Gaurav Pandey

About

Skills & Expertise

The stack I reach for. Most of it is what Thera and my own products run on.

Experience

Where I have worked, most recent first. Mostly fintech and healthcare, plus a few of my own companies.

• 2023 - Present

  Founding Engineer

  Thera (YC S22) · Remote

  The first engineering hire at Thera. I own the frontend for the payroll, treasury, and compliance platform, and keep type-safe contracts between the TypeScript app and the Kotlin services. We took it from zero to $2M ARR and more than 500 companies.

  Impact

  • ·Built and own the frontend for Thera's payroll, treasury and compliance platform from the first commit, with type-safe contracts against the Kotlin services so a schema change cannot silently break the UI.
  • ·Reworked the DynamoDB access patterns behind the platform with global secondary indexes, cutting API latency and lifting throughput by more than 60%.
  • ·Cut AWS and Rutter (QuickBooks sync) spend by 50% by reshaping how the platform queries and syncs accounting data.
  • ·Integrated the financial partners the product runs on: Monite and Mercoa for AP/AR, Treasury Prime for banking, Cash App and Bridge (Stripe) for wallets, and Check for US W-2 payroll.
  • ·Shipped Contractor Pro, the contractor compliance line, covering onboarding, classification and payout workflows.
  • ·Introduced platform observability with Sentry and later Datadog, and migrated deployments from Netlify to Vercel.

  Scale: Growth: 0 to $2M ARR · Adoption: 500+ global companies running payroll monthly

  Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindReactKotlinAWSVercelSentryDatadogDynamoDBRetool
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• 2022

  Software Engineer

  Medblocks · Bengaluru (Remote)

  Worked on ABDM integrations (Govt. of India health initiative) and contributed to GitOps/DevOps at Medblocks.

  Impact

  • ·Implemented ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) integrations enabling healthcare interoperability across partner hospitals and clinics.
  • ·Contributed to GitOps and DevOps: managed Kubernetes deployments and Docker workflows, streamlining deployment cycles.

  Scale: Org: 11-50 employees · HealthID integration with 5+ partners

  node.jskubernetesgitopssveltepythondockerredis
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• 2022

  Product Engineer (Freelance)

  Freelance / Personal Projects · Remote

  Built mobile MVPs and dashboards for fintech and healthcare clients while freelancing.

  Impact

  • ·Built 2 mobile apps (React Native) for fintech and healthcare clients, delivering from concept to App Store/Play Store.
  • ·Shipped an MVP personal finance management app using RBI Account Aggregator APIs (Open Banking), enabling users to aggregate multiple bank accounts into a single dashboard.
  React NativeNode.jsPythonNext.js

• 2021 - 2022

  Founder

  Oculiv · India

  Founded and built Oculiv, a real-time collaboration tool for healthcare teams: video and secure data sharing. Ran a two-month pilot with three hospitals, then hit data interoperability and adoption walls and wound it down.

  Impact

  • ·Built a real-time healthcare collaboration platform from scratch (Next.js, Node.js, AWS) supporting video conferencing and secure data sharing for medical professionals.
  • ·Owned the entire product lifecycle as solo technical founder: research, design, architecture, development, and deployment.
  • ·Ran a successful 2-month pilot with 3 hospitals in Delhi NCR and Patna.

  Scale: Pilot: 3 hospitals over 2 months · Solo technical founder: 0-to-1 product delivery

  next.jsawsnode.jsjava
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• 2021

  Senior Software Engineer

  Clipboard Health (YC W17) · Remote (California, USA)

  Full-stack engineer on a healthcare staffing platform. Shipped features across its web and mobile apps and the Node services behind them.

  Impact

  • ·Shipped full-stack features across the web and mobile apps (React, Next.js, Ionic) against Node.js and MongoDB services.
  • ·Integrated Stripe to move payments for healthcare staffing shifts.
  • ·Built and owned the production monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Papertrail, New Relic) used to catch incidents.

  Scale: Unicorn startup (valued at $1.3B) · Org: 500-1000 employees

  React.jsNext.jsIonicNode.jsMongoDBHerokuJenkinsGrafanaNew Relic
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• 2019 - 2021

  Front-end Architect

  AccessGate Labs · Mumbai, India

  Frontend architect for client builds: a revenue-based-financing platform (Aavejak) and internal trading dashboards for CrossTower.

  Impact

  • ·Single-handedly architected and built the Aavejak platform (website + 3 dashboards: Admin, Investor, Startups) using Next.js + TypeScript.
  • ·Built CrossTower exchange internal dashboards visualizing real-time trade data and trading pairs.
  • ·Established a shared component library and design system used across all platforms, accelerating feature development.
  • ·Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions for serverless applications.

