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He maintains open source developer tools including Atarashi, Expressentials, Flux and Treegen, writes about databases and system architecture, and runs The Basement, a Discord community for developers.","location":{"countryCode":"IN"},"profiles":[{"network":"GitHub","username":"callmegautam","url":"https://github.com/callmegautam"},{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"in/iamgautamsuthar","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamgautamsuthar"},{"network":"X","username":"iamgautamsuthar","url":"https://x.com/iamgautamsuthar"},{"network":"npm","username":"~iamgautamsuthar","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/~iamgautamsuthar"},{"network":"Discord","username":"The Basement","url":"https://discord.gg/2z6TAw2GFE"},{"network":"Cal.com","username":"cal.com/gautamsuthar","url":"https://cal.com/gautamsuthar"}]},"work":[{"name":"Pixerfect","position":"Software Engineer","startDate":"2026-06","highlights":["Architected and delivered end-to-end features across client applications and the company's core product, owning implementation from database design and backend APIs to polished React interfaces.","Worked directly with clients rather than only on the in-house product, including a South African client whose application I build, ship and keep running in production, owning requirements and delivery end to end.","Guided interns and junior engineers day to day: code review, architecture direction, debugging sessions, and unblocking them on live production work.","Engineered scalable backend systems with NestJS and Node.js, designing maintainable APIs, business logic, and integrations for production workloads.","Diagnosed and resolved high-impact production issues spanning the full stack, eliminating complex bugs and significantly improving system reliability.","Drove application performance by optimizing backend services, database interactions, and frontend rendering, resulting in faster and more efficient user experiences.","Collaborated closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions while maintaining high code quality and long-term maintainability.","Contributed across multiple projects simultaneously, taking ownership of critical functionality and delivering reliable solutions in a fast-paced development environment."]},{"name":"Untitledlabs","position":"Software Engineer","location":"Remote — United States","startDate":"2025-07","endDate":"2025-12","highlights":["Worked on the backend of an AI-powered image generation platform in Node.js, Express and Go.","Fully remote for a US-based company, working from India across a 10-12 hour time difference: async by default, written handoffs, and shipping against a team that was asleep for most of my working day. Remote is not a concession here, it is how this entire role was delivered.","Led four interns remotely, owning their onboarding, task breakdown, code reviews and day-to-day unblocking across that time gap.","Designed and developed REST APIs powering core product features.","Integrated AWS services including S3 and Lambda for scalable media processing.","Built internal tools and dashboards using React.js to improve developer workflows.","Collaborated with a distributed team to deliver production-ready features and bug fixes.","Wrote clean, maintainable code while participating in code reviews and feature planning."]},{"name":"Freelance","position":"Software Developer","location":"Remote — international clients","startDate":"2024-05","endDate":"2025-06","highlights":["Contributed to the development of internal platforms and client applications, delivering production-ready features across the full stack.","Worked with international clients across time zones, handling scoping, communication and delivery directly with no account manager in between.","Engineered backend services, APIs, and interactive user interfaces while maintaining clean, scalable, and maintainable codebases.","Implemented new features, resolved production issues, and optimized application performance across multiple projects.","Worked closely with stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable, high-quality software solutions.","Supported deployment, maintenance, and continuous improvements throughout the software development lifecycle."]}],"projects":[{"name":"Atarashi","description":"I wrote a scaffolding tool, then found out it could never support the thing I wanted it to do","url":"https://gautamsuthar.in/projects/atarashi","keywords":["TypeScript","Node.js","CLI","npm"]},{"name":"Expressentials","description":"I published a small Express library, and strangers found every edge case I had not thought about","url":"https://gautamsuthar.in/projects/expressentials","keywords":["TypeScript","Express","Node.js","npm"]},{"name":"Flux","description":"My college had terrible internet, so I started building a package manager","url":"https://gautamsuthar.in/projects/flux","keywords":["TypeScript","Node.js","CLI","npm"]},{"name":"SystemCanvas","description":"Every system design diagram I drew started as a rectangle I had to name myself","url":"https://gautamsuthar.in/projects/systemcanvas","keywords":["TypeScript","Next.js","React","Postgres"]},{"name":"Treegen","description":"A tool for pasting folder structures into READMEs that accidentally became a tool for reading them back","url":"https://gautamsuthar.in/projects/treegen","keywords":["Go","CLI"]}],"skills":[{"name":"Technologies","keywords":["TypeScript","React/Next.js","Node.js","NestJS","Express","Go","Python","PostgreSQL","MongoDB","Redis","Docker","AWS","LangChain","ChromaDB","LlamaIndex","Supabase","Kafka","RabbitMQ","BullMQ","gRPC","GraphQL","WebSockets","OAuth","OpenTelemetry","Kubernetes","Terraform","Nginx","Cloudflare","Vercel"]}],"meta":{"canonical":"https://gautamsuthar.in/resume.json"}}