Kedar Deshmukh

As a software engineer with three years of experience, I thrive on independently tackling complex challenges and delivering accountable results. My insightful approach allows me to envision and build innovative solutions, driven by a strong sense of idealism for what technology can achieve.

Experience

Software Engineer

Freelance · Feb 2026 – Present

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• Built and launched LinkPeek an open-source, AI-powered Open Graph preview tool supporting 7 platforms (WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, Instagram) with zero-tunnel localhost testing; built with Next.js and TypeScript.
• Launched on Product Hunt and Reddit with organic community traction.
• Published linkpeek-cli a companion NPM CLI package for terminal-based Open Graph audits, bringing authored NPM packages to 2.
• Released react-masonry-virtualized 2.3.2 incorporating community feedback; authored a technical blog post on Medium covering the engineering challenges of zero-tunnel localhost metadata preview.

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Product Engineer

Shoppin' · Jan 2025 – Feb 2026

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• Delivered a 60% improvement in React Native Android performance through virtualization, callback optimization, and value memoization resolving One UI 7/8 rendering bottlenecks during iOS-to-Android migration.
• Architected and deployed an AI-powered video search microservice enabling product discovery from Instagram reels via computer vision and object detection; feature graduated from internal support tool to core in-app product offering.
• Engineered scalable web scraping infrastructure spanning 100+ e-commerce domains using proxy rotation with 1000+ IP pools, AWS SQS queue architecture, and reusable build pipeline plugins.
• Migrated vector database from PostgreSQL pgvector to Zilliz Vector DB, achieving measurable latency improvements in similarity search for real-time product matching.
• Architected end-to-end Instagram chatbot with Node.js server, conversational AI integration, user engagement tracking, and reel analysis - handling high-concurrency message throughput.
• Provided system design mentorship to the engineering team, establishing scalable microservices patterns and architecture best practices adopted across the codebase.

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Full Stack Developer Intern

Whatbytes · Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

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• Built production-grade applications with Node.js and Prisma ORM; deployed on AWS EC2 with Nginx reverse proxy for high-availability environments.
• Developed intelligent web scrapers for Timely AI, extracting and structuring data across multiple external sources.