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Lakshay Dutt

Senior Software Engineer · Full-Stack & Growth · Next.js · React · Node.js · AWS · ex-Razorpay · Founding Engineer @ Keychain

Delhi

7+ years of work experience

Keychain
Dec 20232 yrs 9 mosPresent

Gurugram

Keychain is a venture-backed B2B marketplace digitising CPG supply chains - connecting brands, retailers, and manufacturers for sourcing, co-packing, and procurement. I joined as a founding engineer to build the platform from scratch and own the frontend end-to-end. What I've shipped: → Platform foundation — Next.js / Tailwind on AWS ECS, from zero to live contracts within months → SEO & LLM indexing infrastructure - SSR pages, dynamic sitemaps, structured data, and a crawler-optimised architecture built for both traditional search and AI-native discovery → Algolia + Typesense data layer - component-driven access model with session-level rate limiting scoped per component, preventing scraping at scale without affecting UX → AI Product Creator - prompt-driven interface integrating DALL-E, Flux, and LangFuse; contributed to a 15–20% lift in top-of-funnel sign-ups → SEM infrastructure - enabled ~10% reduction in customer acquisition cost
Razorpay
Feb 20221 yr 11 mosDec 2023

Bengaluru

Part of Razorpay's Growth team - a senior engineering squad running conversion experiments, cross-sell initiatives, and market expansion across Razorpay's web properties. → Singapore & Malaysia expansion - led the frontend engineering effort: geo-targeted landing pages, localised experiment variants, and a market-specific architecture that served both regions without codebase fragmentation → A/B experimentation - owned experiments end-to-end on Razorpay's internal platform (SPLITZ), contributing to a sustained 4–5% QoQ conversion improvement → Design system migration - drove the growth team's move to Blade (Razorpay's internal design system); independently resolved bugs by raising PRs directly against the Blade repo, keeping team velocity unblocked → Performance standards - introduced CI-level Lighthouse score enforcement, ensuring every release cleared Core Web Vitals thresholds automatically → Engineering ownership - led TRDs, owned issue triage, and coordinated cross-pod delivery for multi-team initiatives
OLX
Jul 20217 mosJan 2022

Gurugram

Built and maintained the internal field inspection application used by OLX agents during on-site vehicle evaluations. The app captured structured condition data that fed directly into OLX's automated car pricing engine. Refactored legacy frontend modules to improve component reusability, reduce rendering overhead, and increase test coverage across critical inspection workflows.
Nexgen IOT Solutions
Jan 20192 yrs 6 mosJun 2021

Gurugram

Engineering partner to ViewLift - a white-label OTT infrastructure provider powering 25+ streaming platforms across multiple countries. → Core platform ownership - media player, content detail pages, and the client configuration layer that allowed one shared codebase to power distinctly branded, regionally tuned streaming products per operator → Geo-aware payment routing - automatically surfaced Stripe for international users and local providers for Indian audiences, eliminating per-client manual setup and improving payment-step conversion → Multi-profile system - designed and built a serverless Node.js service on AWS Lambda enabling OTT users to create, lock, and switch profiles consistently across web, mobile, and TV → Activation optimisation - improved sign-up and onboarding rates through audience-specific experiment variants tailored per market

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Education

Maharshi  Dayanand University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering

Maharshi Dayanand University

20154 yrs2019
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Headline

Senior Software Engineer · Full-Stack & Growth · Next.js · React · Node.js · AWS · ex-Razorpay · Founding Engineer @ Keychain

