Full Stack Engineer · .NET/C# · React/TypeScript

Rakesh
Baruah.

I build cloud-native enterprise applications in .NET/C# and React/TypeScript, with a focus on the architecture, security, and resilience patterns production environments demand.

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About

From production systems to published books: engineering with range.

I'm a full-stack engineer with 8+ years delivering production systems in .NET/C# and React/TypeScript, at companies including Crisis Prevention Institute and Microsoft. I work across both sides of the stack: REST API design and data modeling in PostgreSQL and Entity Framework Core on the back end, React and TypeScript on the front, authentication and identity integration with SAML and JWT, and production troubleshooting through telemetry. I care about accessibility as a correctness problem, not a checkbox. My current focus is enterprise AI in .NET, and building toward depth there.

My path is unusual by design: I left an early career in media to earn an MFA at Columbia and write professionally, then returned to engineering through two internationally published textbooks on VR/AR development, teaching computer science, and front-end work at Microsoft. I'm trusted to drive technical decisions and represent engineering with customers and stakeholders, because I can build the system and explain it.

8+
Years of experience
2
Published tech books
Skills
Core Engineering
C# / .NET 8/9 TypeScript React 19 ASP.NET Core
Front End
React / Redux Toolkit React Native Accessibility / WCAG Fluent UI
Cloud & Data
Azure PostgreSQL / EF Core REST APIs SAML / JWT / SSO

Certificates: Computer Vision & Machine Learning, Udacity / Nvidia (2020) · .NET Full Stack Development, DevCode Camp (2018)

Selected Projects
01 · Featured
Subplot landing page: An AI writing partner that knows your story and writes with you, not at you
Subplot

AI-powered writing assistant for authors, screenwriters, and playwrights, built on the philosophy of helping you write better, not writing for you. Combines my two careers: an MFA-trained writer's understanding of craft with LLM engineering.

React 19 + Vite TypeScript C# / .NET LLM integration
Live GitHub
02
Subtrackt landing page: Never miss a submission window again
Subtrackt

Online app for writers that tracks script and story submissions to publications and contests, with a smart algorithm that prioritizes submissions and helps strategize where to send work next.

TypeScript C# / .NET
Live GitHub
More on GitHub: Azure OpenAI Chat: .NET 9 + Next.js 15 enterprise chat reference · github.com/Rakesh6720
Experience
May 2023 — Present
Software Engineer
Crisis Prevention Institute · Milwaukee, WI
  • Full-stack development on enterprise training and certification platforms built with .NET and React/TypeScript.
  • Work across both sides of the stack: authentication and identity integration, data-layer correctness in Entity Framework Core, accessibility on the React front end, and production troubleshooting using telemetry to trace database contention and distributed-system failures.
.NET 8/9 React PostgreSQL / EF Core SAML / JWT Application Insights
Nov 2022 — Apr 2023
Software Engineer
Microsoft · Seattle, WA (Remote)
  • Front-end development on a Microsoft Teams application built with .NET 6, React, and TypeScript.
  • Built and shipped Fluent UI components against Azure infrastructure, wired secure REST calls from React using Microsoft Graph and JWT, and contributed to the team's work integrating conversational AI into the Teams surface.
.NET 6 Azure Bot Service MS Graph Fluent UI
Apr 2022 — Nov 2022
Software Engineer
Space150 · Minneapolis, MN (Remote)
  • Architected a cross-platform mobile e-commerce app with React Native, TypeScript, and Redux Toolkit.
  • Deployed an augmented-reality application for a Major League Baseball team (Unreal Engine, Node.js); served as primary engineering representative in customer conversations.
React Native Redux Toolkit Unreal Engine
Nov 2020 — Apr 2022
Computer Science Educator
Brookfield Academy / Milwaukee Public Schools
  • Taught computer science (Java, JavaScript) and web design, and led machine-learning classes in Python; recognized by district leadership and represented the CS summer program to the Milwaukee County School Board.
Jan 2018 — Nov 2020
Full Stack Developer & Published Author
APress / Springer Science Publishing · New York, NY (Remote)
  • Authored two internationally published technical textbooks on virtual and augmented reality (Unity, C#, Three.js, WebGL, WebXR); built and launched Android apps for Oculus Quest and Google Pixel.
Unity WebXR Three.js
Aug 2017 — Nov 2020
Full Stack C# Developer
Milwaukee Headache Clinic · Milwaukee, WI
  • Built and deployed a secure patient-record application end to end (C#/SQL, MVC, Microsoft Identity, role-based authorization), meeting strict privacy requirements.
2005 — 2008
Digital Media & Video Encoding
Showtime Networks · Black Entertainment Television · New York, NY
  • Digitized video assets and encoded them for digital platforms using MPEG codecs, Flash, and the Akamai video server; logged tape and maintained digital video assets and legal releases in the Pilotware database.
Contact

Let's build something
worth talking about.

Open to senior engineering roles, enterprise AI work, and conversations about hard problems. Milwaukee-based, remote-friendly.

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