Full stack · Cloud · Generative AI
Software developer in India — Deepak Kumar
9+ years, seven companies, four industries and seventeen shipped products. If you are looking for a software developer in India who has run systems under genuine load rather than only in staging, this is the record.
9+ yrs
Since Dec 2016
7
Companies
AWS
Certified SA Associate
99.99%
Uptime at peak
Where the 9+ years went
December 2016 to May 2017 at Phoenix Media, building an e-commerce platform and a lead management system in PHP. September 2017 to May 2025 at Instant Systems Inc, embedded with its portfolio companies — Ceekr, SYNQY Corporation, Humanize and Clove Dental. May 2025 to now at India Today Group as a Senior Software Engineer on MERN and Generative AI.
- News media — election data pipelines, editorial AI tooling, video CMS
- Healthtech — a patient relationship system in use across 500+ dental clinics
- Adtech and retail media — analytics dashboards and serverless reporting at SYNQY
- Real-time — WebRTC video and audio meetings with screen sharing at Humanize
What I actually build
Full-stack systems in JavaScript and TypeScript: React and Next.js on the front, Node.js, Express and NestJS behind, MongoDB or MySQL underneath, Redis in front of the hot paths, and AWS around all of it. Where a feature needs a language change I use it — the TrendMeToday ingestion pipeline is Python and FastAPI because that is what the job wanted.
- Real-time delivery — Redis pub/sub, server-sent events, WebSocket, CDN-aware caching
- Generative AI — OpenAI and LangChain, RAG on MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, voice synthesis
- Cloud — AWS Solutions Architect Associate coursework, Docker, CI/CD, serverless
- SEO engineering — programmatic pages, JSON-LD, Core Web Vitals as a build budget
Working with a software developer based in India
I work from New Delhi on IST (UTC+5:30) and take on-site work across Delhi NCR or fully remote engagements worldwide. For Indian companies that means an engineer in the same timezone who can be in the room; for overseas teams it means a full overlap with Europe and a partial one with the US, plus written handovers so nothing waits a day for a reply.
Selected work
Shipped for employers and clients.
Seventeen products across news media, healthcare, real estate and adtech. A few with numbers attached.
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
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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.”
Straight answers
Hiring a software developer in India — the usual questions.
Deepak Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Delhi with 9+ years of experience across news media, healthcare, adtech and real estate. He currently builds MERN-stack and Generative AI systems at India Today Group.
React.js, Next.js, TypeScript and Angular on the front end; Node.js, Express.js and NestJS on the back end; MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB and Redis for data; AWS, Docker and CI/CD for delivery; and OpenAI, LangChain and RAG pipelines for AI features.
Both. He is open to senior full-time software engineering roles in Delhi NCR or fully remote, and separately takes focused contract engagements such as MVP builds, AI features and architecture reviews.
India Today's live election dashboard — live results to millions of daily users on counting night, fed by a Node.js ingestion pipeline over Redis pub/sub and delivered as server-sent events through the CDN.
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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.