Engineer, based in Mumbai.

Sep 2026 - Present

Founding Engineer

GradGuide

Full-time · 1 mo · Mumbai, India

Moved beyond maintaining the core CRM to independently building new products for the company.

• —Designed and shipped a job search platform for UK graduate roles — built the scraping and search pipeline end-to-end, from data collection to near real-time searchable listings.
• —Designed and launched an internal Leave Management System with multi-stage approval workflows and WhatsApp notifications, now used company-wide.
• —Built and deployed a WhatsApp bot for business intelligence on a cloud server, resolving dependency and stability issues to get it production-ready.

May 2026 - Aug 2026

Software Engineer

GradGuide

Full-time · 4 mos · Mumbai, India

Converted to full-time and took full ownership of the CRM, having built it from the ground up and scaled it into a system relied on daily by sales, counseling, and admissions teams.

• —Scaled the platform to support 50,000+ concurrent leads at 99% uptime; wrote the SQL powering funnel and performance dashboards.
• —Built a reminder system for follow-ups and counselling sessions that fires exactly on schedule and survives deploys and restarts.
• —Introduced approval steps for postponing follow-ups and changing lead priority, and fixed role-based access issues affecting cross-team visibility.
• —Integrated click-to-call logging, WhatsApp messaging, and an AI assistant for analytics queries; diagnosed and resolved production incidents.

Dec 2025 - May 2026

Tech Intern

GradGuide

Internship · 6 mos · Mumbai, India

Joined the company and learned full-stack development by contributing to the CRM from its earliest stages.

• —Helped design the Postgres schema and worked on a type-safe Next.js 16 app with a tRPC API layer, organized into 15 self-contained modules.
• —Wrote seed scripts to generate realistic leads and user data for development, testing, and demos without touching production.
• —Built core lead-tracking UI data tables, forms, and shareable URL-synced filters backed by an audit log recording every stage change.
• —Implemented optimistic UI updates so edits felt instant instead of waiting on server responses.

2022 - 2025

Full-Stack Developer

Personal & Freelance Projects

Independent · 3 yrs · Remote

Built and shipped SaaS, DevOps, and e-commerce products end-to-end while studying Information Technology.

• —Shipped ZERO | HUB, a multi-vendor storefront SaaS with subdomain provisioning and Stripe/Razorpay payments.
• —Built ZERO | DEPLOY, a container deployment platform on AWS ECS with Kafka messaging and ClickHouse analytics.
• —Delivered client and community platforms including an e-commerce marketplace and the ITSA student association portal.