Portfolio Chennai, India

Forward Deployed Engineer

Jerin Stephen Benedict.

I work with users to understand complex workflows and turn them into production web apps, developer platforms, and automation.

Jerin Stephen Benedict
Full-stack · Developer experience Chennai

Selected work

Projects in practice.

Platforms, internal tools, and automation built for real operational workflows.

GitHub profile

Platform architecture

Cloud-Native Automation Platform

Reworked a monolith into independently deployed FastAPI services for enterprise automation, with containerized workloads and Azure deployments.

  • FastAPI
  • Microservices
  • Containers
  • Azure

Document intelligence

Immer.AI Document Processing

Built OCR and LLM extraction workflows and separated queued document processing from interactive API requests.

  • Python
  • PaddleOCR
  • Docling
  • WebLLM

Visual automation

Automation Studio for RPA

Built a desktop drag-and-drop editor for designing robotic process automation workflows.

  • Electron
  • React Flow
  • RPA

Internal tools

Enterprise Admin & Dashboards

Built React dashboards backed by secure Python APIs to give operations teams visibility into enterprise workflows.

  • React
  • Python
  • OAuth 2.0
  • JWT

Developer enablement

CI/CD & DevOps Enablement

Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines to shorten release cycles and make deployments more reliable.

  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps

Financial analytics

Financial Analytics Reporting

Built interactive reporting dashboards and the reusable R18 JavaScript UI library that powered them.

  • JavaScript
  • Dashboards
  • Data visualization

Healthcare operations

HappyQ

A clinic workflow that brings registration, appointments, queues, and billing into one place.

  • Appointments
  • Queue management
  • Billing

Cloud application

Web CRM

Built a web-based customer relationship management application and deployed it across Google Cloud and Azure environments.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure

Connected systems

IoT Automation

An automation project connecting ESP8266 devices to an Express application.

  • ESP8266
  • Express
  • IoT

About me

From interface to infrastructure.

I’m a Forward Deployed Engineer and senior software engineer based in Chennai. I work with users and stakeholders to turn operational problems into software they can use in production.

I currently work on developer experience at TCS. Before that, I led document automation work at ZF and built reusable interfaces and analytics products at Infonovum.

Web & product

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs
  • Electron
  • PostgreSQL

Platform & DevEx

  • Backstage
  • GitHub Actions
  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Grafana

Automation & AI

  • Python
  • n8n
  • Docling
  • PaddleOCR
  • Ollama
  • RPA
  • Selenium

Experience

Where I’ve worked.

  1. Feb 2026 – Present

    TCS

    Software Engineer, Developer Experience

    Modernizing an internal Backstage portal and building self-service GitHub Copilot access, usage reporting, and Slack-to-Jira automation.

  2. Jan 2022 – Jan 2026

    ZF · Immer.AI

    Product Architect & Project Lead

    Designed and deployed 12+ FastAPI microservices, led document processing and RPA delivery, and built an Automation Studio with Electron and React Flow.

  3. Apr 2017 – Jan 2022

    Infonovum

    Software Developer & Designer

    Built the R18 UI library, financial reporting dashboards, and audited data imports. Worked directly with clients and integrated OAuth 2.0 and JWT authorization.

  4. Jan 2015 – Mar 2017

    Solution Technologies

    Freelancer & Trainer

    Delivered full-stack applications and automation projects alongside technical training.

Interactive lab

Explore in 3D and AR.

A few browser experiments in 3D, hand tracking, and augmented reality.

3D previewWebGL

Orbit study

Rotate a procedural sculpture. Switch to Hiro marker mode to see the same shape in AR.

3D preview loads as it enters view.

Gesture cameraMediaPipe
Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Show a fist, open palm, or two-finger V. Hold it steady, then play your detected move. Camera frames are processed on your device.

Camera is off. You can also choose a move below.

Contact

Let’s talk about your project.

Have a product idea, an internal tool that needs work, or a role in mind? Send me an email.