Parth Gartan
Building elegant, scalable products with modern web technologies.
I specialize in architecting and building high-performance web applications. Focused on creating exceptional user experiences through clean code, thoughtful design, and engineering excellence.
Building products. Contributing to open source. Exploring AI. Learning relentlessly.
I like taking ambitious ideas from a blank editor to a working product. Along the way, I'm constantly learning, contributing to open source, and experimenting with AI, cloud infrastructure, and modern web technologies.
Interests
LFX Mentee
MesherySelected for the Linux Foundation (LFX) Mentorship 2026 program to contribute to Meshery, the cloud native management plane.
Maintainer & Community Manager
Meshery & Layer5Maintainer and Community Manager across the Meshery and Layer5 ecosystem. Opened 31 pull requests with 22 merged across production open-source projects.
GitHub Activity
Tools and technologies I work with.
Frontend
Languages
Backend
DevOps
DB/ORMs
AI/ML
Netwrk
Full-stack professional networking platform with posts, connections, notifications, and AI-generated PDF resumes.
- Architected a 5-workspace Turborepo platform with JWT auth, media-rich posts, connections, notifications, and AI-generated PDF resumes
- Built a secure backend — 30 REST API endpoints, 9 relational entities (Express.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL) with bcrypt, Zod validation, and DB retry mechanisms
- Developed a responsive frontend with Next.js 15, React, Redux Toolkit, and Tailwind CSS using optimistic updates and reusable components
- Containerized with multi-stage Docker builds and deployed to Kubernetes via Kustomize, Traefik Ingress, Stateful PostgreSQL, and automated Prisma migrations
CodeSync
GitHub-inspired code collaboration platform with repositories, branching, commits, pull requests, and a Git-like CLI.
- Architected a platform supporting repos, branches, commits, issues, PRs, reviews, and merges on a normalized 23-model PostgreSQL database
- Built a secure backend — 72+ REST API endpoints (Express.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL) with JWT auth, role-based authorization, AWS S3, and Zod
- Engineered a globally installable Git-like CLI (12+ commands) with an OAuth-style device auth flow for push, pull, branch, checkout, and remotes
- Implemented line-level branch diffs, merge commits, contribution heatmaps, privacy enforcement, and a fully typed TypeScript stack
WanderBloom
Airbnb-style accommodation booking platform with search and filters, interactive maps, reviews, and full listing management.
- Built a full-stack booking platform with Node.js, Express 5, EJS, and MongoDB Atlas using a server-rendered MVC architecture
- Implemented Passport.js authentication with persisted sessions, Joi server-side validation, and role-aware UI for owners vs visitors
- Integrated Mapbox GL JS interactive maps with geocoded markers and popups, plus Cloudinary-hosted image uploads via Multer
- Shipped keyword search and category filtering across 9 categories, 1–5 star reviews with cascading cleanup, and centralized error handling
Sketchy
Real-time collaborative whiteboard with a from-scratch HTML5 Canvas engine, live presence, drawing tools, chat, and persistent rooms served from Kubernetes.
- Built a custom HTML5 Canvas rendering engine (zero drawing libraries) with infinite pan/zoom, marquee selection, 8-handle resize, and an Excalidraw-style layered renderer hitting 60fps drags
- Designed a WebSocket realtime protocol (ws + JWT) syncing shapes, edits, erases, presence cursors, and shared laser pointers, with heartbeat reaping and 35ms-throttled telemetry
- Implemented undo/redo as invertible deltas replayed through the live protocol, keeping the canvas, PostgreSQL persistence, and all peers bit-for-bit consistent
- Shipped a secure multi-service backend (Express 5 + WebSocket) with scrypt password hashing, JWT refresh-token rotation, and Zod-shared contracts across a Turborepo/pnpm monorepo
- Delivered production DevOps: multi-stage Docker builds, Docker Hub images, and Civo k3s with Traefik ingress, cert-manager TLS, and declarative rollouts
Milestones and recognition.
SAHITYAM 2026
Built and scaled the official website for my college's annual fest, SAHITYAM 2026 — 1,000+ registrations and 25,000+ concurrent users. Repository is currently private and will be open-sourced soon.
Top 72 Qualifier
Qualified in the top 72 teams out of 1,000 teams for the ODOO hackathon 2025.
Adobe Hackathon 2026
Qualified for the Adobe Hackathon 2026 out of 3,00,000 participants.
Let's build something together.
I am always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision.