Deepak Kumar Jha

Node.js Technical Lead · Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Open to Dubai / UAE

Currently based in New Delhi NCR, India — actively relocating to the UAE, not currently a UAE resident. 13 years building backend systems and full-stack platforms, most recently as Technical Lead at SmartSitting.

Degree attestation
MOFA-attested (UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs) — ready for work-permit processing, no delay on this step.
Availability
15 days' notice. Immediate joiner by regional standards.
Onsite interviews
Willing to fly to the UAE for final-round or onsite interviews at own or sponsored cost, on reasonable notice.
Time zone overlap
IST is 1.5 hours ahead of GST — a full working day's overlap with Dubai/Abu Dhabi teams, no async handoff required.

Regulated and compliance-adjacent domain experience

Relevant for banking, fintech and other regulated UAE sectors: at Toppan Merrill LLC, delivered enterprise compliance portals for financial, legal and healthcare clients across North America, Europe and APAC — regulated financial services and RegTech, on Node.js, Angular and GCP. At Indegene Limited, worked in a similarly regulation-heavy domain (life sciences), where data handling and audit requirements shape the architecture as much as the features do.

What a Dubai/UAE team gets

  • — A Technical Lead who has scaled a system to 60M+ monthly users (LiveHindustan.com, HT Media) and led teams of 4–14 engineers.
  • — Full working-day time-zone overlap with GST, so standups, reviews and incident response happen live, not by handoff.
  • — No visa or attestation lead time on the candidate's side — the degree attestation is already done.
  • — Hands-on production AI experience: RAG, LLM integration and MCP agents, shipped and publicly demoable — see the live demos.
Available for new opportunities

Have a system that needs an architect?

I'm open to full-time roles, contract engagements and product/architecture work. Everything on this site is a system I designed, built, deployed and still operate — the next one could be yours.

“Give me a problem. I'll architect it, build it, and ship it.”

— Deepak Kumar Jha