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Nikhil Tayal

Senior Full-Stack Developer · Delhi, India

Seven years shipping production web apps across fintech, aviation, edtech and e-commerce. I design end-to-end systems — interfaces, APIs, and everything between — and care a lot about the details nobody notices.

Lately, deep into generative AI — running Dockerized ComfyUI on serverless GPUs, building virtual try-on and image pipelines with custom Python handlers, wiring LLMs into product workflows, and automating real ops with computer vision.

See the worknikhiltayal9211@gmail.com

About

Nikhil Tayal — Senior Full-Stack Developer based in Delhi, India
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Hi, I’m Nikhil Tayal — full-stack by trade, systems-minded by instinct. I treat interfaces and infrastructure as one problem, and spend most of my time in the seams.

I've shipped 10+ React applications and REST APIs serving 2M monthly visitors, architected a booking platform handling 500+ reservations a month, and built fintech portals processing over $2M in transactions. Lately I've been obsessed with generative AI — running ComfyUI on serverless GPUs, wiring LLMs into products, and shipping a virtual try-on SaaS to real merchants.

Currently
Thumby Aviation · Growify · EasySupply.in
Focus areas
UI systems · microservices · GenAI products
Education
B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology — 2015 — 2019
Based in
Delhi, India

Selected Work

Experience

Work history

2024 — Present
Lookify
Delhi, India · Personal SaaS

Founder & Full-Stack Developer

· AI Virtual Try-On for Shopify — Shopify App & Super-Admin
  • Built an AI virtual try-on SaaS used by 20+ Shopify merchants, handling 1,000+ monthly sessions with 95%+ uptime.
  • Dockerized ComfyUI on RunPod serverless GPUs, processing 500+ images/month through a custom Python handler with queuing and watermarking.
  • Shipped a 4-step merchant onboarding flow and a full-featured admin app (product management, daily look limits, theme embed) embedded in Shopify admin.
  • Implemented Razorpay subscription billing with HMAC webhook verification for automated plan gating.
  • Built a super-admin dashboard to monitor all merchant stores, user activity, and try-on logs across the platform.
Next.jsNestJSTypeScriptComfyUIRunPodDockerMongoDBShopify APIRazorpay
Showcase
Jun 2024 — Present
Thumby Aviation
Delhi, India · Contract

Senior Full-Stack Developer

· Helitaxii (Helicopter Booking) & CAMO Winglet (Aircraft Maintenance)
  • Designed a Central Reservation System serving 500+ monthly bookings with shared live inventory for 3 admin roles plus public customers.
  • Engineered the end-to-end customer booking flow across 4 service types, integrating Razorpay for 200+ monthly transactions.
  • Shipped a cross-platform React Native app used by 15+ ground staff at 5 helipads for QR check-ins and on-ground booking management.
  • Built a digital technical logbook for 12+ aircraft, replacing 100% of paper-based maintenance records for DGCA compliance.
  • Implemented inspection scheduling with template-driven forms and CSV bulk import, reducing data entry time by 70%.
React.jsNext.jsReact NativeNestJSNode.jsTypeScriptMongoDBAWS S3Webpack
Showcase
May 2023 — Jun 2024
PhysicsWallah
Noida, India

SDE-2

  • Spearheaded PW Gulf regional edtech app, growing daily active users by 25% in 3 months across 8 modules.
  • Drove a 40% increase in organic traffic through SEO and a Next.js frontend modernization serving 2M monthly visitors.
  • Designed a centralized notification microservice (NestJS, MongoDB, Redis) cutting delivery time by 30% and server load by 40%.
React.jsNext.jsNestJSMongoDBRedisTypeScript
Showcase
Apr 2021 — May 2023
Drip Capital
Mumbai, India

