I am a software engineer based in Toronto with over a decade of experience working as a founding engineer, fullstack developer, and frontend lead. Basically wearing whatever hat was needed to turn ideas into mvp's and all the way to production ready systems.

Work Experience

• Nov 2025 - Present
  Contract / Consulting Team Cowork
• Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
  Frontend Lead Criteo
• Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
  Senior Software Engineer Loop Financial Inc
• Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
  Lead Full Stack Developer Knotel
• Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
  Full Stack Developer Knotable

Open Source Projects

• Atom Editor Contributor
• Halo – Mindfulness & Reflection Project
• Secure Wallet – Password Manager (PWA)
• react-simple-sidenav
• react-smart-gallery
• react-bell-icon
• Ansi Art for Tiny Care Terminal
• Codebuddies Contributor

Personality

I am INFJ-A(Advocate) personality type according to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. You can find more about my personality here.

Reading

I was never into reading books until back in 2019 when my manager recommended me to read Atomic Habit. Since then, I have read a few more books that have helped me grow personally, professionally and somewhere spritually as well. Here are a few of my favorite titles:

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• AutoBiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
• The Power of your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
• Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

AI Usage

This website is 100% hand crafted by me. Not by an AI. I do use AI tools like Claude and GitHub copilot to help me write code in other projects.

Contact

You can reach out to me at mail@gauravchl.com or write your message below and don't forget to include your email so I can reply.