Ven GotteSoftware Engineer Open to conversations

Software Engineer · Staines upon Thames, UK

Security-first software, built for production.

I'm Ven Gotte — a software engineer with 5+ years building dependable products, APIs and cloud systems.

View selected work Let's talk
5+ yearsCommercial experience UK-basedCross-functional delivery Production-mindedSecure by default

01 / Selected work

Engineering where reliability matters.

From independently shipped products and zero-to-one SaaS to regulated financial platforms, I work across the system to turn ideas into supportable software.

01A

Side projects

Small, focused products taken from idea to a live release.

S01
Live side project

AI Wordle Guesser

A playful benchmark for AI reasoning

Choose an AI model and watch it reason its way towards a hidden five-letter word in a Wordle-inspired guessing game.

  • Next.js frontend + backend
  • Multiple selectable AI models
  • Vercel AI Gateway integration
  • Rate-limited API requests
Play the project
S02
Published on the App Store

Sleepy Text

A deliberately boring bedtime reading app

Designed, built and released a calm iOS experience that replaces stimulating late-night scrolling with warm, low-contrast reading designed to help users wind down.

  • React Native iOS application
  • Product design through release
  • Privacy-first: no data collected
  • Published and maintained on the App Store
View on the App Store
01B

Production work

Commercial systems built for real operational and regulatory demands.

01
In final development

Vemsh

Multi-platform booking & business-management SaaS

Owning product and technical decisions across onboarding, bookings, subscriptions, payments, notifications, customer workflows and release validation.

  • Next.js + React product experience
  • NestJS APIs + PostgreSQL data layer
  • Stripe Connect, Billing + Tap to Pay
  • Docker + Google Cloud Run delivery
02
Production platform

Proplend

FCA-authorised peer-to-peer lending

Maintained and enhanced customer-facing financial software where application security, reliable delivery and data integrity were critical.

0high-risk vulnerabilities after remediation work
  • HTTP-only cookie authentication
  • Two-factor authentication
  • Pen-test remediation
  • Content Security Policy
  • Production Linux deployments

02 / About

Broad by design.
Rigorous by habit.

I'm a software engineer who can move from interface detail to API boundaries, data models and deployment configuration—without losing sight of the person using the product.

My background spans fintech, SaaS and customer-facing platforms. I'm most useful where product thinking, security awareness and pragmatic delivery need to meet.

01 Secure defaults02 Clear failure states03 Maintainable systems

03 / Experience

Built in production.

Five roles across SaaS, financial technology, intelligence, agencies and business software.

01

Vemsh

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Building a multi-platform booking and business-management SaaS across product, APIs, payments, data and deployment.

02

Proplend

Front-End Developer

Shipped and secured business-critical software for an FCA-authorised peer-to-peer lending platform.

03

Jigsaw

Software Developer

Delivered greenfield web and mobile products across React, React Native, Flutter, Laravel, Node.js and AWS.

04

Intelligence Fusion

Front-End Developer

Built analytics, mapping and reusable React UI systems for an intelligence platform.

05

Montaigne Smart Business Solutions

Front-End Developer

Created performant profile, alert, product-tour and data-heavy interface experiences.

04 / Stack

Tools change.
Judgement compounds.

A practical toolkit for building and supporting complete product experiences.

01

Frontend

React · Next.js · Redux · React Native · Flutter · Tailwind CSS · Responsive UI

02

Backend + APIs

Node.js · NestJS · Express · Flask · Laravel · REST · WebSockets · Stripe APIs

03

Data

PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · SQL/NoSQL modelling · Stored procedures

04

Cloud + delivery

Docker · Google Cloud Run · Vercel · Neon · Upstash · AWS · Cloudflare · CI/CD

05

Security + quality

HTTP-only auth · 2FA · CSP · OWASP · Jest · React Testing Library · Postman

05 / Contact

Have a difficult problem?
Let's make it dependable.

Open to thoughtful conversations about software engineering, product development and secure production systems.

Download CV Back to top