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AboutGagan Doddanna

Engineer by training, designer by habit, building for the AI era.

Nearly 5 years turning client requirements into shipped products: dashboards that gave an ops team 8 hours a week back, a real-time AI interview platform, and a telecom SaaS I helped build as founding engineer, supporting 120+ accounts. Today I modernize enterprise retail apps in Vue 3 and Nuxt while earning an MS in AI.

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Open to new roles · Chicago, remote or relocation

What I bring · 01 / 02

Judgment first, tools second.

  1. Product before code

    I work directly with clients to pin down the requirement first: discovery calls, written specs and agreed trade-offs come before any code.

    6 workflows simplified · 35% fewer steps

  2. Measure, then optimize

    I profile before I tune, and I ship numbers, not adjectives. Speed and accessibility are product features.

    IVR dashboard 700ms → 250ms on 12k+ node trees · WCAG 2.1 AA

  3. AI on purpose

    AI drafts, I decide. Every AI-written change is reviewed, tested and owned by me, with cost and privacy limits set up front.

    Live AI voice agent with per-caller isolation and call caps

What I bring · 02 / 02

Stack

Frontend
Vue 3 · Nuxt · React · Next.js · TypeScript · Pinia
Backend & APIs
Node.js · Express · Fastify · REST · GraphQL · WebSockets · WebRTC
Data & cloud
PostgreSQL · Redis · DynamoDB · Supabase · AWS · Docker · GitHub Actions
AI
OpenAI API & Realtime · LLMs · Prompt engineering · Claude Code · Cursor
Quality
WCAG 2.1 AA · Core Web Vitals · Playwright · Storybook · Design systems
Building now
LangChain · RAG · AI agents

Education & certifications

In progress
MS Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics minor · Indiana Wesleyan University
Master's
MS Computer Science, HCI specialization · DePaul University, 2023
Bachelor's
BE Computer Science · VTU, 2020
Certified
AWS Solutions Architect, Associate · AWS Cloud Practitioner · Generative AI with LLMs · UX/UI Design Diploma

Open to work

Let's build something people actually use.

Full-time & contract
Software Engineer · Full-Stack · Frontend · AI Engineer
Internships
AI / ML · Data Analytics
Location
Chicago · Remote · Open to relocation
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