Divyang Chauhan

Backend engineer specializing in distributed systems, scalable APIs, and getting things shipped.

I build the backend systems that keep products running — event-driven architectures, serverless infrastructure, and APIs that hold up under real workloads. Currently shipping blockchain infrastructure; on the side I’m building ResumeForge, a resume intelligence tool because job hunting deserved better tooling. I’m looking for my next role at a startup where the engineering problems are still being figured out.

I’m a backend engineer with five years of experience building distributed systems, scalable APIs, and SaaS products from the ground up. My work has ranged from serverless infrastructure at a cybersecurity startup — cutting infrastructure costs by $200K/year and reducing system downtime by 90% — to blockchain event pipelines at Kleros, where I re-architected a monolith into horizontally scalable services.

Outside of my day job, I’m genuinely excited about AI — not just as a buzzword but as a practical lever. I use AI tools heavily in my own workflow, I’m constantly turning over ideas for where AI can make real products more useful, and that curiosity feeds directly into the SaaS products I’m building on the side.

I’m actively looking for a software engineering role at a product-focused startup — as an individual contributor or engineering lead — somewhere the technical problems are still being defined and good engineering decisions actually move the needle.

Currently building

ResumeForge — an AI-powered resume intelligence tool that helps job seekers tailor their resume for specific roles · AI Penetration Tester — automates security reconnaissance, discovers vulnerabilities, and reviews code

NST Cyber Assure

Founding Engineer & Team Lead Mar 2021 – Feb 2024

A multi-tenant SaaS platform that gives enterprises a real-time view of their external attack surface — vulnerabilities, exploitable weaknesses, exposed internet assets, and the threat actors most likely to target them. I was the founding engineer, contributed ~70% of the production codebase, and eventually led a cross-functional team of 9.

$200K Infrastructure cost saved / year
90% Reduction in system downtime
80% Faster deployments via IaC
+40% Revenue opportunity from tenancy model
0 Critical security vulnerabilities shipped
9 Cross-functional team members led
Technical detail

Context

A third-party studio was contracted to build Assure over 6 months. Their delivery was buggy and unusable. I was brought in, rebuilt it from scratch in OutSystems in 3 months (Assure v1), then led a full rewrite in TypeScript on serverless AWS (Assure v2) when OutSystems hit hard architectural ceilings — no runtime white-labeling, no three-level tenancy, no storage-level tenant isolation.

What I built

  • ETL pipeline — Kafka-triggered AWS Lambda pipeline that parses raw security scan data into vulnerability datasets, exploit intelligence, typosquatted domain data, and exposed asset inventory.
  • Multi-tenant architecture — three-level tenancy (master → supertenant → tenant) with per-tenant subscription gating and data residency controls at the storage level.
  • Runtime white-labeling — every supertenant gets a fully branded portal without a new build; resolves at runtime from a single deployed Angular app on CloudFront.
  • Authenticated-only frontend — no HTML, CSS, or JS served to the browser without authentication, enforced via standalone login Lambda + Cognito session cookie.
  • Complex authorization — CASL.js attribute-based policies enforcing fine-grained access scoped simultaneously by supertenant, tenant, and project across a single shared API.
  • Backoffice impersonation — admins can scope into any tenant’s customer portal without creating a new user or separate session.

Tech stack

Backend NestJS, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, CASL.js
Frontend Angular, AWS CloudFront, CloudFront Functions
Auth AWS Cognito + custom Lambda triggers
ETL AWS Lambda pipeline, Apache Kafka
Infrastructure AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudFront, Cognito), Terraform
Testing Cypress (E2E)

Security record: Assure was penetration tested before every release — appropriate for a platform sold to banks and enterprises. Across my entire tenure, no pentest ever uncovered data leakage, cross-tenant exposure, or access control bypasses.

BUILDING

ResumeForge

Solo · Side Project · 2024 – present

An AI-powered resume intelligence tool that helps job seekers tailor their resume for specific roles. Analyzes job descriptions, scores resume fit, and suggests targeted edits — built because job hunting deserved better tooling.

  • Next.js
  • Claude API
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe

Link coming soon

BUILDING

Image Resize Web App

Solo · Side Project · 2024 – present

A fast, privacy-first image resizing tool that processes everything in the browser — no uploads, no server, no data leaving the device. Built as a clean utility to scratch a real itch.

  • React
  • Canvas API
  • WebAssembly

Link coming soon

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • OutSystems

Frameworks & Libraries

  • NestJS
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Express
  • Angular
  • React
  • Next.js
  • GraphQL
  • CASL.js
  • TypeORM

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS ECS
  • S3
  • RDS
  • CloudFront
  • Cognito
  • Docker
  • Terraform

Tools & Practices

  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Apache Kafka
  • Celery
  • Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Cypress

Web3

  • Ethers.js
  • Viem
  • The Graph
  • Multi-chain Integration

If you're building something interesting and need a backend engineer who can move fast and own large parts of the stack — let's talk.