About

I build systems that sit at the intersection of engineering and product growth - from the data and API layer through to the interfaces users interact with. My focus is on the parts of a product that directly move acquisition, activation, and conversion. Over 7 years I've worked across the full delivery lifecycle: technical architecture, backend services, frontend systems, and the experimentation and analytics infrastructure that ties them together. I gravitate toward roles where I own outcomes end-to-end, not just a slice of the stack. Most recently, I joined Keychain as a founding engineer - building a B2B marketplace for the CPG industry from scratch. I've owned the product's growth surface: SEO and LLM-indexing infrastructure, an AI Product Creator that contributed to a 15-20% lift in sign-ups, a component-driven search layer across Algolia and Typesense with session-level rate limiting, and the SEM infrastructure that helped reduce customer acquisition cost by ~10%. The backend runs across Node.js, TypeScript, and Python on AWS - and I've contributed across that stack where the product needed it. Before Keychain, I was on Razorpay's growth team - running A/B experiments, leading the engineering for Razorpay's expansion into Singapore and Malaysia, and owning cross-pod frontend delivery at scale. A few things I've been exploring recently: → Agentic development - test-driven harness engineering that guardrails AI agents during feature builds → LLM-optimised content architecture - structuring data and pages for AI-native search discovery → AI-integrated product flows - prompt-driven interfaces using generative models in production Open to senior software engineering roles - full-stack, frontend-leaning, or growth-focused. Based in Gurugram, open to remote.

Location

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AI stack

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Work experience

Founding Engineer at Keychain, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Gurugram, Keychain is a venture-backed B2B marketplace digitising CPG supply chains - connecting brands, retailers, and manufacturers for sourcing, co-packing, and procurement. I joined as a founding engineer to build the platform from scratch and own the frontend end-to-end. What I've shipped: → Platform foundation — Next.js / Tailwind on AWS ECS, from zero to live contracts within months → SEO & LLM indexing infrastructure - SSR pages, dynamic sitemaps, structured data, and a crawler-optimised architecture built for both traditional search and AI-native discovery → Algolia + Typesense data layer - component-driven access model with session-level rate limiting scoped per component, preventing scraping at scale without affecting UX → AI Product Creator - prompt-driven interface integrating DALL-E, Flux, and LangFuse; contributed to a 15–20% lift in top-of-funnel sign-ups → SEM infrastructure - enabled ~10% reduction in customer acquisition cost

Senior Frontend Engineer at Razorpay, Feb 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Part of Razorpay's Growth team - a senior engineering squad running conversion experiments, cross-sell initiatives, and market expansion across Razorpay's web properties. → Singapore & Malaysia expansion - led the frontend engineering effort: geo-targeted landing pages, localised experiment variants, and a market-specific architecture that served both regions without codebase fragmentation → A/B experimentation - owned experiments end-to-end on Razorpay's internal platform (SPLITZ), contributing to a sustained 4–5% QoQ conversion improvement → Design system migration - drove the growth team's move to Blade (Razorpay's internal design system); independently resolved bugs by raising PRs directly against the Blade repo, keeping team velocity unblocked → Performance standards - introduced CI-level Lighthouse score enforcement, ensuring every release cleared Core Web Vitals thresholds automatically → Engineering ownership - led TRDs, owned issue triage, and coordinated cross-pod delivery for multi-team initiatives

Software Engineer at OLX, Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Built and maintained the internal field inspection application used by OLX agents during on-site vehicle evaluations. The app captured structured condition data that fed directly into OLX's automated car pricing engine. Refactored legacy frontend modules to improve component reusability, reduce rendering overhead, and increase test coverage across critical inspection workflows.

Software Engineer at Nexgen IOT Solutions, Jan 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Gurugram, Engineering partner to ViewLift - a white-label OTT infrastructure provider powering 25+ streaming platforms across multiple countries. → Core platform ownership - media player, content detail pages, and the client configuration layer that allowed one shared codebase to power distinctly branded, regionally tuned streaming products per operator → Geo-aware payment routing - automatically surfaced Stripe for international users and local providers for Indian audiences, eliminating per-client manual setup and improving payment-step conversion → Multi-profile system - designed and built a serverless Node.js service on AWS Lambda enabling OTT users to create, lock, and switch profiles consistently across web, mobile, and TV → Activation optimisation - improved sign-up and onboarding rates through audience-specific experiment variants tailored per market

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Maharshi Dayanand University

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