Gaurav Pandey

Tech enthusiast, loves envisioning and building tech products.

Works as Software Engineer, Based in Mumbai, India ,
🛫 Love to Travel, explore and discover!

Last Updated: @March 30, 2023

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Key Traits

Building products that works really well.

Fast, Reliable, and Efficient Team player.

Focus on speed, scalability, and security with automation in mind.

Deep design (UI/UX) understanding.

Summary

Entrepreneurial mindset, explorer, and driven by solving real-world problems. I carry a sense of engineering products around the necessity. With my design wit, I love building products around human experiences. A self-taught programmer. Worked with some of the very ambitious startups and small/mid-sized businesses around the world. I love to build effective engineering processes with a strong belief in collaborative work.In my spare time, I'm interested in learning about business, binge-watch Netflix, and planning for my next hiking trip.

Front-end Development Advanced HTML/CSS/JS. React.js and Next.js are key skills. Exposure to various Frontend - JS and CSS Frameworks and Templating systems. Experience with SCSS/SASS and Tailwind. Focus on scalable, maintaianble and quality code.

Back-end Development Intermediate Expertise in Node.js. Advanced Wordpress Development with customization. Worked with RESTful APIs, GraphQL. Familiar with Microservices, Monolithic and modular architecture.

Product Design, UI/UX Started out my career in UI and UX. Still carrying a strong design sense that revolves around creating the best application experiences for end users.

Other Stuff... As a part of cross-functional teams, I have contributed to brainstorming, building lean processes, user research, Competitive Landscape, Roadmap, Marketing, GTM Strategy, and Hiring.

Tech Stacks, Tools & Libraries

Front-end Stacks (Major Expertise)

React.js and Next.js

Other JS libraries/frameworks

TypeScript

HTML/CSS (HTML templating and CSS Preprocessors)

Mobile App - React Native, Ionic (using React)

Back-end Stacks Worked with

Node.js

Php (Core)

Databases - MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB

In-Memory DB - Redis

Cloud & DevOps

AWS - EC2, EBS, S3 Storage, Cloudfront, Route53, ACM, Amplify, AWS backup, RDS. Automation using Hashicorp Terraform and Packer.

Docker, Kubernetes (basic), Gitops/Devops (ArgoCD), Jenkins, Github Actions

GCP and its js libraries for Maps and YouTube, G-Suite APIs

Server Monitoring - Grafana, Logging - LogRocket, Sentry, New Relic, PaperTrail,

Vercel, Netlify, DigitalOcean, Heroku

Management/Collab Tools Familiarity

Docs - Markdown/MDX, Storybook & JSDocs. Swagger Docs (Open API)

Wikis/KB - GitHub Wikis, Atlassian Confluence. Issues - Zira. Communication - Slack, Trello, Asana

Analytics & BI Tool - UXCam, MetaBase, Google Analytics

NoCode Tools/CMS - Directus, Appsmith, Airtable, Webflow, Strapi, Notion

Major Work & Experiences

2023-2024

Working for a SaaS startup - Thera (YC S22), Developing the front-end of Thera Web Platform . My role involves architecting the front-end, and building team and processes.

2022

Worked for a healthcare startup - Medblocks, helped in integrations of Govt of India driven health unification program - ABDM with their tech stack. Contributed to GitOps and DevOps.

Tried building a healthcare product - Oculiv, aimed at enabling seamless and real-time collaborations for healthcare professionals. Struggled with data interoperability and market adoption.

2021

Senior Software Engineer @ Clipboard Health, California, USA (Remote Work)Healthcare staffing solutions. https://clipboardhealth.com/

Full-stack development, improving product, feature enhancement, bug fixing, reporting, linting, testing implementation.

Contributed to multiple apps in a microservices arch built using React.js, Next.js, Ionic, Node.js, and MongoDB. DevOps - Heroku, GitHub, Jenkins. Reporting and Monitoring with Grafana, Papertrail, New Relic. No-Code tools. Implementation of Stripe Payment Gateway.

Developed internal communication and monitoring tools for the company owners using G-Suite and Slack APIs to monitor teams across product and engineering.

2015 - Present

Freelanced remotely as a software developer and consultant for multiple businesses. List of Freelance Projects -

In 2022, Built 2 Mobile apps using React Native while freelancing. The first one was an MVP for a Personal Finance Management app using RBI’s Account Aggregator APIs (Similar to Open Banking APIs). Later on, built a Healthcare Communication App for Doctors & Hospitals.

2020

Front-end Architect @ AccessGate Labs, Mumbai, IndiaSolutions for enterprises. https://accessgatelabs.com/

Providing technical consultancy to enterprises for app development and business process automation.

CrossTower - Developed web-based internal dashboards for CrossTower (Crypto Exchange based out of New York) so that the CrossTower team could see and visualize trade reports and snapshots, users’ trade history, and trade symbols prices.

Aavejak - Single-handedly built the entire front-ends for the Aavejak platform - an RBF platform based out of Mumbai, India. The project covered a website and 3 dashboards - one for each Admin, Investor, and Startups. The entire Platform was built on the Next.js Framework of React and written in typescript. Implemented Redux, component sharing, Headless CMS, RESTful APIs consumption, PWA, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and deployed as serverless applications.

2019

Frontend & Product @ The Confront, New Delhi, IndiaNew and Media Platform.

Envisioned the future of news as an independent news platform with the best of modern technologies.

Prototyped the concept. Click here to see the prototype.

Investigative and unbiased storytelling platform with news timeline. Developed website, and initiated crowd-funding.

2018

Full-stack Developer (Front-end heavy) @ Yellow Slice, Mumbai, Indiahttps://www.yellowslice.in/

Developing front-end & websites for yellowslice clientele. Guided the junior developers and interns on the basics of the web. Tech stacks - Php, HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery, MySQL. Implemented heavy animations using Three.js, GSAP, ScrollMagic

2017

UI/UX Research & Epilen Talent @ Epilen HealthCare, New Delhi, India

Website Development. Brand Visualization that cares for human. Designing screens for Patient & Doctor Android application. Screening & hiring talents for the company.

2016

Building Larnic @ Larnic, New Delhi, IndiaEd-Tech Platform.

Larnic was an online platform envisioned to connect students and experts together and nurture students’ interest and passion to learn by providing personalized resources.

Qualified screening for Nasscom 10,000 startups.