Ritesh Firodiya
Full-stack engineer & tech lead · ~9 years
Full-stack engineer and lead with ~9 years shipping production TypeScript across React, Next.js, React Native, and NestJS. Comfortable end-to-end — Postgres schema to Play Store release. Currently building AI-assisted developer tooling on Anthropic SDK + MCP.
Products shipped
- Chitragupt — Upload Form 16, AIS, 26AS and bank statements. It pulls out the numbers, picks the right ITR form, compares old against new regime, and hands you a CA-ready PDF.Per tax year
- AskCal — Every value is marked Seen, Guessed or Unknown, resolved against USDA data.Subscription
- Aakalan — Split with friends and flatmates, and settle over UPI without leaving the app.Subscription
- Imposter — Social deduction for 3–20 people on one phone.One-time
- Charades — 5,149 cards across Bollywood, Tollywood, Hollywood and Family & Kids. Fully offline, no daily limits.One-time
- …and 8 more — the full list.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Walmart
Apr 2025 — May 2026Built and shipped on an internal revenue management system across web and mobile. Worked end-to-end across React, React Native, TypeScript, and Node.
Tech Lead & Full-Stack Engineer · TopLegal
Jul 2024 — Jan 2025Led architecture and delivery of a contract management platform. Owned GraphQL schema design, DynamoDB modeling, and team direction during the engagement.
Senior Frontend Engineer · ManifestIT
Oct 2023 — May 2024Built complex UI workflows for a CMDB management tool in Next.js, integrating against backend services and shipping iteratively with the team.
Software Engineer (Contract) · Speechify
May 2023 — Aug 2023Worked on a multiplatform TTS SDK and the Dubbing Studio — a video-translation product. Full-stack across Svelte components and GraphQL APIs.
Senior Software Engineer (SDE-3) · Masai School
Oct 2021 — May 2023Took multiple applications from idea to production with full delivery ownership. Mentored junior engineers across React, Node, GraphQL, Prisma, and AWS.
Senior Software Engineer · Swiggy (via Recro)
Nov 2020 — Sep 2021Shipped consumer-app features in React/TypeScript/Node. Worked on auth and ticketing modules; partnered with PM/QA on production triage.
Senior Software Engineer · Globant
Sep 2019 — Nov 2020Web applications for banking and auditing clients. Pixel-accurate UI work in React, integrating backend systems via Node.
Software Engineer · Confluxsys
Jun 2017 — Sep 2019Full-stack engineer at a startup. Shipped frontend, backend, and database work with end-to-end delivery ownership.
Skills
- Languages
- TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · SQL
- Mobile
- React Native · Expo · Expo Router · EAS · UniWind / NativeWind · Zustand · Reanimated · MMKV · SQLite
- Web
- Next.js · React · Tailwind · TanStack Query · tRPC
- Backend
- Node.js · NestJS · GraphQL · Apollo · Firebase Functions · Cloud Run
- Data
- PostgreSQL · Prisma · Drizzle · Firestore · DynamoDB
- Payments
- Razorpay · RevenueCat · Stripe · UPI · AdMob
- Auth
- Clerk · Firebase Auth · Passport · JWT · Google OAuth
- Infra & tooling
- Docker · AWS (S3, SES) · Turborepo · pnpm · GitHub Actions · Jest · Vitest · ESLint
- Observability
- Sentry · PostHog
- AI / Agents
- Anthropic SDK · MCP · Tool use · Prompt caching