Rahul Mehra
Founding Engineer at TradeEngage

Rahul Mehra.

Founding engineer building multi-platform products with AI-augmented workflows. Seven years shipping web apps, mobile, and APIs across healthcare and enterprise SaaS.

Based in Pune, India
Years shipping 7+
Status Open to conversations
Portrait of Rahul Mehra
01 / About

A Note on Craft.

Seven years in, mostly building consumer and enterprise products that ship. I'm currently the founding engineer at TradeEngage, where I own the full stack across four codebases: a React web app, a Chrome extension, a React Native app, and a Python FastAPI backend, all unified by a shared design system I built and published as an npm package.

Before that, I was at Clipboard Health, where I migrated 2M+ shift records from MongoDB to Postgres with zero downtime, and at Avaya, where I cut a page's load time from 40 seconds to under one. The pattern across those years has been the same: find the slowest, scariest part of the system, and make it boring.

These days I spend a lot of time with Claude Code and MCP servers (Notion, Figma, CustomerIO), figuring out what AI-augmented engineering actually looks like in production, and what stops being useful theatre.

Rahul Mehra in Uttarakhand, India
02 / Practice

What I Actually Do.

01

Frontend Engineering

Polished, performant interfaces from design system to ship. Web apps, Chrome extensions, mobile apps, all sharing a tokenized component library.

React 18TypeScriptNext.jsReact NativeMaterial-UIVite
02

Backend & APIs

RBAC systems, async pipelines with Celery, event-driven architectures on AWS, and integrations with Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI, and Checkr.

PythonFastAPINode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLMongoDBRedis
03

AI-Augmented Development

Claude Code as my primary tool, wired into Notion, Figma, and CustomerIO via MCP. I treat AI tooling like infrastructure: invest in the workflow, ship faster.

Claude CodeMCP serversCursorFigma Maken8nOpenAI
03 / Track Record

Where I've Shipped.

Sept 2023 → Now

Founding Engineer

TradeEngage ↗

Architected the full multi-platform ecosystem (web app, Chrome extension, React Native mobile app, Python FastAPI backend) from zero to production. Built and published a shared design system npm package consumed across all surfaces. Pioneered an AI-augmented workflow with Claude Code and MCP integrations.

6,000+ customers 4 codebases shared design system Claude Code + MCP
Aug 2021 → Sept 2023

Software Engineer

Clipboard Health ↗

Led the migration of 2M+ shift records from MongoDB to PostgreSQL with zero downtime, improving query performance by 10x. Built a document management microservice on NestJS + GraphQL processing 100K+ documents monthly. Automated background verification with Checkr, cutting it from 3 days to 4 hours.

2M+ records migrated 10x query speedup +10% sign-up conversion 200 hrs/mo saved
Apr 2021 → Aug 2021

Software Engineer II

Synacor

Built an interactive org-hierarchy visualization for 300+ employees, and a QR-based guest management UI processing 500+ daily check-ins. Hit 95+ Lighthouse with PWA standards.

Jul 2018 → Apr 2021

Software Engineer II

Avaya

Reduced page load time from 40s to under 1s (a 97.5% improvement) by introducing a Service Worker caching strategy with offline-first architecture. Built an API analytics interceptor tracking 50K+ daily calls.

97.5% faster loads 50K+ daily API calls tracked
Jan 2020 → Aug 2021

Independent Full-Stack Dev

Freelance

Shipped 10skills.co (PWA, 95 Lighthouse) and taponline.org (gamified learning platform). Firebase Cloud Functions, Service Workers, and a healthy respect for offline-first.