Samarth Mahapatra
Most teams discover their infrastructure can't scale only after it starts costing them customers. I'm the engineer who fixes that before it happens, and the one who has been called in at 2am when nobody did.
New Delhi, IndiaTaking on new work
APIs and data models designed for fault tolerance from day one, not bolted on after the first outage. Clean schema design, sane boundaries, and systems that don't collapse under their own complexity six months later.
Containerized infrastructure that deploys without downtime, real-time PostgreSQL replication for zero data loss, and CI/CD that doesn't require a prayer before every release.
Fractional CTO work: turning a demo into a product, setting technical direction, and building the review and observability habits a team needs before it doubles in size.
Near real-time PostgreSQL replication as a modular C++17 microservice. Batched writes for throughput, a health-check API exposing live database metrics, and an intentional no-DELETE policy so replication can never destroy data downstream. Published on Docker Hub.
Privacy-first real estate tokenization, built as Tech Lead in Midnight's Build Club. Backend and smart contract systems enabling fractional property ownership and shielded asset transfers through zero-knowledge cryptography.
Payment API with machine-learning fraud detection. Simulates UPI transaction flows with configurable success rates, tracks status transitions, and scores transactions in real time. Flask and PostgreSQL, containerized behind Gunicorn.
Random forest pipeline predicting milk yield per cow from feed quality, fodder type, exercise, weather and history. Shipped end to end: EDA notebook, training pipeline, serialized model and a serving API.
AI-assisted nutrient tracking. Turns what you eat into structured nutritional data instead of another manual food diary.
Five production-shaped API starters, one per stack: Express, Fastify, GraphQL, Flask and Go. Opinionated structure, typed configuration and the wiring every service needs before feature one.
Oct 2024 - Present · Jaipur
Company-wide technical leadership: architecting and shipping production-ready systems across TypeScript, Python, Go and Java, into scalable backend infrastructure supporting the full product and DevOps lifecycle.
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024 · Jaipur
Built 20+ scalable backend applications in Node.js and Python, delivering the product portfolio that carried the company through its early growth phase.
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Selected into a limited cohort of builders in Midnight's Build Club. Architected the backend and smart contract systems for Brickchain, a privacy-first real estate tokenization platform.
Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 · New York, United States
Software Engineering Fellow in MLH's open-source track, working alongside a cohort of engineers on production codebases and code review practice.
Oct 2021 - Jun 2024 · New Delhi
Sustained multi-client delivery: designed and built 20+ dashboards and admin panels across Django, Spring Boot and Express.js, meeting varied technical and business requirements over a 2.9-year engagement.