Excited to finally join the dev.to community! Here's a bit about me.
Who am I?
I'm Chintan — a Senior Software Engineer based in Virginia. I've been building web applications for about 9 years now, and somehow I still get excited when a tricky bug finally clicks.
I have a Master's in Computer Science, but honestly, most of what I know came from breaking things in production and frantically Googling at 2am (kidding... mostly).
The journey so far
I've been lucky to work across some really different industries — healthcare, insurance, digital marketing, and travel. Each one taught me something different.
Healthcare taught me that your code actually matters — when clinicians rely on your software, you think twice before shipping. Insurance showed me what high-volume really means — millions of transactions, peak hours that can make or break systems. Marketing was all about speed and iteration. Travel? Resilience. Nothing prepares you for traffic spikes like holiday booking season.
These days, I'm leading projects and doing the full-stack thing — React and TypeScript on the frontend, Scala and Node.js on the backend, with a healthy dose of AWS thrown in.
What gets me excited
I genuinely enjoy the craft of building software. Whether it's architecting a micro frontend, setting up a clean CI pipeline, or making an app actually work with a screen reader — I'm into it.
Web accessibility is a big one for me. It's not a checkbox, it's the baseline. I've spent a lot of time with WCAG, screen readers, and making sure the things I build work for everyone.
Also, I have a soft spot for developer tooling. There's something satisfying about building tools that make other engineers' lives easier.
Outside of work
I tinker with open source and recently published a couple of npm packages. logfx is a tiny, colorful logging library with emojis, namespaces, and transports — because console.log deserves better. And upstatus is a simple CLI for uptime monitoring when you just need something quick and lightweight.
Building small, focused utilities is my kind of side project.
Why I'm here
I want to write more. Document what I learn. Share the random things I figure out. Maybe help someone avoid the same mistakes I made.
Topics I'll probably write about:
- React patterns and frontend architecture
- Full-stack development stories
- Accessibility in practice
- The occasional rant about something that took way too long to debug
Say hi!
Find me on GitHub or LinkedIn.
Always down to chat about code, career stuff, or swap stories about that one bug that haunted you for days.
See you around! 🙌
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