Hardik Sondagar
CTO at Cast.app
About
I'm a versatile Software Engineer with rich experience across multiple early-stage startups. My expertise spans diverse technologies, consistently delivering high-quality solutions. I've explored entrepreneurship, learning valuable lessons along the way.
From leading end-to-end product development to quickly adapting to client needs, my track record reflects efficiency and adaptability. I excel in integrating third-party solutions and optimizing infrastructure for cost-effectiveness.
Vibe Coding Projects
Take a Break
A Chrome extension that gently nudges you to sleep after a watch timer. Includes snooze + midnight reminder.
Income Tax Calculator
A comprehensive tool for calculating income tax with detailed breakdowns and explanations.
Will My Money Last?
A financial planning tool to calculate retirement savings and longevity.
PDF Password Remover
Remove passwords from PDF files directly in your browser - no server processing required.
Real Estate Return Calculator
Compare property investment returns with alternative options and make informed financial decisions.
Cross-Repo Milestones
Create identical milestones across multiple GitHub repositories simultaneously for consistent management.
Experience
- Leading technical strategy and engineering operations to drive platform scalability and efficiency
- Architected and executed a cloud optimization initiative that doubled (2x) scaling capacity while slashing infrastructure costs by 66% (operating at 1/3rd the original cost)
- Aligning the technical roadmap with business goals, ensuring high availability, and mentoring the engineering team to build high-performance systems
- Streamlined deployment pipelines and resource management to support rapid growth without scaling costs linearly
- Optimized API latency by 90% to improve user experience
- Built a faster, smoother data processing pipeline
- Integrated third-party APIs and unified SQL across sources
- Optimized infrastructure with fine-tuned auto-scaling policies
- Resolved system bottlenecks and led code reviews
- Built a B2B SaaS investment product for an $80M fund
- Designed distributed data pipelines for analysis
- Built recommendation engine boosting discovery by 50%
- Introduced psychometric founder assessment feature
- Migrated to microservices and built scalable data pipelines
- Delivered analytics dashboards and ETL systems
- Improved infra performance: -30% storage, 10x writes
- Owned AWS infrastructure and disaster recovery
- Built mywedstory.com end-to-end and shipped core features
- Led product, design, engineering, and go-to-market
- Managed timelines, budgets, and stakeholder alignment
- Owned requirements, UX, architecture, and delivery
- Developed, tested, and deployed core product features
- Maintained a user-centric design and execution approach