Scope
A short call, then a written plan: what we build, what we skip, what it costs. Fixed scope, no surprise invoices.
I build productsthat ship.
Freelance full-stack developer for founders who want design-grade product, built end to end and live in weeks.
Selected work
What I do
Four ways to hire me. All of them end the same way: something real, live, and yours.
01
Application Development
Mobile and cross-platform apps built with React Native, Expo and TypeScript, backed by NestJS and Node.js APIs on Postgres or MongoDB. One codebase, native feel, a backend that holds up when usage spikes.
Best for apps that need to ship on iOS and Android at once.
02
Website Development
Landing pages, brand websites and portfolios on Next.js and TypeScript. SEO and AI search optimization handled from the first commit, so people and the engines they ask can actually find you.
Best for launches, rebrands, sites that need to convert.
03
Web App Development
Portals and platforms your operations run on: admin portals, CRMs, ERPs, WhatsApp integrations. Role-based access, clean APIs and the unglamorous reliability that keeps a business moving.
Best for agencies, ops teams, multi-tenant client access.
04
Product Development
Complete end-to-end product development: consultation, third-party integrations, development, testing, deployment and post-launch technical support. Everything you need on the tech side to launch.
Best for founders going zero to one without hiring a team.
How we’ll work
Prototype
A clickable version within the first week. Real screens beat slide decks; we correct course while it is cheap.
Build
Production code from day one. You watch progress on a live staging URL, not in status meetings.
Ship
Launch, instrument, hand over. You get the keys, the docs, and a developer who still answers email after.
Where I’ve worked
Freelance is the main act. These are the rooms where I sharpened the craft first.
Engineering Intern · Dec 2025 to present · Remote
Mindtrot Technologies
Frontend on Mindtrot's out-of-hospital care product. I implement flows, fix bugs and keep high-traffic pages fast in React and TypeScript.
React, TypeScript
Full Stack Developer Intern · Aug 2024 to Aug 2025 · Pune
Guru Branding Services
Joined the startup early and owned real client work for a year. I talked to clients, turned business requirements into complete products built from scratch, and shipped CRMs and ERPs, with experienced developers reviewing my work daily. The place I learned to build products, not just projects.
Node.js, NestJS, Express, MongoDB
The journey so far
From a hackathon floor to founders’ inboxes, with the people who shaped the route.
Apr 2024
Codement
A 24-hour national-level hackathon with over 400 participants, and I was one of the core members who made it happen. It is also where I met the seniors who became my mentors: the people who coordinated the event, guided us, and many more. This is where it started.
where it all started
Aug 2024
Guru Branding Services
Started working at Guru Branding Services as a startup, alongside a small crew from that hackathon circle, and gave it a full year. I talked to clients, turned business requirements into complete products built from scratch, shipped CRMs and ERPs on NestJS, and got mentored by developers far more experienced than me. The lesson that stuck: build products, not just projects.
products, not just projects
Aug 2025
Out on my own
Published MediaX, a TypeScript SDK that tames FFmpeg, and built products for four clients through December. I also started working with Vandana Thawait, a seriously good UI/UX designer and veteran freelancer who pulled me deep into freelancing, taught me plenty, and still sends designs my way.
MediaX, live on npm
Aug to Dec 2025
Formiq, Compass and a classroom
Built Formiq end to end, then started Compass: a real-estate CRM born from a gap I kept seeing in the industry, intelligent lead scoring at its core. I am still building it. On the side, I spent three months on contract with a training institute in Jalgaon, teaching web development to students who were technically my seniors.
born from a gap I kept seeing
Dec 2025
Mindtrot Technologies
Joined Mindtrot as an engineering intern, working frontend on their out-of-hospital care product. React and TypeScript: implementing flows, fixing bugs, keeping high-traffic pages fast. Still ongoing.
keeping busy pages fast
Now
Building for founders
These days I work with Vandana Thawait as Apex Labs, our agency. Together we are building offease for a client, while I push Formiq and Compass, my own products, forward. Taking products from idea to live, end to end. The next milestone on this list could be your project.
the next one could be yours
One developer, the whole product.
I’m Saurav Kale, a full-stack developer from Pune, fuelled by caffeine and curiosity. I work directly with founders: no account managers, no agency markup, you talk to the person writing the code.
My stack covers the whole product. React, Next.js and TypeScript up front; Node.js, Express and NestJS behind; MongoDB or PostgreSQL underneath; GSAP and Motion when the interface needs to move; Docker and CI/CD to put it in production and keep it there.
I care about the part most developers skip: how the thing feels. This site is the work sample; everything you see here was designed and built from a blank file.