About
I'm Arjun. I build web apps that keep working when you grow.
I've spent 8 years building products for Indian startups: ordering apps for kirana stores, clinic booking, GST invoicing and online stores. Most of them started small and had to cope with a lot more users than anyone planned for.
I care about the boring things that make software last: clear code, tests, fast pages on cheap phones and databases that don't fall over. I write in plain English, give you working software every week, and tell you early when something is going wrong.
Before going independent, I led the web team at a fintech in Bengaluru and studied computer engineering at COEP, Pune (sample).
Experience
2024 – now
Independent developer
Pune
SaaS, e-commerce and APIs for startups in India and abroad.
2020 – 2024
Engineering lead, web
PayNest (sample), Bengaluru
Led a team of 6; rebuilt the merchant dashboard used by 200,000 shops.
2018 – 2020
Full-stack developer
Cartwala (sample), Mumbai
Built checkout and the seller app for a grocery delivery startup.
2014 – 2018
B.Tech, Computer Engineering
COEP, Pune (sample)
Skills and tools
- Front end
- TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSSAccessibility
- Back end
- Node.jsGoPythonPostgreSQLRedis
- Infrastructure
- AWSCloudflareDockerGitHub ActionsSentry
- Indian stack
- RazorpayUPIWhatsApp Cloud APIGST e-invoicinge-KYC
Teams I've worked with (sample)
- Kiranakart
- Slotwise
- Desi Threads
- Ledgerly
- Khabar Daily
- PayNest
Kind words
Arjun shipped in weeks what we'd been stuck on for months, and he explained every trade-off in plain words.
Neha JoshiCo-founder, Kiranakart (sample)
Our store went from painfully slow to instant. Sales followed. He also left us docs we actually read.
Kavya ReddyFounder, Desi Threads (sample)
The calmest engineer I've worked with. Friday demos meant there were never any surprises.
Rahul BansalCTO, Ledgerly (sample)
Got something to build?
Tell me what it is and when you need it. I reply within a working day.