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Gavin Arori
Full-Stack Developer · React, Next.js & Node.js
I build reliable, high-performance applications that solve real-world problems, and I genuinely care about making software people enjoy using.
I taught myself to build before I fully understood why things worked — then spent the years since closing that gap, one shipped project at a time. [Replace this with your real story — the turning points, the projects that mattered, why you build.]
SELECTED WORK
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From learning in public, to owning delivery.
2021 — 2023
Learning to build, one project at a time
I started a telecommunications and information engineering degree at Dedan Kimathi University, but most of what shaped me as a developer happened outside the syllabus. I taught myself the frontend fundamentals, then kept pushing further — by 2023 I'd shipped Sitecraft, a component library and web-development studio site, while still a student. That project mattered less for what it was and more for what it proved to me: I could take an idea from nothing to something people could actually use.
2024
Full-stack, for real
Gigitise gave me my first real seat on a product team, working on a SaaS freelancer marketplace and landing roughly a 20% page-load improvement along the way. From there I moved into full-stack delegate work at Adamur — React and TypeScript on the frontend, Express and PostgreSQL on the backend, with Prisma tying the schema together. That's the stretch where those tools stopped being things I was learning and became things I just used, including on Herd, a livestock-management platform I started building on the side and have kept shipping ever since.
2025 — Present
Owning the details that don't show up in a demo
At Patient Xpress I worked inside a HIPAA-aware healthcare product, where role-based access and secure data flows weren't optional polish — they were the job. Now at AdZetu, I'm working on a digital advertising platform serving concurrent campaigns, with more of my time going into system design conversations with backend engineers than pure UI work. In parallel, Herd has grown into a real multi-tenant SaaS with RBAC, CI/CD, and Docker — the project that taught me the most about architecture, because nobody else was going to make those decisions for me.