Apoorv Mishra is a freelance software developer with 9 years of experience building backend systems and shipping end-to-end features for startups and products in India. He has strong Node.js and PostgreSQL expertise, has worked with Java and Ruby on Rails, and has handled infra and performance concerns across AWS, Redis and RabbitMQ. As a long-term collaborator on the popular open-source knowledge base Outline, he focuses on backend improvements—database migrations, rate limiting, document features and Google Forms integration—demonstrating care for both reliability and usability. At ClearTax and other firms he designed and implemented backend solutions for complex domain workflows, often owning API contracts through deployment. An OSS enthusiast who balances pragmatic product delivery with clean architecture, he brings a steady mix of hands-on coding, cross-team coordination and production troubleshooting.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Christ The King College
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science at Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:472 reviews, 80 commits, 180 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Apoorv primarily contributed to back-end development by removing and updating database columns in the events table and related migrations. They also improved the document delete confirmation message and made changes to the application to handle the creation and management of document-related features, adding functionality for the integration of Google Forms. Furthermore, the user implemented a request rate limiter at the application server level and added support for mentioning users in a document.
Contributions:57 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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Apoorv Mishra - Freelance Software Developer at Outline