Founder @ LeelaRam TechnologiesSoftware Engineer @ Lucira Jewelry

Sumit
Chavda

I build and own headless commerce platforms — architecture, ERP and payment integrations, internal tooling, data pipelines and conversion experimentation.

I also founded LeelaRam Technologies, where I build SellRank, a Shopify app that ranks collections by what actually sells. It's live on the Shopify App Store.

Next.js, MongoDB and the Shopify APIs in production at scale. Published GAN research at IEEE IGARSS 2025. B.Tech CE (AI/ML), CGPI 9.6/10.

Mumbai, India · Available for select engagements

Sumit Chavda
500K
Monthly sessions served
Lucira Jewelry, across India
150+
Production features shipped
Integrations, dashboards, migrations
55%
LCP reduction
28.0s → 12.7s on storefront
50+
Analytics events designed
GA4 / GTM / Ads / WebEngage
Selected work

Products & platforms

The Shopify app I build at LeelaRam Technologies, and the commerce and lead-generation platforms I designed, built and still maintain. Projects marked Rebuilt v2 were taken through a second, ground-up rebuild — new architecture, not a reskin.

01

SellRank

Shopify app · LeelaRam Technologies

LiveRebuilt v2

2025 — present

apps.shopify.com

A Shopify app that ranks every collection by what actually sells — views, add-to-carts, orders, revenue and stock — and writes that order into Shopify’s own sorting, with no theme edits. Rebuilt from the collection-ordering engine first proven on Lucira’s live collections; approved and published on the Shopify App Store in October 2026.

  • Percentage-slot order plans: each slot ranked by one of 19 measures or a weighted balanced score, narrowed by conditions such as in-stock only.
  • Live preview of the exact resulting order, with pin, demote, move and drag-and-drop curation before anything syncs to Shopify.
  • First-party web pixel counting product views and add-to-carts as daily totals per product, with no customer identifiers; optional GA4 import of up to 90 days of history.
  • Daily or weekly automatic re-sorts, version history with per-version performance attribution, and sort-health drift alerts.
  • Verified by 78,240+ automated sorting cases and an accuracy audit that runs against a live store.
  • Built to App Store requirements and approved: session-token auth, HMAC-verified compliance webhooks, expiring offline tokens, and Shopify App Pricing with plan approval on install and again on reinstall.
  • Remix
  • TypeScript
  • Shopify Admin GraphQL API
  • Web Pixels
  • Polaris
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
02

Lucira Jewelry

Headless commerce platform

LiveRebuilt v2

2025 — present

lucirajewelry.com

Sole engineer on the migration of a D2C lab-grown diamond brand from a themed Shopify storefront to a headless Next.js + Shopify Storefront API + MongoDB architecture, serving ~500K monthly sessions across an omnichannel retail network in India.

  • Rebuilt the storefront from the ground up as a headless app — owning architecture, delivery, release, instrumentation and production support.
  • Migrated the full Savings Scheme product off a standalone subdomain onto the primary domain via a staged cutover, collapsing two codebases and hosting environments into one at full feature parity.
  • Shipped Vault of Dreams, a 9+1 month instalment savings product, on Razorpay with Ornaverse ERP-backed enrollment, instalment tracking and receipt reconciliation.
  • Built a metaobject-driven programmatic SEO system generating live Gold/Silver/Platinum rate pages across N+ Indian cities over a single shared rate-update path, preserving legacy URLs to retain search equity.
  • Built MongoDB-backed admin dashboards so marketing and ops self-serve daily metal rates, offers, homepage and city content — removing engineering from routine content changes.
  • Cut LCP 55% (28.0s → 12.7s) through image optimization, code splitting and render-path work.
  • Shipped a pincode journey resolving a shopper’s nearest store and re-ranking ready-to-ship inventory by proximity, with leads routed from GCP into Zoho CRM.
  • Next.js
  • Shopify Storefront API
  • MongoDB
  • Razorpay
  • Ornaverse ERP
  • GA4 / GTM
  • BigQuery
  • GCP
03

Lucira Mobile

React Native app

In progress

2026 — in progress

Extending the Lucira commerce experience to mobile with Expo — reusing the headless Shopify data layer already powering the web storefront so catalogue, cart and account stay in sync across surfaces.

