Forward Deployed Engineer | Full Stack | AI | Product Engineering
Pune, Maharashtra, India · gaganbaghelofficial@gmail.com
Forward Deployed Engineer and Full Stack Developer with 2+ years of experience embedding directly with clients to scope, build and ship production software fast — often solo, end to end, from first requirements call to a live deployment. Have shipped bespoke platforms across a dozen+ verticals — legal, healthcare, real estate, fitness, hospitality, education — picking whatever stack (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Prisma) the problem calls for. Comfortable owning the full loop: requirements, architecture, integration with the client's existing systems, and ETL / data pipeline work when the problem is more data than UI. Known for turning around production-ready features under tight deadlines while working directly with the people who'll use them.
Languages
Frontend
Backend & Data
AI & Integrations
Testing & Tooling
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| LexOrchestrate (private repo) · live | Desktop legal workspace for advocates — matters, case papers and deadlines in one place, running locally on the user's own machine. | Next.js · Desktop app |
| Kostry (private repo) · live | Collaborative storytelling platform — create, branch and explore stories together; every reader can become a co-author. | Next.js |
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Receiptful · live | Captures receipts and invoices and extracts every field with Claude vision, then organises them into workspaces, folders, budgets and approvals and exports tax-ready reports. Every extracted value is re-verified arithmetically before it is stored. | Next.js 15 · Convex · Convex Auth · Claude API · Tailwind CSS |
| PersonaPost · live | LinkedIn-first content automation workspace: persona-driven post and image generation, an approval-first review queue, weekly campaign planning, queue-aware scheduling and LinkedIn OAuth publishing. | Next.js · Convex · Gemini / OpenAI / Hugging Face · LinkedIn API · Razorpay |
| IntelleCraft — EdTech Platform · live | Courses, quizzes, certificates, live sessions, subscriptions and affiliate payouts, with a Claude-powered AI tutor and authoring copilot. Next.js UI and an Express REST API in a single deployment. | Next.js · Express · MongoDB · JWT · Razorpay · Cloudinary · Vitest + Supertest |
| Forge · live | Local-first workspace for building, running and sharing AI agents on your own machine — no account, no cloud, no telemetry. | Next.js |
| AI Clinic Receptionist (private repo) · live | AI receptionist for a dental clinic that checks appointment availability, books calendar slots and helps patients schedule visits automatically. | Node.js · Voice / Calendar APIs |
| ButtlerAI | Browser-based AI assistant — Gemini chat, client-side image OCR with Tesseract.js and speech output. | React · Vite · Redux · Google Gemini · Tesseract.js |
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| MediFlow — Clinic Management · live | Role-based, multi-tenant clinic operations: patients, appointments, encounters, prescriptions, admissions, billing and refunds, plus AI patient insights. Permission-checked API routes, tenant-scoped queries, rate limiting and server-side response caching. | Next.js App Router · Prisma · MongoDB · RBAC · JWT |
| Relate · live | Anonymous peer-support app — post a problem, see who relates, open a private 1:1 chat, and build a hidden trust score from post-chat ratings. Input sanitisation, rate limiting, block lists, Zod schemas, unit tests and Playwright end-to-end flows. | Next.js · Prisma + MongoDB · Auth.js v5 · Ably realtime · Vitest · Playwright |
| Linkstore · live | Personal storefronts for affiliate creators: Google OAuth with signed JWT cookies, server-side product metadata extraction, affiliate URL normalization, click/referrer/device analytics, Razorpay subscription billing with webhooks, audit logs and cron link-health checks. | Next.js · Convex · Google OAuth · Razorpay |
| Glow Salon · live | Real-time salon booking. Availability is computed from salon hours, staff hours, service durations, buffers, breaks and existing appointments, so double-booking is prevented at the source. FullCalendar admin workspace and a guest manage-my-booking flow. | Next.js · Convex · FullCalendar · Vitest / convex-test |
| Gym Manager · live | Membership, class scheduling, billing and equipment management for gym owners, plus a member-facing app. | Next.js 15 · MongoDB / Mongoose · JOSE JWT · Server Actions · Recharts |
| Serene Marketplace · live | Two-sided marketplace for verified domestic home services — provider applications and vetting, slot-based booking, plans and payments, reviews, reports and notifications. | Next.js 15 · Convex · Razorpay |
| Discovery Intelligence Platform · live | Scores 76 discovery signals across 10 business pillars and generates boardroom-ready PDF growth reports, with HMAC SHA-256 signed session cookies and sliding-window rate limiting. | Next.js 15 · Convex · jsPDF · Puppeteer · Recharts |
| Consistency Manager · live | Earnings & sprints tracker — logs weekly earnings and runs focused 15-day sprints toward productivity and financial goals. | Next.js |
| Good & Taste — Mess (private repo) · live | Mess management and meal distribution system built for a restaurant LLC. | Next.js |
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| dataScraper | Web-scraping and ETL pipeline with discrete scraper → parser → cleaner → validator → exporter stages, bounded concurrency and CSV/XLSX export behind a CLI. | Node.js · Playwright · Cheerio · p-limit · ExcelJS |
| MERN AI Image Generator | Text-to-image generation with the OpenAI API plus a GPT chat route, a community feed persisted to MongoDB and Cloudinary image hosting. | React · Vite · Express · MongoDB · OpenAI · Cloudinary |
| Telegram IoT Bot | An ESP microcontroller with an ultrasonic sensor posts tank-level readings to a PHP endpoint; a Python Telegram bot reports the current level on demand. | Python · Telegram Bot API · ESP / Arduino · PHP |
| Design Patterns | Gang of Four design patterns implemented in Java with runnable demos. | Java · OOP |
| C++ DSA Codebase | Pattern printing, mathematics, arrays, recursion, sorting and core data-structures-and-algorithms problems. | C++ |
Marketing and product front ends built with the Next.js App Router, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion and GSAP:
December 2023 – Present
- Led the development of dynamic, high-performance web applications using React.js, Next.js, and TypeScript.
- Designed scalable and reusable UI components with Tailwind CSS and implemented Redux for efficient state management.
- Integrated complex dashboards and visual analytics using Chart.js, enabling real-time business insights.
- Improved frontend performance by 45% through code splitting, lazy loading, and bundle optimization.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical features within tight delivery timelines.
- Developed and maintained ETL pipelines processing millions of records using SQL, Python, and Perl.
- Reduced a 46+ hour data-processing pipeline by 10% via query optimization and redundancy elimination.
- Engineered a multi-threaded processing model, reducing total processing time by 50%.
- Implemented advanced data filtering and transformation logic for analytics dashboards.
- Ensured data consistency, integrity, and scalability across multiple production environments.
January 2023 – December 2023
- Delivered 5+ custom e-commerce platforms using Next.js, React.js, and the MERN stack.
- Built interactive admin dashboards with Chart.js for real-time analytics and insights.
- Enhanced performance by up to 70%, optimizing load times and implementing advanced caching strategies.
- Integrated secure payment gateways and authentication systems for customer data protection.
- Collaborated directly with international clients, ensuring seamless project delivery across time zones.
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), Computer Science
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University | Nagpur, Maharashtra
2019 – 2023
Frontend: React.js, Next.js, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Redux, Tailwind CSS, Chart.js
Backend & APIs: Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, Prisma, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL
Dev Tools: Git, GitHub, npm, Yarn, VS Code, Chrome DevTools, TurboRepo, Lighthouse
Others: ETL Processing, Data Filtering, Python, Parallel Processing
- React.js Mastery – Udemy (2023)
- Git & GitHub for Developers – Coursera (2022)
- The Web Developer Bootcamp – Udemy (2022)