Dev Ashish

co-founder and ceo, dwij

Dev Ashish is the co-founder and ceo of dwij, the ai agent that hires engineers for startups, built by Codeclowns Technologies LLP in Gurugram.

Dev has been building software since 2018: software developer at Humonics Global (2018 to 2021), senior software development engineer at Master-O (2023), senior full-stack engineer and product architect at Codeclowns (2023 to 2024), and has been co-founder and ceo of Codeclowns Technologies LLP since 2024. Dev studied computer science at MIT University of Meghalaya.

Dev writes about hiring engineers on evidence instead of cvs: how to read a role as concepts, how to tell real experience from a good answer, and how engineers outside the usual college and company names get found for their work.

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7 october 2026 · 3 min read

how to tell if an engineer really understands idempotency

defining idempotency is easy. a duplicate payment, revealed one stage at a time, shows who has handled it in production and who has only read about it.

7 october 2026 · 4 min read

what is evidence-led hiring?

evidence-led hiring judges engineers on what they can show they understand and have done, with a source for every claim, instead of on how well a cv is written.