  • Expo + React Native client consuming the same Shopify Storefront API layer as the web platform.
  • Native navigation, component and gesture fundamentals with a full CRUD implementation.
  • Shared session and account model so the mobile and web experiences stay consistent.
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • Shopify Storefront API
04

PrimeStyle

US jewelry storefront

LiveRebuilt v2

2024 — present

primestyle.com

Leading the end-to-end redevelopment of a production Shopify storefront for a US diamond and engagement-ring brand trading since 2001 — theme architecture, custom development and performance, with international stakeholders.

  • Rebuilt the storefront architecture rather than patching the existing theme — restructuring templates, sections and the product data model.
  • Advanced product customization flows for custom engagement rings and bridal sets.
  • Recommendation and merchandising surfaces across natural and lab-grown diamond catalogues.
  • Analytics instrumentation and performance work across the funnel.
  • Shopify
  • Liquid
  • JavaScript
  • GA4 / GTM
  • Core Web Vitals
05

Chamunda Constructions

Lead-generation site

LiveRebuilt v2

2024 — present

chamundaconstructions.in

Designed, built and deployed a high-performance Next.js site for a Mumbai civil contracting firm specialising in building finishing work — built for lead generation, SEO visibility and brand credibility with builders.

  • Rebuilt from the ground up on a second pass — new information architecture around services, projects and process.
  • Project portfolio and service pages structured for local SEO across Mumbai search terms.
  • Quote-request journey and lead capture as the primary conversion path.
  • Responsive frontend with optimized content delivery and scalable content workflows.
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • SEO
  • Vercel
06

LeelaRam Technologies

Company site & publishing platform

Live

2026 — present

leelaramtechnologies.com

The site for the company I founded: products, services, case studies and a long-form blog, built on Next.js with one connected structured-data graph tying the company, its founder, its products and its work together.

  • 60+ long-form articles on Shopify merchandising, platform changes and building software, each with its own share image, plus an RSS feed and an llms.txt map for AI answer engines.
  • SellRank product page with a chaptered walkthrough video, a screen-by-screen tour, version history and a five-part tutorial series.
  • JSON-LD for Organization, Person, SoftwareApplication, VideoObject and BlogPosting, linked by stable IDs.
  • Deployed to Vercel on every push, with Core Web Vitals tracked in production.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • JSON-LD
  • Vercel
Experience

Where I've shipped

Owning production systems end to end — architecture and delivery through instrumentation, release and support.

Lucira Jewelry

Sep 2025 — Present

Software Engineer

Mumbai, India

  • Sole engineer on the headless replatform: Next.js + Shopify Storefront API + MongoDB, at ~500K monthly sessions.
  • Built and maintain 50+ GA4/GTM dataLayer events across search, PDP, cart, checkout, payments, accounts and scheme funnels; configured Google Ads conversion tracking and order-level UTM pass-through so revenue attributes to campaign.
  • Modeled and joined source tables in BigQuery and exposed the payload via a Python REST API driving WebEngage notification triggers; built page-level Looker Studio dashboards.
  • Rebuilt the Ornaverse ERP integration twice through breaking upstream changes to request schema, headers and attributes, and fixed a defect where customers lacking an ERP record failed silently at payment.
  • Shipped and measured CRO changes — PDP and checkout social proof, above-the-fold offer placement, a paginated review redesign, rage-click fixes on customize and promo controls.
  • Built a ring-size estimation tool measuring against a reference card or coin, accuracy-validated across device screens, plus faceted PLP filtering and a self-serve return journey.
  • Next.js
  • MongoDB
  • Shopify APIs
  • Razorpay
  • BigQuery
  • GA4
  • GTM
  • WebEngage
  • GCP

