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Professional Summary
Software engineer with 5 years building and scaling TypeScript and Node.js services. Shipped an API rewrite that cut p95 latency 62% and owns CI/CD for a 12-engineer team.
Core Skills
Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Frameworks: React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Prisma
Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS), Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform
Practices: System design, code review, unit and integration testing, Agile/Scrum
Key Achievements
Cut p95 API latency from 840ms to 320ms by replacing N+1 queries with batched loaders.
Reduced deploy time from 22 minutes to 6 by parallelising the CI pipeline.
Mentored 3 junior engineers; all 3 promoted within 18 months.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer — Northwind Systems | 2022–Present
• Led the migration of a monolith checkout flow to 4 typed services, supporting 3x order volume with no downtime.
• Designed the PostgreSQL schema and caching layer behind a catalogue serving 400k monthly users.
• Introduced contract tests that reduced production regressions by 41% year over year.
Software Engineer — Bluepeak Labs | 2019–2022
• Built 20+ REST endpoints in Node.js powering the customer dashboard.
• Automated release notes and versioning, saving the team ~5 hours per sprint.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science — State Institute of Technology, 2019
Projects
OpenLedger — Open-source double-entry accounting library in TypeScript, 1.2k GitHub stars.
Additional
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Conference talk: 'Cheap Observability', 2024