I build productsthat ship.
Freelance full-stack developer. I work with founders, mostly turning messy docs into live products. Usually takes weeks, not months.
a few recent things…
Selected work
A multi-tenant SaaS CRM platform for real-estate teams. Features lead capture, automated scoring, agent assignment, and follow-up management with full data isolation.
- CRM
- SaaS
- Multi-tenant
- Real-estate
A platform that pulls co-working spaces into one place. Currently in the build for a client under Apex Labs. Discovery and listings on one side, day-to-day operations for the spaces on the other.
- Web app
- Marketplace
Website for a healthcare consulting firm that mostly works with government bodies and large institutions. The whole point of the design was to feel serious and trustworthy on first glance.
- Website
- Healthcare
Landing page for a niche community platform. The page has one job: explain what it is in a few seconds, then collect sign-ups.
- Landing page
- Community
These are the things I tend to get hired for. The brief changes, but it usually ends the same way. Something live that you actually own.
Application Development
Cross-platform apps with React Native, Expo and TypeScript, with a NestJS or Node backend on Postgres or Mongo. One codebase that runs on iOS and Android, and a backend that doesn't fall over when traffic actually shows up.
Good fit if you need iOS and Android without paying for two teams.
Web Development
The public-facing side and the part your team logs into, both. Landing pages, brand sites and portfolios on Next.js, plus the CRMs, ERPs and admin portals sitting behind them. SEO and AI-search baked in from the start, roles and permissions sorted properly, and the boring kind of reliability included.
Good fit when the marketing site and the dashboards behind it should come from the same person.
WhatsApp API Integration
Wiring WhatsApp into whatever you're already running. Either through the official Meta Cloud API directly, or via providers like AiSensy when that's the better fit. Templates, webhooks, broadcasts, support flows, the works. Plugs into your existing CRM or backend instead of becoming yet another tool to check.
Good fit if WhatsApp is already where your customers actually talk to you.
Product Development
Taking a product from idea to live: planning, third-party integrations, building, testing, deploying, and sticking around afterwards when things inevitably need attention.
Good fit if you're going zero to one and don't want to hire a full team yet.
roughly…
Scope
We start with a short call. Then I write up a plan, basically: what we're building, what we're leaving out, what it costs. Whatever we agree on is what you pay. No surprise invoices later.
usually one page
Plain English, signed off before I open an editor.
Prototype
Within the first week or so, you get something you can actually click through. Honestly, it's a lot easier to change direction at this point than three months in.
week one
If something feels off, better to catch it now than after months of work.
Build
I build with production code from the start, on a live staging URL you can open whenever you want. Saves both of us a lot of status calls.
live link, always
A link you can open on your phone, kept up to date as we go.
Ship
We launch, hook up analytics, and hand things over properly. You get the credentials, the docs, and someone who still answers email after the invoice clears.
still around after
Handover doesn't mean goodbye. I usually stick around for whatever comes up next.
Where I’ve worked
Freelance is the bulk of what I do now. Before that, I learned a lot in these two places.
Engineering Intern · Dec 2025 to present · Remote
Mindtrot Technologies
Working on the frontend of Mindtrot's out-of-hospital care product. Mostly building out flows, fixing bugs and keeping the busier pages quick. React and TypeScript.
React, TypeScript
Full Stack Developer Intern · Aug 2024 to Aug 2025 · Pune
Guru Branding Services
Joined early and got handed real client work pretty quickly. Spent a year talking to clients, turning whatever they asked for into actual products, shipping CRMs and ERPs while senior devs reviewed my code daily. Honestly, this is where I figured out the difference between writing code and building a product.
Node.js, NestJS, Express, MongoDB
Want to talk it through first? Book a 1:1 discovery call.
Roughly how I got here, and the people who helped along the way.
Apr 2024
Codement
A 24-hour national hackathon with 400+ participants, and I was on the core team that ran it. Honestly though, the bigger thing was the people I met. The seniors who organised it ended up becoming mentors, and most of what came next sort of traces back to that weekend.
started here
Aug 2024
Guru Branding Services
Joined Guru Branding Services pretty early, alongside a few people from that same hackathon circle, and stayed a full year. Sat in on client calls, turned what they wanted into actual products, shipped CRMs and ERPs on NestJS, and had senior devs tear my code apart daily (in the best way). This is where I started seeing the gap between writing code and actually building a product.
stayed a full year
Aug 2025
Out on my own
Published MediaX, a small TypeScript SDK that makes FFmpeg a bit less painful to work with. Took on four clients over the next few months. Around the same time, I started collaborating with Vandana Thawait, a UI/UX designer who’s been freelancing forever. She kind of pulled me deeper into the freelance world, taught me a ton, and still sends designs my way.
MediaX is on npm
Aug to Dec 2025
Formiq, Compass and a classroom
Built Formiq end to end, then started Compass. Compass is a real-estate CRM with lead scoring at its core. I kept noticing the same gap in how real-estate teams chase leads and ended up just building for it. Still working on it. On the side, I spent three months teaching web development at an institute in Jalgaon. The students were all older than me, which was a bit awkward at first.
still building Compass
Dec 2025
Mindtrot Technologies
Joined Mindtrot as an engineering intern, on the frontend of their out-of-hospital care product. React and TypeScript, mostly building flows, fixing bugs, and keeping the busier pages quick. Still going.
still ongoing
Now
Building on Upwork
Started on Upwork to build a profile there. Currently working on a WhatsApp AI agent SaaS for small businesses, helping them automate customer conversations with intelligent replies and smart routing. If any of this lines up with what you’re building, email’s open.
you could be next
lately…
I’m Saurav, a full-stack dev based in Pune. Most of my work is direct with founders, no project managers in between, no agency markup. You’re basically talking to the person writing the code.
On the frontend it’s mostly Next.js, React and TypeScript. On the backend, Node with Express or NestJS, sitting on top of Postgres or Mongo. GSAP or Motion when an interface needs to feel alive, Docker and CI/CD to keep things running once they’re out there.
The part I genuinely care about is how something feels to use, which is honestly the part a lot of devs skip. This site is kind of part of the pitch. Every bit of it, designed and built from a blank file.
Rather just talk?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We walk through what you have, what you want, and whether I am the right person to build it. No pitch deck, no pressure.
- 01You tell me what you are trying to ship.
- 02I ask the boring questions that save weeks later.
- 03You get a written plan within two days. No charge.
Got something you want built?