Jaival Suthar

@JaivalSuthar

Software Engineer | Frontend Architecture & System Design | Building scalable production systems

IndiaJoined January 2026

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I write technical articles that analyze real world engineering problems through the lens of production systems.

My work focuses on architectural tradeoffs, UI layer system design, performance optimization, and reliability patterns derived from shipping and maintaining scalable applications.

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Engineering leadership conversations • System design and architecture discussions • Selective roles

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Lessons from Building a Production PDF Parser with Web Workers

The Problem That Changed Everything Picture this: you are building a production system where users upload PDFs every day and manually copy each field into a form. Name. Email. Address. Date. One field at a time. For a 10-field form, that's 3-4 minute...

Feb 325 min read

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Memory Profiling a Production React App: A Data-Driven Investigation

When I came across a discussion on X about browser memory usage and long-running web applications, it prompted me to look more closely at my own system. Out of curiosity, I checked the memory footprint of a production application that I had deployed ...

Jan 3125 min read

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Dual Storage for Time: Designing Timezone-Safe Systems at Scale

Note: This article was originally published on Medium and is republished here for wider access and long-term reference. How a seemingly simple feature uncovered the true complexity of global time, and why even industry giants struggle to get it rig...

Jan 1514 min read

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The Simple Bug That Started a Bigger Conversation: PATCH, Null Handling, and Engineering Judgment

Sometimes discovering what you don’t need to build is more valuable than what you do. This week, while testing a small form update before pushing to production, I discovered something that would have silently corrupted user data. A user clears their ...

Jan 212 min read

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Debugging a Silent Validation Failure in Production

The Incident I was testing a simple form submission. Invalid input. Expected inline validation feedback. The backend returned a 400 error. The UI showed nothing. What followed wasn’t just a bug fix. It was a deep dive into how small contract violatio...

Dec 18, 20259 min read

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Lessons from Building a Production PDF Parser with Web Workers

Memory Profiling a Production React App: A Data-Driven Investigation

Dual Storage for Time: Designing Timezone-Safe Systems at Scale

The Simple Bug That Started a Bigger Conversation: PATCH, Null Handling, and Engineering Judgment

Debugging a Silent Validation Failure in Production

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Jaival Suthar

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Jaival Suthar's blogs

Recently published

Lessons from Building a Production PDF Parser with Web Workers

Memory Profiling a Production React App: A Data-Driven Investigation

Dual Storage for Time: Designing Timezone-Safe Systems at Scale

The Simple Bug That Started a Bigger Conversation: PATCH, Null Handling, and Engineering Judgment

Debugging a Silent Validation Failure in Production