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Startedcodingat10,nowan18-year-oldfoundercurrentlybuildingSimpoolifyfromthegroundup.I'vemanagedcommunitiesof5,000+membersandshipped400+projectsincludingAIintegrations.

Ritik Raj
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Ritik Raj

Full-Stack Engineer & Founder @ Simpoolify

Passionate engineer with deep expertise in modern web architectures, AI systems, and developer experience tooling. I thrive at the intersection of systems design and crafted UI. Founder of Simpoolify.

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Location
Kota, India
Experience
6+ Years
Availability
Immediate
Mode
Remote / Hybrid

Freelance Full-Stack Developer

Self-Employed · Remote (Worldwide)

2021-04Present

Ongoing high-intensity freelance work serving as the foundation of my engineering career. Delivered 100+ high-impact client projects across AI integrations, SaaS, e-commerce, and high-fidelity marketing sites.

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Client Projects & Expertise

  • AI Agents & LLM Integrations (Node.js + OpenAI/Claude) — Built automated customer support pipelines, codebase analyzers, and personalized data extractors for various digital agencies.
  • High-Availability Discord Bots (Discord.js + WebSockets) — Produced scalable community management bots and real-time interaction systems serving 50k+ daily active users seamlessly.
  • E-commerce & Custom Marketplaces (Shopify Headless + Next.js) — Engineered fast, conversion-optimized storefronts for international fast-fashion and tech brands, resulting in up to 3.2× conversion rate lifts.
  • SaaS Dashboards & Billing Flows (React + Stripe + Supabase) — Architected frictionless subscription portals and data-heavy admin dashboards with granular access controls for global logistics operations.
  • Immersive 3D/WebGL Marketing Experiences (Three.js + Framer Motion) — Developed highly interactive, pixel-perfect promotional sites for premium brands achieving average PageSpeed scores of 97/100 despite heavy graphics.
  • Web3 & Blockchain Interfaces — Delivered secure, responsive minting pages, token-gated community portals, and direct Smart Contract interaction UIs.

Key Metrics & Approach

  • 100+ projects delivered | 0 deadline misses | 100% satisfaction rate
  • Maintained strong async communication and rapid iteration loops across 6 different time zones
  • End-to-end product ownership: from foundational system design and Figma wireframing to full production deployment and CI/CD setup

Lead Engineer & Founder

Simpoolify (Startup) · Kota, India

2025-07Present

Founded Simpoolify, an AI-powered SaaS startup building developer productivity tools. Wearing all engineering hats — architecture, shipping features, and infra. Currently working solo to build out the core platform.

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Key Achievements

  • Building the entire product from scratch — Next.js 14 frontend, Rust-based processing backend, LLM orchestration layer, and Kubernetes-hosted infrastructure on GKE.
  • Developing a proprietary RAG pipeline with Pinecone + OpenAI embeddings for codebase-aware AI suggestions aimed at reducing hallucination rates.
  • Implementing early core features by rapidly iterating on AI integrations (GPT-4o + Claude) focusing on establishing a solid architectural foundation.
  • Preparing monetization systems — integrating Stripe, billing dashboard, and subscription lifecycle management end-to-end for future launch.

Responsibilities

  • Setting technical direction and architecture for all product engineering
  • Managing cloud infrastructure architecture and scaling strategy on GCP/GKE
  • Planning direct engagement strategies for early customers and product discovery
  • Open-sourcing internal tooling for developer communities

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Meta · Remote

2024-092025-06

Joined Meta's Platform Engineering team to modernize a legacy monolith serving 500k+ daily active users. Led technical initiatives across the full stack, mentored 3 junior engineers, and shipped critical infrastructure rewrites on time.

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Key Achievements

  • Architected and delivered a real-time notification system using WebSockets + Redis Pub/Sub, reducing user perception of data latency by 70%. Handles 800k+ events/day with 99.97% uptime.
  • Migrated 6 REST microservices to GraphQL — reduced over-fetching, cut average API payload size by 48%, improved client developer velocity.
  • Built an internal dashboarding platform (React + Recharts + D3.js) used by 4 product teams for real-time KPI monitoring — replaced 3 separate Looker dashboards.
  • Implemented zero-downtime blue-green deployments on AWS ECS using Terraform, enabling weekly releases vs previous monthly cadence.
  • Reduced PostgreSQL query P99 latency from 820ms → 90ms by introducing partial indexes, query plan analysis, and connection pooling (PgBouncer).

Responsibilities

  • Owned end-to-end delivery of 4 major product features — from RFC writing through production deployment
  • Led architecture discussions and ADR documentation for platform decisions
  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through weekly 1:1s and paired code reviews
  • Maintained observability stack: Datadog APM, structured logging, custom alerting
  • Collaborated with Product and Design on roadmap estimation and UX trade-offs

Full-Stack Engineer

Linear · Remote

2023-062024-08

Core team member responsible for the issue tracking engine and real-time collaboration features. Shipped the keyboard-first navigation system that became one of Linear's most celebrated product attributes.

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Key Achievements

  • Shipped the real-time collaborative editing system using CRDTs, supporting simultaneous edits across 10,000+ concurrent users
  • Built Linear's universal search using Tantivy (Rust full-text search), achieving sub-30ms queries on datasets of 1M+ issues
  • Rewrote the Electron app bundling pipeline, shrinking the app binary from 340MB to 89MB
  • Implemented the cycle planning interface with drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts, and undo/redo history

Junior Frontend Developer

ArcDev · Remote

2022-062023-05

Joined as the first frontend hire at ArcDev and built the company's React component library from scratch. Delivered pixel-perfect UIs for 3 SaaS products within a 10-person startup environment.

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Key Achievements

  • Built the ArcDev design system — 40+ reusable components (React + Storybook + Jest) that became the foundation for 3 separate products, reducing design-to-code time by 55%.
  • Reduced initial bundle size by 42% via code splitting, lazy loading, and tree shaking, improving LCP from 4.2s → 2.4s.
  • Led migration from class components to React Hooks — converted 180+ components across 2 codebases with zero production regressions.
  • Integrated 3 third-party REST APIs (Stripe, Twilio, Intercom), building reusable service wrappers tested to 98% coverage.

Responsibilities

  • Developed responsive, accessible UI components using React 17, Redux Toolkit, and CSS Modules
  • Collaborated with design team using Figma, translating complex designs into interactive interfaces
  • Performed code reviews and pair programming sessions with backend engineers
  • Maintained automated test coverage using Jest and React Testing Library
  • Participated in bi-weekly sprint planning and retrospectives (Jira/Scrum)
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