Senior engineer. Small team. Fully accountable.

Hemant Manglani
Senior Product Engineer
Ahmedabad, India · UTC+5:30
I'm Hemant, a product engineer based in Ahmedabad, India, with 6+ years building production software, deep backend and AI roots, and the React and Next.js frontend skills to ship the whole product. I don't sell hours; I own outcomes. From the data model to the deploy, I decide what to build, ship it, and stay accountable for whether it works.
Most of my work is the unglamorous, load-bearing kind: the API that has to stay fast under load, the real-time pipeline that can't drop a message, the AI feature that has to be right in front of a paying customer. I've shipped e-commerce, restaurant POS, marketplaces and LLM systems, end to end, in production, much of it client software under NDA.
I lead the build myself and bring in a small, trusted bench of professional freelance specialists, frontend and UI/UX designers, QA, and a business analyst, when a project needs more hands or a tighter deadline. They work in parallel on their own pieces while I keep everything integrated, so you get one accountable person who has done this before, not a rotating cast and a project manager relaying messages.
Six years of shipping.
Aug 2022 – Present
Lead Backend / Product Engineer
Pyonix Technology
- Architected and shipped multiple production SaaS platforms on Django, FastAPI and AWS, owning backend design, build and deployment end to end.
- Built a scalable e-commerce backend with secure payments, order-lifecycle management, notifications and admin workflows.
- Designed a multi-tenant SaaS platform for agency discovery, search and lead management.
- Built real-time chat and audio-calling over WebSockets and WebRTC.
- Integrated LLM-powered support automation (FAQ handling, contextual responses, semantic search) into live production systems.
Jan 2021 – Aug 2022
Backend Developer (Freelance)
Self-employed
- Delivered backend solutions for multiple client applications in Django and FastAPI.
- Designed REST APIs, authentication flows and real-time features with Python WebSockets.
- Implemented NLP-based chat analysis and voice-assistant integrations.
- Worked directly with clients to gather requirements and ship production-ready software.
Jul 2019 – Dec 2021
Software Engineer
Softvan Pvt. Ltd.
- Built ML, deep-learning, computer-vision and NLP solutions across text, image and speech.
- Built backend services on AWS Lambda and FastAPI with automated deployment pipelines.
- Implemented Elasticsearch capabilities: fuzzy search, n-gram and round-robin querying.
- Led a team of four and was the primary point of contact for daily client communication.
What I build with.
Languages & Frameworks
AI / LLM
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
Also
Education
B.E. Information Technology
Apollo Institute of Engineering & Technology, Ahmedabad
2015 – 2019
CGPA 8.64 / 10 · Final-year project: an athlete-intelligence system comparing user posture against professional athletes.
Certifications
- Machine Learning Specialization, Stanford / Coursera (Andrew Ng), 2020
- Deep Learning Specialization, deeplearning.ai (Andrew Ng), 2021

Hemant Manglani
Ahmedabad, India
Have a product that has to work? Let’s talk.
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