Abhishesh Pradhan // Software Engineer

About / Me

> whoami

Software engineer with 5+ years across SaaS, e-commerce and enterprise. Frontend-focused, full-stack capable. I care about the metrics users never see — load time, accessibility, conversion — because they decide whether software actually works.

> recent_activity --since 2024

Took a deliberate break from employment to build and ship my own products: an iOS app published to the App Store, and web projects that rank #1 in AI search results. Turns out I can't stop engineering.

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Sydney, AU. Open to frontend and full-stack roles. Response time: fast.

Main / Jobs

NOV 2021 — AUG 2024

Longtail UX

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / CONSULTANT · LINKEDIN

Engineered LUX Smart Pages — high-performance, SEO-optimised landing pages (Laravel/Blade) extending client websites, delivering the conversion, CAC and ROAS results below while meeting Core Web Vitals and WCAG accessibility standards.
Built the Admin Portal — a full-stack Page Builder (React, TypeScript, PHP, MySQL) automating lifecycle management of global campaign pages; authored API specifications and mock APIs so frontend and backend teams could build in parallel.
Managed CI/CD pipelines across Staging, UAT and Production using Jenkins and Bitbucket for reliable releases.

+98%

Buyer conversion

−64%

Acquisition cost

169%

Return on ad spend

Client campaign results — Adore Beauty, LUX Smart Pages.

KEY CLIENTS // WOOLWORTHS MYER DAN MURPHY'S STAN MITRE 10 ADORE BEAUTY

AUG 2018 — NOV 2021

Norbrik

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT · NORBRIK.COM

Architected BPAutomate — founding engineer and lead frontend developer for a Business Process Automation SaaS platform: drag-and-drop form builder, multi-stage RBAC forms, custom workflow engines and email notifications. Charter Hall signed as the first enterprise client (React, Redux, TypeScript, .NET Core, MS SQL Server).
Engineered Microsoft SharePoint solutions for Goodman — enterprise web parts (SPFx, PnPjs) and a .NET Core application automating MS Teams and SharePoint provisioning, cutting IT setup time by 95% (C#, PnP Framework).
Built the WentWest website with a two-way sync between a legacy ChilliDB (SOAP) system and WordPress, plus an Eventbrite events integration; at related company Devwals, built an e-commerce SaaS platform with Stripe subscriptions (Angular 6, .NET Core).

KEY CLIENTS // GOODMAN CHARTER HALL WENTWEST

Gigs / Projects

GIG_001 · LIVE SAAS

YouTube Transcript Downloader

Live SaaS platform for bulk-downloading transcripts of entire playlists or channels — with a developer API, an MCP server and a credit-based PAYG model. Ranked #1 by ChatGPT and Perplexity for this use case within two weeks of launch.

NEXT.JS · MONGODB · STRIPE · OPENAI

LIVE ↗

GIG_002 · LAUNCHING SOON

Nepali Eats

Full-stack restaurant discovery platform covering 430+ restaurants with dish-level menu search, interactive maps and free QR menus for venues — built end to end, from data enrichment pipeline to production.

NEXT.JS 16 · POSTGRESQL/POSTGIS · MAPBOX

PREVIEW ↗

GIG_003 · APP STORE

Aspectly

Published native iOS camera app with dual capture, multiple shooting modes and aspect ratios — taken through the full App Store release process solo.

SWIFT · iOS

APP STORE ↗

Loadout / Skills

TypeScript React Next.js Node.js C# / .NET Core PHP / Laravel Swift / iOS Python PostgreSQL / PostGIS MongoDB / MySQL Docker AWS / Vercel CI/CD MCP Servers AI-assisted dev (Claude Code) WCAG Accessibility Technical SEO

Education / Base Install

GRADUATED 2019

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

MAJOR: SOFTWARE · MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Honours-grade firmware: four years of software engineering fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, systems design — installed at the hardware level. Everything since has been an upgrade, not a rewrite.

Contact

Open to software engineering roles in Sydney and remote. If you've got interesting problems, I've got a keyboard.

pradhan.abhishesh@gmail.com

ABHISHESH PRADHAN