Backend Engineer · London · Available Q3 2026

Vikas
Dulgunde.

I build the quiet machinery behind products people use every day. Six years of Node.js and TypeScript. APIs, microservices, the boring stuff that has to work.

STATUS
Open to UK roles
MSc · Hertfordshire
2025 → 2026
01 / About

I write backends. Mostly Node.js, mostly in TypeScript, mostly the kind of work that never makes the changelog but keeps the lights on.

Before moving to London for an MSc at the University of Hertfordshire, I spent three years at Incedo Inc. shipping production services and another three before that building full-stack work for an edu-tech studio. I care about clean APIs, honest error handling, and not breaking things at 2am.

02 / Work
2022 — 2025
Software Engineer
Incedo Inc.

Designed and shipped 30+ microservices and 500+ REST endpoints across internal platforms. Led the API security initiative, onboarding services to 42Crunch and SonarQube and closing the long tail of OWASP findings. Built real-time features over WebSockets and stabilised legacy services that had been on call rotations for months. Received the internal "Made a Difference" award.

Node.jsTypeScript MicroservicesMongoDB 42CrunchArgo CD
2019 — 2022
Full Stack Developer
CodeMania Edu Tech

Shipped 5+ production websites with custom CMS modules used by non-technical staff. Owned deployments and infrastructure on DigitalOcean, including monitoring, backups, and the occasional 3am rollback.

Node.jsReact PostgreSQLDigitalOcean
03 / Toolkit
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java
Backend
Node.js, Express, REST, WebSockets, Microservices
Data
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
Platform
Docker, DigitalOcean, Argo CD, Git
Security
42Crunch, SonarQube, OWASP
Practice
API design, code review, on-call
04 / Projects

Crypto Trading Bot

A Telegram bot wired into Binance and Bybit. Signal parsing, order execution, position tracking. Around 50 active users, mostly friends who keep finding new edge cases for me.

Node · TS · Mongo
2023 — present
05 / Education
2025 — 2026
MSc, Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, UK
2019 — 2022
BTech, Computer Science
Avanthi Institute of Engineering & Technology
India
2019
Complete Node.js Developer Course
Andrew Mead · Udemy
Certificate
06 / Contact
Hiring backend?
Let's talk.