Sumit Mehta

Freelance IT Consultant & Software/App/Website Developer

Hours Worked

11,500+

Happy Clients

11+ (100%)

Cheery Reviews

15+ (100%)

Know Me

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work – Aristotle – That’s what I believe in.

Having a team of developers but need someone to manage your project as well as the team? Or need someone to take your project for a complete end-to-end solution? Or need someone for general software consultancy services? If your answer is ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then you have landed on the right page.

Hi! My name is Sumit Mehta and I am a freelance IT consultant and a software/web developer. I have been into the field of IT since 2007 and specifically into providing freelance services since 2013. I have worked as a freelancer for 11,500+ hours. My core expertise lies in the .NET framework , especially ASP.NET Core stack but I have at least some experience of working in almost every conventional technology like PHP and Java . View my complete portfolio here.

Contact me if you have any such requirement or just feel free to drop me a friendly ‘Hi’.

More than business, I believe in earning relationships, both in professional and personal life.

What I Do

Web Development

No matter which industry you are in, a fully responsive dynamic website is all you need to increase the reach and visibility of your business.

App Development

“Mobile App” is the PRESENT as well as the FUTURE for reaching your clients. I use Microsoft MAUI to build cross-platform apps i.e. a single app for Android/iOS.

Software Development

Are you in the data science field and have to perform computationally intensive tasks? In that case, you may just need a latest desktop software.

Project Consultancy

I can guide, as well as assist your in-house team in designing the “Project Scope”, “Requirements” and its “Structure”, all at the same time.

Testimonials

Sumit has an excellent work ethic, and is very details oriented (which is very important for a programmer!). He understands issues quickly, and always provides intelligent comments and feedback that ensure anything he works on is of a very high quality. One of Sumit’s greatest strengths is his unwillingness to waste your time or money on things he does not fully understand. He will always fully analyse something rather than diving in without much thought. He is a great guy to work with – he has an excellent attitude and works well within a team.

Julian Cole

Director, Dipolar Pty. Ltd.

Sumit has been a true asset to us since he joined us. His loyalty and dedication to his work makes him an integral part of the team. We are very grateful to have found Sumit and have him in our team. No task is too great nor too small for Sumit and his desire to perfect everything makes him reliable. We know we can count on him to get the job done right and with perfection every time.

Vikrant Singla

CEO, ASCII Systems Inc.

I could not recommend Sumit more highly. He delivered exactly to specification in a very short turnaround of time. Once hired, we had a short discussion to clarify my requirements, and then he went away and coded to these specifications. His communication was clear, timely and pleasant. I will certainly hire him again for a future phase of this work, and would recommend him widely.

Bill Gleeson

Director, Scapa Technologies

Sumit is great to work with, and I especially appreciate his ability to quickly learn our codebase and develop code consistent with our architecture.

Jay Dawkins

Co-Founder & CEO, Cityzen Solutions

Why Hire Me

Business Growth

We all want to grow, but I don’t want to grow alone. I always make sure my clients grow to the fullest, with best possible returns on the money spent by them.

Strong CodeBase

I make sure that I use the best known software development methodologies, so that the software not only works reliably, but is also easily maintainable in the long run.

Pay For Actual Work

You have flexible ways of paying for my work, the most flexible being the hourly option. Effectively, you end up paying per minute of the work done.

Continuous Communication

Effective communication is the key to success for any project. You will always be in the loop and will know where we stand at every stage of the project.

Respect Deadlines

They say ‘Promises are meant to be broken’ but here, promises will be kept. Deadline promised on an agreed specification will be met, no matter what.

Software Support

Software is not just a one-time product, but it is an ongoing service. I make sure that I provide the needed “after-sales support” services at affordable prices.

Pricing

            Hourly
        

            $30
            per hour
        
Hourly Tracking of work
Tracking Software used
Pay Only for actual work
Daily communication
Weekly payments
Transparent way of working

Project Basis

$$$ Per Project

End-To-End product development

No Tracking Sofware used

Pay for completed milestones

Weekly reports

Milestone based payments

Transparent way of working

Full Time

$4500 Per Month

Managing all products of one client

Working Exclusively for one client

Fixed Budget for client

8 Hours/5 Days working schedule

Pay Fixed Amount monthly

Transparent Way of working

My Products

iMusicTuition

iOS/Android app for teaching Indian Classical Music to people in an intuitive way with audio samples.

