Santgurlal Singh

Engineer with 6+ years delivering scalable, performant web applications used by millions. Experienced in leading architecture redesigns that boosted user engagement on products with 350M+ monthly active users. Skilled in mentoring teams, driving adoption of best engineering practices, and architecting seamless frontend-backend integrations in fast-paced, high-impact environments.


Experience

Senior Software Developer

Zomato
  • Led frontend architecture for the Movies vertical on Zomato District (10M+ downloads), improving user engagement through fast, intuitive ticket discovery and booking workflows.
  • Designed a modular, WebView-integrated booking engine in React + Next.js, cutting release cycle time and reducing production bugs via isolated deployments.
  • Collaborated closely with designers, PMs, and backend teams in Agile sprints, shipping new features on a weekly cadence while maintaining 99.9% app uptime.
  • Aug 2024 - Present

    Senior Software Developer

    Paytm Insider
  • Spearheaded the migration of core frontend architecture from React.js to Next.js, improving SEO performance by 50% and reducing Time to Interactive (TTI) by ~40% for the Movies vertical.
  • Launched and scaled the Movies experience across the Paytm App (350M+ active users) and website (millions of daily users), ensuring a high-performance, consistent user experience across platforms.
  • Working on many exciting and challenging features daily.
  • Led complete redevelopment of the TicketNew website (100K+ DAUs) and served as the sole frontend owner of Paytm Movies Web, accountable for performance, feature delivery, and long-term maintainability.
  • Mentored junior developers, led code reviews, and drove adoption of reusable components and performance-focused development practices.
  • Sep 2021 - Aug 2024

    Full Stack MERN Developer

    App-knit, Chandigarh

    Independently developed and deployed 7+ full-stack applications for diverse sectors including e-commerce, social, music, dating, and logistics.

  • A collector's app Real Collectors Only. To manage multiple collections and buying, selling or trading them.
  • A brand promoting app Forthgreen. Brand owners can signup and add their brand details and products through web app and users can follow these brands and explore their products.
  • A restaurant app Shoal. An app that connects users with Food and Beverage venues, while linking them to other users at that same location.
  • A service booking app ShiftBookd to book parlour services. It has full fledged time slot managemet of service providers.
  • A blind dating app Hide n seek which matches potential partners using similar interests.
  • A bus booking app Ctranslines which had all standard features of any standard bus booking app.
  • A music app BeatBoxx which had some free and some paid tracks.
  • June 2019 - Sep 2021

    Backend Developer Intern

    Jungleworks, Chandigarh

    Worked on a product called Fugu. It is basically a chat application for the workplace just like slack. It had many useful features like Attendance Bot, Leave management and Team management.

  • Worked on various bug fixes in which I had to understand the products existing code and make changes that were to the standard of the product and were backward compatible.
  • Worked on face recognition and some other major features for Attendance bot.
  • January 2019 - May 2019

    Software Developer Intern

    Helfis, Noida

    Worked on various technologies on a number of projects and gained valuable experience of working in a professional environment.

  • Worked a Visitor Management Application as the main project of internship. In which any organization can keep track of daily visitors coming into office. I developed an Android application, A Node.js application for APIs and a web Dashboard for this application.
  • Created UX/Wireframes for some applications.
  • Worked on AACE-LIMS to make the water quality reporting process online.
  • July 2018 - December 2018

    Education

    Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology

    B.Tech.(CSE)

    Average SGPA: 7.8

    2015 - 2019

    SGRD Khalsa Sen. Sec. School

    Class XII (PSEB)

    Percentage Scored: 77%

    2015

    Shanti Showering Public School

    Class X (PSEB)

    Percentage Scored: 79.8%

    2013

    Skills

    Programming Languages & Tools
    Soft Skills
    • Teamwork
    • Self-Motivation
    • Adaptability
    • Flexibility
    • Time Management
    • Decisiveness