Smith Gajjar - Senior Software Engineer

About

I’ve been building software systems for over 4 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 generative AI features, improve accessibility, and contribute to the open-source design system Gamut. Before that, as a founding engineer at Tekie, I scaled 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

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
lookahead

Look ahead (fetch) Apollo GraphQL fields with recursive joins ($lookup) in a single MongoDB Aggregation Query.
- GraphQL
- NPM
- MongoDB
sveltekit-go-graphql-starter

Full-stack turborepo starter with Go GraphQL backend, SvelteKit frontend, and PostgreSQL
- GoLang
- SvelteKit
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
AI-powered Statements of Work (SOW) Generation

A full-stack AI-powered tool to dynamically generate SOW's using agentic workflows
- LangGraph
- Python
- React
- Gen AI
Termis

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

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Experience

2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer · Codecademy (Skillsoft)

Worked across the Codecademy platform and CAISY Presentations, an AI-powered coaching platform. Re-architected core web systems, enabled full internationalization, and delivered multiple AI-driven PoCs for Codecademy, from personalized course generation to Cursor integration, shaping new learning experiences for millions.
- Next.js
- Ruby On Rails
- GraphQL
- GoLang
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
- TypeScript
- Gen AI
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