Hi, I'm Smith,

Senior Software Engineer

Solutions Architect / Tinkerer / Mentor

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About

About Me

I'm Smith Gajjar, a 24-year-old Full Stack developer, Solutions Architect and Mentor, I like to improve user experience, create smart user interfaces, developing rich web applications and managing & optimizing backend infrastructure including deployment, scalability, performance and efficiency. Fond of Minimalistic UI/UX.

Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Codecademy. Primarily interested in JavaScript frontend and backend spectrum, Although learning GoLang 🔥. Working on interesting projects with positive people.

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Projects

My Projects

Apollo GraphQLNPMMongoDB

lookahead

Look ahead (fetch) Apollo GraphQL fields with recursive joins ($lookup) in a single MongoDB Aggregation Query.

NPM

NodeTypescriptNPMMongoDB

mongodb-aggregation-builder

Aggregation pipeline constructor for the aggregate method of a mongoDB collection.

NPM

GitHub URL

ReactNPMJavascriptBlockly

react-blockly-playground

A React Wrapper for Blockly, It is a web-based, visual programming editor library based on Google's Blockly..

NPM

GitHub URL

TypescriptNPMWYSIWYG

tekie-content-editor

Web based Rich Text and WYSIWYG editor React wrapper.

NPM

HTMLPWAJavascript

Covid 19 Dashboard PWA

Progressive Web App for tracking spread of COVID19 (Count Data Might not be available right now)

Demo

NodeTypescriptApollo GraphQLMongoDB

GraphQL Nodejs Backend Boilerplate

Built using Typescript/MongoDB/GraphQL and TypeGraphQL + Typegoose integration.

GitHub URL

HTMLCSSJavascript

Personal Website

First iteration of my personal portfolio website started out as an experimental space.

Live URL

React NativeReduxExpo

Flashify: Flashcard Mobile App

Native Flashcard Application for creating different subject decks and to attempt quizzes.

Download APK

GitHub URL

HTMLCSSJavascript

ArtStag

Designing Studio Portfolio Website.

Live URL

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Skills

GraphQL

ReactJS

NodeJS

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

NextJS

AWS

Python

Azure

Docker

MongoDB

GoLang

Redis

Kubernetes

NGINX

Ruby On Rails

Angular

Jenkins

ElectronJS

Webpack

React Native

Experience

Codecademy

Jan 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

▹ Codecademy is an online interactive Edtech platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.
@Codecademy.com

Videoverse - illusto

Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

Full Stack Developer

▹ Illusto is a fast and easy video creation tool packed with easy-to-use advanced features to make powerful videos.
▹ Integrated and Managed different payment system like Stripe, Razorpay and Phonepe to enhance user experience and streamline payment functionalities across different region.
@illusto.com

Tekie.in

June 2022 - Sept 2023

Senior Full Stack Developer

June 2021 - May 2022

Full Stack Developer

Feb 2021 - May 2021

Frontend Developer Intern

▹ Tekie is a B2B Ed-tech platform that uses storytelling to make learning to code a movie-like experience. As a core team member collaborated and scaled platform to over 500+ schools.
▹ Developed user facing modules, a PWA based on Reactjs and Redux and a Desktop App using Electron.js. Optimized Landing Page Score/Performance and SEO to 99% to improve visibility and Core Web Vitals.
▹ Developed, Managed and Optimized API and backend architecture for enhanced scalability and performance, reducing response time by over 60% utilizing Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis and CDN Caching.
▹ Developed and Managed Internal Reports and tooling architecture for Business Team utilizing Node.js, ETL Process (From MongoDB to SQL), PostgreSQL and Python (Flask) for data-driven decisions.
▹ Integrated different 3rd party services such as GSuit, Newrelic, Sentry, Elastic Search, Stellate (GraphQL Caching) and GA/GTM/Looker Studio to improve and monitor application performance.
▹ Managed and Optimized DevOps infrastructure and Configured CI/CD on Github/Jenkins based of Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Azure Services and AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, Elastic Transcoder and CloudFront.
▹ Developed and Contributed to open-source NPM libraries for the platform, mongodb-aggregation-builder, tekie-content-editor, react-blockly-playground. Developed and Led many Proof of Concept’s for Product Development.
▹ Interacting and engaging in discussions with stakeholders from various departments to determine and deliver optimal tech solutions aligned with business requirements.
▹ Mentored, Guided and led a team of 7 in spearheading the product development and seamless migration of an product suite. Encouraged code hygiene and best practices while building along with peer code reviews.
@Tekie.in

3rd June - 19th July 2019

InVideo

Frontend Developer Intern

▹ InVideo is an best rated online professional video editing SaaS Platform with over 7M+ users.
▹ Built new user facing modules by converting designs from Sketch and InVision into pixel-perfect and responsive screens using Angular 7, HTML, SCSS and TypeScript.
▹ Helped in fixing cross-browser inconsistencies in the interface using BrowserStack
@InVideo.io

My Blogs

GraphQL at scale using Mon...

May 24, 2022 Smith Gajjar

Almost one and half year ago, I wrote “Building GraphQL API with Nodejs, TypeGraphQL , Typegoose and Troubleshooting common...

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Micro Frontends in a Nutshell

Jan 19, 2021 Smith Gajjar

The term "Micro Frontends" is becoming more popular this days. As there are lot of discussions going on regarding its implementation...

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Building GraphQL API with...

Dec 27, 2020 Smith Gajjar

I recently started out with this project where I am using Apollo GraphQL with TypeGraphQL , typegoose as mongoose wrapper and....

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Hi, I'm Smith,

Senior Software Engineer

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About Me

Projects

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Skills

Experience

Codecademy

Videoverse - illusto

Tekie.in

InVideo

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Developer,

Architect,

Tinkerer.