I went all the way around the company.
14 years. Engineer at sixteen. COO at twenty-eight. CTO at thirty-two, leading a 150-engineer organisation. Today, at thirty-six, running revenue at Devlyn AI, the AI-augmented engineering pod I helped found.
- Operator spine
- 14 yr
- Engineers led
- 150 +
- Builders
- 3,000 +
- Mentees
- 400 +
Alpesh Nakrani, operator biography
Started writing code at 16. Shipped first SaaS at 22. COO by 28. CTO at 32, leading a 150-engineer organisation. Today, at 36, running revenue at Devlyn AI, the AI-augmented engineering pod I helped found.
The arc is engineer → CTO → COO → CRO. Most people stop at one of those titles. I went all the way around the company because the constraint always moved. First the code. Then the team. Then the system. Now the market. The book and the curriculum are how I write down what each pass taught me, before the next one resets the page.
Founding member of LaraCopilot, production AI Laravel builder, 3,000+ builders shipping. Author of Strategies for Success, 87 pages, 12 traps that stall IT organisations between $5M and $500M. Built the Bizvel curriculum: 11 forges, 158 modules, 400+ mentees.
Working with founders, CTOs, and CROs globally, wherever they ship from. Briefed in 30 minutes, never less.
Engineer to CTO. CTO to COO. COO to CRO.
- 01Age 16 · Start
First line of code.
Self-taught into PHP. The line that started the operator arc.
- 02Age 22
Shipped first SaaS.
Production app, paying customers, lessons that no curriculum teaches. Engineering identity locked in.
- 03Age 28
COO seat.
Hiring scorecards, vendor ladders, cash-flow cadence, ops systems. The engineer learned to run the company.
- 04Age 32
CTO, 150-engineer org.
Architecture review, security review, the calls a junior engineer should not make. The operating system at scale.
- 052024
Laravel Artisan of the Day.
Laravel.com recognition for the operator work in the Laravel ecosystem. The one verified public recognition.
- 06Age 36 · Now
CRO at Devlyn AI.
Running revenue for the AI-augmented engineering pod I helped found. Senior humans on architecture. AI on scaffolding.
Four surfaces. One operator behind each.
AI-augmented engineering pods.
Running revenue end-to-end. Senior humans on architecture. AI on scaffolding. 24-hour ramp, 14-day replacement.
Production AI Laravel builder.
Plain-English prompt to deployed Laravel app. Built with the founding team; 3,000+ builders shipping today.
The IT CXO's curriculum.
11 forges. 158 video modules. Worksheets and per-forge certificates. 400+ mentees through the cohorts.
Strategies for Success.
12 traps that stall IT organisations between $5M and $500M, and the moves out. A single-weekend read.
One name in writing. Pitch the rest.
Laravel Artisan of the Day, 2024.
Recognised by Laravel.com for the operator work in the Laravel ecosystem, the public stamp behind 14 years of shipping Laravel into production at scale.
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