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Deep Santoshwar

Hey, I'm Deep Santoshwar!

A software engineer building startups

I build my own products and work as a freelance consultant.

I build:
  • Apps
  • Desktop
  • Extensions
  • SaaS
  • Infra

Experience & Impact

Key achievements and systems I have engineered throughout my career:

AIApply
Software Engineer, Backend (Contract)AIApply • December 2025 - Present • United Kingdom

Developed core AI features of Interview Answer Buddy, a cross-platform Electron desktop app used by 2M+ job seekers, giving candidates real-time AI assistance during live interviews. Engineered a real-time pipeline streaming live speech transcription (AssemblyAI) into streamed LLM answers with model routing and fallback via OpenRouter, served by FastAPI on Docker and AWS, powering 10,000+ interview sessions. Integrated Sentry and PostHog for production monitoring.

FastAPIPythonElectronAssemblyAIOpenRouterDockerAWS
Exhibit BBC Top Gear
Software DeveloperExhibit BBC Top Gear • April 2025 - October 2025 • Mumbai, India

Built Exhibit Social, an influencer campaign management SaaS managing 1M+ global influencers and 2,000+ brands, using PHP Laravel, Python, PostgreSQL, React+Vite, and AWS. Created a 2-agent LangGraph reporting workflow (analyst agent for campaign data, writer agent for reports) with RAG on ChromaDB and LangSmith tracing, generating performance summaries and ROI analytics. Delivered a high-traffic voting system for the InfluencerX Fashion Awards with Nginx load balancing, and a web scraper for BBC Top Gear India.

PHPLaravelPythonPostgreSQLAWSReactViteLangGraphChromaDBLangSmithNginx
Pristine IT Code Pvt Ltd
Jr. DevOps EngineerPristine IT Code Pvt Ltd • April 2024 - April 2025 • Mumbai, India

Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, cutting deployment time by 40%, and set up ELK dashboards that improved log analysis by 30%. Managed four production apps on AWS EC2 with uptime monitoring, and led a cloud migration that cut operational costs by 20%.

AWS EC2GitHub ActionsELK StackCI/CD
Abzooba (UST)
Big Data & Cloud ApprenticeAbzooba (UST) • July 2023 - December 2023

Built data pipelines on AWS (Batch, Lambda, Glue, S3, DynamoDB) and an eCommerce pipeline with Kafka and Redshift, improving MySQL integration efficiency by 30%.

AWS BatchLambdaGlueKafkaRedshiftMySQL
Electromotion
IoT & Cloud InternElectromotion • May 2022 - July 2022

Built the data pipeline behind Diagnostix, collecting IoT sensor data from an Android app over Bluetooth and streaming it to AWS servers for real-time analytics. Optimized DynamoDB expenses by 90% leveraging S3. Launched real-time analytics dashboards using Grafana and Power BI.

PythonAndroidAWS IoT CoreDynamoDBS3GrafanaPower BI

Projects

These are my personal projects, both past and ongoing:

Claude Code plugin that prevents AI agents from writing outdated SDK code.

Cultural intelligence music discovery built for the Qloo Global Hackathon, pairing Gemini 2.0 Flash with Qloo's Taste AI.

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Open source

Pull requests I have opened on other people's projects:

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Articles

Authored 30+ technical articles on JavaScript, CSS, HTML, DSA, and C++ with 28K+ views on the top article, and revitalized 100+ existing DSA articles.

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Get in touch

You can reach me at deepsantoshwar7@gmail.com

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