Jay Dadarkar

Results-driven Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience building scalable enterprise web applications across service-based and product-based environments. A proven technical leader with a 5-year track record of end-to-end product development at an established IT firm, specializing in Laravel (PHP), Node.js, React, Express.js, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Extensive experience simultaneously directing a diverse portfolio of client-facing projects while architecting, launching, and maintaining proprietary SaaS products from scratch.

Exceptional expertise in translating complex business requirements into robust database architectures, leading high-stakes client consultations, and delivering mission-critical applications. Brings a unique background as a former business founder that sharpens client alignment, operational thinking, and product delivery ownership.

Senior Software Developer at Ideamagix (2021-01 – Present)

Direct the end-to-end software development lifecycle for a diverse portfolio of concurrent client projects and proprietary SaaS products, engineering high-impact systems aligned with specific business scaling requirements.

• SaaS Product Engineering: Concepted, architected, and built proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products from the ground up for the company's internal portfolio. Designed robust multi-tenant database schemas, optimized subscription/billing transactional flows, and engineered scalable codebases to ensure high availability.
• Concurrent Project Leadership: Successfully led and delivered a high volume of custom web applications for international clients simultaneously, efficiently managing time-to-market constraints, optimal resource allocation, and rapidly shifting technical parameters.
• Enterprise Financial Systems Architecture: Architected and launched a comprehensive, high-concurrency enterprise web platform for a financial advisory firm. Engineered complex mathematical calculation engines, automated reporting tools, and an integrated email marketing automation system, driving execution through to a successful production launch.
• Database Engineering & Pre-Sales: Spearheaded the core database schema design and technical architecture for a massive, multi-department enterprise accounting platform for a major global organization. Conducted intensive discovery workshops across diverse administrative divisions to map intricate financial workflows, presenting a technical blueprint that directly secured a high-value, multi-lakh contract.
• Technical Consultation & Discovery: Act as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise clients; analyze complex operational workflows, select optimized technology stacks, and map comprehensive database relationships from zero to deployment.
• Legacy Modernization & Mentorship: Designed robust RESTful APIs and seamlessly integrated complex frontend-backend architectures, safeguarding data integrity during refactoring while mentoring junior developers on backend engineering best practices.

Web Developer at Poddar Diamonds (2019-12 – 2020-12)

• Developed, refactored, and optimized secure codebases for commercial web applications leveraging the Laravel framework and core PHP backend architectures.
• Engineered modern responsive frontend modules using HTML, Sass, and JavaScript to enhance user acquisition and conversion paths.
• Managed and maintained dynamic e-commerce infrastructure (WordPress, WooCommerce) while implementing localized SEO/SEM strategies to maximize digital visibility.

Proprietor & Founder at Downtown Fashion (2016-03 – 2019-12)

• Founded and bootstrapped a western wear apparel manufacturing and commercial brand, overseeing end-to-end production pipelines, business-to-business (B2B) lead generation, and fulfillment logistics.
• Maintained complete digital ownership of the brand, including the full-stack design, development, deployment, and optimization of the company's online e-commerce infrastructure.

Web Designer & Developer at Belifal Innovations & Technologies Pvt Ltd. (2014-09 – 2015-10)

• Responsible for the fundamental full-stack web development, infrastructure maintenance, and UI/UX updating of 12 distinct corporate e-commerce websites.
• Managed multi-channel digital marketplace operations on external networks (Amazon, Flipkart) and designed optimized visual marketing assets.

B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Engineering – Mumbai University (2012-06 – 2015-06)

Diploma in Computer Software Engineering – Saint Angelos Computer Institute (2014-12)