Deepak Kumar Jha Experience — Technical Lead & Senior Full-Stack Engineer

13 years building and leading production systems across media, telecom, fintech, life sciences and enterprise SaaS — from a 60M+ monthly-user news platform to carrier-grade telecom tooling and LLM-backed product features.

1. Dec 2025 – Present

   Technical Lead

   SmartSitting

   Childcare placement marketplace · New York, US (Remote)

   • Lead a 4–5 engineer team owning the full technical stack — web app, admin platform, candidate and institution onboarding, and mobile app — built from zero on GCP.
   • Shipped Gemini-powered chat automation and an AI-driven profile suggestion and review engine, contributing to 3x growth in weekly candidate applications.
   • Own GCP infrastructure end to end: CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, domain, email and payment gateway integration.

2. Feb 2025 – Dec 2025

   Solution Architect

   Indegene Limited

   Life sciences technology (NASDAQ: INGN) · India

   • Led 12–14 engineers migrating a legacy React application to a modern architecture and decomposing a monolith into microservices.
   • Cut API response times from 10–40 seconds to 5–7 seconds and eliminated recurring weekly server crashes.
   • Parallelised high-volume data processing with cron-based batch jobs, reducing runtime from roughly 60 minutes to 20–30 minutes.

3. Apr 2024 – Feb 2025

   Technical Analyst

   Toppan Merrill LLC

   Financial data & regulatory compliance · India

   • Delivered enterprise compliance portals for financial, legal and healthcare clients across North America, Europe and APAC using Node.js, Angular 17 and GCP.
   • Designed audit-ready data models with full lineage tracking in Prisma ORM for regulated, multi-jurisdictional workloads.
   • Led backend architecture decisions within a team of 6–8 engineers, defining API standards and data governance patterns.

4. Oct 2021 – Apr 2024

   Tech Lead / Solution Engineer

   Radisys Technology (Reliance)

   Deutsche Telekom partner — telecom & IoT · India

   • Led interface engineering for DT Access 4.0, Deutsche Telekom’s carrier-grade network operations platform, managing 8–10 engineers within a 300-person global programme using React, Node.js, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL.
   • Engineered high-throughput IoT data pipelines for Smart Home applications, processing concurrent event streams from security cameras, gateways and geofencing devices.
   • Established engineering standards and mentored the team on best practices, code quality and architecture patterns.

5. Nov 2018 – Sep 2021

   Associate Architect / Tech Lead

   HT Media Ltd. (Hindustan Times)

   Digital media & publishing · New Delhi, India

   • Architected and scaled backend services for LiveHindustan.com to 60M+ monthly users, sustaining stability through elections, cricket finals and national breaking news.
   • Designed CDN + Redis + Elasticsearch caching, cutting API response times from 400–600ms to sub-100ms under peak load.
   • Directed greenfield development of the Hindustan Smart City platform — architecture, API standards and deployment pipelines from day one.
   • Managed a team of 5 backend engineers; introduced CI/CD, code review and TDD practices across the function.

6. Jun 2017 – Nov 2018

   Senior Associate — Full Stack

   Publicis Sapient (SapientRazorfish)

   Global digital consultancy · Gurgaon, India

   • Re-architected Bed Bath & Beyond’s legacy backend to support a React and Redux SPA, working across a 10–12 person full-stack team using Angular, PostgreSQL and Node.js.
   • Shipped cart, promotions and checkout features for The Children’s Place hybrid mobile app (Angular / Ionic) on schedule.
   • Established code review standards and deployment pipelines; integrated Snowplow and Omniture analytics for conversion insight.

7. Jan 2016 – Jun 2017

   Senior Software Developer

   NTT DATA Global Delivery Services

   Enterprise IT services · Gurgaon, India

   • Delivered Hanover Insurance’s mobile application end to end using Angular 2 and Ionic, from architecture through production release.
   • Built reusable UI component systems for Honeywell Partner Connect and NTT Security enterprise platforms.

8. Mar 2015 – Jan 2016

   JavaScript Developer

   Avalon Information Systems

   Data visualisation & mobile · New Delhi, India

   • Built hybrid iOS and Android applications using Ionic Framework and AngularJS, including the Child Info census data app.
   • Developed census and geospatial data visualisation dashboards using Highcharts and AngularJS.

9. Feb 2013 – Mar 2015

   Full-Stack Developer

   Independent Full-Stack Consultant

   Contract · Remote

   • Designed and shipped full-stack web applications for SME clients across e-commerce, portals and dashboards, managing delivery end to end for clients in India and the Middle East.