SDE 3 · CAW · OPEN TO ROLES
02 — TRAJECTORY

Five years.
Three companies.
One upward arc.

A career landscape — drag your cursor across it. The taller the building, the bigger the role.

I love the incremental, timely, and qualitative builds Agile fosters — that's how I've been shipping for five years.— Hemant, on how he works
JAN 2026 — PRESENT · CAW · HYDERABAD

Software Development Engineer 3

Chimpsatwork Studios
● Current · Promoted

Promoted into SDE 3 after three years at CAW. Now leading larger ownership areas, driving design decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to scalable systems.

  • Leading ownership of larger modules end-to-end — from architecture through release.
  • Driving technical design decisions and reviewing proposals across the team.
  • Mentoring junior engineers and shaping how they grow into the codebase.
  • Investing personal cycles into AI + front-end as the next layer of every product.
SDE 3
level
Module
ownership
Mentor
to juniors
MAY 2023 — JAN 2026 · CAW · 2Y 9M

Software Developer II

Chimpsatwork Studios

Joined CAW as SDE 2 and grew into a senior individual contributor. Built robust software solutions, influenced project architectures, and laid the groundwork for the SDE 3 promotion.

  • Contributed to building robust software solutions across multiple product surfaces.
  • Influenced project architectures and helped set technical direction.
  • Worked Agile end-to-end — incremental, timely, qualitative builds.
2y 9m
tenure
SDE 2 → 3
promotion
MAY 2022 — MAY 2023 · FIXCRAFT.IN · 1Y 1M

Frontend Developer

Fixcraft

Owned the front-end transformation at Fixcraft — migrated the existing React codebase to Next.js with Tailwind, set up CI/CD on Google Cloud, and added service workers to ship a PWA.

  • Configured GitLab Runner with Google Cloud for CI/CD across multiple web projects.
  • Revamped the existing React JS app into a Next.js application using Tailwind CSS.
  • Implemented service workers to support Progressive Web Application behaviour.
  • Built UI in React + Next.js with HTML5, CSS and TypeScript.
  • Wrote Jest tests for components, prioritizing maximum coverage on independents.
  • Worked Agile, with incremental delivery across multiple web projects.
React → Next
migration
PWA
shipped
GitLab + GCP
ci/cd
MAY 2021 — MAY 2022 · INNOSTAX · 1Y 1M

Software Development Engineer

Innostax Software Labs · Gurugram

Promoted from Associate. Shipped real product across UI, services, and tooling — and concurrently worked with Vice Software, LLC.

  • Migrated an existing React + Bootstrap app to Next.js + Tailwind for performance gains.
  • Built an Admin portal using Django Admin to manage back-end operations.
  • Integrated Storybook into existing products and built independent components with Jest coverage.
  • Built multiple Express + Node endpoints for back-end ↔ front-end communication.
  • Assisted 5 software personnel with project work and client requirements.
5
teammates supported
React→Next
migration
Django
admin portal
NOV 2020 — MAY 2021 · INNOSTAX · 7M

Associate Software Engineer

Innostax Software Labs · Gurugram

Where it started. Cut my teeth on responsive React UI, Express endpoints, and the testing harness that's followed me through every job since.

  • Built highly-responsive UI components with React.
  • Stood up multiple Express + Node endpoints for back-end ↔ front-end communication.
  • Tested with Playwright, Jest and React-testing-library — set the bar for the team.
  • Worked Agile for incremental delivery and timely releases.