Current stack
What I actually work in.
What I use hands-on today and what I've worked with.
Current & hands-on
PythonReactRAG PipelinesLangGraphAgentic AIPrompt EngineeringGitHub CopilotWorked with previously
C#.NET CoreASP.NET MVCJavaScriptAngularSQL ServerMicrosoft AzureAzure DevOpsCI/CD PipelinesGit / TFSJiraPower BIExperience
Where the depth comes from.
The same twelve-year trajectory as the delivery view, seen from the code side. Engineer → mentor → program leader.
NEXT PHASE · TARGET → VISION
Senior .NET Full Stack Lead → Solution Architect
The trajectory this record points to
Near term: Senior .NET Full Stack Lead / Technical Lead owning architecture decisions, code quality and technical governance across a live account. The 3–5 year vision: Solution Architect — designing the systems, not just building within them, with the delivery-side judgment to know what a design actually costs to ship.
JUN 2021 → JUN 2026 · LEADERSHIP PHASE
Specialist – Software Engineering
LTIMindtree · Mumbai
Owned technical architecture, code quality and release governance across a multi-account portfolio — 95%+ on-time delivery, −20% production risk through rigorous code review. Mentored developers in .NET, SQL Server and Agile engineering practice, improving team delivery productivity by 15%; enforced coding standards and ISO-aligned technical governance across every delivered application.
DEC 2017 → JUN 2021 · ENGINEERING PHASE
Software Developer
Innovsource Services · Mumbai
HR and MIS reporting solutions — +45% reporting performance. Mentored junior developers; contributed to enterprise architecture and IT governance forums (+25% team efficiency).
MAY 2016 → DEC 2017 · ENGINEERING PHASE
Software Engineer
SA-Techno Consulting Services · Pune
Regulatory-compliant applications for B. Braun Medical India — −20% audit preparation time; improved SLA compliance in service delivery.
APR 2014 → MAY 2016 · ENGINEERING PHASE
Software Developer
Intellect Software Solutions · Mumbai
Enterprise .NET applications for real estate, CRM, sales and marketing — the foundation of everything since.
Engineering proof
Three things I've actually built.
Not a skills list — working systems, with the stack and the reasoning behind them.
DualLens Analytics
A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline built with LangGraph — covering retrieval and answer evaluation, not just generation, so answers are checked against source documents rather than trusted on faith.
Stack · LangGraph · RAG · Retrieval Evaluation
View projectAutonomous Financial Analyst
Capstone project for the Johns Hopkins & Great Learning Agentic AI Certificate — a multi-agent financial analyst built with LangGraph, ChromaDB and GPT-4o-mini, orchestrating multiple agents rather than a single prompt-response loop.
Stack · LangGraph · ChromaDB · GPT-4o-mini · Multi-Agent Orchestration
View projectThis portfolio site
The site you're on right now — a single-file HTML/CSS/jQuery build with no framework or build step, JSON-LD structured data for search visibility, and hand-tuned performance work: critical-CSS inlining, AVIF/WebP images, subsetted font loading.
Stack · HTML · CSS · jQuery · Bootstrap 5 · JSON-LD
SQL Server depth
Unscripted, peer-reviewed SQL Server work.
This is what depth looks like when it's public and anyone can call out a wrong answer.
SQL Server depth, in public
795k developers reached, mostly on SQL Server.
Contributing since 2018 — 430 answers, 5,685 reputation, 92% of it on sql-server. These are the actual problems engineers hit at 2am when a report times out or an execution plan goes sideways — indexing, set-based rewrites, and the everyday failure modes of production SQL Server.
GROUP BY vs OVER() decisions behind them.
View full contribution breakdown
Why it matters for this role: this is unscripted, peer-reviewed SQL Server work — the same depth I'd bring to code review, schema design and performance triage on a team.
Technical writing
2× C# Corner MVP, published in public.
Writing up how something actually works forces a level of understanding that using it day-to-day doesn't.
All articles on C# Corner.
Engineering leadership
What the delivery years add, not what they cost.
Four concrete things I bring as a lead specifically because I've also run delivery — kept tight, not a slide of platitudes.
Code review culture
Every PR gets read by someone who's shipped the same class of bug — not rubber-stamped for velocity.
Mentoring into module owners
Grown engineers into module owners on live accounts — reducing key-person risk instead of concentrating it in one senior developer.
Estimation grounded in having built it
I estimate from having built the thing, not from a template — that's what protects a sprint commitment and the delivery margin behind it.
Governing AI coding tools with review discipline
Teams using AI coding tools ship faster and worse without review discipline — I govern for the productivity without losing the discipline.
Recognition
Certified, recognized, still learning.
Education
Certifications
All certifications are independently verifiable on my LinkedIn profile.
Awards & recognition
Contact
Open to senior engineering and technical leadership roles.
Open to Senior .NET Full Stack Lead, Technical Lead and Engineering Manager roles — especially where I can still touch the code.
Reach me directly
Mumbai, India · Open to relocation — India and GCC
Next step
Send a message about a hands-on engineering or technical-lead role, or take the résumé with you. I reply within one business day.
Prefer email? Write directly to surajkumar.navodya@gmail.com.
Prefer LinkedIn? Connect with me there.
- Open to Senior .NET Full Stack Lead, Technical Lead and Engineering Manager roles.
- Strong fit for hands-on engineering with code-review and mentoring responsibility, AI-augmented engineering workflows, and SQL Server–heavy systems.