EliteCoders
Part of the founding team that launched elitecoders.co — a US hiring platform connecting developers with recruiters. More of the studio’s work lives on the portfolio.
Chennai · Full-stack · Remote-friendly
Rinold Simon
Senior engineer with a decade of Rails and React. I’m building EliteCoders, and poking at Python, FastAPI, and AI-assisted workflows for whatever comes next.
About
Still building. Still curious.
I’m a Senior Full-Stack Engineer based in Chennai, with ten years of shipping web apps and distributed systems. Rails and React are home base. These days I’m also leaning into Python and FastAPI — using tools like Cursor, Claude, and Gemini to write cleaner code and move through hard bugs faster.
Most of my recent work has been with remote US teams: student systems, hiring products, platform migrations. I’m also building EliteCoders, a product studio. When I’m away from the keyboard I’m at the gym, and a proud dad to two kids.
I write about Rails on my tech blog, and I hang around Stack Overflow — about 3,000 reputation, mostly Rails and the old Ember.js days.
10years shipping
3k+Stack Overflow reputation
M.ScIT, College of Engineering Guindy
RemoteUS clients, Indian timezone
Selected work
A few things worth talking about
Not a dump of every repo. Just the work that still feels interesting — a studio we’re building, school systems, a platform rewrite, a bot that ran Amazon accounts on its own.
AE Connect
Student information system for 300+ K-12 schools and about 15,000 students — onboarding, grading, scheduling. React portals, Rails APIs, Sidekiq for the heavy reports.
FiscalNote, rebuilt
Folded a sprawling microservices setup — including auth — into one Ruby on Rails application. Fewer moving parts, and it held up better than what it replaced.
Amazon seller automation
An Electron app that ran Amazon seller accounts on its own — thousands of orders a day, replacing a 10-person manual process.
More studio work on the EliteCoders portfolio. There’s also SocialRails — feeds, follows, and chat in Rails.
Experience
Where the years went
EliteCoders
Remote · Apr 2022 – Present
Building EliteCoders — a product studio. Client work and our own platforms.
- Built AE Connect, a student information system used by 300+ K-12 schools and about 15,000 students.
- React portals on Rails, with PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, and AWS carrying the heavy reporting.
- Part of the founding team that launched elitecoders.co — a US platform connecting developers with recruiters.
- Shipped the core Rails app and the client work on the EliteCoders portfolio.
Maxiom Technology
Remote
- Migrated FiscalNote — including auth and identity — from microservices into one Rails app.
- Cleaned up the data model so the new system loaded faster than what it replaced.
- Built time-tracking and timesheets for Hyperlogs, an internal Ember.js app.
- Flutter prototype so people could log hours on iOS and Android.
- Electron app on Node that ran Amazon seller accounts — thousands of orders a day, replacing a 10-person manual process.
Digiryte Ltd
Chennai, India
- Led frontend for a HIPAA-compliant healthcare app for UK and Germany clients.
- Ran a team of six — standups, mentoring, shipping.
Stack
What I reach for
Frontend
Backend
Data
Cloud & ops
Automation
AI
Learning
Also
Contact
If you want to talk, I’m easy to find.
Collaborate, talk shop, or just say hello. Email is best. Phone works too.