May 2025 - Current
1.3+ Yrs
Senior Software Engineer · MERN & Generative AINew Delhi, India · Remote friendly
Software that holds under load. 9+ years of MERN and Generative AI in production.
9+ years of production engineering — MERN, Next.js and TypeScript on the surface, Generative AI and real-time architecture underneath. Currently building editorial and election platforms at India Today Group (Aaj Tak), and running four products of my own.
9+ yrs
In production
Millions
Daily users served
17+
Products shipped
4
Products I own
Currently
India Today Group | Aaj Tak
Sr Software Engineer · May 2025 →
Editorial AI tooling, election dashboards and video CMS components — OpenAI and LangChain for automation, MERN underneath.
Career
Where the work has been.
Sep 2017 - May 20257.7 Yrs
Sr Software Engineer
Instant Systems Inc is a unique software product incubator that helps ambitious start-ups with building of innovative products and passionate teams around the world, along with fund raising and back-office support.
Products & clients — Clove Dental · Humanize · SYNQY Corporation · Ceekr
Dec 2016 - May 20175 Months
Software Engineer
Phoenix group is a complete advertising agency offering a full suite of marketing services for progressive businesses globally.
Training — 6 months6 Months
Web Developer (Training)
Galaxy Tourism is a leading B2B Destination Management Company (DMC) offering hotel reservations, sightseeing and adventure tours for Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia.
2024 - 20251.2 Yrs
Full Stack Developer & Product Owner
Building and maintaining personal products and independent projects alongside full-time work to continuously learn and grow with new technologies.
Selected work
Shipped for employers and clients.
Seventeen products across news media, healthcare, real estate and adtech. A few with numbers attached.
ProjectWhat it didResult
Live election dashboard
India Today Group | Aaj Tak · 2024–25
Middleware that ingests results feeds from multiple sources, normalises them and publishes to editorial CMS platforms in real time, with a canvas-rendered constituency map on the front end.
Live results delivered to millions of daily users through election night, without a stall
AI podcast generation platform
India Today Group | Aaj Tak · 2025
Turns written news articles into podcast-ready audio — article processing, structured prompting, AI voice synthesis and an editorial dashboard to manage generation.
Cut podcast production time by roughly 80%
Patient relationship management
Clove Dental (via Instant Systems) · 2024–25
Internal PRM handling appointments, follow-ups and clinic-level analytics, built as modular services with REST APIs for the clinical front end.
In use across 500+ clinics and 1,200+ practitioners
VisitVideo and audio meeting platform
Humanize · 2023–24
Zoom-style real-time video and audio calling with screen sharing and meeting management, on a scalable signalling and media layer.
Real-time calling shipped end to end
VisitEnhanced product listing analytics
SYNQY Corporation · 2019–23
Analytics and business-intelligence dashboards for a retail media product — serverless backends, interactive visualisation and live metrics.
Four years owning the reporting stack
VisitTech Blogs
Writing on React, AI & Architecture
Deep dives into production engineering, Generative AI, and the MERN stack — from the front lines at India Today Group.
Learn how to optimise your Claude Code sessions for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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Products I own end to end
4 products of my own — product, architecture, engineering and SEO, all mine.
PlanToday.in
LiveIndia's AI-powered wedding & event vendor marketplace
PlanToday.in is a hyperlocal, AI-powered discovery and lead marketplace for weddings and events across India. Couples and event hosts describe what they need in plain English or Hinglish — “wedding photographer in Noida under 50k” — and an NLP intent parser turns that into a structured, budget-aware vendor search. Vendors get a self-serve profile, a lead inbox, and a token wallet they spend to unlock enquiries.
TrendMeToday.com
LiveReal-time trend intelligence — what India is talking about, and why
TrendMeToday tracks what India is actually talking about and scores it. An ingestion pipeline reads publisher RSS every ~15 minutes, clusters related coverage into a single story, and computes a 0–100 heat score from how many outlets are covering it, how fast they are publishing, and whether that momentum is rising or cooling. Every number on the site is measured, and every claim links back to the named outlet that reported it.
Think4BuySale
LiveReal-estate marketplace for buyers, sellers and brokers
Real estate platform with property listing, advanced search, and management for buyers and sellers.
VTechXHub.com
LiveSEO-driven content publishing and guest-post platform
Platform for managing guest posts, high-quality content publishing, and SEO-driven article distribution. Owning this product end-to-end.
Capabilities
What I actually work with.
Front end
React.js · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript (ES6+) · Angular · Redux / Saga · Tailwind CSS · HTML5 & CSS3
Back end
Node.js · Express.js · NestJS · REST APIs · Serverless · Microservices · WebSocket & SSE · PHP
Data
MongoDB (incl. Atlas Vector Search) · MySQL · DynamoDB · Redis · aggregation pipelines · caching strategy
AI engineering
OpenAI / GPT · LangChain · RAG pipelines · embeddings & semantic search · content and voice automation
Cloud & delivery
AWS (Solutions Architect Associate coursework) · Docker · CI/CD · Git · Linux · Agile / Scrum
Recommendations
From people who shipped with me.