  Scale: Platforms: 3 websites + 4 dashboards (sole frontend engineer) · Delivery: end-to-end architecture to deployment

  Next.jsTypeScriptReduxServerlessPWAGitHub Actions
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• 2019

  Frontend & Product

  The Confront · India

  Prototyped an independent news site with a timeline-based reading view, built the site, and ran a crowdfunding campaign for it.

  Impact

  • ·Designed and prototyped an investigative journalism platform with interactive storytelling tools and a timeline-based news experience.
  • ·Developed the website and ran a crowdfunding campaign.
  ReactNode.jsUI/UX
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• 2018 - 2019

  Full-stack Developer (Front-end heavy)

  Yellow Slice · Mumbai, India

  Developed front-ends and websites for Yellow Slice clientele and mentored junior developers and interns.

  Impact

  • ·Built marketing and product websites for the agency's clients, matching the designs closely and wiring up the interactions.
  • ·Implemented WebGL/Three.js, GSAP, and ScrollMagic animations for client marketing campaigns.
  • ·Mentored junior developers and interns, establishing frontend best practices and code review processes.
  PhpHTML/CSS/JSMySQLThree.jsGSAPScrollMagic
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• 2017

  UI/UX Research & Epilen Talent

  Epilen HealthCare · India

  Designed screens for Patient & Doctor Android applications. Handled branding and talent acquisition.

  Impact

  • ·Designed screens for Patient and Doctor Android applications, establishing the product's visual identity and interaction patterns.
  • ·Led branding efforts and talent acquisition.
  UI/UX DesignAndroid DesignBranding
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• 2016

  Co-Founder

  Larnic · India

  An online platform connecting students and experts. Qualified for NASSCOM 10,000 Startups screening.

  Impact

  • ·Built the MVP for an ed-tech platform connecting students with experts.
  • ·Qualified for NASSCOM 10,000 Startups screening.

  Scale: NASSCOM 10,000 Startups qualifier

  Vanilla Javascript / JQueryHTMLC / CSSWordpressPhPMySQL
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Selected Projects

Work at Thera, products I ship on my own, and open-source tools.

• Thera

  Founding Engineer

  Leading the frontend architecture for a unified financial operating system for global teams. Thera simplifies payroll, treasury, and compliance for remote-first companies.

  Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSReact Query+1

• DeskWell

  Creator

  A privacy-first desktop app that tracks posture, eye strain, and RSI risk from your webcam using on-device AI, turning them into three wellness scores. Everything runs offline; nothing leaves your machine.

  Tauri 2.0ReactMediaPipeSQLite

• Tweloc

  Creator

  Goals and productivity tracker, web-first: a weekly calendar view, recurring tasks, smart search, and cloud sync. Next.js on the web, with a native SwiftUI app on iOS and iPad.

  Next.jsReact 19SwiftUISupabase

• VPS Visibility

  Creator

  One dashboard for a hand-rolled VPS: joins nginx vhosts to the Docker and PM2 apps actually running behind them, flags dead vhosts and exposed ports, tracks TLS expiry and resource use, and pings Telegram on real state changes. Zero runtime dependencies: a Python stdlib collector on cron and one static HTML page.

  PythonnginxDockerPM2+1

• AI Content Scanner

  Creator

  Open-source Chrome extension that scans any webpage and flags AI-generated content (images, video, text) using C2PA, EXIF/XMP, IPTC, SynthID, and heuristic patterns. Confidence scores, source identification (DALL-E, Midjourney, etc.), and public REST API on Vercel.

  Chrome Extension (MV3)JavaScriptVercelC2PA+1

• XplorAI

  Creator

  A personal blog and digital garden exploring the intersection of technology, AI, and entrepreneurship. Built with modern web technologies.

  Next.jsMDXTailwind CSSVercel

• Oculiv

  Founder

  Real-time collaboration platform for healthcare professionals. Enabled seamless video conferencing and data sharing for medical use cases.

  Next.jsAWSNode.js

• Git for Prompts

  Creator

  Git for Prompts - Version control, review, and test LLM prompts like code

  TypeScript

• AI Code Reviewer

  Creator

  AI-powered GitHub Action for automated code review on pull requests (OpenAI / Anthropic).

  TypeScriptGitHub ActionsOpenAI APIAnthropic API

• AI Code Context

  Creator

  Developer tool for providing AI assistants with structured code context and codebase understanding.

  TypeScriptVS CodeAI/LLM

• ContextLens

  Creator

  See where your coding agent's tokens actually go: local usage analytics and setup audit for Claude Code, covering cost, prompt-cache economics, context growth, 5-hour billing windows, and which MCP servers, plugins, skills, and subagents actually get used.

  TypeScriptCLIClaude Code

• Aavejak

  Architect

  Built the entire front-end for an RBF platform including Admin, Investor, and Startup dashboards.

  Next.jsTypeScriptReduxServerless

• CrossTower Dashboards

  Developer

  Internal dashboards for a trading exchange to visualize trade reports, history, and symbol prices.

  ReactTypeScriptMaterial UI