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House Praneeth

Praneeth Kumar

“Code Is Coming.”

Software Engineer

Building scalable, high-performance web applications.3+ years crafting production-ready solutions.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPuttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh · Open to Remote

An Origin Story

The Saga of the Web

Every weapon in my arsenal was forged to win a war you never see.

Chapter I

The First Age

The Age of Static Scrolls

In the beginning, the web was a library of stone tablets — documents carved in markup, linked but lifeless. Pages could be read, but they could never answer back. The realm was silent.

The hero of the age

HTML & CSS

  • HTML gave the web structure and meaning
  • CSS gave it form, color, and beauty
  • Every kingdom that followed was built on their bones

Chapter II

The Second Age

The Awakening

The pages stood frozen. To change a single word, the whole scroll had to be carried back to the castle and redrawn. Users waited in the dark. The web needed a spark of life.

The hero of the age

JavaScript

  • A language breathed into the browser itself
  • Buttons responded, forms began to think
  • Pages could change without ever reloading

Chapter III

The Age of Chaos

The Great Complexity War

As apps grew mighty, their code grew tangled. Spells were cast on the DOM from everywhere; state lived in a thousand places at once. One change in the east shattered three things in the west. The realm descended into spaghetti.

The hero of the age

A Cry for Order

  • Direct DOM manipulation could not scale
  • State was scattered and unpredictable
  • The realm needed a single source of truth

Chapter IV

The React Dynasty

The Rise of React

From the ashes of the Complexity War rose a new power — one that would not patch the chaos, but rebuild the realm from the ground up.

The hero of the age

React

  • UIs became components — small, reusable, composable
  • A Virtual DOM made updates fast and predictable
  • Declare what the UI should be; React reconciles the rest
  • One-way data flow brought order to state

Chapter V

The Age of Kingdoms

The Server Kingdoms

But a beautiful face is not a kingdom. Where would the data live? Who would guard the gates, remember the users, process the payments, send the ravens? The frontend alone could not rule.

The hero of the age

Node.js & the Backend

  • Node.js & Express ruled beyond the browser
  • Databases like MongoDB became the vaults of data
  • Authentication guarded the gates
  • APIs became the trade routes between the realms

Chapter VI

The Next Age

The Next Dynasty

React ruled the browser, but it arrived empty — blank HTML that search engines could not read, while users watched a spinner as the realm loaded. For anything that must be *found*, this would not do.

The hero of the age

Next.js

  • Server-rendering (SSR) and pre-building (SSG) deliver pages fully formed
  • Search engines see real content, instantly — true SEO
  • File-based routing maps the whole kingdom
  • Frontend and backend realms, finally united

Chapter VII

The Present Age

Where I Stand

And so we arrive at the present age. Every era left its gift — structure, interactivity, order, data, and speed.

The hero of the age

Praneeth Kumar

  • I build with all of them at once
  • Fast, beautiful, scalable applications
  • Where every chapter of this saga still echoes

The Iron Throne

A Throne Forged of Skills

Every blade a weapon I wield.

Hover to still the blades and read the arsenal.

React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Express
MongoDB
Redux
Tailwind
React Native
Git
REST APIs
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A Throne of Skills
The Maester

Engineer. Builder. Problem Solver.

I'm a Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building web applications that drive real engagement. I specialize in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem with deep frontend expertise, backed by a solid working understanding of backend systems and APIs.

My approach combines product thinking with engineering excellence—I don't just write code, I solve business problems.

Frontend Architecture

Building performant, accessible React applications with modern patterns and state management.

Backend Systems

Designing robust APIs, microservices, and database architectures that scale.

End-to-End Ownership

Owning features from requirements and design to implementation, deployment, and monitoring.

Performance

Optimizing for speed, reducing bundle sizes, and improving Core Web Vitals.

Conquests

Realms I Have Built

Kingdoms raised from problem to product, at scale

JaaGa Real Estate Platform

Customer-facing real estate platform to discover, list, and transact on properties — with map-based search, in-app document generation, and online payments.

Problem: Property seekers and owners juggled fragmented tools across listings, legal paperwork, and payments.

Key Engineering Challenges:

  • Built interactive map search with clustered markers for thousands of listings
  • Implemented in-browser PDF generation, merging, and document previews
  • Integrated Cashfree payments and Mixpanel product analytics
ReactRedux ToolkitMaterial UIReact QueryGoogle MapsCashfree

JaaGa Admin Dashboard

Internal operations dashboard to manage properties, users, documents, and payments with rich, data-dense analytics.

