GAURAV SALUJA

Panchkula

Summary

Product-minded Senior Full Stack Engineer and Technical Lead with 10 years of experience architecting, scaling, and delivering multi-tenant SaaS platforms. Expert in bridging the gap between abstract client requirements and high-performance engineering, with deep expertise in scalable full-stack development and AI integrations. Proven track record of owning the end-to-end SDLC—from conceptualizing UI/UX wireframes to implementing complex database logic and automated testing suites.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Full Stack Engineer & Product Owner

MindStrength

Remote

06.2017 - Current

Strategic enterprise learning platform with AI-assisted authoring and multi-tenant delivery.
Product Leadership: Acted as proxy Product Manager, transforming abstract client ideas into functional requirements, user flows, and wireframes; managed weekly development plans via Trello and Confluence.
Architecture & Multi-tenancy: Engineered a multi-tenant SaaS backend using NestJS and Prisma, implementing hostname-aware request context to route users to tenant-specific PostgreSQL databases.
Advanced Data Logic: Optimized complex calculations and data transformations by implementing PostgreSQL Stored Procedures, ensuring transactional integrity and high-performance data processing.
AI Authoring Pipeline: Developed a hybrid Node.js and Python (FastAPI) orchestration layer to convert PDFs into structured learning content using OpenAI APIs and vector-store integrations.
Quality Assurance: Established a comprehensive E2E testing strategy using Playwright, automating critical learner and admin journeys to maintain platform stability across frequent deployments.
Desktop Strategy: Architected a cross-platform authoring workstation using ElectronJS, enabling offline-first content creation and functionality to search and copy content across multiple client deployments.
Infrastructure & Scaling: Deployed containerized multi-service stacks behind Nginx; benchmarked and tuned system performance to achieve ~54.7k req/s using horizontal scaling and connection pooling.
Leadership: Mentored 2 junior developers, establishing engineering standards for code reviews, type-safe services using OpenAPI codegen, GraphQL codegen, and CI/CD best practices.

Full Stack Developer

uTrade

Mohali

06.2015 - 06.2017

Retail trading infrastructure and high-concurrency Fintech products.
Team Leadership: Promoted from Intern to lead a team of 5 in maintaining and improving a complex retail trading product.
Real-time Engineering: Built low-latency backend services using Node.js, Python (Django/Tornado), and RabbitMQ to handle high-frequency trading data.
Engineered a custom, byte-level data structure for socket communications, significantly reducing payload footprint and minimizing network latency during high-volume data transfers.
API Development: Developed high-performance communication layers using Apache Thrift and RESTful APIs for real-time data rendering.
Executed a full-scale migration of the mobile app from jQuery to Ionic, leveraging Cordova to replace outdated interfaces with a fluid, modern, and native-like mobile experience.
Migrated and created from scratch a complex jQuery based frontend using Angular 2.

Education

B.E. - Computer Science

Chitkara University

Punjab

06-2016

Skills

Frontend & Desktop: React, Nextjs, Angular, ElectronJS, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Apollo Client, Jotai, Turborepo, Vite, WebSockets, PWA (Service Workers)
Backend & APIs: Nodejs, NestJS, Express, Python, FastAPI, GraphQL (Apollo), REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Event-Driven Architecture, RabbitMQ, Socketio
Databases & Data Logic: PostgreSQL, Stored Procedures, MongoDB, Redis, Prisma, TypeORM, Drizzle ORM, Pgpool-II, Pinecone (Vector DB), Data Modeling

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Lambda, SES, RDS, EC2), Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx (L4, L7 Load Balancing), Serverless, Firebase, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Terraform (IaC), Vercel
Quality, Security & Observability: Playwright (E2E Testing), Jest, JWT Authentication, RBAC, Bcrypt, Argon2, OAuth 20, Prometheus & Grafana, Rate Limiting
Product & Leadership: Technical Product Management, System Design, UI/UX Wireframing (Figma/Sketch), Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Trello, Technical Mentorship, Code Reviews

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