SaffronStays
Jul 2024 — PresentSenior Software Engineer
India
- Architected the complete 1MH backend from scratch in Go — booking, guest management, pricing, calendar, coupon, rating and listing APIs.
- Built a cost-efficient custom DNS proxy with reverse proxying and automatic SSL, powering white-label domain hosting for listing websites.
- Built the fastest in-company Airbnb scraper — fully structured listings in seconds, drastically cutting property onboarding time.
- Developed a scalable, low-latency chat server with connection pooling and optimized real-time message handling.
- Stood up centralized ELK logging across all servers, plus internal logger services tracking listing and date-wise changes.
- Engineered booking recalculation handling dynamic pricing, guest counts, taxes, discounts and availability.
- Led critical projects end-to-end — architecture to deployment — while mentoring junior developers and interns.