I'm Paurush Rai, a Senior Software Engineer based in India with full-stack range and 5+ years building enterprise web platforms, AI-driven applications, and developer productivity tools. My work spans complex B2B dashboards, a 1EdTech-certified LMS integration, and custom Jira and VS Code plugins.
I care deeply about performance, clean architecture, and shipping things that actually matter. Whether it's building a greenfield franchise portal from scratch, engineering real-time AI interview workflows, or developing internal tools that save thousands in operational costs, my focus is on work that measurably moves the needle.
Outside of work I'm usually spinning up a side project, automating a tedious workflow, or exploring new libraries in real-world contexts.
What I Build
Technical Skills
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Testlify
January 2025 – PresentSenior Software Engineer · Mumbai, India (Remote)
- Led the architectural decision to replace WordPress with Jamstack for an 11,000+ page marketing site, aimed at cutting page load times and reducing bounce rates through faster content delivery.
- Designed and built a 1EdTech-certified LTI 1.3 integration connecting Testlify to LMS platforms like Canvas and Moodle, letting instructors assign assessments and sync grades back to the gradebook.
- Architected the frontend for an AI-powered meeting notetaker in collaboration with AI engineers and designers, eliminating $24,000 in annual operational costs.
- Shipped a timesheet platform used company-wide and by external customers, replacing a third-party tool and cutting $9,000+ in annual licensing costs.
- Engineered a VS Code extension that automates timesheet logging into Appforest by detecting Jira tickets from Git branch context, reducing hands-on tracking effort.
- Introduced a stateless component library shared across 4 applications, published as a private npm package, removing per-app UI duplication.
FuelBuddy
September 2023 – December 2024Software Engineer · Gurugram, India
- Built a kiosk app from scratch for new fuel-dispensing hardware, deployed across 50+ fuel-trucks processing 1,000+ daily transactions via real-time IoT data, automating delivery calculations and invoicing.
- Migrated a Progressive Web App to React Native, hitting 100% feature parity across 14 user flows in 8 weeks.
- Standardized TanStack Query across 5 products, aligning 4 frontend teams on a unified server-state architecture and eliminating stale-data defects.
- Introduced Vitest for unit testing and Playwright for E2E testing, automating 16000+ test cases and cutting manual QA effort per release.
- Mentored 8 engineers through code review, pairing, and onboarding support, driving faster ramp-up and stronger coding standards across the team.
Modocosm
July 2021 – August 2023Software Engineer · New York City, US (Remote)
- Reverse-engineered Directus’s schema-write behavior and replaced manual UI setup with SQL scripts, cutting schema setup from 3 hours to 5 minutes.
- Developed a social analytics dashboard automating cross-platform video performance tracking for a news media client, eliminating 15+ weekly manual spreadsheet reports.
- Modernized 7 legacy websites with Astro.js and Directus CMS, doubling content publishing speed.
- Delivered and optimized 4 CMS-driven responsive websites that shipped to production and remain live today.