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Hello, I’m

Brijesh
Kushwaha.

Full stack engineer.
From API to production.

I build Node.js backends and React interfaces. Two years of full stack work at Vedak, from recording pipelines and client integrations to real-time notifications and internal tools.

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Backends. Interfaces.
Everything in between.

My focus

React interfaces, APIs & integrations

My toolkit

Node.js · React · AWS · Docker

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01 / Experience

Full stack work. In production.

Two years building Node.js services and React applications at Vedak. Here’s what I contributed across the stack.

Nov 2024 – Sep 2026

Vedak

Expert network platform

Full time · Bengaluru

Full Stack Engineer

Built and maintained a multi-service Node.js backend and customer-facing and internal React applications for an expert network platform.

  • Built React interfaces for Socket.IO notifications serving 500+ concurrent users, expert ratings with dynamic filtering, and an internal CRM reporting module.
  • Reduced the frontend bundle by 35% through code-splitting, bringing load time from 3.2s to 2.4s. Worked with Vite, Redux, and Tailwind, and migrated components from Material UI to shadcn/ui.
  • Built a webhook pipeline streaming Zoom recordings directly to AWS S3 with SDK v3, idempotency checks, and retries. Added authenticated, role-based recording playback for the team and clients.
  • Built an AWS SQS activity pipeline with a separate batch consumer, partial failure handling, and a dead-letter queue. A separate queued pipeline delivers recordings and transcripts per client, retrying individual failures up to three times.
  • Replaced host crontabs with a MySQL and Redis job scheduler, adding execution history, runtime schedule changes without redeployment, and Datadog failure alerts. Led the production cutover.
  • Integrated the Cashfree Verification Suite, including HMAC-SHA256 webhook verification and a polling workaround for an unavailable balance endpoint.
  • Built a two-way enterprise API integration syncing new experts and call schedules, alongside automated transcript delivery for a global consulting firm.
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  • Published an internal npm package sharing Sequelize models and migrations across backend repositories.
  • Built an OpenAI Assistants API classification service using a custom domain taxonomy to replace manual project categorization.
  • Set up centralized error logging and Datadog monitoring across backend services, reducing mean time to resolution by 45%. Used the Datadog MCP server to help trace application issues.

Also helped with Docker deployments, GitHub Actions workflows, and production debugging on AWS.

Worked withJavaScript · Node.js · Express · React · Redux · Vite · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui · Socket.IO · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · Sequelize · AWS S3 / SQS · Zoom API · Cashfree Verification · OpenAI Assistants API · Datadog

Aug 2023 – Oct 2023

AQMENZ Automation

AQMENZ Automation Pvt. Ltd · Industrial automation & software

Internship · Bengaluru

Frontend Developer Intern

Built responsive React and Redux applications, worked on UI performance, and collaborated on API integration.

  • Developed modular React interfaces and optimized rendering cycles, improving client performance by 30%.
  • Improved frontend features and responsiveness, contributing to a 25% increase in user engagement.
  • Built Jest unit tests and worked with the team on UI delivery and REST API integration.

Worked withReact · Redux · JavaScript · Jest · Tailwind CSS · HTML / CSS · REST APIs

500+
concurrent WebSocket users
35%
smaller frontend bundle
3.2 → 2.4s
frontend load time
45%
less time to resolve incidents

02 / Selected work

A few things I’ve put into the world.

Personal services, tools, and applications. What they do, what I contributed, and where to see the code.

EduCors / API proxy01
JWT auth · Rate limits · Usage analytics2,000+ requests / month
01 / API service

EduCorsA CORS proxy with a developer console

A public API proxy I built and operate, serving 2,000+ requests a month. It handles cross-origin requests and gives developers control over their API keys and usage.

Built the Express service and React dashboard, with JWT and API-key authentication, per-key rate limits, quota visibility, and request-level analytics.

Tracks total, monthly, daily, and per-endpoint usage in MongoDB. Containerized with Docker and maintained since September 2024.

Node.js · Express · MongoDB · JWT · React · Docker · Tailwind CSS

Source codeLive site
02 / Backend service

Webhook forwarding service

Multi source webhook relay (Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom, and a generic /:source route) that forwards events to target endpoints. Failed deliveries are stored in MongoDB with payload, headers, and error, and listed via GET /missed-requests.

Built the TypeScript service, persistent failed-delivery capture, and an API for inspecting and replaying missed events.

Technical details

Failed payloads, headers, and errors are stored in MongoDB and can be inspected through GET /missed-requests.

TypeScript · Node.js · Express · MongoDB · Webhooks · REST API

Source codeAPI endpoint
03 / Cloud & operations

Self-hosted infrastructure

Declarative Docker Compose and Nginx stack on AWS EC2: one stack.yaml renders compose and Nginx configs, with validation checks, local previews, release snapshots, and rollback. TLS via Certbot DNS-01 (Cloudflare) per root domain.

Directed Claude Code to build the stack. I deployed it and continue to operate it, including the AWS EC2 deployment and the earlier Azure VM setup.

Technical details

Includes separate dev and production setups, multi-domain routing, wildcard SSL, certificate renewal scripts, and multi-platform Docker buildx images.

Docker Compose · Nginx · AWS EC2 · Certbot · Bash · Node.js · SSL/TLS · Azure VM · Cloudflare · Claude Code

Source code

The rest of the workbench

More projects / 8

Sahayog Crowdfunding Platform

Fundraising and crowdfunding platform for Nepal: users create campaigns, admins review them, and donors record pledges (eSewa, Khalti, bank transfer). Includes JWT auth, organiser updates, a blog, and rate limited APIs. Also includes donor leaderboards, Cloudinary uploads, helmet, and per-route rate limits.

TypeScript · React · Node.js · Express · MongoDB · Cloudinary

Source codeLive site

Food Delivery Application (Swiggy Clone)

Food delivery web app that loads live Swiggy restaurant data through the EduCors proxy (with mock data fallback), a Redux Toolkit cart, Firebase phone OTP verification at checkout, lazy loaded routes, and shimmer loading placeholders.

React.js · Redux Toolkit · Tailwind CSS · Firebase Phone Auth · Leaflet

Source code

Hospital Management System (MERN)

MERN hospital application with a patient portal and admin dashboard: registration, appointment booking with status workflows, contact messages, and doctor profiles with Cloudinary avatars. Role based JWT cookies and bcrypt hashing.

MongoDB · Express · React · Node.js · JWT · Cloudinary

Source code
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Shopify Sales Analytics Dashboard

React dashboard that charts a sample Shopify orders and customers dataset with Chart.js: sales over time, growth rate, new and repeat customers, cohort lifetime value, and a Leaflet map of customers by city.

React.js · Chart.js · Leaflet · Tailwind CSS

Source code

NetflixGPT (AI Movie Search)

Movie discovery app where natural language queries are sent to Google Gemini for movie suggestions, then looked up on TMDB for posters and trailers. Firebase authentication and Redux Toolkit state management.

React.js · Redux Toolkit · Gemini API · TMDB API · Firebase

Source codeLive site

Stock Market Dashboard

Stock dashboard with Chart.js price charts (intraday, weekly, monthly) and company search via Alpha Vantage, sector performance and market quotes via Financial Modeling Prep, a rotating news sentiment card, and Firebase auth.

React.js · Alpha Vantage API · Financial Modeling Prep API · Chart.js · Tailwind CSS · Firebase

Source codeLive site

Artwork Data Table

TypeScript React app that lists Art Institute of Chicago artworks in a PrimeReact DataTable with server side pagination, multi row selection, an overlay panel to select N rows across pages, and a loading spinner.

TypeScript · React.js · PrimeReact · Vite · Art Institute of Chicago API

Source code

Travel Planner

Travel planner with Ixigo airport and city autocomplete (via an Express CORS proxy), trip date pickers, and a community places feed; photos are uploaded to Cloudinary by an Express and MongoDB backend service.

React · Node.js · Express · Ixigo API · Cloudinary · MongoDB

Source code

Other things I’ve worked on

Custom domain email

Configured brijesh@brijeshhq.com using ImprovMX for inbound forwarding, Brevo SMTP for outbound mail, and Cloudflare DNS for MX, SPF, CNAME, and A records. Uses free service tiers. Learned email authentication with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and how receiving and sending can use separate providers.

job-tracker-mcp

Built with Claude as a learning project and used daily. A TypeScript MCP v2 server with tools to list applications, add an application, update its status, and check due follow-ups. Uses Zod validation, serialized writes, atomic file saves, and recoverable error responses.

Authentication & service tooling

Additional work includes authenticator-app two-factor login and a Node.js service-to-service package for authentication, request logging, and masking sensitive headers.

