Janaka – React, Typescript, Next.js

AI-powered newsletter platform for automated newsletter creation, customization, and delivery.

• Lead engineering of a multi-tenant SaaS platform, developing production features across the stack using TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and third-party service integrations.
• Work directly with company leadership to translate business requirements and customer needs into technical requirements, implementation plans, timelines, and production releases.
• Own features through the complete software development lifecycle, including technical design, frontend and backend development, database changes, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Develop reusable React and Next.js components and application workflows supporting complex, interactive customer-facing experiences.
• Build server-side application functionality and APIs supporting frontend applications, background operations, external integrations, authentication, subscription management, content processing, and email delivery.
• Develop and maintain core SaaS workflows spanning user registration, workspace management, subscriptions and payments, campaign creation, newsletter generation, scheduling, email delivery, and analytics.
• Integrate third-party APIs and services for payments, transactional and marketing email delivery, AI capabilities, content retrieval, analytics, and other product functionality.
• Design long-running and asynchronous processing workflows for newsletter generation, content research, email processing, and scheduled customer activities.
• Built a conversational newsletter creation experience that guides customers through objectives, audiences, research, generation, editing, and final delivery.
• Designed AI-enabled product workflows using OpenAI and Anthropic, including structured tool execution, contextual information retrieval, generation workflows, validation, and application-level guardrails.
• Implemented a hybrid contextual retrieval approach to provide relevant customer and application information efficiently, reducing LLM-related token consumption by approximately 30%.
• Improved application performance by approximately 15% through refactoring, database/query optimization, and improvements to application architecture and code quality.
• Expanded automated tests and release validation to improve regression coverage and confidence in production deployments.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across frontend, backend, database, email processing, and third-party integrations, while coordinating technical work with co-founders and contract engineers.

Sports technology platform providing real-time sports data, betting odds, predictive analytics, and AI-driven insights for media companies, publishers, and betting operators.

• Developed and maintained full-stack application functionality supporting customer-facing interfaces and internal data-processing workflows.
• Designed and integrated RESTful APIs to provide structured backend functionality for frontend applications and downstream services.
• Built data aggregation and normalization solutions to transform information from multiple sources into consistent application-ready datasets.
• Collaborated with engineering and product stakeholders to design practical solutions for new application requirements and platform improvements.
• Refactored legacy data-processing workflows and scripts, improving execution performance by approximately 20% while making the codebase easier to maintain and extend.
• Improved reliability of data-processing pipelines through stronger validation, error handling, testing, and separation of responsibilities.
• Increased automated test coverage by more than 50% by adding unit, integration, and functional tests around critical workflows.
• Contributed to modernization of development and deployment environments, including transition of containerized workloads toward Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Investigated and resolved issues across application code, APIs, data-processing workflows, and deployment environments, and participated in code reviews.

Delivered web applications for clients across multiple industries, technologies, and business domains.

• Led a cross-functional development team and improved project delivery timelines through requirements analysis, technical planning, and solution design;
• Managed Agile delivery activities, including sprint planning, task prioritization, progress tracking, code reviews, and release coordination;
• Architected and implemented scalable back-end API components using PHP, Node.js, Laravel, Lumen, and Express.js;
• Oversaw development of responsive and interactive UI components using React.js and Vue.js;
• Spearheaded end-to-end e-commerce platform development using WordPress, CakePHP, and Nuxt.js;
• Conducted code reviews and mentored developers to improve code quality, maintainability, and adherence to engineering best practices;
• Improved team productivity by applying Agile methodologies and optimizing the software development lifecycle;
• Led CI/CD pipeline implementation using Jenkins, reducing deployment time and minimizing release errors;
• Supervised release preparation and production deployments, ensuring reliable integration and delivery.