Taha Kachwala
Lead Software Engineer at Smartly.io
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTaha Kachwala is a Lead Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems primarily for financial and SaaS products. He combines deep Clojure backend expertise and immutable-data thinking with React-Redux and TypeScript front-end skills, and extensive experience across relational and NoSQL databases. At Smartly.io and prior companies he has led migrations and microservice work using AWS, Terraform and serverless patterns, including orchestrated data migrations between heterogeneous datastores. His background in innovation and entrepreneurship (EIT Digital Academy) complements a hands-on engineering style that spans Node.js, JavaScript and infrastructure as code. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems-level thinking and product-focused execution that helps teams modernize legacy stacks.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master’s Degree, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EIT Digital AcademyMaster's degree, Digital Media and Hypermedia Technologies, Master's degree, Digital Media and Hypermedia Technologies at Aalto UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First Class at K.J Somaiya College of EngineeeringMaster’s Degree, Digital Media Technology, Master’s Degree, Digital Media Technology at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Hindi
Github Skills (31)
closure9
externs8
tac8
loader8
javascript7
webpack-loader7
clojars7
clojurescript7
openapi6
html-webpack-plugin6
clojure6
spec6
webpack5
typescript5
swagger5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
taha-k/codetaha.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
taha-k/js-starterkit
Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.