Rahul Tiwari

Rahul Tiwari

Senior Software Engineer · Boston, MA

Full-stack engineer with eight years in production systems. Recent work includes a prescription workflow that saves Chewy $5M a year, an autoship fix worth $3.6M in revenue, and BostonHome, a rent-transparency product 1.1K Boston renters have used.

2026.06

Jun 2026 → now

Current role

Senior Software Engineer

TradeEngage · Remote

Integrations, dispatch automation and analytics for a home-services referral platform.

  1. Added

    Four CRM and field-service integrations (Housecall Pro, Jobber, ServiceMinder, Broccoli) on a config-driven registry with five shared capability contracts, including OAuth2/PKCE + GraphQL and customer self-serve activation. Read the write-up

    45
  2. Added

    An AI voice agent (Broccoli, Avoca) wired into referral dispatch: an accepted job triggers an immediate call and text to the homeowner instead of a manual callback. Delivery adapter, multi-provider outbound fan-out, self-serve activation, and two-layer idempotency so a retry never double-dials. Read the write-up

  3. Added

    Referral link analytics from scratch: one backend module serving both a customer dashboard and an internal admin surface, with per-click conversion attribution, channel CTR, revenue-leak aging and email/SMS delivery health. Read the write-up

  4. Fixed

    Production revenue-integrity gaps, including a bonus rule that double-paid 132 users and duplicate active integrations and referrals per company.

    ~$3.9k132

Built with · Python · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · Celery · PostgreSQL · React · TypeScript · TanStack Query · MUI

2025.10

Oct 2025 → now

Founder & Lead Engineer

BostonHome · Boston, MA

Rent transparency for Boston renters, designed, built and operated solo at bostonhome.app.

  1. Added

    A full-stack rent transparency platform covering 70+ Boston neighborhoods: neighborhood-level pricing, active units, renter reviews and community ratings.

    1144.4K1.1K70+
  2. Improved

    Data ingestion moved from a GeoJSON CDN dependency to a database-driven architecture, with stable hydration patterns that removed Cumulative Layout Shift.

    ~40%
  3. Added

    Geospatial dashboards on Mapbox GL JS and PostGIS spatial queries, with MBTA transit layers and viewport-aware rent analytics.

  4. Added

    AI market insights with Google Gemini: rent trends and neighborhood comparison analysis for renters.

  5. Added

    Community governance: backend scoring, real-time flagging, moderation workflows and trust signals to protect data integrity.

BostonHome map view with rent pins across Boston neighborhoods
Concept render of the BostonHome map view. Panel figures are illustrative; the live product is at bostonhome.app.Open bostonhome.app

Built with · Next.js · TypeScript · NestJS · Prisma · Supabase Postgres · PostGIS · Mapbox GL JS · Google Gemini · Vercel · Railway

2023.02

Feb 2023 → Sep 2025

Software Engineer II

Chewy · Boston, MA

Pharmacy engineering: prescription workflows for technicians and pharmacists, and the AI tooling around them.

  1. Added

    A new prescription approval workflow in React, TypeScript, Next.js and GraphQL for data entry and drug utilization review. Read the write-up

    $5M
  2. Improved

    Autoship order workflow in Java 21 and Spring Boot now supports a clinic change per order item instead of cancelling the order. Read the write-up

    23%$3.6M
  3. Improved

    Fax prescription approvals: redesigned templates, refactored workflows and AWS Textract OCR. Read the write-up

    99%$1.5M
  4. Added

    An organization-wide chatbot platform on MCP server architecture, integrating Anthropic Claude and OpenAI models for cross-team knowledge sharing. Read the write-up

  5. Added

    A developer-facing tool on Meta LLaMA that turns Figma designs into working React code through contextual learning.

  6. Added

    The Controlled Substances initiative and PDMP integration with each state's regulatory system through Bamboo Health APIs. Read the write-up

  7. Added

    CI/CD for the Pharmacist Admin UI, Vet Diet Admin UI and Workflow Service with Terraform, Jenkins and EKS: one-click production deploys, error tracking in Splunk and Datadog. Read the write-up

  8. Added

    Drug and diet prescription workflows on AWS Step Functions, Lambda and Kafka for real-time state transitions across distributed systems.

Built with · React · TypeScript · Next.js · GraphQL · Java 21 · Spring Boot · AWS Step Functions · AWS Lambda · Kafka · Terraform · Jenkins · EKS · Anthropic Claude · OpenAI · Meta LLaMA · MCP

2022.01

Jan 2022 → Sep 2022

Software Engineer Co-op

Dispatch Technologies · Boston, MA

Field-service software for enterprises, technicians and their customers.

  1. Added

    A standalone weather tracking feature for on-field agents on desktop and mobile, built on AccuWeather APIs in React and TypeScript. Read the write-up

    +7%
  2. Improved

    APIs across company applications in Go, Python and Node.js, following TDD and BDD.

    20+
  3. Added

    AWS deployments automated with Travis CI, Rancher, Kubernetes and Docker.

  4. Improved

    Dashboards, metrics and alarms for API performance in Datadog and Loggly.

    35

Built with · React · TypeScript · Go · Python · Node.js · AWS · Kubernetes · Rancher · Docker · Travis CI · Datadog

2016.12

Dec 2016 → Nov 2020

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys · Pune, India

Back-end microservices for a fast-moving consumer goods client.

  1. Added

    Microservices in Java 11 and Spring MVC for company-wide back-end applications.

  2. Improved

    Code quality and delivery velocity through structured code reviews and project-based learning in Node.js, REST APIs and SQL/NoSQL.

    12
  3. Added

    Customer-centric features delivered across Agile sprints from requirements gathered directly with customers.

    300+
  4. Fixed

    Database maintenance for MySQL, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, standardized into operating procedures.

    100%
  5. Added

    A continuous delivery framework with GitHub Actions, Terraform and AWS CodeDeploy for every application environment.

Built with · Java 11 · Spring MVC · Node.js · MySQL · PostgreSQL · DynamoDB · GitHub Actions · Terraform · AWS CodeDeploy

Skillset

What I work in day to day, grouped the way I reach for it.

Languages
Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, SQL
Frontend
React, Next.js, Redux, TanStack Query, MUI, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3
Backend
Spring Boot, FastAPI, NestJS, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, REST APIs, Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Kafka
Data
PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Supabase, Oracle DB
AWS
Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, SES, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy
DevOps
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Rancher, Vercel, Railway
AI
Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Meta LLaMA, MCP servers
Observability
Datadog, Splunk, Loggly

Education

Tagged by the month each one was completed.

  1. 2027.08

    Expected

    Executive Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

    University of the Cumberlands · Kentucky

    Expected Aug 2027

  2. 2022.12

    Master of Science in Information Systems

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA

    Dec 2022

  3. 2016.06

    Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology

    LNCT · Bhopal, India

    Jun 2016

Get in touch

Open to conversations about senior full-stack roles, AI platforms, or BostonHome. The form lands in my inbox.