Skip to content
$ ash_
Available for workMelbourne, Australia

AshAshiklal Memanaparambil Asokalal.

Illustrated portrait of Ash against a neon city skyline

I'm afull-stack engineer, Next.js developer, cloud engineer

I ship production web apps and the AWS infrastructure behind them.

Most recently at Remote King Australia

Status
Open to full-time
Work rights
485 visa, to May 2029
Focus
Next.js / TypeScript / AWS

Builder based in Melbourne

I'm Ash, a full-stack engineer in Melbourne. I moved from Kerala in 2022 for a Master's at Monash. I build Next.js and TypeScript apps and the AWS infrastructure they run on.

Most recently I interned at Remote King Australia, rebuilding the storefront and fixing the Stripe checkout on a live Next.js e-commerce platform. Alongside that I built Offerstitch, a job application tracker where Claude tailors a resume and cover letter to each posting, with a usage limit that holds under concurrent requests. I also built Lumerrant, the site for a Melbourne photography and film studio.

Location
Melbourne, Australia
Education
M.IT, Monash University
Published
IEEE paper on intrusion detection using deep learning

What I build with

Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptTailwind CSS
Backend & Database
Node.jsPythonMongoDBMongooseVitestpytest
Cloud & DevOps
AWS LambdaS3API GatewayDynamoDBCognitoCloudFrontSQSCloudWatchX-RayTerraformGitHub ActionsDockerLocalStack
AI & Integrations
Anthropic Claude APIAWS RekognitionClerkSvixStripeResendVercel Blobsharp

The path so far

Mar 2026 — May 2026

Full-Stack Developer Intern

Remote King Australia / Melbourne VIC

Live e-commerce platform (allremotes.com.au) built on Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, MongoDB, AWS S3, Stripe and Vercel.

  • →Rebuilt the responsive storefront UI in Next.js 15 App Router and React 19, covering 20+ customer-facing routes including homepage, product listing, product detail, cart, category and authentication pages
  • →Fixed Stripe payment API initialisation failures that were breaking Vercel production builds, restoring the checkout session, payment intent and webhook routes
  • →Built the product listing page with client-side filtering, sorting and search using React hooks, plus reusable header, navigation and product card components now used across the site
  • →Cleared App Router routing issues across 10 API route handlers and fixed layout breakage on mobile and tablet breakpoints
  • →Worked in Git branches with pull request reviews on a multi-intern team

Apr 2025 — Present

Current

Assistant Department Manager

Woolworths Group Limited / Melbourne VIC

Run daily operations across the fresh and front end departments of a Woolworths Metro store, covering stock ordering and availability, waste and markdown control, food safety compliance and checkout cover.

  • →Rebuilt ordering and waste routines after stepping up to Assistant Department Manager, improving availability and audit outcomes in both departments
  • →Train new starters across the fresh and front end areas

Jul 2022 — Mar 2025

Store Team Member and Duty Manager

Woolworths Group Limited / Melbourne VIC

Front-of-house store operations at Woolworths while completing a Master of Information Technology.

  • →Ran end-of-day procedures, customer service and issue escalation across 50+ duty manager shifts

Feb 2022 — Dec 2023

Master of Information Technology

Monash University / Melbourne

Specialised in cloud computing, software engineering, and distributed systems. Graduated December 2023.

  • →Specialised in cloud computing, software engineering, and distributed systems
  • →Built the first version of CloudSnap, a serverless AWS image platform, as a team project. Rebuilt it solo in 2026
  • →Graduated December 2023

Dec 2020 — Dec 2021

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions / India

Client: ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global). Ad readiness QA across Paramount+, CBSN, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr and MTV.

  • →Ran regression and smoke testing of ad delivery across 7+ device targets on two-week sprints, covering iOS, iPadOS, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire TV Cube, Apple TV, macOS and Windows desktop browsers
  • →Used Charles Proxy to intercept HTTP/HTTPS traffic and confirm that ad tracking beacons and analytics payloads fired with the correct values during ad breaks
  • →Wrote defect reports backed by network traces, reproduction steps and device context so engineering could resolve ad-delivery issues before release
  • →Validated live releases during US business hours, building detailed knowledge of platform-specific ad SDK behaviour and OTT release pipelines

Aug 2016 — Oct 2020

B.Tech Computer Science

Saintgits College of Engineering / India

Published an IEEE paper on intrusion detection using deep learning as part of my final-year project.

  • →Published an IEEE paper on intrusion detection using deep learning
  • →Benchmarked three ML models against the NSL-KDD dataset

Offerstitch

live

A job application tracker that tailors resumes and cover letters with Claude, with a credit limit that holds under concurrent requests and LaTeX and DOCX export.

206
tests
8
ADRs
7
AI features

Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS v4 · MongoDB · Mongoose · Clerk · Svix · Anthropic Claude API · Resend · Vercel · Vitest · GitHub Actions

CloudSnap

live

A serverless image library on AWS: 7 Python Lambdas behind a Cognito-authorised API Gateway, Rekognition tagging off the upload path, and the backend in 5 Terraform modules deployed through OIDC.

7
Python Lambdas
5
Terraform modules
59
pytest tests

Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Python · AWS Lambda · S3 · DynamoDB · API Gateway · Cognito · Rekognition · CloudFront · SQS · SNS · CloudWatch · X-Ray · Terraform · GitHub Actions · pytest · LocalStack

Lumerrant

live

Portfolio site for a Melbourne photography and film studio: full-resolution uploads go straight from the browser to storage, and sharp resizes them before they reach the gallery.

20 MB
direct uploads
2,400px
sharp-resized edge
0
databases

Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS v4 · Vercel Blob · sharp · Resend · Vercel

Certifications

Let's work together

Open to full-time roles across Australia in software development, cloud, or AI engineering. Happy to take on freelance builds too.