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Full Stack Lead ( AI Engineer )

About

Tech Lead with 13+ years of experience in Full Stack Web Development using MEAN / MERN stack, TypeScript, Python Sole engineer owning end-to-end development across backend, frontend, and AI layers. Leveraged tools like V0, Cursor and Github Copilot to 10x coding speed by this rule i.e. Prompt -> Review -> Stage -> Memory ( find it working after lots of hits and trials ) and ship scalable, production-ready features autonomously. Worked in Automated SeaFood Trade Workflow, SAAS-oriented Customer Solutions, Last Mile Delivery, EdTech, E-Commerce, OTT & IPTV Domains. Co-founded grocery delivery startup www.tazastuff.com for Chandigarh ( 2011-13 ). Able to view Solutions through the eyes of the end-user. Self-starter with a minimal amount of instructions and supervision.

Location

India

Work experience

Lead AI FullStack Engineer at Independent Consultant, May 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Remote, Project: Heidrick Connect

Lead Software Engineer at Goldfish, Dec 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos, Remote, Project: Derp, APIs, Dashboards - Spearheaded development and maintenance of a large-scale web application, managing all aspects of DevOps, CI/CD, backend, and frontend single-handedly. - Achieved significant cloud cost savings by migrating dev/staging environments from AWS to in-house infrastructure, seamlessly integrated via Cloudflare. - Replaced multiple SaaS tools with scalable open-source alternatives: Auth0 → Keycloak (OAuth2.0/SSO), NewRelic/Logz.io → Grafana, Retool → custom Next.js dashboards, Vercel → in-house CI/CD, ECR → DockerHub, S3 → DigitalOcean Spaces. - Enabled seamless organization-based login via Keycloak with SSO/SAML2.0 and social providers using Phasetwo, including custom theming and plugins. - Built a robust, low-cost CI/CD pipeline and end-to-end observability stack with dashboards, alerting, and error tracking. - Engineered high-performance data structures enabling complex multi-parameter queries (100+ fields, 15+ filters) on millions of records with sub-100ms response time. - Developed a dynamic, custom Form CMS with organizational-level control, advanced draft workflows, and analytics dashboards for submitted responses from scratch. - Designed and implemented secure enterprise-grade API support with token management and live activity tracking. - Migrated legacy REST APIs to GraphQL, improving flexibility and performance across client integrations. - Enhanced SEO performance by customizing Hubspot modules and resolving technical issues for optimal search visibility.

Lead Software Engineer at micro1, Jun 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Remote, Project: WebApp - NextJs based Salesforce Dashboard - Completed whole webapp dashboard from scratch using NextJs13 and ReactJs. - Datasheet Dashboard was created to present Salesforce Objects and complex handling using material-react-table, react-query, MUI, styled-components etc. - Created global component library using storybook, set up UT / End-End Testing using RTL and Test-Cafe. Project: WebApis - NodeJs bases SAAS project - Fixed various issues in NodeJs based microservices related to real time UI rendering and communication. - Worked on helping team to achieve scale by introducing cost effective solution, rewrite existing microservices to support fault tolerant, better performance and global handling of logs, traces and metrics and consistency in syntax and basic sanity of critical requests. - Implement solution to prevent system wide outages and ways to quickly identify and resolution of such issues based on severity of alerts

Lead Software Engineer at Point Pickup, Jun 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr, Remote, Project: PPUPV2 - NestJs based logistics services - Oversaw the complete migration of all services from the old PHP/.Net stack to the Nextjs and NestJs based distributed microservices architecture. - Integrated the Observability MLT stack (metrics, logs, and traces) using Grafana (Tempo, Loki, via Winston and Prometheus), and wrote PromQL queries to set up dashboards and alerts for various services such as gRPC, GraphQL, and HTTP and designed unified configuration library for the same using OpenTelemetry. - Set up and configured the Bitbucket pipeline for CI and CD along with UT / E2E / Load Testing, as well as various AWS services such as EKS for Kubernetes-based clusters, ECR, EC2, S3, MKS, and Elasticache, and explored Terraform configuration. - Participated in the configuration, setup, and estimation of the sizing requirement exercise for a high-performance real-time database, namely AerospikeDB.

Lead Software Engineer at Chegg Inc., Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 · 4 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, - Worked on building couple of projects from scratch https://www.chegg.com/uversity and https://www.chegg.com/flashcards - Lead various projects like Uversity for Educators / Flashcards / OneGraph / Chegg UI along with individual contributors to various initiatives, feature development, design, architecture, and mentoring. - Responsible for building complex, responsive, accessible UI components using Storybook. - Worked on establishing UI tech standards, Scalability, Internationalization, Accessibility, Web Performance, Global Components Library, Coding Standards and Guidelines, Analysis, Automation, End‐End Tests. - Maintained 100% code coverage using RTL, previously using Jest and Enzyme.

Senior Full-stack Developer at Chegg Inc., Nov 2018 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Greater Delhi Area

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.), software Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.Tech., Computer science Engineering, University Institute of Engineering and Technology