products, EY OpsChain Contract Manager and OpsChain ESG, automating contract and sustainability workflows on Ethereum with zero-knowledge privacy components. - Developed REST and GraphQL microservices with NestJS and Node.js, containerized with Docker and deployed via Azure Kubernetes Service and API Management. - Implemented Starlight zApps and ERC-1155 smart contracts in Solidity, fixed information-security findings, and expanded unit, smoke, and end-to-end coverage with Jest and Supertest. Stack: Solidity, Viem, NestJS, React, GraphQL, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB ## Assistant System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (Feb 2020 - Aug 2022) MERN-stack product work for Strategy and Transformation, plus Java test automation. - Built MERN-stack applications for Strategy and Transformation initiatives using React, Redux Toolkit, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB across core product workflows. - Contributed to Java BDD automation frameworks using Selenium and Appium, improving repeatable web and mobile regression testing. Stack: React, Redux, Node.js, Express, Azure, MongoDB, Java, Python --- # Selected work ## Next-generation agentic authoring for LX Design Studio (Skillsoft · customer beta) Our team originated the idea and owned it end to end, across product direction, engineering, and architecture. I architected it from proof of concept to a production beta with 20+ enterprise customers: multi-agent content generation from uploaded documents, grounded by an in-house vectorless retrieval pipeline built on heuristic document trees and BM25 search. Metrics: 20+ enterprise beta customers; Idea → beta product, tech, and architecture Stack: LangGraph, MCP, Vectorless RAG, TypeScript More: https://investor.skillsoft.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/463/skillsoft-lx-design-studio-reduces-custom-learning-content-development-from-weeks-to-days ## Vibe Learning Platform (Codecademy) LangGraph-based agentic engine that generates full-stack, learn-by-building projects, shipped within two months. Metrics: 10M+ active learners Stack: LangGraph, Next.js, TypeScript More: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/why-the-future-of-learning-starts-with-building ## Agentor (Skillsoft internal framework) Reusable framework for multi-agent workflows, MCP tools, guardrails, conversation state, and LLM evaluations. Earned CTO recognition. Metrics: 8+ teams using it Stack: TypeScript, MCP, LLM evals, Guardrails ## AI-native Builder pod (Skillsoft) Technical lead of Skillsoft's first AI-native pod: three engineers owning delivery end to end, shipping two products in under six months. Metrics: 11 pods adopted the model Stack: Claude Code, Agentic engineering, Technical leadership --- # Open-source and side projects ## Plico Landing page for a file-based agents framework kit for composing local workflows, prompts, and tools into reusable AI agent projects. Link: https://plico.sohab.dev Language: TypeScript Topics: agent framework, workflow kit, developer tools ## Rehype Code Group Accessible Rehype plugin that turns neighboring code blocks or HTML content into tabbed groups without coupling to a frontend framework or syntax highlighter. Link: https://rehype-code-group.sohab.dev Language: TypeScript Metrics: 11k weekly downloads; 15 GitHub stars Topics: rehype, code tabs, accessibility ## Chaingent.app Agentic smart contract development platform for building, auditing, and deploying Solidity applications faster. Link: https://chaingent.app/ Language: TypeScript Topics: ai, web3, smart contracts, solidity ## Creator Skills Installable AI agent skills for YouTube creators, covering channel research, scripting, thumbnails, analytics, and creator-approved channel memory. Link: https://creator-skills.sohab.dev/ Language: Agent skills Topics: AI agents, creator workflows, YouTube ## Dev Skills Installable workflows for AI coding agents, including cold code reviews and guided pull request reviews with human decisions on findings. Link: https://github.com/ITZSHOAIB/dev-skills Language: Agent skills Topics: AI agents, code review, developer tools ## Cmuxup Terminal-first agentic workspace for cmux with one-command setup for lazygit, helix, delta, yazi, and AI coding agents. Link: https://github.com/ITZSHOAIB/cmuxup Language: Shell Topics: cmux, agentic workspace, lazygit, helix ## Hashtegrity Library for generating hashes, validating data integrity, and monitoring file, directory, and off-chain data integrity. Link: https://github.com/ITZSHOAIB/hashtegrity Language: TypeScript Topics: hash, data integrity, crypto hash --- # Skills ## AI Agent Frameworks Primary: LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, RAG, VectorDB, Ingestion Also: LlamaIndex, A2A, Multi-agent systems, Agent workflow design ## Frontend Primary: React, Next.js, SvelteKit, Redux, Tailwind CSS Also: Remix, Redux Toolkit, Material UI, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, Gamut, Webpack, Rspack, SWC, Vite, Rollup ## Backend Primary: Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GoLang Also: Express, Ruby, REST ## Platform & Architecture Primary: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Module Federation, Microservices Also: Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Kafka, Apollo Federation, Monorepo, Domain Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Event Driven Architecture ## Blockchain Primary: Solidity, Viem, Ethereum, Polygon, ZKP, Web3.js Also: Ethers.js, Wagmi, Hardhat, ConnectKit, RainbowKit, Starlight ## Languages & Testing Primary: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, GoLang, Ruby, Jest, Vitest Also: Java, Playwright --- # Writing No posts published yet. --- # Contact Email: sksohablocal@gmail.com Website: https://sohab.dev - GitHub: @ITZSHOAIB (https://github.com/ITZSHOAIB) - LinkedIn: /in/IITZSHOAIB (https://www.linkedin.com/in/IITZSHOAIB) - Twitter/X: @0xSohab (https://twitter.com/0xSohab) - YouTube: @4techloverz (https://www.youtube.com/4techloverz) - Email: sksohablocal@gmail.com (mailto:sksohablocal@gmail.com)