10+ years of full-stack engineering, architectural therapy, and deleting unnecessary code.
I've spent a decade turning “complex” into “simple.” I like clean code, dark mode, and making sure your site doesn't crash on a Friday afternoon.
DESIGN.
BUILD.
SHIP.
Product Engineering
I take your napkin sketch and turn it into something you can actually ship — and be proud of.
- –System architecture (the kind that doesn't fall over)
- –Frontend that humans actually enjoy using
- –Backend APIs that do what they're supposed to
- –Infrastructure that stays up while you sleep
Automation
If you're doing something by hand more than twice, that's a bug — not a workflow.
- –CI/CD pipelines (deploy without sweating)
- –Data ingestion pipelines
- –Web scraping systems
- –Monitoring & alerting (so you know before users do)
Scalable Platforms
Systems that handle growth gracefully — not by duct tape and prayer.
- –Distributed APIs built for real load
- –Search platforms using ElasticSearch
- –Containerized infrastructure
CODING
SINCE
2014
That's over a decade of writing code, breaking things, fixing them, and occasionally doing it right the first time. I've worked across the full stack — from pixel-level UI decisions to infrastructure that runs quietly in the background (which is exactly how infrastructure should run).
- ⚡Turning vague ideas into actual products
- 🎨Frontend that doesn't make designers cry
- 🔧Backend services that handle real traffic
- 🔍Search infrastructure (ElasticSearch deep-dives included)
- 🤖Automating the things everyone else does manually
- ☁️Cloud deployments that aren't terrifying at 3am
THE
WORK,
UNFILTERED
Real projects. Real constraints. Real outcomes. No vague claims — just what the problem was, what I built, and what actually happened.
Rebuilding Search From Scratch
800K SKUs, 4-second searches, users abandoning. PostgreSQL full-text had hit its ceiling.
💡Lesson: Users will always misspell the one product that actually makes you money.
Automating the Ops Team Away
Six skilled people, 480 hours a month of manual API-wrangling — and the error rate that comes with it.
💡Lesson: If someone says "I just have a quick 5-minute manual task," they are lying. It takes 4 hours and breaks on weekends.
Zero to Shipped in 10 Weeks
Pre-seed healthtech, 10 weeks to a conference demo, two failed freelancers already behind them.
💡Lesson: Every "MVP" request secretly includes 40 features they definitely don't need until year three.
HOW WE
CAN WORK
TOGETHER
I don't do hourly rates. I solve specific problems. Here is what that usually looks like.
The Quick Fix
"Why is this broken?"
Code audits & architectural sanity checks.
- +Performance profiling
- +Security & debt audits
- +Architecture review
- +Post-mortem diagnostics
The Build
"Let's make it real."
From Zero to MVP in record time.
- +Full-stack development
- +System architecture
- +Database design
- +Initial CI/CD setup
- +Launch preparation
The Long Haul
"I'm basically your co-founder now."
Fractional CTO & Lead Engineering.
- +Technical leadership
- +Hiring & team building
- +Scaling infrastructure
- +Long-term roadmap planning
ACTUAL
HUMAN
FEEDBACK
Real things real people said. No NPS surveys were harmed in the making of this section.
“He wrote code so clean I actually understood it.”
“Darshan is 10% caffeine and 90% 'I told you so' — and he was right every time.”
THINGS
I WRITE
ABOUT
Lessons from the trenches. Stuff I wish someone had told me earlier. Occasionally a rant disguised as a tutorial.
GOT AN
IDEA?
LET'S BUILD.
Whether you have a half-baked idea or a fully-specced system ready to build, I'm happy to have a real conversation about it. No sales call. No deck. Just talk.
- –Building your product from scratch
- –Fixing the mess someone else left behind
- –Automating workflows that are eating your team's time
- –Scaling a system before it becomes a crisis