Noel Jose
Frutiger Aero

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Noel Jose

Software Developer

  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Cloud
  • Full-Stack
  • Backend

Software developer with 5 years of full-time engineering experience, currently contracting independently. Self-taught and building for clients since 2016. I work across backend and full-stack, mainly Go and TypeScript, building production systems end to end from architecture through to deployment.

Open to backend and full-stack roles, remote-first or on-site, including relocation to Germany and the EU.

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Experience

5 roles · 2016 – present

  1. Independent Software Developer

    Current

    Apr 2026 – Present 6 mos

    Software Developer Contract Chennai, India · Remote

    Delivering production web and mobile applications for clients in real estate, education, and enterprise workflow, covering architecture through to deployment.

    • Concurrent engagements with four clients, owning backend, frontend, and infrastructure on each.
    • Built a verified-land marketplace with GPS-tagged field inspection workflows and government record verification.
    • Built an AI study companion delivering real-time, two-way doubt clarification over text and voice.
    • Go
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • React Native
    • Astro
    • PostgreSQL
    • Node.js

  2. Star Innovations

    May 2024 – Apr 2026 2 yrs

    Software Developer Full-time Thrissur, Kerala · Hybrid

    • Built and maintained frontend systems across React, React Native, and enterprise CMS platforms.
    • Led migration of legacy monoliths to microservices in Go and Node.js with PostgreSQL.
    • Developed REST APIs in Go serving production traffic at sub-100ms p95.
    • Established shared component libraries and design system conventions used across product teams.
    • Owned production incident response; introduced monitoring that cut mean time to recovery from ~4 hours to ~30 minutes.
    • Go
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • React Native
    • PostgreSQL
    • Azure
    • Docker

  3. Your Automation Technologist (YAT) India

    Jan 2019 – May 2024 5 yrs 5 mos

    Chennai

    1. Associate Software Engineer Full-time May 2021 – May 2024 3 yrs 1 mo
    2. Associate Software Engineer Part-time Jan 2019 – May 2021 2 yrs 5 mos

      Concurrent with M.Sc; converted to full-time on graduation.

    • Joined as the first developer during the company's pivot from automation to IT services, building the software function from scratch.
    • Delivered 15+ production applications, including real-time tracking systems and customer-facing mobile apps.
    • Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure (Lambda, EC2, S3, API Gateway, SQS).
    • Built CI/CD pipelines that reduced release cycles from weeks to hours.
    • Grew the team from 1 to 8 developers while retaining hands-on ownership of backend, mobile, and cloud architecture.
    • React
    • React Native
    • Vue
    • Svelte
    • Express
    • MongoDB
    • TypeScript
    • AWS

  4. D3box

    Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 1 yr

    Web Developer Part-time Chennai

    Built and maintained client websites and web applications in PHP and WordPress.

    • PHP
    • WordPress
    • JavaScript

  5. Freelance Web Developer

    Apr 2016 – Dec 2017 1 yr 9 mos

    Independent Chennai

    Concurrent with B.Sc.

    Client websites and web applications: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, WordPress, PHP; early work with React and Node.js. Self-taught throughout.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • WordPress
    • PHP

Selected work

8 projects

Independent client work 2026

My Land My Vision ↗

India's first manually verified land marketplace. Built the buyer-facing platform and internal verification console: GPS-tagged field inspection workflows, government record checks, title-deed and encumbrance tracking, and a seller document portal. Operates across multiple states in India.

  • Astro

Independent client work 2026

LumiQ ↗

AI study companion for a personalised-education platform serving homeschool and NIOS students, including learners with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. Built the two-way conversational system that answers questions in real time over text and voice, available 24/7.

  • Astro

at Star Innovations 2024 – 2026

Correspondence Management System

Enterprise workflow automation platform built on Temporal to orchestrate long-running, stateful business processes with guaranteed reliability. Role-based departmental channels with audit-ready data trails for compliance.

  • Go (Fiber)
  • Temporal
  • React
  • React Native
  • PostgreSQL

at Star Innovations 2025 – 2026

Medical Diagnostics Operations Platform

Unified operations platform for a diagnostics provider, covering patient test search, appointment booking, instant online results, and centre-level administrative dashboards.

  • Node.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL

at YAT India 2022 – 2024

Chess Academy Platform

Education platform for students, parents, coaches, and admins, with real-time class sessions and multiplayer chess over Ably plus automated billing, progress tracking, and scheduling.

  • Next.js
  • Express.js
  • Ably
  • AWS Lambda
More projects (2)

Independent client work 2026 – Present

LMS for an aviation training institute

Learning management system for an aviation training institute. Currently in development.

at Star Innovations 2025

Robotics Education CRM

Re-architected a failing internal sales CRM. Delivered real-time GPS tracking for field staff, automated mileage-based travel reimbursement, and role-based messaging between reps, regional managers, and headquarters.

Stack

Languages
  • Go
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • C
  • Kotlin
Backend
  • Fiber (Go)
  • Temporal
  • Node.js (Express, Fastify)
  • REST
  • GraphQL
Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
Mobile & Desktop
  • React Native
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Ionic
  • Electron
  • Tauri
  • Wails
Databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
Caching
  • Redis / Valkey
  • Memcached
Cloud
  • GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
  • AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, API Gateway, SQS)
  • Azure
DevOps
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Nginx
  • Linux (Debian)
Design
  • Figma
  • Blender
  • Adobe Creative Cloud

Education

Worked as a freelance and part-time developer throughout both degrees; converted to full-time engineering on graduation in 2021.