I’m Surendar Pala Danasekaran, a full-stack developer with 2+ years of experience delivering scalable, accessible, and high-performance web and mobile apps across healthcare, enterprise SaaS, and fintech. I’m comfortable building modern frontends with React, Next.js, and Tailwind, crafting end-to-end backends with NestJS on GCP, and delivering secure, multi-tenant systems and real-time features that teams and users rely on. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines, embracing AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery, and building products that simplify complex workflows. I’m excited to contribute to ambitious projects and grow with fast-paced teams.

Surendar Pala Danasekaran

I’m Surendar Pala Danasekaran, a full-stack developer with 2+ years of experience delivering scalable, accessible, and high-performance web and mobile apps across healthcare, enterprise SaaS, and fintech. I’m comfortable building modern frontends with React, Next.js, and Tailwind, crafting end-to-end backends with NestJS on GCP, and delivering secure, multi-tenant systems and real-time features that teams and users rely on. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines, embracing AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery, and building products that simplify complex workflows. I’m excited to contribute to ambitious projects and grow with fast-paced teams.

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I’m Surendar Pala Danasekaran, a full-stack developer with 2+ years of experience delivering scalable, accessible, and high-performance web and mobile apps across healthcare, enterprise SaaS, and fintech. I’m comfortable building modern frontends with React, Next.js, and Tailwind, crafting end-to-end backends with NestJS on GCP, and delivering secure, multi-tenant systems and real-time features that teams and users rely on.

I enjoy collaborating across disciplines, embracing AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery, and building products that simplify complex workflows. I’m excited to contribute to ambitious projects and grow with fast-paced teams.

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Language

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Work Experience

Software Developer Co-op at University of Ottawa
September 1, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Built InvisGuard, a radar-based patient monitoring PWA (Next.js, MQTT, Supabase, Prisma ORM) with push-notification support, deployed on GCP with Cloudflare CDN, delivering sub-second alert latency for 20+ concurrent patients. Engineered a secure multi-tenant backend with fine-grained RBAC middleware in Prisma, enforcing strict data isolation and encrypted MQTT device-to-cloud communication across multiple care organizations. Implemented a real-time device registration and configurable alert threshold engine with VAPID push notifications; established a test-driven development (TDD) approach using Jest.
Software Developer (Co-op to Contract, Part-time) at Orleans Cardiopulmonary Group
May 1, 2025 - Present
Developed OCPG Health, a React Native Expo mobile app for CHF patients with 60+ REST API endpoints, featuring JVP video assessments, AI-powered nutrition analysis (OpenAI), vitals tracking, medication management, and an educational quiz system. Built a doctor portal using Directus CMS and a scalable backend (NestJS, MySQL, Prisma ORM, Docker, GCP) with Better Auth and Google OAuth, integrating real-time notifications and streamlining clinical workflows for clinic staff. Engineered a secure JVP video pipeline using RSA-SHA256 signed GCS URLs for direct client-to-storage uploads and implemented a streaming LLM proxy to deliver low-latency AI nutrition analysis via Server-Sent Events alongside a gamified CHF University quiz system with achievement tracking to boost patient engagement.
Software Engineer (Part-time) at Stejassys
March 1, 2024 - Present
Built Innkraft, a multi-hotel conversational AI sales agent (NestJS, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI GPT) on GCP, featuring a multi-stage decoder sub-agent for structured intent extraction, a query router, and a response composer with Prisma/PostgreSQL-backed conversation state and live room availability via multiple booking providers. Architected Plugginn, a multi-tenant embeddable widget platform (Next.js, NestJS, Stripe, Sentry, database-backed rate limiting) serving 30+ business clients across 15+ sites, with automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions with Sentry-based observability, contributing to 99.9% uptime. Built a real-time ride-hailing monorepo (React Native Expo + NestJS microservices) tracking 3,000+ vehicles, leveraging Redis for low-latency location updates and rate limiting and validated app flows with Maestro for E2E test coverage.
Full Stack Software Developer (Contract) at Flookup Capital Advisors (One21.ai)
August 1, 2022 - March 1, 2024
Architected and maintained a suite of 6+ applications for the One21.ai fintech ecosystem (Next.js, TypeScript, Astro, Vercel, AWS S3), including CA GPT (an LLM-powered assistant for accounting workflows) and Merchant Banker, streamlining financial data visualization and user onboarding. Engineered a centralized TypeScript backend repository providing shared REST APIs, strict data typings, and robust error handling across multiple client-facing frontends (Flookup, Snapshot, MCATech), accelerating delivery and reducing cross-repo regressions. Managed end-to-end Vercel CI/CD pipelines and modular frontend architectures; leveraged AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate feature delivery, write tests, and debug across the product suite, improving development velocity and code quality.

Education

Master of Computer Science at University of Ottawa
September 1, 2024 - May 1, 2026
BTech, Computer Science (IoT Specialization) at SRM Institute of Technology and Science
September 1, 2020 - May 1, 2024

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Professional Services