Raj Mehta

Full-Stack Developer × Code for products, data & scale

I build web platforms, APIs and cloud systems for founders and teams whose products can't afford to break — 15+ years across fintech, healthcare & developer tools.

TSTypeScript React JSNode.js GoGo RsRust Python Kubernetes PostgreSQL Docker AWS Redis GraphQL NNext.js MongoDB Git Tailwind

Good software is a business decision. I build systems that stay fast, stay honest, and stay out of your way — so your product can move at the speed of the idea.

Services

What I can build for you

fixed scope or embedded

MVP & product builds

Have an idea that needs to exist? I take products from napkin to production — design, build, deploy — in weeks, not quarters. You get a launch-ready product and infrastructure that won't fall over when users show up.

Web & mobile appsAPIsPaymentsLaunch-ready infra

Systems that scale

Traffic growing faster than your architecture? I rebuild the load-bearing parts — ledgers, queues, data pipelines — with zero downtime. Proof: a payments core moved to event-sourced Rust mid-flight, 12× faster, zero reconciliation breaks.

Distributed systemsEvent-driven architectureZero-downtime migrationsObservability

Rescue & modernization

Inherited a codebase nobody wants to touch? I untangle legacy systems, add the tests and observability they never had, and leave your team shipping faster than I found them — with docs your fifth engineer can follow.

Legacy auditsTest coveragePerformanceTeam handover

Fractional staff engineer

Need senior firepower without the headcount? I embed with your team a few days a week — architecture reviews, hiring bars, mentoring — the leverage of a staff engineer at a fraction of the cost.

Architecture reviewTechnical hiringMentoringIncident readiness
Selected Work

Proof it pays off

click a project for the full case
ledger.livep99 · 14ms
2,481.06 Cr
FintechRustDistributed
2024 — present

Ledger v3

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forge.toml
// deterministic, content-addressed builds
pub fn resolve(graph: &Graph) -> Result<Plan> {
  let roots = graph.topological()?;
  let cache = RemoteCache::connect("s3://forge")?;

  roots.par_iter()
    .map(|n| n.hash())
    .filter_map(|h| cache.get(h))
    .collect()
}

// 73% of CI time is now redundant work.
// forge eliminates that — with proofs.
Open sourceDev tools
2022 — 2024

Forge — build system

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HealthcareML platform
2020 — 2022

Atlas — clinical ML

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Today, May 1
Mood
+ New entry
MobileConsumer
2018 — 2020

Kindred — journaling app

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Process

How we'll work together

simple & fixed-scope
Discover30 min
A 30-minute call

You talk, I listen. We dig into the business problem behind the technical one — no jargon, no commitment.

Scope48 hrs
A fixed proposal

Within 48 hours: milestones, timeline, and a price that doesn't move. You know exactly what you're buying.

Buildweekly
Weekly demos

Working software every week, plain-English updates, and no surprises. You can pull the plug at any milestone.

Ship+30 days
Launch & handover

Deploy, docs, and a recorded walkthrough so your team owns it. I stay on call for 30 days after launch.

Experience

A career, in chapters

2010 → today
2024 — PresentNow

Strata Payments · Staff Engineer

Payments Platform · Bengaluru / Remote

Tech lead for the ledger and settlement domains. Drove the v3 rewrite (event-sourced Rust), set the hiring bar for the platform org, and authored the engineering ladder used for 40+ engineers.

RustPostgresKafkaKubernetesTerraform
2020 — 2024

Helix Health · Principal Engineer

ML Platform · Hybrid

Built Atlas — the clinical feature store that served 14 hospitals. Owned the team's path from prototype to HIPAA-compliant production, mentored four engineers into senior, and wrote the postmortem culture from scratch.

PythonGoBigQueryPulsargRPC
2018 — 2020

Kindred · Founding Engineer

Consumer mobile · Acquired 2020

Employee #2 at a journaling startup. Shipped the iOS + Android app, designed the offline-first sync protocol, and owned everything from Stripe integration to App Store reviews. Acquired by a wellness conglomerate.

React NativeSwiftNode.jsPostgresStripe
2015 — 2018

Northwind Logistics · Senior Software Engineer

Routing & Optimization · On-site

Owned the dispatch engine that routed 90k deliveries a day across 6 cities. Reduced last-mile costs by 23% through better graph algorithms and obsessively monitored SLOs.

JavaCassandraRedisSpark
2012 — 2015

Inkpad Studios · Software Engineer

Agency / Full-stack

Cut my teeth shipping client work fast — 30+ launches across e-comm, media, and government portals. Learned to sweat the scoping conversation harder than the code.

Ruby on RailsjQueryMySQLSCSS
2010 — 2012

Self-taught · apprentice years

Pune · Internet cafés & college

Wrote my first commercial code at 19 — a class scheduling app that ran for nine years. Learned to debug PHP at 1 a.m. with 40 simultaneous users. Still my favorite kind of pressure.

PHPMySQLBash
Stack

The tools I reach for

opinionated, evolving
Languages
Daily driver → exploratory
  • TypeScript 12 yrs
  • Rust 5 yrs
  • Go 7 yrs
  • Python 10 yrs
  • SQL 15 yrs
  • Swift 3 yrs
Infrastructure
Production-tested
  • Kubernetes 8 yrs
  • Postgres 14 yrs
  • Kafka / Pulsar 7 yrs
  • AWS / GCP 11 yrs
  • Terraform 6 yrs
  • Redis 10 yrs
Practice
How I work
  • System design leading
  • Tech mentorship 9 reports
  • Incident response on-call lead
  • RFC / ADR writing deep
  • Hiring & ladders authored
  • Talks & teaching 42 talks
— Let's build something —

Have a project in mind?
I'd love to hear it.

Currently booking new projects for Q3 2026 · I reply within 24 hours

rajm267747@gmail.com +918866631491
Bengaluru, India · --:-- IST

Let's build something worth maintaining.

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