Frontend Architect with 14+ years of experience in designing and
scaling web applications and hybrid mobile platforms using React,
Angular, and backend APIs with GraphQL, Node.js and Java.
Seasoned individual contributor and technology leader with a sharp
focus on improving developer agility and performance through
architectural patterns, reusability, and consistent UX.
Proven experience building and scaling multiple 0 → 1
products/features, including authentication systems, CI/CD
pipelines, geo-spatial visualisations, and AI-based assistants.
Strong track record of leading initiatives in both AI and
performance domains. At Appsmith, pioneered an AI assistant and
later drove frontend performance improvements, reducing critical
paint and API latencies by over 70%.
Deep knowledge in browser performance, frontend evaluation
strategies, and optimisation of applications connected to Git.
Comfortable building roadmaps aligned with company goals, working
independently, and mentoring teams across the stack.
Experience spans across Finance, Ed-Tech, Logistics, Media, SaaS,
and Developer Tools.
Built the end-to-end deployment pipeline for Microsoft Word
add-ins: manifest versioning, environment-specific configs,
certificate-based signing, automated packaging, and staged
rollouts across tenants via GitHub Actions.
Designed secure multi-tenant release workflows for the Word
plugin, including pre-flight validation, telemetry gates, and
automated rollback integrated with Vercel/Azure.
Established a robust frontend feature-flag system (progressive
delivery, experiment toggles, kill-switches) to safely ship and
iterate; integrated with analytics to measure lift.
Implemented a comprehensive observability stack for the frontend
(RUM metrics, error tracking, logs, traces) with dashboards and
alerts.
Staff Engineer, Appsmith
Apr 2023 - Jul 2025
Built and led key initiatives in both AI and performance domains,
aligning self-driven roadmaps with company objectives as an
individual contributor.
Pioneered the Appsmith AI Assistant, improving app development
velocity by over 35% via natural language generation of bindings,
queries, and functions; developed AI pipelines, prompt evaluation
layers, and integrated LLMs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Developed in-house AI plugins using OpenAI models, including a
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with PostgreSQL-based
vector storage, OCR for document processing, and NER for
extracting structured entities from natural language inputs.
Drove a multi-phase performance revamp for Windows machines,
reducing paint metrics by over 70% through intelligent asset
chunking, caching, and critical render path optimisation.
Improved frontend evaluation efficiency by streamlining Appsmith's
binding and action execution processes, significantly enhancing
load times for complex apps.
Reduced P95 latencies in Git-connected apps by over 50% by
profiling and optimising Git reset, commit, and push operations.
Lead Engineer, Drip Capital
Jan 2022 to Apr 2023
Led a team of 6 developers delivering low-latency,
high-availability, and performant projects written in multiple
frameworks such as NextJS, ReactJS, Vue and React native
Led the design, architecture and E2E execution of Authentication
module of a web application using OAuth
Built 0-1 versions of Server Side rendered web application using
NextJS, CI/CD workflows which includes linting, testing, building
and deployment of application using Github actions
Built and published a UI component library using Rollup as a
module bundler and Github npm package registry.
Developed a Scrapping Backend service using Node JS and Puppeteer
to fetch real time shipping container updates from multiple
shipping line websites and apis.
Managed best practices for linting, unit testing, git branching
strategies and feature branch deployments for frontend projects.
Was awarded Drip Rookie in 2022 for delivering impact within Tech
team in a short span of time
Senior Frontend Engineer, Locus.sh
Oct 2020 to Nov 2021
Developed a large scale geo-spatial visualization of a supply
chain network using React JS and Deck.gl with non-render blocking
scripts to efficiently process large data sets on the front end.
Led technical design and architecture of splitting monolith
frontend to micro-frontends using Webpack module federation
Led the rewrite and refactor of legacy React 15 class based
components to React 17 hooks and functional components
Lead Engineer, Springboard
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
Led the E2E architecture and development of content management
platform using Gatsby, ReactJS, Google App Engine, and Storyblok,
allowing the marketing team to easily edit, save, and deploy
marketing websites using a headless CMS
Integrated Gatsby with the chosen headless CMS (Storyblok) and
developed a deployment pipeline that can be triggered from the CMS
and hosted via Google App Engine.
Technical Lead, Y Media labs
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Led the E2E architecture and development of desktop application
for peer-to-peer communication on the same WiFi network using
Electron JS, React JS, and Node JS and social media application
using ReactJS
Optimized architecture and API integrations improving page load
speed by 75% and response times by 50%.
Software Developer Engineer 2, Pikkol
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Built Customer Delight CRM and B2B vendor marketplace web
application using React, Node JS, GraphQL, Apollo, and MySQL in a
full stack developer capacity
Worked on the conceptualization and schema design for the
application, including the creation of a backend API and a
UNIX-based authorization system
Enhanced the application with features such as ticket creation,
status tracking and resolution tracking
Senior Software Engineer, Rentongo
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Developed Web UI and Mobile app for inventory and vendor
management software for Rentongo a rental marketplace using
Angular 5, Typescript, Ionic, and Sass and Angular CLI as a task
runner
Implemented Progressive Web App concepts like service workers,
push notifications and responsive design
Optimized performance and responsiveness of existing Rentongo
websites using PHP and JavaScript improving page load speed by 45%
that increased page views by 782%
Assisted with the continuous upgrade and maintenance of Rentongo
web application by adding new features and enhancements.
UI Developer, Finovera
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Developed the Web UI and Finovera app for iOS and Android using
Framework: Cordova/Phonegap, Kendo UI Mobile, jQuery, JavaScript
ES6, HTML, Less, Build tool: Gulp and Bower as task runners.
Designed and integrated a bill payment module and push
notification modules for Web, iOS and Android
Implemented cross-device and phone OS version compatibility for
the mobile client code
Freelance Web Developer
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Developed and maintained web and mobile application (android and
iOS) for helicopter booking system for Helitaxii and Thumby
Aviation using vanilla JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB
Implemented a payment gateway integration using Razorpay
Piping Engineer, EIL
Nov 2009 - Sep 2013
Worked as a Piping Engineer responsible for design and layout of
Compressor Unit and Heat Exchangers in Ethylene Cracker unit for
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited
Education
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from CET, Trivandrum (7.23 CGPA) -
2009
CBSE, Arya Central School, Trivandrum - XII (2005) - 86%
CBSE, Arya Central School, Trivandrum - X (2003) - 80%