Full-stack engineerBased in India · Open to remote

Jatin Shrivastav

Full-Stack Engineer who likes shipping calm, fast software.

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Years shipping6
Projects in prod20+
Tea / day3
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About — Adapt, Improvise, Overcome.

The best code I've ever written didn't just pass tests — it changed someone's life.

Like a lot of developers, my journey started with YouTube. Binge-watching channels like Linus Tech Tips sparked an early obsession with computer hardware, which eventually led me down the rabbit hole of software development. Honestly, I consider myself incredibly lucky to have known exactly what I wanted to do since I was young.

But I'm a strong believer that life happens outside the 9-to-5. There is no ceiling on professional excellence, but personal milestones—whether it's quitting tobacco, getting married, or raising a family—deserve the same level of celebration. The choices we make in our personal lives fuel our work, and vice-versa; you can't separate the two.

That's why I have such a knack for solving problems outside of my day job. There is a unique kind of joy in writing a piece of software that automates a headache away for someone, or brings a massive positive shift to their daily routine. Those are the moments and rewards you'll never find written on a CV.

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SolitudeSolving Real World ProblemsAutomating Boring and Repetitive TasksIntegrityHonesty

Daily stack

TypeScriptReactNode.jsGoPostgresRedisAWSDockerTailwindtRPC
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Selected work

Open-source mostly. A couple of closed pieces I can talk about over a call.

Live
2026

Dialogue Detective

A semantic search engine for TV show dialogue — find the exact episode and timestamp where a line was spoken, starting with the long-running Indian sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. Accepts natural-language (and Hinglish) queries, transliterates them to Hindi, and runs hybrid dense + sparse (BM25) vector search over an embedded transcript index to return matching moments with playable YouTube context, wrapped in a playful "case file" detective-themed UI.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptPineconeOpenAIBM25
Live ↗
GitHub
2025

Dialogue Conductor

Parses and chunks .srt subtitle files, generates dense embeddings via OpenAI (text-embedding-3-small) and sparse vectors via a locally trained BM25 model, then upserts everything into a serverless Pinecone index for hybrid semantic + keyword search over movie and TV dialogue.

PythonPineconeOpenAIBM25
GitHub ↗
Closed
2026

BiteBalance

Food Debt Tracker is a full-stack nutritional platform that translates caloric intake into real-world physical effort, known as "Metabolic Debt." Built with NestJS, React, and Prisma, it intelligently analyzes complex regional cuisines and tracks long-term dietary health risks using time-series data.

TypeScriptReactViteNest.jsTypeORMPostgreSQL
Case study
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Journey so far

From a curious teenager with a busted ThinkPad to shipping production systems.

2026 — Present

Independent Contractor

Independent · Remote

Provide full-stack development and technical consultancy services to clients, architecting and delivering scalable web applications.

Full-Stack DevelopmentConsultancyTypeScriptNode.jsReactNext.jsNest.jsKafka
Jan 2024 — Jul 2025

Software Engineer

Cloudify · Remote

Architected an interactive visual workflow builder using ReactFlow for drag-and-drop webhook routing. Built a workflow versioning system using AWS Lambda and SST for safe rollbacks, reducing data corruption and rerun capability for users.

ReactFlowAWS LambdaSSTDrizzle ORMNext.jsTypeScript
Aug 2023 — Nov 2023

Software Engineer (Contract)

Orah · Remote

Led a zero-downtime legacy JavaScript to strict TypeScript migration. Built distributed rate-limiting systems handling 10k+ concurrent requests and optimized complex MySQL queries.

TypeScriptNode.jsMySQLOOP
Nov 2022 — Aug 2023

Software Engineer

Fibonalabs / Arzooo · Bengaluru

Engineered a scalable Kafka messaging pipeline to sync critical business data across MongoDB, MySQL, and SAP. Modernized monolithic modules utilizing strict TypeScript and OOP, reducing the codebase footprint by 27%.

Node.jsMongoDBKafkaTypeScriptDocker
Jan 2021 — Oct 2022

Software Engineer

Cloudify · New Delhi / Copenhagen

Integrated Stripe-based billing workflows supporting high payment volumes. Improved development experience by standardizing trunk-based Git collaboration. Secured infrastructure with strict API gatekeepers and RBAC.

Vue.jsNode.jsGoogle Cloud PlatformFirebaseTypeScript
2017 — 2021

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University · Lucknow

Completed Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering. Secured 8.2 GPA

Data Structures and AlgorithmsC++Computer Science
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Recent writing

Notes on things I figured out — usually after the third try.

ToolsJun 2026· 7 min read

How Neovim changed the way I build software

I switched to Neovim and it changed how I work. Not because of fancy shortcuts, but because the editor stopped getting in my way.

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Say hi

I read every message. I reply to most of them within a day.