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ABOUT

ABOUT

MAIN BIO

I grew up wanting to be the software engineer from Tamil cinema. The background music never showed up, but the bugs did.

As a kid, I wanted to be the software engineer from a Tamil movie—the one who flew back from the US with a laptop and big ideas. That dream led me to robotics, PC builds, and eventually a last-minute AI & Data Science choice in college. Turns out, it became my career.

These days I'm a full stack developer at Southern Guild, based in Bangalore now though I grew up in Coimbatore. I build the way I learned to at school — as a team, owning the whole thing instead of a slice. I'll take a feature from the first schema migration to the query that runs 12× faster to the interface people actually touch.

The concrete version: at Southern Guild, I wrestled Zitadel into a reusable auth SDK built straight from the docs, making the integration fully dynamic and configurable. I also scaled a NestJS backend handling 6M+ PostgreSQL records (40% faster) and cut natural-language search latency from 250ms to 20ms.

Curiosity gets me into rabbit holes. Good questions get me out. I still think the best products are the ones that save someone even a single paisa.

Portrait of DINESH G

it's me

my story ↓

MY STORY —

How I got here

turn the pages, one at a time

Nº 00

தொடங்கும் முன்னாடி

கதை தொடங்கறதுக்கு முன்னாடி, ஒரு நன்றி சொல்லணும். இதெல்லாம் நான் தனியா செஞ்சது இல்ல. இந்தப் பக்கங்கள்ல இருக்கிற ஒவ்வொரு அத்தியாயமும் இருக்கறதுக்குக் காரணம், நான் என்னை நிரூபிக்கறதுக்கு முன்னாடியே யாராவது என்மேல நம்பிக்கை வெச்சாங்க. என் அப்பா (Dad), அம்மா (Mom)—நீங்க செஞ்ச ஒவ்வொரு தியாகத்துக்கும், கொடுத்த ஒவ்வொரு ஊக்கத்துக்கும், தந்த ஒவ்வொரு வாய்ப்புக்கும் நன்றி. இந்தக் கதை எவ்வளவு என்னோடதோ, அவ்வளவு உங்களோடதும்.

35 marks வாங்கின ஒரு பையன்மேல நம்பிக்கை வெச்ச டீச்சர்ஸ். கஷ்டப்பட்டு உழைக்கறது எப்படின்னு எனக்குக் காட்டித் தந்த என் குடும்பம். ஒவ்வொரு கிளாஸ்ரூமையும் வீடு மாதிரி உணர வெச்ச நண்பர்கள். சரியான நேரத்துல சரியான ஒரே ஒரு வார்த்தை சொன்ன அந்நியர்கள். இது உங்க எல்லாருக்கும்தான்—நானே என்மேல நம்பிக்கை வைக்கறதுக்கு முன்னாடியே, என்மேல நம்பிக்கை வெச்சதுக்கு நன்றி.

இந்த இடத்துக்கு நான் தனியா வரல.

HOW I WORK

Someone kind got here first

Whatever's got me stuck — a stubborn bug, a pattern I can't crack, some idea I cooked up at 1am — chances are someone lovely already hit it and left notes. So I learn from them, borrow the good bits with a quiet thank-you, and try to leave things a little tidier than I found them. When my version turns out handy, it goes right back to the community — the favour, happily passed along.

pinch the good bits, pay it forward

Curiosity in, good questions out

Curiosity drags me into rabbit holes — and a good question is how I climb back out. I'd rather ask the dumb-sounding one and actually understand than skate by on a vague guess. That's usually where the real learning is hiding.

ask the dumb question, get the real answer

Write it for the next person

Whoever inherits my code shouldn't need a tour guide. Clear names, an obvious shape, nothing clever for its own sake. Making it easy to read is half the job.

the next person shouldn't need a map

Good takes patience

Getting something working is the quick part; making it genuinely good is the slow, patient one. I aim high, miss sometimes, and keep chipping at it. Perfect was never the target — a little better each time is.

better each time, not perfect

...and off the clock? Just good people, good food — and keeping life jingalala

LOGBOOK — EXPERIENCE


Southern Guild

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Scaled a NestJS backend handling 6M+ records in PostgreSQL, cutting response times 40% and enabling 100K+ daily requests. Dropped natural-language search latency 12× (250ms → 20ms) with a custom retrieval layer, and led a RAG chat app to MVP in under 8 weeks with 500+ users.

MAY 2025 – PRESENT

Saptang Labs

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER INTERN

Built the frontend for a Telegram monitoring tool tracking 4,500 groups, reengineered a micro-frontend architecture that cut build time 25%, and stood up a local npm registry with MFA that reduced team development time by 45%.

JAN 2024 – APR 2025

LOGBOOK — EDUCATION


Sri Eshwar College of Engineering

B.TECH · AI & DATA SCIENCE

Bachelor of Technology in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, CGPA 7.30/10. Coursework across DSA, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, DBMS, Machine Learning, and Web Development.

JUN 2021 – JUN 2025

LOGBOOK — STACK


LANGUAGES
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonHTMLCSS
FRONTEND
ReactReduxZustandTanStack RouterTailwind CSS
BACKEND
NestJSExpressFlaskRESTMicroservices
DATA
PostgreSQLPrisma
TOOLS
DockerLinuxGitJIRAPostman

BUCKET LIST —

kept in pencil on purpose

BUCKET LIST —

  • Finally learn to drive — properly
  • Buy my first car
  • Wander Goa — the warm-up before the far-off trips
  • Arupadai Veedu: darshan at all six Murugan temples
  • Get to Dubai — and skydive over it if the nerve holds
  • Backpack New Zealand and go island-hopping, Backpacker-Kumar style
  • Build a real product with my boys
  • Build a home for Amma and Appa
  • A proposal in Paris — whenever she turns up in my life

0/9 STAMPED

ON THE TURNTABLE —

the desk hums along

Checking the turntable.

Almost everyone I've met has taught me something — how to communicate, how money works, what love is. I'm still learning.

I'm grateful for every one of you.

Say hello

LET'STALK

Always interested in ambitious products where I can own features end to end. Email is the fastest way to reach me. I'm on IST but happy to overlap with other time zones.

p.s. — no stamp required