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Hi, I'm Dhanunjaya Lakshmi.

Full-Stack JavaScript Developer

I build and ship complete web products — from React interfaces to Node.js APIs and PostgreSQL backends.

Hyderabad, India

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About

Engineer first, full-stack by choice

I'm a full-stack JavaScript developer who enjoys owning a product end to end — designing the data model, building the API, and polishing the interface people actually use.

My path into web development runs through 7 years of engineering work: automating mission-critical workflows for JPMorgan Chase at TCS, then building Python/Django backends for international freelance clients. Since 2022 I've focused on modern JavaScript — completing Pesto Tech's engineering fellowship, interning as a frontend developer at rubber.ai, and shipping production projects like Bloggify and ToolzMint.

I care about clean architecture, secure data access, and interfaces that feel fast.

Years in software engineering
7+
Live, deployed apps
4
Commits on Bloggify alone
270+
Live tools on ToolzMint
34

Projects

Things I've built and shipped

Deployed apps built end to end — from database schema and API to the interface people use.

Bloggify screenshot

Featured · Full-stack blogging platform

Bloggify

A Medium-style platform where people write, publish and discover posts — with a rich editor, real-time notifications, personalised feeds and an author analytics dashboard.

  • Express REST API with 62 endpoints across 14 route modules, secured by token-verification middleware and Row-Level Security on every table.
  • Notion-style Tiptap editor with a floating block picker, inline image uploads, 5-second draft autosave and draft-conflict resolution.
  • Real-time notifications for follows, comments, votes and @mentions via Supabase Realtime.
  • “For You” feed, infinite scroll, nested Markdown comments, optimistic reactions and drag-to-reorder blog series.
  • Recharts analytics: views over time, top posts, tag performance and follower growth.
  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Zustand
  • Tiptap
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
Live site Code
ToolzMint screenshot

Featured · SEO-optimised web utilities site

ToolzMint

A production site on its own domain with 34 fast, privacy-friendly tools — JSON formatter, regex tester, JWT decoder, diff checker, hash/UUID/QR generators, image resizer and more.

  • Config-driven architecture: one tool registry powers the catalog, search, sitemap and related-tool links.
  • Technical SEO with static generation, per-tool metadata, JSON-LD schemas and dynamic Open Graph images rendered at the Edge.
  • All processing runs in the browser — canvas-based image resizing, memoised and debounced hashing and diffing.
  • Light/dark theming, a content blog and Google AdSense integration.
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Edge runtime
  • Vercel
Live site Code

More projects

AI Domain Name Generator screenshot

AI Domain Name Generator

LLM-powered naming with live availability

Turns a project description into brandable domain names with an LLM, then checks real availability and pricing across popular TLDs.

  • Namecheap XML API integration for availability and registration pricing.
  • Server-side API keys, per-IP rate limiting and cached TLD pricing.
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • DeepSeek LLM
  • Namecheap API
Live site Code

Netflix-GPT

AI movie recommendations

Netflix-GPT

AI movie recommendations

Movie browsing app with Firebase auth, trailer backgrounds and TMDB categories, plus natural-language movie search powered by an LLM.

  • Moved the AI call into a Netlify serverless function so the API key never reaches the browser.
  • Multi-language search UI with state in Redux Toolkit slices and custom hooks.
  • React
  • Redux Toolkit
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Firebase Auth
  • TMDB API
  • Netlify Functions
Code

Newzy

News aggregation app

Newzy

News aggregation app

Responsive news reader with category browsing, a login flow, reusable components and graceful handling of API failures.

  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • REST APIs
  • Netlify
Code
React UI Component Library screenshot

React UI Component Library

Reusable component showcase

Ten reusable, responsive components — inputs with validation states, modal, alerts, table, form and a mobile navbar — organised like a mini design system.

  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
Live site Code

Skills

My toolkit

Frontend

  • React 18/19
  • Next.js (App Router)
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Radix UI
  • Zustand
  • Redux Toolkit
  • React Hook Form
  • Zod
  • Tiptap
  • Recharts

Backend & Data

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • REST APIs
  • JWT / token auth
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Row-Level Security
  • Firebase Auth
  • MongoDB
  • Python
  • Django

AI & Integrations

  • LLM APIs (DeepSeek / OpenAI SDK)
  • Prompt design
  • Third-party APIs
  • Rate limiting
  • Serverless functions

Tools & Delivery

  • Git & GitHub
  • Vite
  • ESLint
  • Postman
  • Vercel
  • Render
  • Netlify
  • Linux / Unix
  • Technical SEO

Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Jul 2022 – Present

    Independent Full-Stack Developer

    Self-directed & Pesto Tech

    • Completed Pesto Tech's 25-week full-stack engineering fellowship (React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB), from PRD and wireframes to engineering design and deployment.
    • Designed, built and deployed Bloggify, ToolzMint and other projects using Next.js, Supabase, Tailwind CSS and Vercel.

  2. Apr 2023 – Jul 2023

    Frontend Developer Intern

    rubber.ai (formerly Hubble) · Remote

    • Built UI screens in React and Tailwind CSS from Figma designs and integrated them with REST APIs.
    • Fixed layout, responsiveness and interaction bugs; took part in agile ceremonies, debugging and code reviews.

  3. Dec 2015 – Aug 2019

    Freelance Backend Developer

    Upwork · Independent

    • Delivered backend solutions for international clients using Python, Django and REST APIs.
    • Built automated, data-driven systems and documented APIs, working remotely against structured requirements.

  4. Jul 2012 – Oct 2015

    Systems Engineer

    Tata Consultancy Services · Client: JPMorgan Chase

    • Automated and monitored mission-critical scheduled workflows on Unix-based systems for a global investment bank.
    • Worked with Control-M scheduling, shell scripts and MySQL-backed processes under strict compliance standards.

Education

  • 2023

    Engineering Fellowship, Full-Stack Development

    Pesto Tech

  • 2012

    B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

    Vignan's Engineering College, Guntur

Contact

Let's build something together

I'm looking for full-time full-stack or frontend roles and can start immediately. Send a message and I'll reply within a day.