Senior Software Engineer

Rushanshah Saiyed

I build websites, web apps, and mobile apps end-to-end — and the distributed systems behind them. Independent through RushDevs, after 4+ years shipping at enterprise scale.

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Previously

AfreshSpeerBell Canada

About

A little background

I run RushDevs, an independent software studio building websites, web apps, and mobile apps for startups and small teams — and I build my own products under the same roof, two of them live and paid.

That follows 4+ years designing and shipping full-stack, distributed systems at Afresh, Speer, and Bell Canada, owning critical systems end-to-end from architecture through on-call operations.

Education

B.Eng. Spec. Hons. Computer Engineering

York University — GPA 3.8/4.0, First Class, Dean's Honour Roll

Core stack

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsGraphQLPostgreSQL

Systems & infrastructure

Event-driven micro-servicesAzureAWSTerraformDockerKubernetesKafkaRabbitMQRedisObservability

Also comfortable with

Vue.jsReact NativePythonJavaSpring BootC# .NETGolangMongoDBCI/CD

Experience

Where I’ve worked

Four years of shipping production systems, now independent.

Founder & Principal Engineer

Jul 2026 - Present

RushDevs

Independent software studio — web, mobile, and the systems behind them

Work with startups and small teams end-to-end: scoping the problem, designing the architecture, shipping the product, and running it in production afterwards.
Build and operate my own products under the same roof — MugUp and EasyReports are live and paid, with Learn Quran and Hayya in active development.
Bring the same stack I ran at enterprise scale to smaller teams: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, on cloud infrastructure provisioned as code.

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2025 - Jul 2026

Afresh Technologies

AI-powered inventory and ordering platform for grocery retailers

Designed and shipped a greenfield application using React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, onboarding multiple enterprise customers onto the platform.
Partnered with staff engineers to architect micro-services with event-driven messaging via Azure Service Bus, owning critical components end-to-end for scalability and maintainability.
Debugged and resolved production incidents using Datadog, participating in weekly on-call rotations and driving reliability improvements across services.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

Speer Technologies

End-to-end product development partner for startups and enterprises

Designed and implemented serverless, durable Azure Functions leveraging C# .NET 8.0 to optimize cloud scalability and efficiency.
Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, and deployed web applications and services on Microsoft Azure for improved scalability and reliability. Set up Azure AD Auth to secure APIs and enable role-based access control across services.
Implemented WebSockets using SignalR for real-time communication between IoT devices and microservices, and used RabbitMQ for event-driven, asynchronous interservice communication.

Full Stack Software Developer

May 2022 - Sep 2024

Bell Canada

Canada's largest telecommunications provider

Built a progressive enterprise web application using Vue.js, Vuetify, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, and SQL Server. Implemented Keycloak for authentication and role-based access control, containerized with Docker, and deployed on Red Hat OpenShift.
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, reducing manual work by 50% and accelerating delivery by 30%. Monitored system health using Prometheus and Grafana.
Optimized database performance by tuning complex SQL queries, normalizing tables, and adding strategic indexes, improving response time for frequently accessed customer data by 30%. Applied lazy loading and code-splitting on the frontend, reducing initial page load time by 20%.

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Volunteer)

Feb 2025 - Present

OneMAX

Social networking platform

Developed a LinkedIn-like social media networking platform using TypeScript, React, MUI, Redux, Node.js, Express, and AWS services including DynamoDB, S3, Cognito, and Lambda Functions for a scalable customer-facing experience.
Designed and deployed cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK, and built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to streamline deployment and development workflows.
Mentored junior developers, conducted code reviews, and enforced software engineering best practices to ensure code quality and maintain high team standards.

Projects

Products I’ve built and run

Shipped end-to-end — design, build, billing, and the infrastructure underneath.

Founder

MugUp

Live

AI-powered study tool that turns any topic into quizzes, flashcards, and matching games in seconds — active recall without the busywork. I run it as a product: content generation, subscriptions, billing, and infrastructure are all mine. Self-hosted rather than serverless to keep unit costs flat as usage grows.

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseStripeGemini AIHetzner

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Co-Founder

EasyReports

Live

AI report card generator for Ontario elementary teachers, with output aligned to Ministry of Education templates. Built and sold as a paid product — auth, billing, bulk field updates, colleague sharing, and a generation pipeline tuned to keep each teacher’s voice intact.

ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDBClerkOpenAIStripeAWS

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Learn Quran

Live

Section-by-section memorization guides covering Juz 29 and Juz 30 — verified Arabic and translation, thematic breakdowns, key vocabulary, and five practice modes per surah. Statically exported with no backend or login; progress lives in the browser. Companion iOS and Android apps in progress.

Next.js 15App RouterTypeScriptStatic Export

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Hayya

In development

Mobile app that turns Muslim prayer times into insistent, call-style alarms — a full-screen "incoming call" UI with themed ringtones, streak tracking, and a written-reason flow for declining. Exact-alarm scheduling and full-screen lock-screen intents on Android, time-sensitive notifications on iOS.

React NativeExpoTypeScriptNotifeezustandadhan

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HadithBot

Live

Discord bot that posts a daily hadith and the 99 names of Allah to any server that invites it. Each channel keeps its own place in the collection — book, chapter, and name — so servers that join later start from the beginning, and ten slash commands cover random or specific lookups. Runs 24/7 in Docker on an Oracle Cloud always-free VM.

Pythondiscord.pySupabaseFlaskDockerOracle Cloud

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Contact

Let’s talk

Have a project in mind, or just want to say hello? Drop me a message.

rushan52@gmail.com

Location

Toronto, ON