Gurchet Rai
Consultant at Fidelity Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGurchet Rai is a seasoned software consultant with 16 years of experience delivering full-stack solutions across e-commerce and financial services, currently based in Vancouver. He has led modernization and API/messaging initiatives at Broadridge and built customer-facing marketplace and mobile apps at Shuup, contributing publicly to the popular Shuup e-commerce platform. Proficient in Java/Spring, JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Vue), and Python/Django, he blends backend architecture with polished front-end experiences and operational automation. Notably, he has designed unified REST APIs and messaging layers for advisor workflows and implemented CI/CD, testing, and static analysis practices to raise delivery quality. His background in both startups (co-founding Enginade) and large enterprises gives him a pragmatic lens for solving complex integration and scaling challenges.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Microbiology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Microbiology at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
python10
ecommerce10
django10
twitter-bootstrap9
database8
databases8
html6
react6
font-awesome6
html-table6
responsive-design6
css6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shuup/shuup
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
E-Commerce Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:420 commits, 186 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gurchet primarily contributed to the enhancement of the e-commerce platform by implementing features and addressing code-related issues. Their work includes adding wishlist functionality, removing company-specific checkout options for logged-in users, addressing issues in the admin interface, and fixing scientific notation issues in input fields. Furthermore, the user worked on modifying product stock functionalities.
ecommerce-shopping-solutioncommerce-platformpythonecommercecommerce
gurch101/StockScraper
May 2010 - Jan 2016
retrieves Yahoo Finance stock information using YQL
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years 8 months
stock-marketyqlpythonstock-informationyahoo
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