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Plain, citable facts about me and my work. Every number links to how it's measured.
Who
- Name
- Deependra Vishwakarma
- Role
- Senior software engineer: full-stack, cloud and applied AI engineering
- Based in
- Mumbai, India
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata (UTC+5:30)
- Languages
- English, Hindi
- Works with teams in
- United States, United Kingdom, European Union, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea
- Building for clients since
- 2018
- Availability
- Taking on new projects. Replies within one business day.
What I do
- Product engineering
- Web platforms and SaaS, designed and built end to end. Details
- Performance and reliability
- Fast under load, calm on launch day, cheaper to run. Details
- Applied AI engineering
- AI features that are useful, safe and affordable in production. Details
- Security and compliance engineering
- Find the holes before someone else does, and make the code do what the policy promises. Details
- Technical leadership
- Senior technical judgment, for as many days a month as you need it. Details
Numbers, with definitions
- The InfluencerX voting campaign ran for 22 days.
- Length of the live voting campaign, from the opening to the close of voting.
- InfluencerX served 1.6M+ users over the campaign.
- Total users of the voting platform over the campaign, not concurrent sessions.
- InfluencerX handled 2,000+ concurrent users at peak.
- Users on the platform at the same moment, at the busiest point of the campaign.
- InfluencerX API responses stayed at <1 s at peak.
- API response time for vote submission at peak traffic.
- InfluencerX availability over the campaign: 99.99%.
- Availability over the campaign, from the Google Cloud load balancer's health checks: no failed check and no outage was seen during the campaign.
- TopGear India's main pages loaded in 1–3 min → 3 s after the rebuild.
- Load time of the home page and the article category pages before and after the rebuild (new stack, optimized SQL queries and indexes, Google Cloud, properly sized images).
- TopGear India's bounce rate went 70% → 30% after the rebuild.
- Bounce rate in Google Analytics before and after the rebuild.
- The Digital Wardrobe pipeline turned an upload into a finished product image in 3–8 s on average.
- Average time from upload to the finished e-commerce-style image: text and attribute extraction, image generation and display.
- Exhibit Social indexed 10,000+ influencers.
- Influencer profiles collected and kept up to date by the platform's pipelines.
- Exhibit Social ran 30+ large brand campaigns.
- Large brand campaigns run on the platform.
- Deependra has managed 15+ production servers.
- Production servers and virtual machines managed across his roles, on Google Cloud and AWS.
- A legacy monolith was split into 3 services.
- Independent services split out of a legacy monolith.
- Deependra has been building for clients since 2018.
- The year Deependra began building for clients: an internship in 2018, three years of freelance work, then product teams.
- Immunomate reached 500+ registered users.
- Registered users of the Immunomate telemedicine app.
- Redis caching cut Immunomate's API response time by 40%.
- Reduction in API response time after adding Redis caching.
- Several small business websites went from brief to live in 1 day.
- Time from brief to live site for the Flexecare and Shahnawaz Ali websites.
Notable projects
- InfluencerX (2024)
- A voting platform that stayed fast for all 22 days of a campaign. Case study
- TopGear India CMS (2024)
- A magazine CMS moved from CodeIgniter on shared hosting to Laravel on Google Cloud: page loads from 1–3 min → 3 s. Case study
- Digital Wardrobe (2025)
- A pipeline that turns a phone photo of clothing into a clean, e-commerce-style product image in 3–8 s. Case study
- Exhibit Social (2024)
- A B2B influencer-marketing platform built from zero: 10,000+ influencers indexed and 30+ brand campaigns run on it. Case study
- Vayudoot Aviations (2025)
- One platform for an aviation academy: public site, online exams with automatic grading and certificates, and student management. Case study
- Immunomate (2022)
- A telemedicine app with real-time video consultations, launched to 500+ registered users. Case study
Writing
- 2026
- OpenWA: the free WhatsApp API gateway I wish I'd found sooner. A hands-on look at a self-hosted, open-source WhatsApp API gateway: setup, architecture, rough edges and who it's for.
- 2026
- How a voting platform held up through a 22-day campaign. The architecture behind the InfluencerX voting platform: Cloud Run behind a load balancer with health checks, layered caching and Supabase.
- 2026
- Laravel performance in 2026: a production playbook. What actually makes Laravel applications fast in production, from queries and caching to queues and Octane.
- Current work
- What I'm working on now
Credentials
- 2024
- Google Project Management Professional Certificate, Google
- 2024
- Google Cybersecurity Specialization, Google
- 2018
- Web Development Certificate, LiveTech India
How to hire me
- Start
- Send a brief. Most engagements start with a fixed-price first step.
- vishwakarmadeependra50@gmail.com