Smith Gajjar - Senior Software Engineer

About

I’ve been building software systems for over 5 years, focused on making applications run smoothly and scale reliably. I enjoy figuring out how things work and making them work better.

Today, as a Senior Software Engineer at Codecademy, I work on web platform architecture, build agentic AI systems for learning platforms, improve platform performance and accessibility, and contribute to the open-source design system Gamut. Before that, as a founding engineer at Tekie, I helped scale a B2B EdTech platform to 1,000+ schools and 500k+ students, designing its GraphQL BaaS, infrastructure, and backend systems with a small team.

Every now and then, I enjoy building something on the side, from small experiments to tools that somehow become useful, often teaching me more than I expected.

Projects

Arcgentic - AI Learning Platform

An agentic learning platform built around a LangGraph orchestration layer with tools, subagent routing, skills and automated research workflows that generates interactive visualizations, deep dives, roadmaps, slides, podcasts, and flashcards from a prompted topic or uploaded documents.
GitHub
- LangGraph
- Python
- GoLang
- React
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- Turborepo
Devbox

A lightweight, cross‑platform desktop and web app that bundles everyday developer utilities into a single, streamlined experience. No clutter, no browser tabs, just the tools you need, available offline and optimized for productivity
GitHub
- Tauri
- React
- TypeScript
sveltekit-go-graphql-starter

Full-stack turborepo starter with Go GraphQL backend, SvelteKit frontend, and PostgreSQL
- GoLang
- SvelteKit
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
The Trust Paradox

An interactive game theory experiment exploring cooperation, betrayal, and the trust paradox through Robert Axelrod's iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.
- React
- TypeScript
Termis

Define your iTerm layouts and commands using YAML, then launch everything with a single command, your workspace, ready to go
PyPI
- Python
- iTerm2

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Experience

2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer · Codecademy (Skillsoft)

Architected agentic AI systems across Codecademy and Skillsoft platforms, including multi-agent workflows for learning authoring and hands-on project generation. Improved shared web platform performance at scale, delivered AI-native internal tooling, and shipped global-ready platform capabilities supporting millions of learners across regions.
- Next.js
- Ruby On Rails
- GraphQL
- GoLang
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- TypeScript
- LangGraph
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Full Stack Developer · Videoverse (Illusto)

Integrated multi-region payment systems (Stripe, Razorpay, PhonePe) and improved checkout reliability and compliance.
- React
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Redis
- MySQL
- AWS
Feb 2021 - Sept 2023
Senior Full Stack Developer · Tekie.in (Acquired by Uolo)

Scaled an EdTech platform to 1,000+ schools and 500k+ students, designing its GraphQL BaaS, backend systems, and infrastructure. Led a small engineering team and improved performance across web and mobile apps.
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- React
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Azure
June - July 2019
Frontend Developer Intern · InVideo

Built responsive, cross-browser UI components in Angular and improved user experience across multiple browsers
- Angular
- Python