# Vinu Balagopal A P

> Vinu Balagopal A P is a founder and product engineer from Kerala, India, shipping 0→1 products across FinTech, EdTech, and analytics. Currently building FillWire.

- Role: Founder & Product Engineer
- Currently building: [FillWire](https://fillwire.com)
- Location: Kerala, India
- Email: vinubalagopalap@gmail.com
- Website: https://vinu.world/
- Education: B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, KMCT College of Engineering, Kozhikode (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University)

## Highlights

- 47,000+ Students in Community
- 250+ Partner Organisations
- 9,400 Startup Ideas in 3 Months
- 200+ Community Events

## Projects

### FillWire

Trading Platform · Execution · Current Focus. Strategy execution and multi-account trade copier platform, combining an in-house multi-asset strategy desk, trade mirroring across connected accounts, and a pre-broker risk firewall (The Gate). Supports MT5, cTrader, BlackArrow, and JustMarkets.

Tech: Execution Engine, Trade Copier, Risk Management, MT5 / cTrader
- [Visit FillWire](https://fillwire.com)

### Toastlytics

FinTech · AI Trading Journal. AI-powered trading journal and risk intelligence platform, built solo end to end: a FastAPI analytics backend with MT5 report ingestion, chart OCR, and candle pattern analysis; a Next.js trader dashboard with behavioural analytics, equity curves, the proprietary Toast Score, an AI coach, and a crypto backtest workspace on live Binance data; and an Astro marketing site with 164 articles, 78 localized SEO pages, and 6 trading calculators.

Tech: FastAPI, Next.js, Supabase, Astro, Python
- [Explore Toastlytics](https://toastlytics.com)

### ClaudForge

Developer Tools · CLI & PyPI. Terminal-native, CI/CD-style deployment manager for Claude.ai Skills. Turns skill publishing from a manual zip-and-click ritual into a terminal workflow: package, validate, upload, track, roll back, and clean up skills at scale, with self-healing browser automation, profile persistence, and rollback snapshots.

Tech: Python, Playwright, Browser Automation, CLI, PyPI
- [Website](https://claudforge.vercel.app/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/VinuBalagopalAP/claudforge)
- [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/claudforge/)

### Bex DR / IDR

Trading Technology · Pine Script v6. Professional Defining Range (DR) and Initial Defining Range (IDR) indicator in Pine Script v6 for session-based traders. Features dynamic STD expansion levels, automatic DR body break detection, candle breakout highlighting, and multi-session tracking across Regular, After-hours, and Overnight sessions.

Tech: Pine Script v6, TradingView, Defining Range, Session Levels
- [TradingView Script](https://in.tradingview.com/script/E7r5U0OM-Bex-DR/)

### Bex KillZones & Sessions

Market Microstructure · Pine Script v6. Lightweight institutional session indicator built for ICT and Smart Money Concepts traders. Automatically tracks dynamic session highs & lows, real-time ranges, and institutional Kill Zones (Asia, London, New York AM/PM) with zero external dependencies.

Tech: Pine Script v6, TradingView, Kill Zones, ICT / SMC
- [TradingView Script](https://in.tradingview.com/script/QyLjO7cS-Bex-KillZones-Sessions/)

### KOA Online & Me Chef

Mobile Apps · Official Association Apps. Official apps for the Kerala Olympic Association and the Federation of Kerala Hotel Association (FKHA), built on a shared feature architecture. Both stream live Facebook and YouTube feeds, with a custom Node.js backend powering targeted push notifications to all users.

Tech: Flutter, Dart, Firebase Push Notifications, Node.js

### Metfie

Mobile App · Dating & Social Discovery. Dating and social discovery app: browse people by interests, location, and age group, get mutual-match notifications through Firebase, and chat, audio call, or video call through the Agora SDK.

Tech: Flutter, Dart, Firebase, Agora SDK

## Experience

### Founder — FillWire (2026 – Present)

Building FillWire, a strategy execution and multi-account trade copier platform: an in-house multi-asset strategy desk, trade mirroring across connected accounts, and a pre-broker risk firewall (The Gate), with support for MT5, cTrader, BlackArrow, and JustMarkets.

### Founder & Research Engineer — Toastlytics (Aug 2025 · Paused)

Built Toastlytics solo across a FastAPI analytics backend with multi-tenant Supabase/Postgres and row-level security, a Next.js trader dashboard, an Astro SEO content engine, and an internal ops workspace with Kanban tasks, version history, RBAC, realtime notifications, and offline PWA sync. Also published the Bex DR and Bex KillZones & Sessions indicators on TradingView.

### Product Manager — DEIENAMI (Feb 2025 – Jul 2025)

Owned product strategy across medical SaaS, physical products, and B2B software, leading client engagement and go-to-market execution. Helped an FMCG client turn a debt position into profit within 3–4 months by identifying the right retail locations and distribution channels and introducing new consumable product lines.

### Product Engineer — Appxiom (Jul 2023 – Sep 2024)

Benchmarked app analytics tools globally to define Appxiom's positioning, then designed a goal-based analytics approach that maps engineering data directly to business outcomes, cutting the hours CEOs, CPOs, and PMs spent configuring and interpreting dashboards. Drove roadmapping and UX design thinking, and contributed to the lightweight mobile performance monitoring SDK at Appxiom's core.

### Fellow – Technology Evangelization / Program Associate — GTech μLearn (Jan 2022 – Jun 2023)

Scaled the μLearn student community to 47,000+ students and 250+ partner organisations across Kerala. Led a campaign that grew the student startup pipeline from 20 ideas to 9,400 in three months, ran statewide learning and entrepreneurship programs, and conducted a UX case study for the YIP student registration portal.

### Software Developer (Part-time Roles) — Ycorp · KAIMLY Technologies · Centrric (2021 – 2022)

Built Flutter/Dart mobile apps for booking, milk subscription, and surfing platforms: integrating APIs, migrating codebases to null-safety, and delivering UI frontends. At Centrric, built a custom QR interface package comparable to QRCode Monkey.

## Profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinubalagopalap/)
- [Twitter](https://x.com/vinubalagopalap)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@vinubalagopalap)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/VinuBalagopalAP)
- [TradingView](https://in.tradingview.com/u/vinubalagopalap/)