Pankaj
Vaghela

Full-Stack Developer

Pankaj Vaghela - Portrait

Pankaj Vaghela

  • Senior Frontend Engineer at Picnic (Amsterdam)
  • Led 7-engineer team for SSR implementation
  • Speaker at Amsterdam React Meetup
  • Built Web3 & Fintech platforms
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Work Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

Picnic Technologies
Amsterdam, NL
May 2022 - Current

Leading development of internal products and mentoring developers.

  • Mentored 4+ junior developers and a data-science intern for an LLM initiative.
  • Leading development of an internal product, boosting store operator productivity by up to 40%.
  • Presented '3D Rendering in React Native with Filament' at the Amsterdam React Meetup.
  • Designed and led a loyalty program implementation, increasing customer retention by 10%.
  • Led 7-engineer team implementing Server‑Side Rendering (SSR) using Picnic's Page Platform.
  • Optimized payment integration in customer-facing app, raising first-order conversion above 70%.
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Full Stack Software Engineer

Bay-area solutions [US-based Startup]
Remote
June 2021 - Mar 2022

Designed strategies to reduce development time and deployed Web3 platform.

  • Designed strategies to reduce development time and shorten deployment time by 20%.
  • Implemented and deployed foundational & end‑to‑end features of a Web3 social platform.
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Full Stack Developer & Project Lead

IIIT Ranchi
Ranchi, India
May 2019 - May 2021

Led team to develop the official institute website.

  • Led 5-member team and coordinated with institute administration.
  • Built admin panel to enable remote-content updates without developer intervention.
  • Modernized GraphQL server and deployed on AWS (ECS).
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Software Developer

MonadsTech
Remote
April 2020 - Mar 2021

Built hospitality and fintech mobile applications.

  • Built OneMenu app in 2 months to improve hospitality management.
  • Built fintech mobile app in 3 months to enable seamless digital-personal-loan management.
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Projects

Sequelize Guard

Sequelize Guard

Personal Project2020 - Current

Backend Engineer

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ZCash - An Instant Loan App

ZCash - An Instant Loan App

Zavron FinservJul 2020 - March 2021

Software Developer Intern

React NativeNative ModulesFin-Tech
OneMenu - Hospitality App

OneMenu - Hospitality App

OneMenuMay 2020 - Jul 2020

Software Developer Intern

React NativeReduxHospitalityEComm

React Native Form

MonadsTech2020

Open Source Author

React NativeFormOpenSource

Crystal PHP Framework

Personal Project2019

Backend Developer

PHPMVCFrameworkOpenSource

Quick Screenshot App

Personal Project2017

Android Developer

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