Work Experience

Lead Developer @ Look Up Magic Cards

Jan 2026 - Present

Achievement

  • Built and launched a production Next.js 15 and React 19 application in TypeScript, wiring 4 external card-data APIs through server-side Route Handlers.
  • Cut repeat API latency by roughly 90% with a 30-day TTL caching layer backed by Supabase PostgreSQL.
  • Added an AI search flow using Claude through Vercel AI Gateway to translate natural-language prompts into validated Scryfall DSL.
  • Protected LLM endpoints with JWT-backed Supabase session checks and early 401 rejection for unauthenticated requests.
  • Shipped real-time AI chat with SSE streaming on the Next.js Edge Runtime for sub-500ms time to first token.

Technology

  • Anthropic Claude (LLM / AI)
  • OAuth / PKCE Authentication
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Vercel
  • Next.js App Router
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Next.js
  • Next.js Edge Runtime
  • TypeScript
  • Server-Sent Events (SSE)
  • React
  • Framer Motion
  • Vercel AI Gateway
  • Scryfall REST API

Software Engineer 2 @ Oracle

Jul 2023 - Aug 2025

Achievement

  • Helped build a Java and Spring CI/CD platform that surfaced compliance and pipeline status across 50+ daily deployments.
  • Split two core monolith modules into independent services, improving feature delivery velocity.
  • Built a React and TypeScript web app that automated an all-day manual workflow into a one-click process with email follow-up.
  • Presented team accomplishments and project work at a conference in India.
  • Modernized secrets management by moving from LDAP-based handling to Oracle OCI Vault and OAuth-friendly workflows.

Responsibility

  • Owned end-to-end delivery for several application slices, from architecture and NoSQL schema design through React, TypeScript, Spring, and Java implementation.
  • Maintained front-end framework documentation and reusable component onboarding guides.
  • Mentored new software engineers and supported onboarding.
  • Kept the React framework current by handling upgrades, deprecations, and breaking changes.

Technology

  • React
  • Java
  • Spring
  • TypeScript
  • NoSQL
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • Docker
  • Figma
  • DevOps

Collaboration

  • Partnered with QA across India time zones to triage issues and hand off new features smoothly.

Software Engineer 1 @ Oracle

Jul 2021 - Jul 2023

Achievement

  • Created reusable React components in TypeScript and vanilla CSS that were adopted across the application.

Responsibility

  • Led the move from Angular to React, ran workshops for 15+ engineers, and helped define team coding standards.

Tool

  • GitLab
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Grafana (logging)
  • VS Code
  • Jenkins

Software Developer Intern @ Novo Technologies

Nov 2019 - Feb 2020

Achievement

  • Built an AI-driven diagnostic platform with Node.js, C#, and multimodal ML, delivering two core features ahead of schedule.
  • Worked with senior UI/UX staff to turn wireframes into responsive React interfaces and consistent production components.
Things I've Built