“Hard Working, Intelligent, Committed, Sharp and an Excellent team player are just a couple of words that can aptly describe Deepak. I worked with him for almost 3 years on the same project. He is technically very sound, always ready to learn new things, accept new challenges and the best part about him is that he alway…”
“We did a lot together and Deepak is really very talented, he learns new technology quickly and is very hard working. I felt very good after working with him, he is a person of very good personality.”
Education & certification
Credentials.
Degrees
MCA — Master of Computer Applications
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) · Jun 2023 - in progress
Graduate — University of Delhi (DU)
Bachelor in Commerce
University of Delhi · Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
Diploma / Jr Engineering
Computer Science / IT
Board of Technical Education (BTE) · Jun 2013 - Aug 2016
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate — coursework
Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 (course completion) · Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
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Straight answers
What recruiters and clients ask first.
Deepak Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Delhi, India, with 9+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications and AI-powered products. He currently works at India Today Group, building MERN-stack and Generative AI solutions for editorial and digital platforms.
Deepak Kumar has 9+ years of professional software engineering experience (since December 2016), spanning 7+ companies including India Today Group, Clove Dental, Humanize, SYNQY Corporation, and Ceekr.
Deepak specializes in the MERN stack — MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js — along with Next.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript (ES6+). On the AI side he works with OpenAI, LangChain, and RAG systems. He also has hands-on experience with AWS (Solutions Architect Associate coursework), Docker, MySQL, Redis, and microservices architecture.
Yes. Deepak Kumar is open to new opportunities, including senior full-stack roles, AI/ML engineering, freelance, and remote work. You can reach him through the contact form on this site, or via email and LinkedIn.
At India Today Group, Deepak builds Generative AI features such as automated article generation, AI summaries, and intelligent semantic search using OpenAI and LangChain. He has built production RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and AI-powered editorial automation tools.
Deepak has delivered 15+ products including AI editorial tools, real-time election dashboards serving millions of daily users, a Patient Relationship Management system used across Clove Dental clinics, video communication platforms, and SaaS analytics dashboards. He also builds and owns independent products end-to-end — PlanToday.in (AI-powered wedding and event marketplace), TrendMeToday.com (real-time trend intelligence with heat scoring), VTechXHub.com (SEO content platform) and Think4BuySale (real estate marketplace).
Deepak Kumar is based in New Delhi, India, and is available for both on-site roles in Delhi NCR and fully remote opportunities worldwide.
PlanToday.in is an AI-powered wedding and event vendor marketplace for India, built and owned end-to-end by Deepak Kumar. It lets couples and event hosts search in plain English or Hinglish — for example “wedding photographer in Noida under 50k” — and returns budget-aware, hyperlocal vendor matches across Indian cities. It is built on Next.js, NestJS, MySQL and Redis, with an NLP intent parser, an AI event-budget planner, a vendor lead CRM and a token-credit economy.
TrendMeToday.com is a real-time trend intelligence platform built by Deepak Kumar that tracks what India is talking about and scores each story 0–100 on a “heat” scale. A Python/FastAPI pipeline ingests publisher RSS roughly every 15 minutes, clusters related coverage into a single tracked story, and computes momentum from outlet coverage volume and publishing velocity. Every trend lists the named outlets reporting it, across five verticals — India, Entertainment, Sports, Money and Tech.
Yes. Deepak Kumar owns and operates four independent products end-to-end: PlanToday.in (an AI-powered wedding and event vendor marketplace), TrendMeToday.com (a real-time trend intelligence platform with momentum-based heat scoring), VTechXHub.com (an SEO-driven content publishing platform) and Think4BuySale (a real-estate marketplace, currently on its development build). He handles product, architecture, engineering and SEO on all four.
Deepak combines 9+ years of full-stack expertise with hands-on Generative AI engineering, a track record of shipping products at national news scale, and proven leadership mentoring junior developers. He delivers clean, maintainable architecture and measurable business impact.
Hiring, or need something built?
Open to senior full-stack and AI engineering roles, and to focused contract work. Delhi NCR or fully remote. I reply within 24 hours.
What I take on
Full-stack product build
React, Next.js, Node, NestJS, MongoDB and MySQL — from idea to production.
AI features that ship
OpenAI and LangChain, RAG, semantic search, content and voice automation.
Architecture and scale
Microservices, real-time pipelines and caching — proven at national news scale.
Founding engineer work
Idea to MVP to scale, with SEO and analytics built in from the start.