LeelaRam Technologies

Jan 2024 — Present

Founder & Software Engineer

Mumbai, India

  • Founded and run a product-led software company building Shopify apps, websites, mobile apps and custom software for growing businesses; designed, deployed and maintain 5+ production web and commerce platforms across jewelry, retail and construction.
  • Built SellRank, a Shopify app that ranks collections by real sales, views and stock, and launched it on the Shopify App Store in October 2026.
  • Rebuilt the collection-ordering engine first proven on Lucira’s live collections as a multi-tenant embedded app, with a first-party web pixel, scheduled re-sorts, version history and sort-health monitoring, verified by 78,240+ automated sorting cases.
  • Own the full lifecycle from requirements and solution architecture through deployment, analytics implementation and post-launch support.
  • Deliver Shopify storefronts, headless commerce applications, Next.js platforms, ERP integrations, payment gateways and business automation workflows.
  • Work directly with domestic and international stakeholders, including the PrimeStyle redevelopment in the US and the Chamunda Constructions site in Mumbai.
  • Built and run leelaramtechnologies.com, with product pages, case studies and 60+ articles on Shopify and merchandising; a mobile app, the company’s second product, is in development.
  • Next.js
  • Shopify
  • Remix
  • Shopify Admin API
  • Web Pixels
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • Node.js
  • Vercel

Blazetrail Fintech Solutions

Feb 2025 — Apr 2025

Software Development Engineer Intern

Mumbai, India

  • Developed a virtual trading platform supporting simulated trade execution, portfolio management and transaction workflows.
  • Integrated backend APIs, authentication systems and market-data workflows to improve platform reliability and maintainability.
  • Implemented trade lifecycle handling, portfolio updates and error-recovery mechanisms.
  • React.js
  • REST APIs
  • Postman
  • Git
  • Agile
Stack

Tools I reach for

Weighted toward what I actually run in production, not everything I've touched.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Liquid
  • C++

Frontend

  • Next.js (App Router, SSR/ISR)
  • React
  • React Native (Expo)
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Core Web Vitals

Backend & Data

  • Node.js
  • Next.js API Routes
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL + Prisma
  • REST APIs
  • Webhooks
  • Auth flows
  • BigQuery

Commerce

  • Shopify app development (Remix, Polaris)
  • Shopify Storefront API
  • Shopify Admin API
  • Web Pixels
  • Headless architecture
  • Metaobjects / Metafields
  • Razorpay
  • Ornaverse ERP

Analytics & Growth

  • GA4
  • GTM
  • Google Ads conversion tracking
  • WebEngage
  • dataLayer design
  • Looker Studio
  • Experimentation

Cloud & Tooling

  • GCP (Cloud Functions, BigQuery)
  • AWS
  • Vercel
  • Shopify CLI
  • Git / GitHub
  • Postman
  • Zoho CRM
Writing

Notes from building

I write about Shopify, merchandising and building software on the LeelaRam Technologies blog. Essays, a profile, and the engineering behind SellRank.

All articles on the LeelaRam Technologies blog
Research

Published work

IEEE IGARSS 2025Presented & published

Transforming Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Images to Optical Images Using Generative Adversarial Networks

IEEE IGARSS 2025 — Brisbane, Australia

Trained a GAN to translate Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery into optical satellite imagery, improving the interpretability of weather-independent SAR data. Co-authored, presented and published at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2025.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • GANs
  • OpenCV
About

Background

I finished a B.Tech in AI/ML while shipping production commerce platforms — the research and the engineering have run in parallel from the start.

Education

K J Somaiya Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Computer Engineering (AI & Machine Learning)

CGPI 9.6 / 10

Final standing

2021 — 2025

Duration

Joint Treasurer, IET student chapter

Certifications
  • AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
  • EC-Council Ethical Hacking Essentials
  • Google Analytics
  • Power BI
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel
Video résumé

Two minutes, in my own words

A short walkthrough of how I work and what I've built.