Full-stack Engineer & Co-founder

Eight years of shipping Node and TypeScript, currently building Magnify from Berlin. Obsessed with the small details, and with a guitar never far from the desk.

Itinerary
BER>BLR2024

Magnify Rewards Current

Co-Founder

People shop on Amazon, Swiggy and Uber every day without realising the same spending could take them travelling. We turn gift-card purchases from 200+ Indian brands into Mag Miles, which convert into real airline miles — and we keep every card, airline and hotel programme you own in one place.

  • Magnify App

    Turn everyday gift-card spending into airline miles you can fly on

BER2023

Spendesk

Senior Software Engineer Feb 2023 — Nov 2025

A one-stop spend management platform for company finance and accounting. I owned the wire transfer flow end to end and kept money moving cleanly across borders.

  • Wire Transfers

    A UK payment system at 99.9% uptime, and banking partner migrations across the EU

BER2020

Grid

Software Engineer Nov 2020 — Feb 2023

A seed-stage startup building a digital, safer nightlife experience for clubs, bars, festivals and restaurants. Six engineers, one product, built end to end.

  • Grid Platform

    Mobile architecture, release pipelines and GraphQL, six engineers deep

BER2019

ProsprAtWork

Senior Software Engineer Oct 2019 — Oct 2020

Pre-seed, building workforce management for blue-collar workers. My first close look at what an early-stage company really costs and really takes.

  • Prospr mobile

    The company's primary React Native app, chat included

BLR2019

MPL Gaming

Software Development Engineer Jul 2019 — Oct 2019

One of India's largest gaming companies. On the payments team, learning how a consumer product actually acquires and keeps people.

DEL2019

Moonquik

Freelance Developer Jul 2019

A wedding planning app out of Delhi. Shipped both Android and iOS from a single React Native codebase.

BOM2018

Valuefy Solutions

Software Development Engineer Jun 2018 — Jul 2019

A fintech in Mumbai. I sat with Invezta, the consumer arm, and built their investment app from an empty repository.

  • Invezta

    Commission-free direct mutual funds, shipped single-handed to both stores

MYQ2018

Infosys

Intern Jan 2018 — May 2018

Trained on Python, DBMS, data structures and Oracle database administration, then put on a team project that turned out to be the interesting part.

  • Banking infrastructure

    Oracle 12c: data redaction, encryption at rest, and standbys that fail over on their own

IXC2016

Bucks

Android Development Lead Jun 2016 — Jul 2016

A loyalty app connecting people to their favourite food outlets under a reward structure. I reworked the UI of the customer app and built the whole merchant app alongside it. Rewards, it turns out, have followed me around ever since.

Failed startups

MioClass

Language teaching & learning

A hybrid teaching app for language classes. Teachers build an assignment once and reuse it forever, students do it on their phone, and MioClass marks it instantly — so the time goes into feedback instead of correction.

HealUp

Mental wellbeing

Free, private voice calls with empathetic listeners — for loneliness, stress, anxiety, or simply reflecting back on the day. Deliberately not a crisis service, and clear about it.

Side projects

Things I built on the side

Android, 2016 — 2017

Five apps written in a hostel room, mostly to answer a problem I had that week. One of them found a lot more people than I expected.

  • Road Traffic Fines

    Know the real fine before you pay it — 130,000+ downloads

  • Business & Economics

    A plain-language pocket reference for the fundamentals

  • Free Wallpaper

    My first app on the Play Store, and the lesson that shipping beats polishing

  • 5 Words Daily

    Five English words a day, at a difficulty that follows you up

  • E-Dabba

    Offline hyperlocal streaming from an OpenWRT box running LibraryBox

Education

IXC2014

Panjab University, UIET

B.E. Information Technology 2014 — 2018

Chandigarh, India. Majored in Information Technology and picked up a guitar in the same four years. Both stuck.

AMB2012

PKR Jain Sr. Sec. Public School

High School 2012 — 2014

Ambala, India. Mostly daydreaming about singing and playing guitar.

That is the whole itinerary.

A few things seen along the way.

New York at golden hour, the Empire State Building standing out of the skyline The Sagrada Família at night, looking straight up its towers Cloud and amber light, seen from above Looking out of an aircraft window at the wing, somewhere above the clouds Times Square at night, under the billboards