Software Engineer

  • Built Trade360, a cross-border collaboration platform serving 200+ exporters and importers with 15+ API integrations.
  • Initiated Drip Switch USD transaction portal, processing $2M+ in 2 months with a 40% lift in payment efficiency.
  • Engineered a container tracking app handling 10,000+ monthly API requests with real-time updates across 3 shipping corridors.
  • Hit 80% test coverage (Jest, Mocha), reducing production bugs by 35%; published a reusable UI library to npm adopted across 4 teams.
React.jsTypeScriptReduxJestMochaWebpack
Showcase
Jul 2019 — Apr 2021
Credochain
Delhi, India

React.js Developer

  • Pioneered PEMANT, a digital credit line web app adopted by 7,000+ MSMEs across 3 user roles.
  • Built an underwriter dashboard powering real-time credit decisions for 2,500+ active users with rich data visualization.
React.jsReact NativeReduxHighcharts
Showcase

Projects

Selected work

Live links and walkthroughs are being added. Email me for a private demo of anything here.

2024 — Present
Live

Lookify

— AI virtual try-on for Shopify

A SaaS virtual try-on platform used by 20+ Shopify merchants, handling 1,000+ monthly sessions. Dockerized ComfyUI runs on RunPod serverless GPUs, processing 500+ images a month with a custom Python handler for queuing and watermarking. Razorpay billing with HMAC webhook verification and 95%+ uptime.

Next.jsNestJSTypeScriptComfyUIRunPodDockerMongoDBShopify API
Live — soonWalkthrough — soonCode — soon
2024 — Present
Live

CAMO Winglet

— Digital technical logbook for aircraft maintenance

Replaces paper-based maintenance records for 12+ aircraft with a DGCA-compliant digital logbook. Template-driven inspection forms, CSV bulk import, and a role-aware workflow cut data entry time by 70%.

React.jsNestJSTypeScriptMongoDBWebpack
Live — soonWalkthrough — soonCode — soon
2021 — 2023
Archived

Drip UI

— Internal component library published to npm, adopted across 4 teams

MUI 5–based React component library (`@dripcapital/dripui`) bundled with Rollup into CJS + ESM + TypeScript declarations, with MDX stories in Storybook 6 hosted on Netlify. Used as the shared UI foundation across Trade360, Drip Switch, and two other internal portals.

React.jsMUI 5RollupStorybookTypeScript
Live — soonWalkthrough — soonCode — soon
2023 — 2024
Archived

Notification Microservice

— Centralized multi-channel notification service for PW

Centralized NestJS microservice handling email, push, and in-app notifications for PhysicsWallah. Kafka consumers ingest events from upstream services, Redis handles rate-limiting and deduplication, and AWS SES delivers at scale — cutting delivery latency by 30% and server load by 40%.

NestJSKafkaRedisMongoDBAWS SESTypeScript
Live — soonWalkthrough — soonCode — soon
2024 — Present
Live

EasySupply.in

— Shipping automation for Indian D2C sellers

SaaS for 50+ e-commerce sellers automating shipping label processing across 5 courier integrations, handling 50MB+ uploads. MongoDB aggregation pipelines power an analytics dashboard tracking 1,000+ daily orders by courier, state, and payment type.

Node.jsFastifyTypeScriptReact.jsMongoDB
Live — soonWalkthrough — soonCode — soon

Skills

Toolkit

Frontend

React.js · Next.js · React Native · TypeScript · Redux · Tailwind CSS · Webpack · Rollup

Backend

Node.js · NestJS · Express · Fastify · GraphQL · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · WebSockets

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, SES, Lambda) · DigitalOcean · Docker · Nginx · PM2 · GitHub Actions · CI/CD

AI & Automation

ComfyUI · RunPod · Computer Vision · Generative AI · LLM Integration · Puppeteer · n8n · Make.com

Testing

Jest · Mocha · React Testing Library · Zod · TDD

Contact

Let’s work together.

Open to senior full-stack contracts, founding-engineer roles, and AI product work. The fastest way to reach me is email.

nikhiltayal9211@gmail.com
Email
nikhiltayal9211@gmail.com
LinkedIn
in/tayal-nikhil
GitHub
nikhil-tayal
Phone
+91 9873327914