Vince D'souza
Design-focused engineer
Overview
Software Engineer @Cocomply
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Lumos UI
I'm building Lumos UI, a component library aimed at startup teams that need sharper, production-ready React building blocks. The portfolio now gives it a dedicated, visible slot without turning the homepage into an ad.
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About
Software Engineer / Product Engineer with experience building production-ready products, with a strong focus on UI, UX, and system design.
Skilled in Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and modern frontend tooling, with hands-on experience working across backend systems using Firebase, REST APIs, and cloud functions.
Currently a Software Engineer at Cocomply, contributing to scalable frontend architecture, designing intuitive user interfaces, and collaborating across the stack.
Previously, as a Product Engineer at ThirdStartup, built and shipped end-to-end features, developing full-stack applications from scratch.
GitHub Contributions
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Blog(11)
My University Runs Their LMS on AWS. It Still Crashes Under a Few Hundred Students. (Part 1: The Autopsy)
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I Tried to Predict Google's Random Number Generator So I Wouldn't Have to Study
Three hours before my Design and Analysis of Algorithms lab exam, I made a decision.
Serving Tenant-Specific Content from a Single Global Deployment
Most multi-tenant SaaS systems start life in a silo model. Each enterprise customer gets their own deployment, their own subdomain, usually their own backend, and a routing story so obvious nobody even calls it routing.
Saathi: Building an AI App for People Who Still Use Button Phones
The hard part of Saathi wasn't getting an LLM to answer questions. The hard part was refusing to build the kind of AI app developers love making for each other.
Experience
Cocomply
Current Employer- Building and scaling production-grade frontend systems with a strong focus on UI quality and performance.
- Owning complex frontend features while collaborating closely with backend and product teams.
- Contributing across the stack when required, including API integration and system-level decisions.
- Ensuring design-to-code consistency and maintaining a high standard of UX across the product.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Frontend Architecture
- REST APIs
- Open API
- Python
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- AWS
- System Design
- UI/UX Collaboration
thirdStartup
Freelance
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