Navan

Live in production

US · Palo Alto · Corporate Travel & Expense

Joined Navan's backend engineering team on a contract basis, working across their FastAPI and Node.js services. Fixed and hardened API routes and middleware powering business travel, hotel and flight booking at scale.

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ENGAGEMENT

Contract · Backend Engineering

STACK

FastAPI · Node.js · PostgreSQL

STATUS

Live in production

LIVE URL

navan.com

Real screens, not mockups

In-policy vs out-of-policy fare comparison on a live flight booking

Hotel search — policy pricing guidance and map-based results

Trip itinerary and hotel search on mobile

What the system does

Backend on FastAPI & Node.js

Debugged and rebuilt API routes and middleware across their dual-stack backend, keeping booking and expense flows reliable in production.

PostgreSQL on AWS RDS

Owned schema changes, query tuning and reliability work on the production database layer behind live corporate bookings.

Google Maps & third-party APIs

Integrated the Google Maps API plus several external providers for payments, inventory and notifications into the backend.

Stack

FastAPI
Node.js
PostgreSQL
AWS RDS
Google Maps API

Where it stands

Role: Contract backend engineer on Navan's engineering team
Scope: API routes, middleware, and database reliability across booking & expense flows
Status: Live in production, corporate travel at scale

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