Rahul Vagadiya

A Bespoke eCommerce one-of-a-kind fashion store enabling customers to build their own fashion lines.

I spearheaded the architecture and engineering of the front-end technologies involved in building and launching an eCommerce store that allows customers to create custom fashion lines with a unique Workflow Editor. I was also directly involved in converting many ideas into full-fledged features, including a patent-pending design workflow, custom pricing strategy, discounting solution, and many more.

A virtual event platform built by a team of excellent engineers. I joined Remo as a full-stack engineer to assist in building features, maintain the existing product, and improve overall performance and user experience related to onboarding. My other roles included:

• Owning and delivering the whereami feature with test coverage, tracking, and logging while working closely with the product. This feature allows users to identify themselves and others in a virtual floor map where there could be up to 500 guests.
• Converting a rather tedious manual process of onboarding customers into an entirely self-serving single sign-on self-service (SSO) feature. Customers can set up SSO login for their events or companies from an easy-to-use SSO wizard.
• Being proactive in communications across teams and platforms to keep a clear picture of the state of things at any given time.
• Ensuring 80-90% test coverage for all new features.

Developed a real-time operational intelligence application and data analytics platform that helps businesses make smarter decisions. I set up the application to improve products and services through real-time KPI visualizations and customer demand sensing. It includes a multi-tenant single-page app for the web and a progressive web app for the mobile with real-time KPIs. The application also includes comparative visualizations across time and venues, employee cost-to-revenue KPIs, alert management for various KPIs, user management, and push notifications to users and groups.

A micro-booking hotel platform where users can book by the hours, days, weeks, and even months. I single-handedly built the Stayhopper suite of apps in about four months. The suite consisted of the following parts:

• A hotel booking website that allows users to search, book, and pay for hotel stays. I used React and Next.js to develop it.
• A RESTful API for all back-end business logic and processing, which I built using Node.js and MongoDB.
• A role-based CMS system for Stayhopper staff to manage properties, users, configuration data, bookings, payments, reports, etc., and for hotel staff to manage properties, bookings, and access their reports and payment information.
• An API to manage pricing, availability of rooms, and support long-term bookings in addition to upgraded micro stay bookings.
• An admin app for super administrators and hotel staff to manage the properties, rooms, pricing, and availability.
• A website for end users to explore, pay for, book hotels, and manage their profile.

Helped architect the front end of the Shory Car Insurance App.
Shory is a responsive App that also has native mobile apps.

The tech stack chosen for this project is React and ReactNative, allowing all business logic to be shared between both platforms. Engineers can then build UI components on top of this monorepo for the specific platforms.

This strategy allows minimal code duplication and centralization of business logic, making releasing new features and maintaining existing ones easy. Another added advantage is any React developer can build on top of this stack, given that the core architecture is already in place.

I worked on this project for six months handing over further development to the team I helped hire throughout the project.

The myCRM iPhone app allows clients to access the CRM securely to manage properties, add leads, monitor stock levels, and keep track of business performance. The app utilizes the latest iOS technologies like Touch ID, Apple Keychain Access for storing credentials securely, and over-the-air (OTA) updates to ensure smooth operations for the clients and their teams.

My role was to:

• Help re-build the app from scratch using Angular.
• Introduce newer technologies and frameworks.
• Build the mobile app packing the existing web app.
• Enable native features.
• Tackle compatibility issues.
• Allow for development on top of the architecture.
• Distribute the app to the App Store.

A simple social network built to allow for an ad-free experience with no sponsored content. For this project, I developed:

• The whadapp website where users can register for their account, search and follow other users, write posts, and upload photos to share with their network. I used Angular.
• A RESTful API for all back-end business logic and processing built using Node.js and MongoDB.
• A packaged web app with Cordova for iPhone and Android apps.