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Mihir Jataniya, backend and real-time systems engineer

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From the desk

The more i learn,
The more i want to Explore

I've come to believe that curiosity is less about finding answers and more about staying open to change.

It has led me toward technology, but also toward design, stories, photography, late-night ideas, and countless conversations that reshaped the way I think. I don't want to be defined by a single skill or profession

I'd rather be remembered as someone who remained genuinely interested in the world and never stopped exploring it.

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Experience

MERN Stack Developer, GlitchOver

Feb 2025 – Present
Ahmedabad, India
  • Built a scalable payment microservice with full ACID transaction guarantees (MongoDB transactions) handling core money-movement logic for a platform serving 5,000+ daily active users.
  • Secured the payment-gateway webhook ingestion pipeline across 3 providers with HMAC-SHA256 timing-safe signature verification and idempotent order-status checks, eliminating replay attacks and duplicate wallet credits during gateway retry storms.
  • Built a customer-support chatbot on a RAG + LLM pipeline with automatic escalation to human agents, deflecting 70% of routine queries while routing complex ones.
  • Engineered real-time systems over WebSockets for a gig-based platform, including live queue management and presence, keeping state synchronized across 1,000+ concurrent users with sub-second updates.
  • Cut API p95 latency by 40% and reduced database load by caching slow-changing data in Redis and replacing raw MongoDB queries with aggregation pipelines.
  • Redesigned the slot-booking UI/UX around a clearer availability and confirmation flow, reducing booking-confusion failures by 90%.
  • Moved social-profile scraping and third-party integrations onto a queue + message-broker architecture (AWS SQS), making high-volume asynchronous processing reliable and retryable.
  • Built a scalable notification service fanning out email, push, in-app, and Discord alerts from a single event contract, with templating, per-user preferences, idempotent delivery, and retry with dead-letter handling — sustaining 50,000+ notifications/day at 99.9% delivery.
  • Shipped internal creator tooling that surfaces real-time platform events: a Discord event-reporting bot and OBS-integrated live streaming overlays.
  • Designed a role-based access control (RBAC) admin panel used across Finance, Partnerships, Marketing, Operations, and Engineering, enabling secure permission management and internal workflows.

Currently in print

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MeetNote AI

MeetNote AI landing page

A MediaSoup SFU video conferencing platform with an event-driven pipeline that transcribes each meeting while it is still running and turns the result into structured, downloadable notes.

Technical Decision: An SFU forwards media instead of mixing it, so a room costs bandwidth rather than CPU.

Implementation: Transcription, finalization and note generation are three independent SQS workers, each with its own retry policy and dead-letter queue.

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HelioKit

HelioKit landing page

An open-source library of animated React components distributed by CLI rather than as a package. One command copies a component's source into the project, so the code belongs to the codebase that asked for it.

Technical Decision: Components are installed as files, not imported from a dependency, so every line stays editable.

Implementation: One repository builds two artifacts: a Node CLI bundled with tsup and published to npm, and a prerendered documentation site built with Vite.

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Education
Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering
Mangalore, India
B.E. in Computer Science
2021 – 2025
Tech stack
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Frontend
React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux, Zustand, TanStack Query
Backend
Node.js, Express, REST APIs, WebSocket
Databases
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vector Databases
Infrastructure
Docker, Amplify, Cloudflare, EC2, CI/CD, Storage Buckets, Logging & APMs, DNS Management
AI
RAG, LLM Integrations, Transformers, Tokenization, Prompt Design
Architecture
Microservices, RBAC, MVC, Event-Driven Architecture, Payment Infrastructure, Factory Pattern
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Classifieds
FOR HIRE: thoughtful engineering, ambitious products, and impossible deadlines.
SEEKING: curious people building things that matter.
CURRENTLY: experimenting with distributed systems, AI, and developer tools.
ALWAYS: learning, shipping, and improving.
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STDOUT is a personal newspaper published irregularly on the internet.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. Typeset in Playfair Display and IBM Plex Mono.

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