Software Engineer @ Metalinked | Built scalable backend systems used by 15+ companies | Distributed Systems | AWS

San Francisco Bay Area

India

London Area, United Kingdom

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Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

Software Engineering Specialization, Computer Software Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Founding Full-Stack Engineer with 1.6 years of hands-on experience turning ideas into production-ready systems. Built and shipped complete products end-to-end—covering frontend, backend architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, and production operations. Experienced with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, and real-time infrastructure. I specialize in building reliable systems that scale and delivering features that directly drive user growth
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Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
Software Engineering Specialization, Computer Software Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology