Shahid Raza

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1. NewAgeSys Solutions

   Kochi, India

   1. Full-Stack Developer

      Nov 2025 - May 2026

      Owned admin modules end to end on two US products: a community events platform and a driving academy.

      ›Highlights4

      • Owned the community admin module of LOCAL-IL, a US community events platform: creation, editing, status switching, organization-initiated email changes, a per-admin activity log, and the dashboard across its aggregation APIs and its UI.
      • Built event and camp management on Next.js server actions with React Hook Form and Zod validation at the boundary, including guest lists, approve and deny on join requests, payment status, and separate cancellation paths for the community and the parent organization.
      • Integrated Stripe for checkout and subscription billing, wrapping each state change in a database transaction so the subscription record and its side effects committed together or not at all.
      • Kept signed contracts and support-ticket attachments in a private S3 bucket, released only as pre-signed URLs issued per request, so no document was ever reachable from a guessable address.
      • Next.js
      • React
      • NestJS
      • Angular
      • PostgreSQL
      • MongoDB
      • Stripe
      • AWS S3

2. TechwareLab

   Kochi, India

   1. Software Developer

      Apr 2024 - Oct 2025

      Designed and built backend services for B2B enterprise clients, mostly in NestJS and TypeScript.

      ›Highlights4

      • Designed and built Munawel's internal ERP, the HRMS, sales, and invoicing modules, from schema and API design through release, sharing domain models across them instead of duplicating them.
      • Ran GraphQL alongside REST on every project, served from Apollo Server inside NestJS and consumed through Apollo Client, with lookups batched in Sequelize to avoid N+1 queries and subscriptions pushing live notifications.
      • Fronted the NestJS services with a Kong API gateway, authenticating through its JWT plugin against a Kong consumer per user and rate-limiting at the gateway rather than reimplementing it in every service.
      • Built the NetSuite integration for Infithra, a UAE HR and payroll platform, keeping payroll data in sync across the two systems.
      • NestJS
      • TypeScript
      • GraphQL
      • Apollo
      • Kong
      • PostgreSQL
      • Sequelize
      • Docker

   2. Junior Software Developer

      Apr 2023 - Apr 2024

      Backend work across client projects, moving from supervised tickets to owning features end to end.

      ›Highlights4

      • Built REST APIs and backend services for B2B enterprise clients including XLRI and Kinderpass, in two-week Scrum sprints tracked in Jira.
      • Modeled and built the MongoDB data layer behind the CMS, LMS, and payment-transaction modules, from collection and document design through the queries the application ran against them.
      • Integrated Stripe, Razorpay, and Paytm checkout flows, modeling transaction states so a payment was never ambiguous, with failure and retry handling.
      • Cut latency on the hottest read paths by caching them in Redis and reshaping the queries behind them, across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
      • Node.js
      • NestJS
      • TypeScript
      • MongoDB
      • Redis
      • Stripe
      • Docker
      • Jira

• A

  Ascent

  A cohort-based LMS built as five NestJS services, each with its own Postgres database, behind an Nginx gateway. Kafka carries domain events over the transactional outbox pattern with idempotent consumers; enrollment claims a seat with an atomic conditional update, load-tested at 20 concurrent requests on a 5-seat cohort with no overselling.

  github.com/BiSemaphore/ascent
• B

  Booking.go

  A multi-tenant SaaS for slot-based booking, where one backend serves many independent businesses without their data crossing. Express and TypeScript on a strict route to service to repository path, with Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis each doing what they are good at.

  github.com/Booking-Go
• B

  beeline

  A command palette over 80,000 records that searches entirely in the browser, with no search server. A typed-array index answers at p95 of 1ms per keystroke at typing pace, forgives typos, and ships with a benchmark you can run inside the app.

  github.com/shahid-io/beeline
• P

  Polaris

  Flight search across six providers that recognises the same marketed flight sold by different sellers, so each flight is one row carrying every price. A provider that fails becomes a visible status instead of a failed search. NestJS and Next.js in a Turborepo monorepo, 263 tests.

  github.com/shahid-io/polaris
• N

  notebook-kit

  Turns markdown into annotatable study-notebook PDFs: block directives, hand-drawn SVG figures, a linter that fails the build, and a generated question bank. Python 3 and headless Chrome, no third-party packages.

  github.com/shahid-io/notebook-kit

Languages

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Go
• Python
• Java

Backend

• Node.js
• NestJS
• Express
• REST
• GraphQL
• Apollo Server
• WebSockets
• Microservices
• Swagger/OpenAPI
• JWT
• OAuth2
• RBAC

Frontend

• React
• Next.js
• Server Components
• SSR/SSG/ISR
• Redux
• React Query
• Zustand
• React Hook Form
• Zod
• Apollo Client
• Radix UI
• shadcn/ui
• Tailwind CSS
• Angular

Data

• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Redis
• Mongoose
• Sequelize
• Drizzle
• pgvector
• sqlite-vec

Architecture

• SOLID
• Dependency injection
• Layered architecture
• Event-driven architecture
• Transactional outbox
• Database transactions
• Concurrency control
• System design

Infrastructure

• Docker
• AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda)
• Kafka
• Kong API Gateway
• Nginx
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD
• Git
• PM2
• Linux

AI

• LLM integration
• Embeddings
• Vector search
• RAG
• MCP
• Claude API
• Ollama

Payments

• Stripe
• Razorpay
• Paytm