Portfolio — 2026

Ashish Jadhav

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Curriculum vitae

Founding Engineer at GradGuide · Full-stack Engineer

Location
Mumbai, India
Résumé
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Profile

I build products end to end — schema to shipped interface. Currently the founding engineer at GradGuide, where I own the CRM used daily by sales, counselling and admissions, and ship new internal products alongside it.

Experience

Founding Engineer · GradGuide

Sep 2026 - Present

Full-time · 1 mo · Mumbai, India

  • 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.

Next.js · tRPC · Drizzle ORM · Web Scraping · Baileys · Redis · QStash · Cloud Deployment

Software Engineer · GradGuide

May 2026 - Aug 2026

Full-time · 4 mos · Mumbai, India

  • 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.

PostgreSQL · SQL Analytics · tRPC · Drizzle ORM · WhatsApp API · Gemini AI · RBAC

Tech Intern · GradGuide

Dec 2025 - May 2026

Internship · 6 mos · Mumbai, India

  • 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.

Next.js 16 · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Drizzle ORM · TanStack Query · Optimistic UI

Full-Stack Developer · Personal & Freelance Projects

2022 - 2025

Independent · 3 yrs · Remote

  • 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.

Next.js · Node.js · Docker · AWS · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Stripe

Education

B.E. Information Technology · University of Mumbai

2022 — 2026

Coursework across software engineering, machine learning and network security, specialising in web technologies.

CGPA 8.5 / 10

Higher Secondary — Science · University of Mumbai

2020 — 2022

Focused on mathematics and physics.

Distinction

Stack

Languages
TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · SQL
Frontend
Next.js · React · Tailwind CSS · Framer Motion · TanStack Query
Backend
Node.js · tRPC · Drizzle ORM · PostgreSQL · Redis · Convex
Infrastructure
Docker · AWS ECS · NGINX · Kafka · ClickHouse · QStash

Selected projects

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