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Hi, I'm Abhay Thakur — also known as abhaythakur71181 (and in a former life, falcon71181). I'm a Senior Software Developer at Salescode.ai in Gurugram, where I lead the architecture of the Order Management System inside a Distributor Management System used at enterprise scale — Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, and a healthy respect for systems that must not fall over.

After hours I write Rust. Five crates on crates.io (~12k downloads), a multi-protocol proxy with 398 tests, and an anime-metadata API that somehow collected 161 stars and a community before I archived it.

I run NixOS (previously Arch, btw), live inside Neovim and tmux, and strongly support the Free Software Movement — software should be open and free, with no shady data selling behind the scenes. Originally from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.

Portrait of Abhay Thakur

experience

Apr 2026 — Present

Senior Software Developer · Salescode.ai

  • Lead end-to-end development and architecture of the Order Management System (OMS) within the Distributor Management System, owning key technical decisions.
  • Mentor junior developers, run code reviews, and drive cross-module architectural decisions.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ship high-impact features while ensuring system reliability and performance.
JavaSpring BootApache KafkaRedisMySQLReact

Jan 2025 — Mar 2026

Software Engineer · Salescode.ai

  • Engineered a Java-based report generation engine converting raw CSV into complex XLSX reports, cutting manual reporting effort by 80%.
  • Built and shipped RESTful APIs with Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Redis, Apache Kafka, and MySQL, handling real-time order state transitions at scale.
  • Delivered responsive full-stack OMS modules in React.js, integrated with backend services via REST and WebSocket.
  • Recognized as Lead Performer for five consecutive quarters with multiple Spot Awards.
JavaSpring BootSpring Data JPAKafkaRedisMySQLReactTypeScript

Jul 2024 — Dec 2024

Full Stack Developer Trainee · Salescode.ai

  • Built backend microservices in Spring Boot and frontend components in React.js for the DMS product team.
  • Promoted to full-time Software Engineer within 6 months for high-impact, consistent delivery.
JavaSpring BootReact

journey

2026

Promoted to Senior Software Developer

Now leading end-to-end development and architecture of the Order Management System at Salescode.ai — owning key technical decisions, mentoring junior developers, and running code reviews.

crabby_proxy

Built a multi-protocol forward proxy in Rust — Tokio, Axum, SQLx, three-tier caching, RBAC, and 398 tests. The most sophisticated thing in the open-source pile so far.

2025

Graduated from Chitkara University

B.E. in Computer Science, CGPA 8.97/10.

Software Engineer at Salescode.ai

Promoted to full-time in six months. Shipped a Java report-generation engine that cut manual reporting effort by 80%, and built real-time order state pipelines on Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and MySQL. Lead Performer five consecutive quarters.

2024

Five crates on crates.io

Went deep on Rust: published aniscraper, rust-paper, todo-rust, byteutils, and perfmode — closing in on 12k combined downloads.

Joined Salescode.ai as Full Stack Developer Trainee

First industry role: backend microservices in Spring Boot and React frontends for the Distributor Management System product team.

Anime-API breaks 100 stars

The anime metadata REST API found a real community — 161 stars, 107 forks, mirrors, and contributors. Later rewritten in Rust (KawaiiKinetics) with 3× lower latency, then archived with honors.

2023

The web era

Forums, shopping sites, portfolios, a hostel gate-pass automation for Chitkara — the year of learning to ship web apps in JavaScript, then TypeScript.

2021

Started at Chitkara University — and on GitHub

B.E. Computer Science begins in Patiala. First repos: small Python tools, terminal experiments, and an unreasonable amount of curiosity about how systems work under the hood.

skills

Languages

JavaTypeScriptRustJavaScriptSQLLuaShell

Backend

Spring BootSpring Data JPAHibernateExpress.jsAxumTokioREST APIsWebSocket

Data & Messaging

MySQLPostgreSQLRedisApache KafkaSQLiteMongoDB

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSViteSocket.io

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (S3, EB, CloudWatch)DockerVercelShuttleGitHub Actions

Environment

NixOSGNU/LinuxNeovimTmuxGitJiraConfluence

education

2021 — 2025

Chitkara University

B.E. in Computer Science · CGPA 8.97/10 · Patiala, Punjab

2019 — 2020

D.A.V. Public School

Class XII, PCM · 89.4% · Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh