Software engineer / London

/ Hi, I'm

Atul Ghandhi.

I build software for a living. And for fun.

Software developer at Compare the Market. Four years at AND.Digital before that (a consultancy), and through them: Lloyds, Cancer Research UK, Hargreaves Lansdown and others.

My current focus is spec-driven agentic development with SpecKit: writing clear specs, then using AI agents to deliver against them.

On the books

Available

Get in touch SW20, Londonatulghandhi@hotmail.co.uk GitHub LinkedIn

Scroll. The page builds itself.

/ Side projects

Built in the evenings.

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01 · Live · Featured

Regards of Wall Street

Finance and financial products have been a long-standing interest of mine, and Regards of Wall Street is where that interest gets an audience: market commentary and analysis on the news moving markets, written for a readership that now tops 300 views a day, alongside a growing newsletter subscriber base.

Alongside the writing, the site runs a set of tools including an earnings calendar, an index heatmap and an AI capex tracker, all of which give readers a reason to return between articles.

300+ daily viewsGrowing newsletterReturning readers

FinanceNext.jsNewsletterCharts

regardsofwallstreet.com

💰

02 · Live

The Income Tracker

Income tracking without spreadsheet complexity. Log earnings, categories spending, spot trends over time. Know where money's going and how far you are from goals with insights and charts.

FinanceTrackingDashboard

theincometracker.com

📝

03 · Live

One Good Day

Daily planner with a brainstorm pad. No signup. Data stays client side. Share a plan via an encoded link.

Client-sideShareable

onegoodday.work

🎁

04 · Live

Santa Switch

Secret Santa with exclusions baked in. Add people, set who can't pair, hit send. Everyone gets a private email.

AlgorithmsEmail

santaswitch.com

🎮

05 · Live

Quahoot

Kahoot clone. Multiplayer, join by code, points scale with speed. Built it for a house party.

RealtimeMultiplayer

quahoot.site

🛒

06 · Live

Make Exist

A storefront of business ideas that probably shouldn't exist. Dressed up like real products.

ConceptStorefront

makeexist.store

07 · In progress

More coming.

Always something half-built in another tab. Ping me if you want a preview.

Pitch me one

/ Now

What I'm working on.

Shipping at Compare the Market

Building customer-facing insurance journeys in a microservices architecture, with a focus on spec-driven agentic development using SpecKit.

More side projects in the queue

Six live, and a few more in progress in the evenings.

Deeper on prompt and context engineering

Courses, papers, hands-on agent work.

Learning how LLMs actually work

Working through tensors, matrix operations and gradients, and building small neural networks from scratch in NumPy and PyTorch.

/ Track record

Work I've shipped.

Currently at Compare the Market. Before that, four years at AND.Digital, a consultancy, embedded with clients in finance, charity and hospitality. Earlier still, Java at Cognitran on vehicle diagnostics for Ford.

Current role

Compare the Market

Software Developer · Feb 2026 to present

Developing and maintaining customer-facing insurance journeys in a microservices architecture, from feature delivery through to production observability on Kubernetes. Day to day I focus on spec-driven agentic development using SpecKit, writing precise specs first and then using AI agents to carry them through to production.

TypeScriptNode.jsKubernetesSpecKit

Client · 01

Hargreaves Lansdown

Investment platform

Rebuilt high-traffic pages in Next.js and Tailwind. Figma to production components, covered with Playwright, Jest and visual regression.

Next.jsTailwindPlaywright

Client · 02

Lloyds Banking Group

Backend services

Built and optimised Node.js services for an internal cloud migration. Contributed to the org-wide Node upgrade.

Node.jsTypeScriptAWS

Client · 03

Cancer Research UK

Race for Life rebuild

Production components in React and Contentful. Rebuilt the Race for Life pages, lifting donate click-through by ~5%.

ReactContentful

Client · 04

ISOS (International SOS)

Frontend lead, replatform

Led frontend on a replatform from no-code to Next.js and Material UI. Built nav templates and routing across micro-frontends.

Next.jsMaterial UI

Client · 05

Luna

Intranet platform

Core features and APIs in React, Node.js and TypeScript. Improved page load times by up to 50%.

ReactNode.js

Client · 06

Openr

Hospitality APIs

Designed and built new API endpoints for the Openr hospitality platform.

Node.jsPostgreSQL

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Contentful Certified

Scrum PSM1

BSc Computer Science, QMUL

/ How I work

Code by hand, features by agent.

Half my week is writing code manually on high-stakes systems. The other half is orchestrating AI agents to deliver large features and epics. At Compare the Market that means spec-driven development with SpecKit. I've gone deep on prompt and context engineering through courses and a lot of hands-on experimentation.

Manual craft

Hands-on code on production systems, backed by reviews, tests and type checks.

Spec-driven agentic development

I write the spec first, then hand agents full epics with the context they need. SpecKit at work, Claude Code everywhere else.

Always experimenting

Courses, papers, late-night sessions. I want to know where models fail, not just where they work.

/ Toolkit

Things I reach for.

/ Frontend

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindMaterial UIGraphQL

/ Backend

Node.jsExpressPostgreSQLMongoDBSupabase

/ Quality

JestPlaywrightCypressTDD

/ Cloud

AWSDockerVercelNetlifyCI/CD

/ CMS

ContentfulContentstack

/ AI

Claude APIClaude CodeSpecKitPrompt engineeringAgent orchestration

/ Get in touch

Got something
worth building?

Hire me, work with me, or send me an idea. I'll read whatever you send.

atulghandhi@hotmail.co.uk GitHub LinkedIn CV