✻ Nice to meet you! I'm

Kenil.
Togadiya

Full-stack engineer. Six years helping SaaS startups & scale-ups ship production-ready applications - from the first MVP to enterprise-grade systems handling thousands of users.

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Portfolio

— Selected Work · 2021 / 2026

Small ship cruising a scenic coastlineSmall Ship
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SmallShipTravel.com
✻ Travel · Search & Booking

A small-ship cruise specialist's online platform - search, compare, and plan curated expedition voyages from the world's top brands. Cruise-line catalogs, itineraries, and editorial content all flow through a fast, filterable search experience.

Next.jsSupabaseAlgoliaSanityData Pipelines
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Superbrief OS — UGC Campaign Management PlatformSuperbrief
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Superbrief OS
✻ B2B SaaS · UGC Campaigns

A SaaS platform that streamlines UGC campaigns by connecting brands, creators, and agencies in one collaborative workspace - replacing fragmented spreadsheets and DMs with an end-to-end workflow from brief creation and script approval to asset delivery.

Next.jsShadcnSupabasePostgreSQLChatGPT API
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Airlient — financial advice platformAirlient
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Airlient Platform
✻ Marketplace · Fintech

A platform that lets financial professionals connect with prospects and offer cost-effective general advice. Verified professionals and their reviews link people with trusted guidance - so users can make informed decisions for a better financial future.

Next.jsExpressJSMongoDBStripeRedis
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GoodCourage — admin dashboard for blog platformGood
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GoodCourage.com
✻ Web App · Blogging + Roles

A blogging platform with role-based authentication. Admins manage and invite users, create categories, lessons, and blogs, and approve or reject user submissions. Users read published posts, write their own lessons and blogs, and request publication.

ReactMaterial UINode.jsMongoDBAWS Lambda
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Work Experience

— 2021 / 2026 · Four chapters

✻ Work Experience Timeline

Six Years,
Four Chapters.

Each role taught a different lesson - from owning a payments pipeline to hardening an enterprise portal for 5,000+ users. Tap a year to jump.

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✻ May 2025 — Present · Remote

Backend Engineer

at Lifi
Fulltime · Now
— Responsibilities
  • Built and maintained the user-facing analytics and administration portal, including API key management, user/role management, team invitations, and enterprise SSO/MFA configuration.
  • Led migration of authentication from a custom-built system to Auth0, architecting multi-tenant support (users associated with multiple organizations), role-based access control (RBAC), and organization-level SSO/MFA.
  • Migrated 10k+ users and organizations to the new auth system with zero downtime and no service disruption.
  • Engineered resilience for third-party auth dependencies: implemented multi-layer caching, rate-limit failover, and circuit breakers to keep system available under load and during upstream outages.
  • Introduced observability across backend services using Sentry, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling real-time error tracking, metrics collection, and system health dashboards for faster incident detection and debugging.
— Skills
Node.jsTypeScriptAuth0Okta · SAMLRBACSentryPrometheusGrafana
Apr 2024 — Feb 2025 · Australia · Remote

Founding Software Engineer

at Airlient
Fulltime · Sole Dev
— Responsibilities

Delivered the platform end-to-end as the only engineer on the team, coordinating directly with stakeholders from spec to deploy. Built scalable Node.js + Express APIs with real-time Socket.IO features, designed efficient MongoDB + Redis schemas, and delivered a dynamic Next.js + Material UI frontend. Owned the AWS surface end-to-end - API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch.

— Skills
Next.jsNode.jsExpressSocket.IOMongoDBRedisAWS LambdaECSMaterial UI
Sep 2023 — Present · Upwork · Worldwide

Full-stack Developer

via Freelance · Upwork
Top 3% · Top Rated Plus
— Responsibilities

Developed and deployed web applications for clients in healthcare, IoT, social, and financial services. Built HIPAA-compliant healthcare systems, IoT dashboards with real-time monitoring, social apps with real-time chat and video, and financial tools focused on data integrity. Integrated AI-powered features with LangChain and shipped high-performance APIs with FastAPI.

— Skills
ReactNext.jsFastAPILangChainWebRTCStripeHIPAAPinecone
Feb 2021 — Oct 2023 · India

Full-stack Developer

at Sattvam Soft
Fulltime · 2.5 years
— Responsibilities

Developed and maintained web applications using Next.js, React, and Node.js across multiple product surfaces. Worked with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB. Integrated Stripe + PayPal for ACH, subscriptions, one-time payments, and payouts. Built scalable REST, GraphQL, and serverless APIs on AWS Lambda. Redux for state, Jest for reliability.

— Skills
Next.jsReactNode.jsStripePayPalGraphQLAWS LambdaPostgreSQLReduxJest
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