More code, experiments, and learning on GitHub.Browse my repositories

03 / A little context

The person behind the code.

I’m Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha, a full stack engineer based in Bengaluru. I spent two years at Vedak building Node.js backends and the React interfaces they power.

At Vedak, I worked on the full path from a webhook arriving to a recording reaching the right client. That meant handling repeated events, retrying individual failures, controlling access, and making production problems visible.

On the frontend, I built real-time notifications, expert filtering, and CRM reporting, and worked on reducing bundle size. Outside work, I build and operate personal services, including EduCors and my self-hosted deployment stack.

I studied Computer Science at KNS Institute of Technology, affiliated with VTU. I’m now available to join immediately and open to full stack and backend engineering roles.

More about my background

04 / Technical toolkit

Tools I use.
Systems I understand.

Grouped by the work they support. The technologies behind my projects and professional experience.

01Languages

  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • Python (scripting)
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • C / C++

02Backend & systems

  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • REST API design
  • API architecture
  • WebSockets / Socket.IO
  • Webhooks
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Multi-service backends
  • AWS SQS & dead-letter queues
  • Job scheduling
  • Idempotency & retries
  • Rate limiting
  • Sequelize ORM

03Frontend

  • React
  • Redux / Redux Toolkit
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Material UI
  • Responsive UI
  • Code-splitting & bundle optimization
  • WebSocket clients
  • Jest

04Data

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Database migrations
  • DBMS & query optimization

05Cloud & delivery

  • AWS EC2 / S3 / SQS / IAM
  • AWS SDK v3
  • Azure VMs
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Docker buildx
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • SSL / TLS / Certbot
  • GitHub Actions
  • Git / GitHub
  • Vercel
  • Backup & disaster recovery
  • Production migrations & cutovers
  • Bash automation

06Security & integrations

  • JWT
  • OAuth 2.0
  • RBAC
  • API-key authentication
  • HMAC-SHA256 verification
  • helmet
  • Infisical
  • ISO 27001 audit work / Scrut
  • Zoom API & SDK
  • Cashfree Verification Suite
  • Cloudinary
  • DNS / MX / SPF / DKIM / DMARC
  • Cloudflare DNS
  • ImprovMX
  • Brevo SMTP

07Observability & practice

  • Datadog monitoring & alerting
  • PostHog
  • Centralized error logging
  • Production debugging
  • Runbooks & documentation
  • Code review
  • Agile
  • System design
  • Data structures & algorithms
  • Operating systems
  • Computer networks
  • OOP
  • Software engineering
  • Cloud computing

08LLM integration & developer tools

  • OpenAI Assistants API
  • Custom domain taxonomy & prompts
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex
  • MCP servers
  • Datadog MCP for debugging
  • Atlassian MCP
  • job-tracker-mcp
  • Custom Agent Skills
  • Claude Design

09Other project tools

  • Firebase authentication
  • Gemini API
  • TMDB API
  • Chart.js
  • Leaflet
  • PrimeReact
  • Alpha Vantage API
  • Financial Modeling Prep API
  • Ixigo API
  • bcrypt
Additional cloud & database tools

AWS Lambda · AWS RDS · DynamoDB · Redis caching & pub/sub

Currently learning

Jenkins · Kubernetes (Pods, Deployments, Services) · Terraform

05 / Education & learning

The foundation.

Dec 2020 – Jul 2024

Bachelor of Engineering
in Computer Science

KNS Institute of Technology

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

First Class · 74%

CourseworkData structures & algorithms · DBMS & SQL · Operating systems · Computer networks · Cloud computing · OOP & system design · Software engineering

Curriculum & lab work

Database normalization, ACID transactions, indexing, and algorithmic complexity. UNIX process management, concurrency, socket communication, and TCP/IP protocols.

A few milestones along the way

01

College coding competition winner

Algorithmic problem solving in college programming competitions.

02

Class representative

Represented the student cohort and coordinated department activities during engineering.

03

Published an internal npm package

Shared Sequelize models, migrations, and schema contracts across backend repositories.

04

Production scheduler cutover

Led the migration from host crontabs to database scheduling with execution history and failure alerts.

06 / Get in touch

Immediate joiner · Bengaluru

Good work starts
with a conversation.

Hiring for full stack or backend engineering?
I’d like to hear what your team is working on.

bkushwaha.dev@gmail.com

brijesh@brijeshhq.com+91 8050578803
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