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.