Hitesh Vaghela — Software architect & builder

Engineering software, from database to pixel.

I’m Hitesh — a software architect and hands-on builder with 11 years of shipping ERP and CRM platforms, and the component frameworks, data grids and query layers other engineers build on. Today I design AI-first products end to end: from system architecture and data flow to the last pixel.

Painted portrait of Hitesh Vaghela
Fig. 01 Portrait — painterly study
Now
Team Lead, Accrete Globus Technology
Experience
11 years engineering
Based in
Bengaluru, India
Status
Open to collaboration
(01) Selected work

Things I’ve built, end to end.

Six projects across media, security, data and tooling — each designed, engineered and shipped by hand.

01 Featured suite

Media Hub

A media suite in three modules: an advanced uploader with MIME validation, a capture studio for screenshots and screen/webcam recording, and a gallery that previews images, video, PDF, Excel, CSV and text inline.

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • MediaRecorder
  • Canvas API
  • Web APIs
02 Security

Password Manager

Team-friendly vault with AES-256 encryption, WebAuthn passkeys, granular sharing, auto-timeout and a full activity log.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • WebAuthn
  • AES-256
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03 Library

Query Builder

A fluent, chainable SQL builder for PHP: joins, grouping, subqueries and raw expressions, with bound parameters throughout. Runs on MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

  • PHP
  • PDO
  • SQL
04 Productivity

Timekeeper

A time-tracking workspace with live timers, calendar and reports, tags, subtasks and sharing — plus push notifications when a timer runs past its estimate.

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • Service Workers
05 Enterprise

ERP System

A custom ERP for Uro Veneer World’s manufacturing business — purchasing, inventory, production tracking, sales and invoicing, tied together with financial reporting.

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL
  • SCSS
06 You are here

This website

A lightweight MVC framework written from scratch, with a themeable design system, a command menu, and motion that respects your reduced-motion setting.

  • PHP 8
  • SCSS
  • Vanilla JS
  • View Transitions
(02) Experience

Sixteen years, four chapters.

11 years engineering and 5 in the classroom — from teaching algorithms to leading a platform team.

  1. Mar 2025 — Present 1 yr 7 mos Current

    Team Lead

    Accrete Globus Technology · Bengaluru

    • Designed and shipped an in-house frontend platform — 29 JavaScript components, 54 server-rendered UI elements, plus validation and form engines — adopted as the build standard across product modules, shortening new-screen delivery and retiring duplicated view code.
    • Rebuilt the data-grid export pipeline (synchronous and queued paths) to stream large exports in constant memory, replacing a path that silently capped at 1,000 rows.
    • Cut p95 load time on the heaviest report (previously 49s) by replacing a correlated subquery over an unindexed column with an indexed join and batching N+1 resolvers.
  2. Oct 2019 — Feb 2025 5 yrs 5 mos

    Full-Stack Developer

    Uro Veneer World · Bengaluru

    • Architected an ERP/CRM covering inventory, order-to-cash and finance for a multi-warehouse manufacturing business.
    • Reduced MySQL query latency through index design, query rewrites and materialized report views, absorbing sustained data growth on unchanged hardware.
    • Built the REST API layer serving web and mobile clients with token auth, a role–permission matrix and audit logging.
  3. Jul 2015 — Sep 2019 4 yrs 3 mos

    Freelance Full-Stack Developer

    Self-employed · Bengaluru, Remote

    • Delivered production modules for SMB clients, including automated reporting that replaced manual spreadsheet work.
  4. Jul 2010 — Jun 2015 5 yrs

    Lecturer

    Dr. Jivraj Mehta Institute of Technology · Gujarat

    • Taught Data Structures & Algorithms, C/C++, Java and Computer Graphics to undergraduate cohorts and mentored capstone projects.
(03) Expertise

A generalist, with depth.

Comfortable anywhere in the stack — and happiest when owning the whole thing.

  1. 01

    Architecture & AI

    Designing systems end to end, and bringing AI into them where it genuinely earns its place.

    • System & data architecture
    • AI-first product design
    • Internal platforms & frameworks
  2. 02

    Interface engineering

    Interfaces that feel fast, considered and consistent in every theme and on every screen.

    • Design systems in SCSS
    • Motion & micro-interactions
    • Accessible, responsive UI
  3. 03

    Backend & security

    Solid, well-guarded foundations for applications that hold data people care about.

    • PHP & MySQL
    • Passkeys, OTP & sessions
    • Encryption, CSRF & rate limiting
  4. 04

    Platform & tooling

    The glue around the product that keeps it quick to build and pleasant to use.

    • Gulp & Rollup pipelines
    • Push notifications (FCM)
    • Browser media & capture APIs
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • C++
  • Java
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • REST API design
  • RBAC & auth
  • Background job queues
  • Caching
  • React
  • SASS
  • Web Components
  • Vite
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Apache/Nginx
  • Git & GitHub
  • CI
(04) About

An architect who still ships — turning messy, real-world business problems into software people rely on every day.

I’m a software architect and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience, currently team lead at Accrete Globus Technology in Bengaluru. Before that I architected Uro Veneer World’s ERP/CRM, built modules for SMB clients as a freelancer, and spent 5 years teaching data structures and algorithms.

I work best on the layer other engineers build on — frameworks, data grids, query performance — and I like owning a problem end to end. Today my focus is AI: designing products with intelligence at the core, on foundations that are fast, secure and built to last.

Years engineering
11
Years teaching
5
Focus now
AI/ML Python Platform architecture
(05) Contact

Have an idea worth building?

I’m open to collaborations, freelance work and interesting problems. Tell me a little about yours and I’ll get back to you.

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