Hire a technical lead for a team that is shipping faster than its process
Soham Dang is Technical Engineering Lead at Avani Enterprises Ltd., where he leads a team of 10 engineers across the full development lifecycle — architecture, sprint planning, code review on every merge, regression testing and production releases.
Teams rarely stall because people cannot write code. They stall because nobody owns the decision about how the pieces fit, so five reasonable choices are made in five different places and the sixth feature has to reconcile all of them.
A technical lead's job is to make those decisions once, write them down, and hold the line in review.
What the role covers day to day
Architecture ownership
System design and data models decided before implementation, documented, and revisited when the product outgrows them.
Code review on every merge
Not a rubber stamp. Review is where standards are actually enforced and where the team learns the codebase.
Sprint planning and allocation
Work broken into pieces that fit a sprint and match who is available, with dependencies surfaced before they block someone.
Functional and regression testing
Every team-delivered module tested before release, including the paths a new feature could have broken.
Release ownership
CI/CD pipelines and production monitoring, so releasing is routine rather than an event.
Hiring and mentoring
Technical interviews, onboarding and the ongoing work of making engineers better at the codebase they are in.
The client-facing half
A technical lead sits between what a client asks for and what gets built. That means requirement gathering and technical scoping — converting feature requests into data models, API contracts and sprint tasks before anyone starts.
Doing this well removes most of the rework a team would otherwise absorb silently. The questions that surface in scoping are the ones that would otherwise surface in QA.
What this looks like in practice
Avani Business OS was built by a team of ten under this process: 25+ modules, one multi-tenant data model, RBAC enforced in middleware, and a shared component and permission layer that every module composes on.
That structure is the reason twenty-five modules can exist without twenty-five different ideas of what a user is.
Common questions
What does a technical lead do?
A technical lead owns how a system is built rather than only building it: system architecture, technical decisions, code review, engineering standards, sprint planning, testing before release, and translating client requirements into technical work.
How large a team has Soham Dang led?
Soham Dang leads a team of 10 engineers at Avani Enterprises Ltd. as Technical Engineering Lead, covering sprint planning, task allocation, code review and functional plus regression testing of every team-delivered module.
Does a technical lead still write code?
In his case, yes. Alongside leading the team, Soham Dang designs and ships full stack features across production platforms — React and Next.js interfaces, Node.js and Express REST APIs, and MongoDB schema and aggregation design.
Can Soham Dang lead a team he did not build?
Yes. The work is the same either way: establish the architecture, set review standards, get releases predictable, and make the existing engineers more effective in the codebase they already have.