SUMMARY
Full-stack engineer who turns ambiguous, real-world problems into deployed production systems — solo, end to end. Forward-deployed by nature: I embed in a domain, wrangle its messy data, and ship working software for real users. Over the past year I built and now operate six live civic-tech products used by thousands across Tamil Nadu — LLM/OCR pipelines, geospatial data, payments, and messaging, all in production — on top of nine years spanning enterprise client support, mobile, and full-stack engineering.
EXPERIENCE
Independent Product Builder
Self-directed
- MHC Court Pulse — real-time Madras High Court tracker; parses 200-page cause-list PDFs into live case tracking with FCM push alerts. 375+ monthly users.
- TN Outage — statewide TNEB tracker across all 45 circles; Gemini AI solves captchas and extracts announcements into geodata (625+ locations auto-mapped); Razorpay ₹11/mo WhatsApp alerts via Twilio.
- TN SHORTS — turns scanned government press releases into structured bilingual cards via Gemini multimodal OCR (445+ processed); daily digest, RSS, Google News.
- Madurai CityBus — offline-first transit PWA with crowdsourced live GPS and Tamil/English voice; 900+ MAU and 4,600+ organic clicks via SEO.
- Find A Surveyor — Play Store app (1,800+ installs, 4.8★) turning IRDAI data into an Algolia directory; recognized by National Insurance Co. Ltd.
- NammaMap — Tamil Nadu civic GIS portal with 10+ data layers for statewide spatial lookups.
Software Development Engineer III
Freightify
- Owned the mobile platform serving 50+ enterprise freight-forwarding clients; promoted twice through an org restructuring.
- Led the flagship Flutter app rebuild — ~40% faster cold start, 99.5% crash-free — while advancing ISO readiness.
- Built internal Flutter-web tooling (incl. a PDF quoting engine adopted into core workflows) that cut ~8 hrs/week of manual work per ops user.
Associate – Team Lead (IT Support)
Cognizant
- Led L2/L3 production support for EMEA enterprise clients under SLA, resolving complex live issues directly with stakeholders.
- Four performance awards; selected as an Orbit Shifter in Cognizant's top-500 early-talent program.
HOW I WORK
End-to-end ownership — design, build, deploy, and run it on-call; no hand-offs.
AI-accelerated delivery — LLM-driven build from spec to production, at high velocity.
Distribution built in — SEO via sitemaps, RSS & Google News (299K+ impressions).
Embedded & bilingual — English / Tamil; built directly for a region's users.