Problem: Operations teams needed a single control plane to manage platform data and monitor activity in real time.

Key Engineering Challenges:

  • Built sortable, filterable tables over large datasets with TanStack Table
  • Created interactive analytics dashboards with Recharts
  • Secured admin access with OTP + reCAPTCHA and built PDF review tooling
ReactTypeScriptRedux ToolkitReact QueryRechartsRadix UI

JaaGa Partner Portal

Partner portal for channel partners to manage deals and edit, annotate, and export legal property documents entirely in the browser.

Problem: Partners needed to edit and prepare property documents without relying on external tooling.

Key Engineering Challenges:

  • Built an in-browser document editor and annotation canvas with Fabric.js
  • Implemented client-side PDF/DOCX rendering, conversion, and export
  • Used Zustand and React Query for lightweight state and server caching
ReactTypeScriptZustandReact QueryFabric.jsTailwind CSS

JaaGa Backend Platform

Event-driven Node.js backend powering the platform — modular APIs, queue-based workers, and an AI-assisted document pipeline.

Problem: The platform needed to process property, payment, and document workflows reliably and asynchronously.

Key Engineering Challenges:

  • Designed multiple Express APIs with SQS-backed consumers for async workflows
  • Built an AI document processor using Google Gemini for parsing and generation
  • Integrated AWS (S3/SES/SQS), Firebase, Redis caching, and MongoDB
Node.jsExpressMongoDBAWS SQS/S3RedisGemini AI
The Lesser Houses

More from the Archives

A selection of things I've built and shared publicly

System Health Monitor

Real-time dashboard visualizing system metrics like CPU, memory, and uptime.

JavaScriptHTMLCSS

AI Image Generation (MERN)

MERN-stack app that generates AI images from text prompts with a shareable community gallery.

ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDB

CRM Application

Customer Relationship Management app to track leads, contacts, and deals.

ReactJavaScript

Social Media Microservices

Social platform backend built on an independently deployable microservices architecture.

Node.jsExpressMicroservices

Learning Management System

Full-stack LMS for courses, lessons, and progress tracking (separate front and back ends).

ReactTypeScriptNode.js

E-commerce Inventory

Inventory management system for e-commerce stock, products, and orders.

ReactTypeScript

Redux Toolkit Chatbot

Conversational chatbot UI with state managed via React and Redux Toolkit.

ReactRedux Toolkit

Mapbox Polygon Editor

Interactive Mapbox map with polygon drawing for geofencing and area selection.

ReactMapbox
The Chronicles

Campaigns of the Realm

Battles fought and won, one commit at a time

Software Developer

JaaGa.AI

Real estate technology platform

Aug 2023 - PresentHyderabad, Telangana
  • Build and ship features across three React apps — a customer web platform, partner portal, and a TypeScript admin dashboard — sharing a reusable component library (Tailwind, Radix UI), Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query, and Zustand
  • Built interactive property search with Google Maps, marker clustering, and Places autocomplete, plus data dashboards and charts with Recharts
  • Integrated Cashfree online payments and instrumented the product with Mixpanel for funnel and retention analytics
  • Developed document-heavy features — in-browser PDF/DOCX preview, editing, generation, and merging — using react-pdf, pdf-lib, and a Fabric.js canvas editor
  • Connected front ends to a Node.js/Express + MongoDB backend on AWS (S3, SES, SQS, Redis); built JWT/bcrypt authentication and contributed to event-driven SQS consumers for notifications and AI document processing
ReactTypeScriptRedux ToolkitTanStack QueryTailwind CSSGoogle MapsNode.jsMongoDBAWS

Frontend Developer

Falcon Labs

Web product development

Jun 2023 - Jul 2023Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Developed responsive interfaces with React, Redux, React Router, and Axios, focused on clean, maintainable component structure
  • Built a search feature with API integration and debouncing, which significantly reduced unnecessary API calls and improved responsiveness
  • Integrated REST APIs to streamline data handling and reduce data processing time across the application
  • Styled the product with Tailwind CSS to deliver a clean, visually consistent, and responsive experience
ReactReduxReact RouterAxiosTailwind CSSREST APIs
The Citadel

Where I Was Forged

Where the journey began

Bachelor of Science

Sri Krishnadevaraya University

2018 - 2021Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh
  • Captain of the University Cricket Team — led on and off the field, demonstrating teamwork, strategic thinking and effective communication.

Certifications & Training

Front End Development Course — Relevel
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