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Zeeshan Bhati

Full-stack engineer, backend-leaning — Bengaluru, India.

I build and break things on the web. Five years at early-stage startups, mostly on the parts that page you at 3am: services, queues, pipelines and the deploys that carry them.

—hey@zeeshanbhati.dev

—GitHub

—LinkedIn

—X

Experience

Plum — Software Engineer II · Oct 2024 – present

—Built Flex Wallet services for company-provided employee funds and a real-time Salesforce connector for insurance-plan updates

—Designed an endorsement system that improved process efficiency by 70% and reduced manual operations by approximately 60%

—Built self-serve React operations dashboards and an API layer that cut sync turnaround from 3 days to 3 hours

JavaSpring BootReactReact QueryREST APIsPostgres

Apptile — Software Engineer II · Aug 2023 – Oct 2024

—Established Grafana and Prometheus monitoring, reducing downtime by 30%, and centralized logs in CloudWatch

—Automated deployments with CodeBuild and ECR, reducing release time by 50%

—Migrated Kafka workloads to SQS, simplifying operations and cutting infrastructure costs by 25%

—Built shared React components that compile to React Native for consistent no-code-editor and mobile rendering

ReactReact NativeNode.jsExpressAWSSQSDocker

Plaza — Backend Engineer · Jun 2021 – Jun 2023

—Built shared React + Tailwind components and hooks in a Turborepo used by mobile and web admin surfaces

—Optimized database access to under 100 ms, reducing peak load by 40%, and cut AWS compute spend by over 40% with serverless

—Built Next.js CRM dashboards with SWR and a Mux live-streaming module used by 100+ brands

Next.jsReactSWRNode.jsMySQLAWS LambdaFargateMux

Selected projects

docker-compose-generator

—Answer a few prompts, get a sane docker-compose.yml

—docker-compose-generator.vercel.app

Fluix

—Copy-paste-ready responsive Flutter UI templates — login, signup, drawers

—github.com/zeeshanbhati/Fluix

AWS TextRect

—Document segregation on AWS that pulls key-value pairs out of forms

—github.com/zeeshanbhati/aws-document-project

Elsewhere

—Motorcycles, football, plane spotting, and F1 on Sunday nights

—Open to backend / platform roles — Bengaluru or remote

Depth lives in the other files: about.md, experience.md, projects.md, stack.md, contact.md.

src/about.md

About

I’m Zeeshan — a software developer with five years of building for early-stage startups, where the backend, the infra and the deploys all tended to be mine.

I’ve worked across the whole stack and gained a real understanding of frontend, backend and DevOps. The part I actually care about is backend development and infrastructure: designing systems that stay boring under load, and that you can reason about at 3am.

What I do

—Backend and infra: Java, Spring, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, GCP

—Enough frontend to own a feature end to end — React, Next.js

—Pipelines, monitoring and deploys: Docker, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus

—Scalable, observable systems over clever ones

Away from the terminal

—Motorcycles — long single-day rides

—Football on the weekends

—Plane spotting

—F1, reliably, on Sunday nights

More detail in experience.md.

src/experience.md

Experience

Plum — Software Engineer II

Oct 2024 – present · Bengaluru, KA

Plum builds economic infrastructure for employee health insurance.

—Built a Flex Wallet service that optimizes the use of company-provided employee funds

—Delivered a real-time Salesforce connector for insurance-plan updates

—Designed an endorsement system that improved process efficiency by 70% and reduced manual operations by approximately 60%

—Built React operations dashboards backed by React Query and REST APIs, giving teams self-serve endorsement workflows

—Architected an API layer that reduced sync turnaround from 3 days to 3 hours and halved future integration effort

—Migrated a legacy service to Spring Boot, improving maintainability, scalability and developer productivity

JavaSpring BootReactReact QueryREST APIsPostgres

Apptile — Software Engineer II

Aug 2023 – Oct 2024 · Bengaluru, KA

Apptile is a no-code platform for building apps without writing a line of code.

—Established Grafana and Prometheus monitoring for backend services, enabling proactive detection and reducing downtime by 30%

—Automated deployments with CodeBuild and ECR, cutting release time by 50% and removing manual deployment overhead

—Migrated event processing from Kafka to SQS, simplifying operations and reducing infrastructure costs by 25%

—Centralized log pipelines in CloudWatch, improving debugging efficiency by 40%

—Built React components for the no-code editor that compile to React Native, keeping visual-editor and mobile rendering consistent

ReactReact NativeNode.jsExpressAWSSQSDocker

Plaza — Backend Engineer

Jun 2021 – Jun 2023 · Bengaluru, KA

Plaza is a creator commerce platform for building, launching and scaling a storefront.

