# Satish Baghel

> Satish Baghel is a software engineer based in Ahmedabad, India with 6+ years of experience, working mainly on the backend (Node.js, Express, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, REST APIs, microservices, Stripe payments) and also building React and Next.js front ends.

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## Profile
- Name: Satish Baghel
- Title: Software Engineer (full stack, backend focus)
- Current employer: Software and Technology Advanced Research Laboratory Pvt. Ltd., since Jan 2023
- Experience: 6+ years (since July 2020)
- Location: Ahmedabad, India; works remotely
- Skills: Node.js, Express.js, RESTful APIs, Microservices, MongoDB, Mongoose, MySQL, Sequelize, Redis, Socket.io, JWT Auth, React.js, Next.js, JavaScript, Redux (Core & Toolkit), React Hooks, Formik, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Git, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, GCP, JIRA, Trello, Agile
- Email: satish769843@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/satish-baghel
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-baghel
- LeetCode: https://leetcode.com/u/satish_baghel/

## Pages
- [Home](https://satishbaghel.com): introduction, hiring summary, featured projects, career path, skills
- [About](https://satishbaghel.com/about): full role history, more projects, coding activity
- [Full profile as text](https://satishbaghel.com/llms-full.txt): everything above plus every role and project in detail
- [Résumé (PDF)](https://satishbaghel.com/resume.pdf)

## Writing
- [Case Study: Building EVINDIA, an Electric Vehicle Marketplace for India](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/evindia-case-study): How I built evindia.online — 35+ Node.js APIs behind a SEO-friendly Next.js front-end that serves 10,000+ monthly visitors browsing, filtering, and comparing electric vehicles. The problem, the architecture, and what the numbers say.
- [useEffect Cleanup: Avoiding Memory Leaks in React 19](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/react-19-useeffect-cleanup): A missing cleanup function is the most common cause of stale state and memory leaks in React. Here is when you need one and how to write it correctly in React 19.
- [Tailwind CSS v4 Tips for Next.js](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/tailwind-v4-tips): Tailwind CSS v4 drops the JavaScript config in favor of CSS-first setup. Here are practical tips for using it cleanly in a Next.js 16 App Router project.
- [TypeScript Utility Types You Should Actually Use](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/typescript-utility-types): TypeScript ships a set of built-in utility types that remove most of the hand-written generics people reach for. Here are the five that earn their place in everyday code.
- [How to Add a Sitemap in Next.js 16](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/nextjs-16-sitemap): Next.js 16 builds /sitemap.xml from a single app/sitemap.ts file. Here is the exact code to list your static routes and blog posts for Google.
- [Measuring Core Web Vitals in a Next.js App](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/measuring-core-web-vitals-nextjs): You cannot improve what you do not measure. Here is how to capture real Core Web Vitals from your Next.js App Router site and where each metric usually goes wrong.
- [Fix: "Hydration failed" in Next.js 16](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/fix-hydration-failed-nextjs): A hydration mismatch means the server HTML and the first client render disagree. Here are the real causes in Next.js 16 and how to fix each one.
- [What Shipping Side Projects Taught Me About Engineering](https://satishbaghel.com/blog/lessons-from-shipping-side-projects): Side projects are where I learned the lessons that no tutorial covers — scoping, finishing, and the value of boring technology. A few that stuck with me.