Tejas Soni
Senior Backend Engineer | Node.js | TypeScript | Distributed Systems | Cloud Infrastructure
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Backend Engineer with 4.5+ years designing and delivering scalable REST APIs, distributed microservices, and cloud-native systems for healthcare SaaS and document-management platforms. Strong in Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Comfortable owning backend systems end-to-end: from schema design and API architecture to production deployment and observability. Currently deepening focus on gRPC and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi).
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer - Groovy Technoweb Pvt. Ltd - Nadiad, India
(2020-12 - 2024-10)
Healthcare SaaS, Australian and European markets
- Owned end-to-end backend delivery for healthcare SaaS platforms, covering API architecture, database modeling, cloud deployments, and service observability.
- Designed scalable, distributed APIs for compliance-grade healthcare workflows including prescriptions, pathology, referrals, and remote consultations.
- Deployed containerized services on GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD with blue-green strategies, maintaining 99.9% uptime SLA.
- Built and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines across all microservices, improving release consistency and deployment safety.
- Used Redis-backed queues to decouple async workloads and improve overall system responsiveness.
- Mentored junior engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices.
- Introduced a .NET service into the Node.js ecosystem to consume Australian government healthcare SDKs, reducing implementation time and supporting compliance approval from 3 regulatory authorities.
Senior Backend Engineer - Groovy Technoweb Pvt. Ltd - Nadiad, India
(2026-01)
Healthcare SaaS, Australian and European markets
Backend Engineer, Freelance and Open Source - Independent / Upwork - Remote
(2025-07 - 2025-12)
- Built and published SargenJS, an NPM CLI that scaffolds production-ready Express.js backends with zero boilerplate.
- Completed freelance backend engagements on Upwork, delivering Node.js and TypeScript API solutions.
- Deepened hands-on expertise in gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Pulumi IaC through self-directed distributed system projects.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science - Gujarat Technological University (2016-09 - 2020-08)
