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Open to staff and principal engineering roles

Ashutosh Kumar

Lead Engineer

Distributed systems, mostly event-driven. Rust, Node.js, AWS.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About

Eight years of full-time engineering, the last six at Taazaa, where I have moved from engineer to lead. Most of that time has gone on services that talk to each other across a network, and on the coordination problems that come with that.

Leading has mostly meant less time in the editor and more on design review, mentoring, and making sure the people around me are unblocked. I have shipped enough C#, Vue, Angular and Flutter over the years to be useful in most parts of a stack. Open source underpins nearly all of it, so I contribute back where I can — and I am looking to do more of it.

Work

  1. Nov 2025 — Present

    Lead Engineer Taazaa Inc

    Noida, India

    Leading a small team of developers on a long-running education platform.

    • Interview engineering candidates, train new graduates, and run internal sessions on getting useful work out of AI tools.
    • Own architecture, technical direction, and the AWS account behind the platform — infrastructure, deployments and cost.
    • Cut the DynamoDB bill by 70% by ageing session data out of the hot table into object storage.
    • Implemented LTI so partner institutions can launch the product from their own learning platforms.
    • Rust
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • AWS
    • DynamoDB
    • Microservices

  2. May 2021 — Nov 2025

    Senior Software Engineer Taazaa Inc

    Noida, India

    Two long-running client engagements: an education platform, and a connected medical device product.

    • Restructured a large codebase into maintainable packages and migrated it to TypeScript.
    • Designed and built the authentication and authorisation layer.
    • Built the real-time collaboration layer, putting multiple users on the same document simultaneously over WebSocket.
    • Rewrote hot paths in a graphics-heavy front end, replacing linear scans with indexed lookups to keep interaction responsive under load.
    • Delivered serverless APIs for a mobile application communicating with connected medical devices over Bluetooth.
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • AWS Lambda
    • Serverless Framework
    • WebSockets
    • DynamoDB
    • Vue.js

  3. Jun 2020 — May 2021

    Software Engineer Taazaa Inc

    Noida, India

    First role at Taazaa, on client product teams.

    • Shipped product features end to end, moving between client codebases and stacks.
    • Built serverless backends on AWS Lambda behind Vue front ends.
    • Vue.js
    • AWS Lambda
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript

  4. Jun 2018 — Jun 2020

    Software Engineer Buildsys

    New Delhi, India

    Cloud-based software for the construction and real estate industries.

    • Built and maintained a multi-platform product for managing construction projects end to end.
    • Worked across the whole surface — .NET backend, Angular web client, and Flutter mobile app.
    • C#/.NET
    • ASP.NET Boilerplate
    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Flutter

  5. Feb 2016 — Jan 2017

    Web Development Intern EventsMosaic

    New Delhi, India

    Part-time internship taken alongside the degree.

    • Built the web platform for an events marketplace connecting users, organisers and vendors.
    • MongoDB
    • Express
    • Angular
    • Node.js

Projects

  1. Ongoing

    Open-source contributions

    Fixes and improvements landed upstream in serverless-bundle, Flutter, and FirebaseExtended/flutterfire.

    • Dart
    • Node.js

  2. 2018

    Medicus

    Appointment management and scheduling for hospitals, built for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at Smart India Hackathon 2018. Surfaces treatment resources for people in remote areas and thins the queues at AIIMS and other government hospitals.

    • MongoDB
    • Express
    • Angular
    • Node.js

  3. 2018

    CrypTrace archived

    Cryptocurrency tracker following prices across 50+ markets in real time. Shipped as a hybrid Android app, then rebuilt as an installable PWA.

    • React
    • Ionic
    • TypeScript
    • Socket.io
    • Chart.js

  4. 2017

    TRAAM

    Asset tracking and management for the Ministry of Defence — a 36-hour build at Smart India Hackathon 2017.

    • MongoDB
    • Express
    • Angular
    • Node.js
    • Ionic/Cordova

Stack

Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • C#
  • Dart
Backend
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Microservices
  • ASP.NET Boilerplate
Cloud
  • AWS Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • S3
  • Serverless Framework
  • Azure
Frontend
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Angular
  • Flutter
  • Canvas
Data
  • DynamoDB
  • RDS
  • MongoDB
  • SQL
  • NoSQL

Education

  1. 2014 — 2018

    NITRA Technical Campus, Ghaziabad

    B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Contact

Email is the fastest way to reach me — about a role, a problem worth solving, or something you are building. I read everything that comes in.