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Jan 2025 - Present

Full-time · Remote · Chennai, India

Own the backend and cloud infrastructure behind StejasSYS's product lines, from a production ride-hailing platform to an AI hotel-sales agent.

• Architected and built the NestJS backend for Zion Taxi, an in-house ride-hailing product live with 300+ drivers, owning module boundaries, the fare-pricing strategy, caching design, and the RBAC permission model end to end.
• Implemented the platform's transactional core: Razorpay integration, commission and ledger settlement, and rider debt/balance resolution.
• Wrote and maintain the platform's test suite in Jest — 231 backend and 57 frontend spec files, roughly 3,700 cases covering payments, access control, fare pricing, PII masking, and realtime gateways.
• Built the conversation orchestration core and pgvector-backed retrieval for Innkraft's AI hotel sales agent, a LangChain/LangGraph assistant handling guest bookings over WhatsApp and Telegram for around five hotel clients.
• Own the company's cloud infrastructure: GCP IAM policies, load balancers, CDNs, and secret management across every product line.
• Replaced a manual multi-step deploy with a Bash automation that pulls a versioned image from Artifact Registry, updates the Compose service, and restarts affected containers.

Jul 2024 - Dec 2024

Part-time · Remote · Chennai, India

Joined part-time to move the team off low-code tooling and onto custom-built Next.js applications.

• Built full-stack features with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Payload CMS, leading the transition away from Wix.
• Implemented static generation with on-demand ISR and CMS webhooks so content changes propagated without a redeploy.
• Diagnosed and fixed a major performance bottleneck, cutting page load from 15s to 1-2s by fixing image handling and removing unnecessary prefetching.
• Reduced Docker image bloat with multi-stage builds, improving build and deploy speed.

Sep 2023 - Present

Contract · Remote · Mumbai, India

Build and run custom web products for finance and tech clients under the One21.ai umbrella, mostly serving chartered-accountant workflows.

• Shipped multiple production platforms including MCA Tech (company intelligence across 2.6M+ companies), CAGPT (AI guidance on tax and compliance), and Snapshot (funding and company analytics).
• Led the move from no-code hosting to custom Next.js deployments on Vercel, cutting recurring hosting costs.
• Delivered CMS-driven builds on Sanity, Payload, and Directus so non-technical teams could manage their own content.
• Scaled backends across AWS, Supabase, and Vercel, including load balancing, S3 storage, and CloudFront delivery.

Jul 2023 - Mar 2024

Internship · Remote · Chennai, India

Led development of a content-creation tool from research through deployment.

• Built the web application with TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Auth0, Node.js, and Express.
• Implemented FFmpeg for server-side video rendering, the product's core capability.
• Worked hands-on with AWS S3 and EC2 through to launch.

Apr 2023 - Sep 2023

Part-time · Hybrid · Chennai, India

Built the clinic's first website and handed content control to its staff.

• Built the responsive site from scratch, establishing the clinic's online presence.
• Integrated Sanity CMS so staff could update content without developer involvement.
• Added Tamil and Hindi localization alongside English, widening local reach.
• Contributed to a roughly 30% increase in clinic visits, alongside a concurrent paid-ads push.

Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

Part-time · Hybrid · Chennai, India

Built the interface for a neural-network model running on PYNQ Z-Series hardware, later filed as a patent application.

• Built a custom UI in React, TypeScript, and Axios to make the model usable by non-engineers.
• Worked with hardware engineers and medical professionals to integrate the interface with the underlying hardware.
• Implemented secure Ngrok tunnelling to route traffic reliably despite hardware limits.
• Work contributed to patent application 202341063203, "A System and Method for Deep Learning Based Breast Cancer Classification", filed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology.

May 2022 - Jul 2022

Internship · On-site · Chennai, India

Built user-facing interfaces for a SaaS product.

• Built interfaces for a SaaS product with React.js and Material UI.
• Worked with designers and product managers to turn requirements into shipped features.
• Optimized performance to cut server bandwidth during concurrent logins, improving load times and scalability.

Feb 2023 - Sep 2023

Volunteer · Hybrid · Chennai, India

Led the Computer Society, running its technical programme and mentoring its members.

• Led a group of 50+ developers and AI/ML learners, running the society's technical programme.
• Brought in industry practitioners to shape how advanced AI/ML techniques were applied in the society's projects.
• Directed several internal projects that gave members production-style delivery experience.

May 2022 - Feb 2023

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Ran the web and app domain, leading both its people and its event delivery.

• Led a team of 25+ developers across the domain's project work.
• Owned the technical delivery of 4+ events, including building the event sites and handling registration flows.

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Ran the domain's workshop programme and contributed to its internal platform.

• Delivered workshops covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Git, and MySQL.
• Mentored 10+ developers through full-stack fundamentals.
• Contributed to an internal platform serving 200+ community members.

Jan 2021 - Sep 2021

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Contributed to the branch's project work while building web development fundamentals.

• Contributed to club projects across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Built a full-stack social media application with Node.js, Express, and MySQL.

Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

Volunteer · Hybrid · Chennai, India

Led the full-stack team and opened up internship routes for its members.

• Led a team of 40+ developers through full-stack fundamentals and advanced work.
• Coordinated weekly with other domain leads on shared goals and delivery.
• Partnered with Codelance Devs to open internship opportunities for the team.

Feb 2022 - Oct 2022

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Led the web domain and delivered its in-house community platform.

• Led 10 developers through full-stack web development.
• Delivered "Atom", an in-house platform used by 200+ community members, managing the team and milestones.
• Ran workshops on frontend, backend, and version control with Git and GitHub.

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Ran web development workshops and mentored new members of the domain.

• Delivered workshops across HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Git, GitHub, and MySQL.
• Mentored 10+ developers through full-stack fundamentals.
• Contributed to an internal platform serving a 200+ member community.

Jan 2022 - Jul 2022

Volunteer · On-site · Chennai, India

Restored the campus app's data pipeline after an extended outage.

• Diagnosed and fixed the mobile app's web scraper after an extended outage.
• Restored access to campus information for 3,000+ students at SRM KTR.