From a Delhi advertising agency writing PHP to architecting Generative AI features at India Today Group — every role, what it involved and what came out of it.
5 employers since December 2016 — the role I am in now is the one in colour.
May 2025 - Current
1.3+ Yrs
India Today Group | Aaj Tak
Present
Sr Software Engineer
Working as a Senior Developer focusing on the MERN Stack and Generative AI applications within India Today's digital and editorial platforms.
—Architecting and developing scalable web applications using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js.
—Integrating Generative AI models (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain) for content automation like article generation, AI summaries, and intelligent search.
—Building reusable and modular components for cross-platform use in editorial tools, election dashboards, and video CMS.
—Collaborating with editorial and product teams to deploy AI-powered features that improve content speed, SEO, and user engagement.
—Mentoring junior developers and maintaining best practices in performance, accessibility, and secure development.
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 (Mar 2024 - May 2025) · Humanize (Jun 2023 - Mar 2024) · SYNQY Corporation (2019 - Jun 2023) · Ceekr (2017 - 2019)
Dec 2016 - May 2017
5 Months
Phoenix Media Pvt. Ltd
Software Engineer
Phoenix group is a complete advertising agency offering a full suite of marketing services for progressive businesses globally.
—Explored a wide range of projects and learned from experienced professionals in the field.
—Developed an e-commerce platform for a client, learning effective team collaboration and clean code practices.
Projects
MLRS
In-house Product
Worked on MLRS — an internal marketing and lead management system for Phoenix Media's advertising clients.
PHPMySQLJavaScriptHTMLCSS
Training — 6 months
6 Months
Galaxy Tourism Pvt. Ltd
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.
—PHP server-side development leveraging frameworks such as CodeIgniter and CakePHP.
—Database design and management using MySQL with optimization and security.
—JavaScript for dynamic and interactive user interfaces.
—Modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries for responsive frontend applications.
Projects
Tour & Package Management System
Internal Tool
Built an internal tool to manage tour packages, hotel reservations, sightseeing itineraries, and booking workflows for Dubai, Singapore, and Malaysia destinations.
HTMLCSSPHPMySQLjQueryJavaScript
2024 - 2025
1.2 Yrs
Own Products
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.
Projects
VTechXHub
Own Product · Live
Content publishing platform for guest posts, quality articles, and SEO-driven distribution. Owning this product end-to-end — built contributor workflows, SEO optimization, and content management.
Think4BuySale
Own Product · Live
Real estate platform with property listing, advanced search, filtering, and management dashboards for buyers and sellers.
React.jsNext.jsNode.jsMongoDBSEO
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
Node.jsReactRedis pub/subSSE
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
ReactNode.jsOpenAIElevenLabs
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
AngularNode.jsMySQLAWS
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
