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Software engineering,
composed with care.

I'm Nikhil Jadhav — a software engineer in Pune. Currently embedded on the KFC US mobile team via Programming.com, building React Native at QSR scale.

SDE II · KFC US via Programming.com
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Engineer with a builder's instinct.

Five and a half years of shipping production software across mobile, web, and realtime — startup energy applied with enterprise discipline.

I build the parts of products users actually touch — mobile apps that survive a year on a phone, ordering flows a tired customer taps through at lunch, realtime layers that keep two screens in sync.

Currently SDE II at Programming.com, embedded as a contractor on the KFC USmobile team — shipping React Native at QSR scale across iOS and Android. I lean toward the boring fix over the clever one, but I'm happy when the right answer turns out to be elegant.

5½

years

Shipping software across three companies in Pune.

Pune

18.52°N · 73.85°E · IST

RN · Next
Node · TS

  • Certified Ethical HackerCEH
  • Building Ambient Agents w/ LangGraphLANGCHAIN
  • Mobile + Web apps
  • Realtime systems
  • Cloud + AI agents

B.C.A · Pune Univ.

Computer Applications · 2020

Things I've shipped, recently.

Six of many. Mobile and web, with the realtime and AI layers that increasingly come along for the ride.

001/ USA
2024 — Now

KFC US Mobile App .

React Native · embedded on the KFC US team via Programming.com

Shipping and iterating on core ordering flows — menu, cart, checkout, deals/offers, order history — for customers across the US on iOS and Android. Led refactoring passes to cut tech debt and added Jest coverage that unlocked safer releases.

  • React Native
  • Redux Toolkit
  • TanStack Query
  • Jest
002/ IN · UAE · US · UK · AU
2023—2024

SchoolMyKids · PCA · Parentz .

Family & school products at RHA Technologies

End-to-end on RHA's flagship suite — school discovery on SchoolMyKids, announcements and messaging in PCA / Parently, and parenting features on Parentz. Web and mobile clients sharing REST APIs and a realtime layer.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • Node
  • Socket.io
003/ India
2021—2024

E-learning Platform .

Self-paced + live lectures inside the product

Removed the dependence on Zoom and Meet — live instructor sessions, course approvals and payments all live inside the same shell.

  • Next.js
  • Node
  • WebRTC
  • Socket.io
  • MongoDB
004/ India
2024

Fitternity .

Mobile fitness · subscription, live trainer feed

Built User, Admin and Gym APIs. The piece I'm proudest of: an Instagram-Live-style feed where trainers go on air to a room of paying subscribers.

  • React Native
  • Node
  • Express
  • MongoDB
005/ USA
2021—2023

Roin.co .

Cloud transportation management

Layout and UI on the front, business logic and Stripe-powered payments on the back. The kind of project where a small routing bug costs real money.

  • PHP
  • CakePHP
  • MySQL
  • Stripe
  • Google Maps
006/ Side study
2023

WhatsApp Clone .

Realtime chat, voice and video

A study in peer-to-peer wiring — Socket.io for chat, WebRTC for media, STUN to punch through NAT, Mongo for backup.

  • Socket.io
  • WebRTC
  • STUN
  • MongoDB

Lifesmart (Australia · health e-commerce, 2022) and older HTML/PHP/JS work kept in the archive.

View full history on LinkedIn ↗

A working history.

From a non-profit web role to leading mobile + web for products at scale — most of it within walking distance in Pune.

  1. Programming.com

    Current

    SDE II · embedded on the KFC US mobile team

    Sep 2024 — Present

    Pune · for KFC US

    • Shipping and iterating on core ordering flows in the KFC US React Native app — menu, cart, checkout, deals/offers, order history — for customers across the US on iOS and Android.
    • Building features end-to-end with React Native, Redux Toolkit, and TanStack Query (server state, caching, request lifecycle).
    • Leading refactoring and cleanup across the codebase to cut tech debt and make legacy modules easier to extend and test.
    • Wrote and maintain Jest unit and integration tests — raising confidence around regressions and unlocking faster releases.
    • Integrating third-party SDKs (analytics, deep linking, location, promotional content) and handling iOS/Android edge cases.
    • Daily collaboration across timezones with US-based PMs, designers, QA, and backend engineers on an agile sprint cadence.
    • PR reviews, mentoring juniors, and driving adoption of modern patterns (hooks, typed props, RTK slices, React Query).
  2. RHA Technologies

    Software Engineer · SDE I

    May 2023 — Sep 2024

    Pune

    • Contributed end-to-end (frontend, backend, web, mobile) to SchoolMyKids, PCA / Parently, and the Parentz app.
    • Used by parents across India, UAE, USA, UK and Australia — school discovery, parenting tools, and parent-school communication.
    • Built across React, Next.js, Nuxt.js, Node.js and Socket.io for responsive, real-time, cross-device experiences.
    • Designed RESTful APIs, integrated third-party services, and contributed to database schema + performance improvements.
    • Conducted code reviews, debugged production issues, and kept coding standards consistent across the team.
  3. USD Services

    Full-Stack Developer

    May 2021 — Apr 2023

    Pune

    • MERN across the stack — REST APIs, integrations, performance work.
    • Cross-platform mobile in React Native for iOS and Android.
    • Mentored juniors, wrote the security guardrails into customer-facing apps.
  4. Rudraksha Welfare Foundation

    Web Developer

    Nov 2020 — Apr 2021

    Pune

    • First role out of university — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
    • Responsive design and accessibility for a non-profit website.

The toolbox, in rotation.

What I reach for first. Comfortable with most of it. Honest about what I'd google before opening a PR.

React Native ·Redux Toolkit ·TanStack Query ·Next.js ·Node.js ·Jest ·Socket.io ·WebRTC ·MongoDB ·AWS Lambda ·TypeScript ·Express ·Nest.js ·LangGraph ·Stripe ·Nuxt.js ·React Native ·Redux Toolkit ·TanStack Query ·Next.js ·Node.js ·Jest ·Socket.io ·WebRTC ·MongoDB ·AWS Lambda ·TypeScript ·Express ·Nest.js ·LangGraph ·Stripe ·Nuxt.js ·
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • iOS
  • Android
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • Redux Toolkit
  • TanStack Query
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Nest.js
  • REST
  • Socket.io
  • WebRTC
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Jest
  • Code Review
  • AWS Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Stripe
  • Mentoring
  • Deployment Planning
  • Security · CEH
  • AI Agents · LangGraph
  • Cross-timezone delivery

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