I build the teams and platforms that stay up, scale out and cost less.

• ~86% lower monthly cloud spend, ~$14K → ~$2K (≈$144K a year)
  How

  Made every line of the bill explainable, deleted what nobody used, right-sized the rest from measured peaks, and self-hosted databases only where we could back up, restore, fail over and patch them ourselves. Uptime and latency targets didn't move.

• 45 → 5 days sales quotation turnaround
  How

  An AI order-ingestion platform: purchase orders arrive as email, Excel, PDFs and images; rules plus an LLM turn them into schema-validated data with per-field confidence; low-confidence fields go to a human review queue.

• ~90% straight-through acceptance on AI part matching
  How

  Specification extraction from manufacturing drawings, matched against the catalog, so new drawings get an automated price estimate instead of waiting on a manual one.

• 100K users at 5K-10K req/s, 99.9% uptime, sub-200ms
  How

  Event-driven, multi-tenant backend on Node.js, Go and AWS (SQS, Lambda, RDS) with asynchronous processing, caching and disaster recovery.

• 60% → 85% sprint delivery predictability
  How

  Engineering-led requirement validation before work is committed, and structured backlog refinement, so surprises surface before the sprint, not during it.

• 3 days → 1 pull request cycle time
  How

  CI quality gates and static analysis that catch the mechanical issues, plus AI-assisted review, so human reviewers spend their time on design.

• -35% production defect leakage
  How

  Automated testing standards and release-readiness criteria that every team applies the same way.

• Big Four technology audit passed, as sole technical owner, a year after a failed first one
  How

  After an independent audit failed us in 2024, I documented the workflows, wrote the technical policies and enforced least-privilege access, built so the systems produce their own evidence: pull requests, CI logs, CloudTrail and restore-drill logs. The Big Four audit the next year passed.

1. 2023 → now

   CapGrid · Gurugram

   1. Associate Director of Engineering Promoted

      Oct 2025 - now

      Lead a 20-engineer organization and own architecture, infrastructure and platform strategy for a cloud manufacturing platform: supplier collaboration, pricing automation and order lifecycle. Cloud cost -86%, a Big Four technology audit, ERPNext set up from scratch and upgraded v14 → v16, organization-wide release and observability standards, and senior engineers mentored into tech leads.

   2. Software Development Engineer 3

      Jul 2023 - Sep 2025

      Architected AI order ingestion (45 → 5 days), a multimodal ingestion engine for images, Excel and messaging, and AI part matching with ~90% straight-through acceptance. Designed the event-driven, multi-tenant backend, CI/CD and disaster recovery.

   • Node.js
   • Go
   • AWS
   • MongoDB
   • PostgreSQL
   • LLMs
   • ERPNext

2. 2022 - 2023

   Bondify · Rotterdam, NL

   1. Backend Engineer

      Aug 2022 - Jul 2023

      Moved to the Netherlands on a Highly Skilled Migrant permit. Delivered the Template.io contract-drafting engine MVP in two quarters, with REST and GraphQL APIs and over 90% automated test coverage.

   • TypeScript
   • GraphQL
   • REST
   • AWS

3. 2021 - 2022

   Jio News · Mumbai

   1. Backend Engineer

      Dec 2021 - Jul 2022

      Led the Go → Node.js (TypeScript) re-architecture in two months, for a news platform with ~5M users in 12+ languages, at sub-200ms latency. Recognized for technical architecture.

   • TypeScript
   • Go
   • PostgreSQL
   • Microservices

4. 2020 - 2021

   The Lightning Group · Mohali

   1. Software Engineer

      Aug 2020 - Nov 2021

      Moveable.uk, a multi-tenant, white-label home-moving and real-estate SaaS: tenant-isolated data, configuration-driven deployments, with a team across Canada, Dubai, Poland and India.

   • Node.js
   • React
   • Multi-tenant SaaS

5. 2018 - 2020

   Epitome Technologies · Mohali

   1. Software Engineer

      Jul 2018 - Jul 2020

      Developed Novagems, a workforce platform for security agencies, and owned its backend: GPS tracking, geofencing and automated payroll. Scheduling efficiency +70%. Sprint lead.

   • Node.js
   • Firebase
   • Event-driven

6. 2016 - 2018

   Igniva Infotech · Mohali

   1. Junior Software Engineer

      Aug 2016 - Jun 2018

      Developed a couple of food-delivery apps (React Native + Node.js REST APIs), plus healthcare and EdTech products. Best Team Project award.

   • Node.js
   • React Native
   • MongoDB

• ~5.4KDocker Hub pulls of my Node 22 base images
• ~1.1Mviews on Stack Overflow questions I answered
• Mergedfastify-rate-limit PR, reviewed by the Fastify lead maintainer

Also: database-tradeoffs-lab (measured PostgreSQL isolation-level demos), claude-local-api (Go), the multi-arch Node 22 base image, and a merged fastify-rate-limit contribution.