Independent senior engineer. Founder-friendly.
I'm Deepak Mishra — a full-time freelance full-stack engineer based in New Delhi. Eight years, sixty-plus shipped projects across the US, UK, MENA, and India: Next.js storefronts, Node and Laravel APIs, headless commerce migrations, and rescues of builds that stalled somewhere in sprint five.
Architecture First
Decisions on paper before decisions in code.
AI-Augmented Scoping
LLMs as a partner during discovery — not a replacement.
Code is a lever.
The metric is the fulcrum.
Ticket-closing engineers optimize for velocity. I optimize for the number in your board deck — checkout conversion, page-load p75, feature ship rate, mean time to recover. Every architecture decision is a bet on one of those, and I'd rather name the bet up front than smuggle it in.
Whether it's unwinding a decade-old CS-Cart monolith or writing the first commit of a Next.js storefront, the target is the same: measurable movement in a metric your leadership already tracks, and fewer surprises for the engineer who inherits the codebase after me.
In practice that means readable code over clever code, boring-but-proven infrastructure over novelty, and increments small enough to revert without a post-mortem. Freelance doesn't mean shortcuts — it means the same engineer stays accountable from architecture to hand-off.
Fluent from the database to the pixel
The same engineer at the schema, the API contract, the render tree, and the CI pipeline. Nothing gets lost in translation because there are no translators — just one person writing the commit.
Modern Frontend
- React.js & Next.js
- Tailwind CSS & Design Systems
- State Management (Zustand / TanStack)
- Core Web Vitals budgeting
Backend & APIs
- Node.js & Express / Hono
- PHP & Laravel
- REST & GraphQL API design
- MySQL & Postgres schema modelling
Commerce Systems
- Headless commerce integration
- CS-Cart deep customization
- WooCommerce scaling
- Payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)
DevOps & AI
- AWS & cloud hosting
- Git & CI/CD pipelines
- Docker containerization
- OpenAI & LLM tool integrations
What the founders and CTOs I've worked with say
Direct quotes from the founders, CTOs, and product leads who signed the invoice — pulled from written references and LinkedIn recommendations.
“Deepak's CS-Cart work quietly saved our operations team hundreds of hours a month. The custom add-ons hold up under Black Friday load and — a year in — every upgrade path has still worked the way he documented.”
“We spent two years fighting a slow monolithic storefront. Deepak decoupled the frontend to Next.js in phases with zero downtime; page loads dropped 60% and our search engine visibility recovered inside a quarter. His scoping doc alone was worth the fee.”
“Rare to find someone equally strong in Laravel backend and modern React. Deepak shipped our multilingual platform on schedule, and the code we inherited was so cleanly structured our own team could extend it from day one.”
“Hired Deepak for a three-week code audit on a Next.js app that had gotten unruly. He came back with a prioritised list of fixes, wrote the refactor plan in a shared doc, and stayed available through the follow-up implementation. Zero ego, all substance.”
“Our old WooCommerce store was crashing under sale traffic. Deepak owned the migration end-to-end — new Next.js storefront, Razorpay wired cleanly, and a Directus admin our merchandising team actually enjoys using. The launch was uneventful, which is the best thing I can say about it.”
The short version, if you're skimming
Six citable facts, for when you need to forward this page to a stakeholder without asking me to repeat myself.
Independent senior freelance full-stack engineer — sole contractor, no agency.
8+ years continuous freelance work. 60+ projects shipped end-to-end.
Headless commerce migrations, Next.js storefronts, Node.js and Laravel APIs.
New Delhi, India (IST / UTC+5:30). Remote worldwide.
Founders and CTOs in the US, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and India — 12 countries served.
30-day post-launch defect warranty on every fixed-scope build.
What people usually ask before writing
Five short answers to the questions that come up most often in a first email.
How long has Deepak been freelancing?
What is Deepak's engineering philosophy?
Does Deepak write the code personally?
What is included in a fixed-scope engagement?
Where is Deepak based and what hours does he work?
Something you need shipped
this quarter?
Send a two-line brief with the outcome you're after — a build, an audit, a rescue, a second opinion. I read it personally and reply within one business day. No agency middle-layer. No sales funnel.