Preet Talati

About

Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Shipped end-to-end customer-facing features as sole developer (also acted as PM/stakeholder)
• Designed and implemented role-based access and permissions for an incident-reporting workflow
• Strong QA mindset: integration tests across API endpoints, permission/role testing, performance checks
• Built React + TypeScript UI from 0→1 using Redux with strong UX/design fidelity (Figma) and edge-case handling
• Production operations experience: CI/CD automation, multi-environment releases, rollback capability, handled CPU saturation incident

Reference Highlights

• Outsized impact from day one
• Built core platform from the ground up
• Consistently delivered production-ready features at startup speed
• Strong balance of hands-on execution and technical leadership
• High ownership; steps in to unblock critical deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Responsive to customer and internal feedback
• Ships lean, reliable code
• Strong end-to-end ownership (DB, backend, frontend)
• Clear, disciplined API design (validation, error handling, separation of concerns)
• Operational reliability under pressure; effective hotfixes
• Product-focused, intuitive frontend/UX
• Thorough handling of edge cases, loading states, and error messaging
• Pragmatic, production-aware data modeling and performance judgment
• Works effectively with leadership with minimal oversight
• Decisive execution in ambiguous environments; ships iteratively and refines
• Guides others on tradeoffs, scalability, and long-term implications
• Delivered booking system reliability contributing to 35% increase in user retention