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Senior full stack engineer and system architect

Senior Full Stack Engineer building scalable backend systems and high-performance applications.

Since August 2013, I have been designing and shipping production-grade systems across PHP platforms, Node.js services, React applications, cloud infrastructure, payment integrations, and migration-heavy delivery programs.

12+

Years of engineering experience

80+

Projects delivered across web, mobile, backend, and platform teams

6+

Domains served including FinTech, SaaS, Logistics, HealthTech, Enterprise Ops, and Marketplaces

Multi-cloud

Production work across AWS, Azure, integrations, migrations, and scaling programs

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Akash Gaikwad

Senior engineer positioned around backend architecture, scalable systems, integration-heavy delivery, and production-grade application design.

Core expertise

Backend architecture, APIs, cloud systems, payment flows, database migrations, and multi-stack delivery across web and mobile.

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

What I help with

I help teams build and modernize production systems, improve backend scalability, integrate payments and cloud services, and deliver migration-safe releases across complex applications.

12+ years

Trusted across product types

Experience shaped by real delivery work, not demo projects.

FinTech SaaS Logistics HealthTech Enterprise Ops Marketplaces
About

A portfolio positioned around scale, systems thinking, and delivery credibility.

Instead of a long CV narrative, this section shows the strengths that matter most: multi-stack depth, backend leadership, system design, payment integrations, cloud delivery, and database change programs that need to work in production.

Experience

12.8 Years of hands-on engineering across agency delivery, enterprise consulting, and long-running client systems.

Personal brand

Known for combining backend depth, full stack execution, and a practical delivery mindset that keeps systems maintainable.

1

Working as a senior full stack engineer since August 2013, with delivery experience spanning product builds, enterprise consulting, and long-running client systems.

2

Strong backend depth across PHP frameworks, CMS platforms, Node.js, API design, integrations, event-driven workflows, and system scaling.

3

Hands-on across React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React Native when products need complete end-to-end ownership.

4

Broad data and infrastructure experience across MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2, SQLite, AWS, Azure, payment systems, and database migrations.

Anonymized case studies

Representative work, rewritten to protect client confidentiality.

Every project below is anonymized by design. The focus is on the problem solved, the technical response, and the business impact, not on revealing client identity.

Case study

High-Scale Order Processing System

Problem

Order events, status transitions, and downstream actions were tightly coupled, creating bottlenecks during peak traffic and making failures hard to recover from.

Solution

Split critical processing into cleaner backend services, introduced event-driven handling for downstream tasks, and reworked admin visibility so operations could track failures and retries in real time.

Impact

Improved system resilience under load, reduced manual intervention during peak events, and created a safer foundation for higher transaction throughput.

PHP Node.js MySQL REST APIs Queues AWS
Case study

Multi-Gateway Payment Orchestration Layer

Problem

Payment logic was spread across multiple flows, making retries, reconciliation, gateway switching, and failure handling difficult to manage consistently.

Solution

Built a unified orchestration layer around payment flows, normalized gateway responses, and improved admin tooling for settlement tracking, exception handling, and operational auditability.

Impact

Reduced payment handling complexity, improved operational traceability, and made it easier to introduce or replace gateways without destabilizing the core system.

PHP Laravel Payment APIs MySQL Webhook handlers
Case study

Database Migration and Platform Modernization Program

Problem

A legacy business platform needed schema evolution, data migration, and framework-level cleanup without breaking live business operations.

Solution

Planned staged migrations, introduced compatibility-safe releases, moved fragile logic into cleaner service boundaries, and handled database changes with rollback-aware delivery.

Impact

Reduced migration risk, improved maintainability, and enabled the system to evolve without a disruptive rewrite or long downtime windows.

PHP Laravel PostgreSQL MSSQL Migration scripts AWS
Case study

Real-Time Operations Monitoring Console

Problem

Operations teams lacked a dependable real-time view of system events, user actions, and process exceptions across multiple workflows.

Solution

Created a monitoring console with real-time status updates, role-aware control surfaces, and API-backed event visibility so teams could act quickly without digging through logs.

Impact

Improved response time during operational issues, increased visibility into live workflows, and reduced the time needed to trace failures across the system.

Node.js React DB2 Web APIs Real-time event flows
Core expertise

A multi-stack capability set organized the way clients and hiring teams actually evaluate senior engineers.

The goal is clear positioning: backend depth, frontend fluency, mobile capability, database breadth, and cloud-minded delivery backed by years of production work.

Backend

  • PHP frameworks and CMS platforms
  • Node.js services
  • REST API design
  • System architecture
  • Payment gateway integrations
  • Performance and scalability

Frontend

  • React.js
  • JavaScript application flows
  • HTML and CSS systems
  • Admin dashboards
  • UX-aware product interfaces
  • Business workflow tooling

Mobile

  • React Native apps
  • API-connected mobile workflows
  • Operational companion apps
  • Cross-platform feature delivery
  • Admin-mobile coordination
  • Release-ready integrations

Databases

  • MySQL and MSSQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • DB2 and SQLite
  • Schema design
  • Database migration strategy

Cloud and DevOps

  • AWS services
  • Azure services
  • Deployments and environment coordination
  • Queue and event handling
  • Migration-safe rollouts
  • Production support mindset
Trust builders

Signals that help clients and teams decide quickly.

When work is confidential, trust has to come from clarity, consistency, and the way the portfolio communicates capability.

Projects completed

80+

Years in industry

12+

Domains worked in

FinTech SaaS Logistics HealthTech Enterprise Ops Marketplaces

“Akash brought structure to a messy backend, clarified the real technical risks, and helped us ship without piling on more complexity.”

Product lead, B2B SaaS company

“What stood out was not just development speed, but the way he translated business requirements into a system the team could maintain.”

Operations stakeholder, logistics platform

“He understands delivery pressure, system design, and practical execution. That combination is rare.”

Engineering manager, enterprise program
Open to the right engineering opportunity

If you need a senior engineer to shape the system, not just code tickets, let’s talk.

Best fit: backend-heavy products, architecture-led builds, payment and API integrations, platform scaling, migration programs, and teams that need strong technical ownership.

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Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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