Skillset

Experience

2012 - Current

Dipolar Pty. Ltd

ASP.NET MVC Developer

Being a member of the core development team of Dipolar, which is a product based company, I have worked on the following products:

Qualzy - a cloud-based discussion and community platform that promotes high levels of engagement, and provides deep insights. I am one of the main developers of this project. The project uses varied technologies like ASP.NET MVC Core, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, Redis, jQuery, Knockout.JS, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Service (Makes extensive use of ‘Task Parallel Library’) etc.
Qualzy Mobile App - a customized cross-platform mobile app developed in Xamarin.Forms for one of the Dipolar’s clients using Qualzy web. The app had some specific challenges which we sorted out using our custom WebView control.

2012

E-Zone Web & Network Services

Technical Lead

As a “Tech. Lead”, I was responsible for managing different projects in .NET for our multinational clients. At E-Zone, our domain was education, and so our clients were mainly colleges and universities.
I was also responsible for interviewing and hiring programmers for the company.
Although it was a senior role, I was never reluctant to give my hand in coding, since that has always been, and will always be my love and passion.

2009 - 2012

ASCII Systems Inc.

Manager

The job demanded several roles to be played like:

Managing two dedicated servers with over 50 websites, performing basic configuration to advanced configurations like setting up SSL certificates etc.
Maintaining secrecy by managing the credentials of more than 100 client accounts, as well as several credentials of the servers themselves.
Managing people/teams is a different challenge altogether. Having coordinated clients at one end, and developers/designers at the other as a ‘Project Manager’, I know how to get the in-house, as well as the outsourced projects done.
Maintaining classic websites in Classic ASP and PHP.

2008 - 2009

Professional PeersInfo Services Pvt. Ltd.

Software Developer

The job demanded extensive development work in making desktop as well as web applications for real-estate and banking industries.

2004 - 2008

Custom applications for local clients

Self-employed, Part-Time

Developed several projects along-side my studies. The projects covered different domains like property management, mutual funds management, inventory management, vehicle pollution checking, dynamic IP resolution system etc. During my initial days, I also developed a couple of class projects for US based students.

Education

Because of physical disability, I pursued my higher education mostly by self-study through distance education.

2012

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)

Secured 70% marks (aggregate)

2008

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Bachelor in Computer Applications (BCA)

Secured 70% marks (aggregate)

2003

National Open School (NOS)

High School (10 + 2)

Secured 68.5% marks (aggregate)

Some Specific Technical Challenges

Custom TFS Check-in policy

When each member in a TFS team has different configurations (like local connection strings and app setting variables pointing to different values for live and debugging), it becomes an issue committing the files to TFS. You have to roll back your changes and apply them back again after the commit is done. Other option may be to shelve the changes and un-shelve later. I was given the responsibility to find a better solution, so I developed a custom TFS check-in policy. The policy checks if you have cleaned up your changes in the config files before committing the code. It also gives the option to perform the cleanup. After the code would be committed, your settings are automatically applied back using 'Post-Build' event. The policy uses separate config files for each environment (one for each user in the team) and a custom 3rd party tool to perform the config transformations.

Fully automated deployment

DevOps has evolved quite a lot, and you have plenty of options these days. However, there were limited options and capabilites when we moved to fully automated deployments using 'Octopus Deploy'. 'Octopus Deploy' is a great tool but having a fully automated publishing and release management can still be a pain. I coded an automated solution using Node.JS and Powershell. When any member in the team checks-in the code, TFS sends a notification to a TCP-IP endpoint on the build server. The build server gets the latest code from TFS, builds the project, prepares the NuGet package and uploads it to the Octopus repository for publishing. Octopus picks it up and then publishes the build for the development environment. Once tested, the environment can then be promoted to the production enrironment manually.

Custom code validations/features in WordPress websites

This may not sound like a big deal, but I decided to enlist it here because it's not normally easy to inject code in an already existing code, especially when the codebase is huge, and you aren't able to get hold onto the dependencies in a 'not so well' documented workspace. Being a .NET developer, it was even more challenging to make that change in w Wodpress website. But I could successfully apply several custom code validations and add features in a couple of WordPress websites, which were not getting possible using any of the existing plugins.