Hi, I'm Surabhi 👋
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
I build products from the UI all the way down to the systems that keep them running. I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into reliable, scalable, user-friendly software.
01 / About me
I'm a full-stack engineer who genuinely enjoys understanding how all the pieces fit together: what the user sees, what happens behind an API, how data moves through a system, and what keeps everything reliable when things don't go as planned.
Over the years, I've worked across frontend, backend, APIs, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, automation, and more recently AI-assisted development. I enjoy taking an ambiguous problem, understanding what actually needs to be solved, and turning it into something people can use.
I'm naturally curious. If I don't understand how something works, I want to dig into it until I do. Outside engineering, I volunteer with Harmony Power, love cooking and experimenting with food, and care deeply about continuing to learn, contribute, and grow.
Build with care. Stay curious. Keep learning.
02 / Capabilities
Tools are only useful in context. Explore the systems I use to take an idea from first interaction to dependable infrastructure.
A flexible toolkit, applied with pragmatism, not dogma.
03 / Selected work
A few systems and products I've helped shape. Each started with a different kind of complexity.
Owned an international showtimes platform end-to-end, designing for freshness, speed, and graceful failure across upstream providers.
Built product-feed ingestion and decisioning services used for advertising experiences, with scheduled ingestion, caching, and multi-instance cloud deployments.
Built and evolved a Next.js application that recreates publisher environments to preview advertising experiences across desktop, mobile, and connected TV.
Built an AI-assisted system that analyzes webpages and reconstructs their structure as React implementations using browser automation and LLM-assisted code generation.
Worked on enterprise applications for the New York City Department of Education, contributing to complex, high-impact workflows without exposing proprietary implementation details.
04 / Engineering philosophy
05 / Beyond the code
The best work is grounded in curiosity, community, and a life with room for things that matter beyond a screen.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
I serve as Community Outreach Manager for Harmony Power, a nationally and internationally recognized anti-bullying leadership organization focused on empowering children, schools, and communities.
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I love cooking, experimenting with new recipes, and bringing people together over good food. I rarely follow a recipe exactly. I like understanding how ingredients work together, improvising along the way, and making something a little different each time.
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I love experimenting with AI tools and exploring new ways to turn ideas into working software faster. From prototyping interfaces to debugging, research, and code generation, I use AI as a creative engineering partner while staying thoughtful about the architecture and decisions behind what I build.
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From replacing a dishwasher to configuring a Raspberry Pi, I enjoy figuring out how things work, solving practical problems, and learning by doing.
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Recipient of the John J. Theobald Award for Academic Excellence during my Master's in Computer Science at NYIT.
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I’ve always enjoyed sketching and drawing as a way to slow down, observe the little details, and create something by hand. I love seeing an idea gradually take shape on paper, one line at a time. It gives me a completely different kind of creative space away from a screen.
06 / Career journey
My career has evolved from engineering tools to full-stack products and distributed systems. Across each chapter, I’ve gravitated toward complex problems, end-to-end ownership, and building things people actually use.
2026
Built enterprise workflows for NYC Public Schools using Angular, C#/.NET APIs, SQL Server, JWT authentication, and REST integrations.
2016 – 2025
Architected resilient platforms and APIs, built full-stack advertising products, led technical design, and created AI-assisted developer tooling across Node.js, React, Next.js, AWS, and Kubernetes.
JAN – APR 2016
Developed full-stack features for a sports media startup using JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, HTML5/CSS, and SQL, building responsive experiences and supporting media workflows with AWS S3.
2009 – 2012
Developed Java-based engineering and reverse-engineering tools for automotive and off-highway projects, automating testing and setup workflows.