Excited to join dev.to. Quick intro.
Who am I?
I'm Chintan. I'm into software engineering, based in the United States, with about a decade of experience.
I've worked on a wide range of applications: mobile and web apps, and large enterprise software. Different scale, different constraints, same late nights when something breaks in production.
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 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 enrollments, claims, and transactions. Marketing was all about speed and iteration. Travel? Resilience. Nothing prepares you for traffic spikes like holiday booking season.
These days I'm building AI apps with React and TypeScript on the front end, FastAPI and LangGraph on the back end, mostly on AWS.
What I care about
Architecture that holds up, CI that catches things before users do, and accessibility done properly (WCAG, screen readers, keyboard nav). Not as a slide deck item. As part of how the app actually works.
I also build developer tools on the side. Small packages, zero-deps where I can, problems I hit at work.
Open source
npm packages I've published:
- logfx — logging for Node and the browser. Colors, namespaces, transports, PII redaction. Zero dependencies.
- handlejson — safe JSON parse/stringify without try/catch everywhere
- envconfig-kit — validate env vars at startup, fail fast with clear errors
- upstatus — CLI uptime monitor for when you just need to watch an API from the terminal
- secretguard — scan source for hardcoded secrets and PII before CI
All on GitHub.
Why I'm here
I like to write what I learn. Post when I solve something annoying. Help someone skip a rabbit hole I already fell into.
Say hi!
Find me on GitHub or LinkedIn.
Happy to talk code, accessibility, or that one bug that one bug that haunted you for days.
See you around! 🙌
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