Founder & CTO, Behind Methods Co

Who is Ankush Shandilya?

Ankush Shandilya is the founder and CTO of Behind Methods Co, the AI-native delivery company he started and leads. For 15+ years he has built, scaled, and modernized software for founder-led SaaS and e-commerce companies, owning architecture, code, and roadmap, and staying with clients for years.

A developer who leads, and stays

Ankush is hands-on and accountable. He sets the architecture, reviews what the team ships, and is the one senior person answerable for each product. He founded Behind Methods in 2011 and has built it around a simple promise: take a small number of clients, learn their codebase deeply, and stay for the long haul. Some of those relationships are more than a decade old.

What he is known for

Modernizing the software a business already runs on, without a rewrite and without downtime. Ankush brings legacy PHP, Laravel, and WordPress systems current, safely, and now leads delivery the AI-native way: agentic AI as the primary build method, with senior human review on every change. It is the speed of a much larger team with one experienced owner accountable for the result.

Track record

PerkZilla
Fractional CTO since 2016
Owns the engineering lifecycle of a US referral-marketing SaaS, scaled to 100K+ users.
MoverWise
Technology partner since 2011
A $600 first project that became a 15-year partnership running operations for a Canadian mover across 25+ branches.
Zen Flowchart
Full-stack, 2018 to 2020
Helped a diagramming SaaS past 1.6M users and a Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day.
CoinDiscovery
Lead engineer, 2021 to 2022
Built a crypto discovery platform to 21,000+ tokens and 9M+ users before it went offline.

Where to find him

Ankush writes and shares his work on his personal site, ankushshandilya.com, where you can read more about how he works and the products he has built. He also maintains a 4.8 rating on Upwork dating back to 2011. The team he leads delivers under Behind Methods.

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