Software Engineer
Pawan Danani
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About
Hi — I'm Pawan, a software engineer based in New York. I studied Computer Science and Economics at Stony Brook University, and I've spent the years since building software people lean on every day: retail point-of-sale platforms, geospatial analysis tools, internal AI assistants.
Outside of work I'm usually hunting down a new restaurant somewhere in New York (I've tried like a million). When I'm not eating my way through the city, I'm biking, hiking, catching up on the latest movies, or adding to an ever-growing keyboard collection.
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Experience
Software Engineer · M&C Saatchi World Services
Dec 2025 — Present · New York, NY
I build geospatial analysis and data tools here — one web app where teams keep shared, validated data in one place instead of scattered spreadsheets, assemble dashboards from customizable widgets, and explore it all on interactive maps.
ReactMapbox GLdeck.glFastAPIPostgreSQLSoftware Engineer · P.C. Richard & Son
Aug 2023 — Dec 2025 · Long Island, NY
I got to touch nearly every corner of retail tech here: modernizing a legacy IBM i point-of-sale into a React web app that 2,000+ employees use daily, building the Java companion app that turned tablets in 70 stores into tap-to-pay terminals, and shipping an internal AI assistant that cut IT and HR tickets by 15%. Along the way I replaced legacy manual late night deployment processes with modern Jenkins pipelines, hardened the middleware APIs, and kept the employee mobile app humming for 3,000+ users.
ReactJavaNode.jsPythonFastAPIAWS LambdaCordovaJenkinsDB2OpenAI SDKSoftware Engineer · Envogue International (madeyn.com)
Mar 2022 — Oct 2022 · New York, NY
A proper startup sprint: I built the Explore, Profile, and Home pages of madeyn.com, a social e-commerce app, and wired up the AWS underneath it: Cognito auth, Lambda triggers syncing users into Postgres, and media compression that cut page weight by 60%.
ReactGraphQLAWS CognitoLambdaS3PostgreSQL
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Selected projects
Systems work and product builds — a few will dock here as live apps over time.
Gesture Swiping Decoder
A gesture-based word prediction system using the SHARK2 algorithm, implemented in Python with NumPy and Flask for swipe gesture recognition and multi-stage pruning.
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