—Built a shared React + Tailwind component library and reusable hooks in a Turborepo, used by the mobile app and web admin dashboard

—Introduced GitHub CI/CD pipelines across three environments

—Optimized database access to under 100 ms, reducing peak database load by 40%

—Adopted Lambda and Fargate, reducing AWS compute costs by over 40%

—Migrated core services to Node.js, improving delivery speed and issue resolution time

—Built Next.js CRM dashboards with SWR for cache-coherent CRUD flows

—Delivered a Mux live-streaming interface and backend module used by 100+ brands

Next.jsReactSWRNode.jsMySQLAWS LambdaFargateMux

src/projects.md

Projects

docker-compose-generator

—Generates a docker-compose.yml for your project from the options you pick

—Answer a few prompts, get something sane you can actually run

—docker-compose-generator.vercel.app

—github.com/zeeshanbhati/docker-compose-generator

Fluix

—Ready-to-use responsive Flutter UI templates, grouped by category — login, signup, drawers and more

—Copy, paste, and you have the screen

—github.com/zeeshanbhati/Fluix

AWS TextRect

—Document segregation built on AWS services that extracts the key-value pairs out of a document

—Useful for filtering the key-value fields of scanned forms

—github.com/zeeshanbhati/aws-document-project

CodeWalk

—A local coding platform in PHP, HTML and CSS, built for college use

—Supports C and C++, with separate logins for admins, teachers and students; teachers manage the practical list

—github.com/zeeshanbhati

src/stack.md

Stack

Backend & APIs

—Java / Spring Boot — REST APIs, services and asynchronous jobs

—TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js / Express — product APIs and integrations

—Python, Go, C# / .NET, and C++

—Event-driven systems with SQS, Kafka and asynchronous processing

Frontend

—React, Next.js and React Native for web and mobile products

—React Query and SWR for server-state management

—Shared component libraries and monorepos with Turborepo

Data, Cloud & Delivery

—Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Redshift and data modeling

—AWS: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Fargate, RDS, S3, SQS, ECR, CodePipeline, Cognito and CloudWatch

—Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, GitHub Actions and CodeBuild

—Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Sentry, LogRocket and Segment

Also experienced with Google Cloud, Firebase, Prisma, Mux and production RAG/LLM tooling.

src/contact.md

Contact

—Email — hey@zeeshanbhati.dev

—GitHub — @zeeshanbhati

—LinkedIn — in/zeeshanbhati99

—X — @zeeshan__07

—Instagram — @zeeshan__07

Open to backend / platform roles. Bengaluru or remote.

Fastest reply is email; I read it before the notifications.

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rules.md

Rules for any agent, human or otherwise, working in this repo.

Before you write anything

—Read the README.md. Yes, all of it.

—If the answer is "it depends", say what it depends on.

—The bug is in your code. It is not in the compiler, the database, or the laws of physics.

—Reproduce it before you fix it. A fix for a bug you never saw is a refactor with good marketing.

Choosing a solution

—Prefer the boring one. Boring survives on-call.

—Anything clever gets one sentence of justification. If it takes two sentences, it is too clever.

—No new dependency without a reason that fits on one line. "It has 40k stars" is not a reason.

—We moved off Kafka onto SQS because less machinery beat more throughput at our scale. Remember that the next time something is described as web scale.

—The fastest query is the one you did not make. The second fastest is the one you cached. There is no third place.

Changing things

—Tests before refactors. Always.

—If the diff is over 300 lines, split it.

—Do not push to main directly. main has feelings.

—Every migration is a controlled outage you scheduled on purpose. Act accordingly.

—Deploy on Tuesday. Friday deploys require a signed waiver and a plausible alibi.

Once it is running

—If it is not on a dashboard, it is not in production, it is just optimism with a URL.

—Alert on symptoms, not causes. Nobody was ever paged awake by a graph they understood.

—A 40% drop in the AWS bill is a feature. It will never get a changelog entry. Do it anyway.

Tone

—Short sentences.

—No exclamation marks.

—If you are about to write "simply", delete it and try again.