Full-stack developer · shipping products since 2023
3+ years shipping production web apps across healthcare, real estate, CRM & NFC products. React, Next.js, Node, Go.
Harshit · 2026Surat, IN3+ years as a full-stack developer across three companies. Everything you see below is live, in production, paid for. No side projects, no concept art. The code is messy in places because the customers are real.
Timelines are honest — overlap is unpaid internship hours bleeding into the early full-time role.
Full Stack Developer
Oct 2025 — Present
6 mo
Shipping Emerge EHR — dashboard stats pipeline, telehealth on Twilio Video Rooms, multi-file fax via iFax, valkey-backed caching for widget latency, topbar user/owner filter.
Full Stack Developer
Mar 2022 — Aug 2023
1.5 yrs
Built a CRM from scratch — contact, leads, pipeline stages, appointments, automations, reporting dashboards. Also 3 mo internship before full-time.
Full Stack Developer
Sept 2023 — Oct 2025
1.2 yrs
Owned the nfcwala.in product end-to-end. Landing, pricing, order flow, admin dashboard, payments, review-card fulfilment. Live today, serving paying customers.
Every one is live or has been live — no concept art, no side projects. Click, explore, ship.
Healthcare CRM + billing platform, multi-location.
Shipped dashboard stats (age/gender/ICD filters), telehealth via Twilio Video Rooms, multi-file fax via iFax, valkey-cached billing queries. In production across multiple medical practices.
Customer relationships. Pipelines. Automations.
End-to-end CRM platform — contacts, leads, pipeline stages, appointments, automations, reporting dashboards. Shipped for a full year and a half, trusted by sales teams.
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Premium NFC business and Google Review cards for modern professionals. Full-stack build — landing, pricing, order flow, admin dashboard — serving paying customers.
Real estate listings with agent flows.
Real estate platform for property listings and management — search, filters, property details, owner and agent workflows, responsive across devices.
A small op-ed on why deadlines are a design constraint, not an obstacle. And why most of the code that actually runs the internet was written on a Friday afternoon with coffee going cold.
“Read the SQL. Then fix the UI. Then ship. In that order, because the customer doesn't care how you feel about abstractions.”
— Harshit, at a standup, probably
Reads EXPLAIN ANALYZE before blaming the ORM.
Trusts the customer's bug report over the spec.
Boring databases, expensive queries, cheap components.
Scroll ↓ · the stack slides sideways
Pixel-precise UIs at 60fps. Component systems that hold up when real users start clicking.
Typed endpoints, sub-30ms p95, actual pagination — not a framework demo.
Postgres until it hurts. EXPLAIN ANALYZE before blaming the ORM. Rollup tables when reads matter.
Design → build → migrate → deploy → monitor. The whole vertical slice. No hand-offs.
Caching that doesn't lie, background jobs that retry, queries that don't fan out.
That's the whole stack.
Rest is just taste, judgement, and knowing when not to add more.
Abstract
We study the long-tail effects of shipping real products across three industries (healthcare, real estate, NFC hardware commerce) within a 3-year window. Our subject (n = 1) demonstrates a statistically unreasonable tolerance for PostgreSQL EXPLAIN plans and a productive disregard for Jira tickets lasting more than two sprints. We conclude that full-stack competence is best measured in deployed features, not framework allegiance.
Acknowledgements
Grateful to the teams at Bitfront, nfcwala, and Grewox for trusting production. Bugs are the author's. Wins are shared.
@misc{makwana2026harshit,
author = {Makwana, Harshit},
title = {Three Years of Shipping: Notes from a Full-Stack Developer},
year = {2026},
note = {Surat, IN},
url = {https://nfcwala.in, emerge-ehr.example},
keywords = {react, next.js, node, go, postgres, product},
}Open to full-time, contract, or "we just need this one thing fixed by Friday." I reply within a day.