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Animesh Basak

Lead Frontend Engineer @ Airtel Digital | React · React Native · TypeScript · Next.js | 150M+ MAU | Web Performance · SSR · Design Systems | Ex-MakeMyTrip, Paytm

Delhi

7+ years of work experience

Airtel Digital
Jun 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Lead a squad of 5–7 engineers owning React/TypeScript architecture, delivery, and release standards across prepaid, postpaid, Airtel One, Black, and SKYC journeys on Airtel Thanks App at 150M+ MAU; final production review gate for code quality and regression safety. - Building an agentic AI bot journey for SKYC onboarding in React Native — LLM-driven conversational flows integrated with KYC and verification APIs. - Expanded into backend engineering — shipped Spring Boot REST services for DTH flows, including address-update, order-validation, and order-cancellation APIs. - Authored HLD and LLD with architect sign-off; own GrowthBook experimentation, Superset dashboards, and Jenkins CI/CD, driving measurable P1 incident reduction.
MakeMyTrip
Jul 202411 mosMay 2025

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Improved Lighthouse scores from 6 to 8–9 via SSR tuning, LCP optimization, and critical-rendering-path improvements on the hotels booking PWA and desktop web, serving 5M+ monthly sessions. - Resolved a systemic defect generating 1,000+ Sentry errors within 48 hours; built reusable component architecture cutting onboarding time 30% while sustaining 90%+ test coverage (Vitest, Jest, RTL).
Paytm
Oct 20212 yrs 10 mosJul 2024

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

- Led migration from legacy merchant workflows to modern React architecture across journeys serving 3M+ active merchants; optimized Soundbox checkout, contributing to a 40% increase in EDC device sales. - Built analytics dashboards as Analytics SPOC, lifting merchant engagement metrics 10–15% and enabling faster cross-functional product decisions.
Sparklin
Jan 202110 mosOct 2021

Delhi, India

Worked as a Frontend Developer On Multiple Projects For Icici Banking , Developed their UI interface using Angular Worked on multiple modules from scratch Served as the Lead for Nirvana , it’s a revamp UI for icici internet banking developed on Angular 8 TechStack: JS | ANGULAR | SCSS | TS | HTML5 | CSS3 | BOOTSTRAP
Infosys
Dec 20182 yrs 2 mosJan 2021

Greater Hyderabad Area

System Engineer at Infosys, Got trained in Python,DBMS,JAVA,Selenium and UFT System Engineer , worked as a SDET Engineer on ANZ Bank project Worked on WebdriverIO ,JS and Postman API, ES6, HTML CSS

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Education

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

20144 yrs2018

Senior Secondary, Mathematics and Computer Science

Evergreen public school

20076 yrs2013

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Headline

Lead Frontend Engineer @ Airtel Digital | React · React Native · TypeScript · Next.js | 150M+ MAU | Web Performance · SSR · Design Systems | Ex-MakeMyTrip, Paytm

About

I build consumer-scale frontends used by 150M+ people. Lead Engineer on the Airtel Thanks App (React/TypeScript), leading a 5–7 engineer squad — currently shipping an agentic AI bot journey for SKYC onboarding in React Native. Frontend-first, full-stack capable: recently shipped Spring Boot REST services for DTH order flows (address update, validation, cancellation) end-to-end. What I've shipped: - Airtel Digital — React/TypeScript architecture across prepaid, postpaid, Airtel One, Black, and SKYC journeys at 150M+ MAU; final production review gate; HLD/LLD with architect sign-off - MakeMyTrip — Lifted Lighthouse 6 → 8–9 on the hotels PWA serving 5M+ monthly sessions; killed 1,000+ Sentry errors in 48 hours - Paytm — Migrated merchant workflows to React for 3M+ merchants; Soundbox checkout optimization drove a 40% lift in EDC device sales Building in public: - Lakshya Hub — AI job-search OS (Next.js, Supabase, Groq, Gemini) - FRIDAY — Local-first personal AI agent (Python, Ollama, vector memory) - SuperAgent + insanemesh.ai — Claude Code meta-skill framework + automated AI content pipeline Stack: React · React Native · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · Spring Boot · Python · LangChain · RAG · Agentic Systems · MCP · System Design · Web Performance Open to Senior/Lead Frontend and Full-Stack roles — Delhi NCR or Remote India. 📩 DM me here · animeshbasak.com · animeshsbasak@gmail.com

Location

Delhi

AI stack

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Work experience

Lead Engineer — Frontend (React · React Native) at Airtel Digital, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, - Lead a squad of 5–7 engineers owning React/TypeScript architecture, delivery, and release standards across prepaid, postpaid, Airtel One, Black, and SKYC journeys on Airtel Thanks App at 150M+ MAU; final production review gate for code quality and regression safety. - Building an agentic AI bot journey for SKYC onboarding in React Native — LLM-driven conversational flows integrated with KYC and verification APIs. - Expanded into backend engineering — shipped Spring Boot REST services for DTH flows, including address-update, order-validation, and order-cancellation APIs. - Authored HLD and LLD with architect sign-off; own GrowthBook experimentation, Superset dashboards, and Jenkins CI/CD, driving measurable P1 incident reduction.

Senior Software Engineer II — Frontend at MakeMyTrip, Jul 2024 - May 2025 · 11 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, - Improved Lighthouse scores from 6 to 8–9 via SSR tuning, LCP optimization, and critical-rendering-path improvements on the hotels booking PWA and desktop web, serving 5M+ monthly sessions. - Resolved a systemic defect generating 1,000+ Sentry errors within 48 hours; built reusable component architecture cutting onboarding time 30% while sustaining 90%+ test coverage (Vitest, Jest, RTL).

Software Engineer at Paytm, Oct 2021 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, - Led migration from legacy merchant workflows to modern React architecture across journeys serving 3M+ active merchants; optimized Soundbox checkout, contributing to a 40% increase in EDC device sales. - Built analytics dashboards as Analytics SPOC, lifting merchant engagement metrics 10–15% and enabling faster cross-functional product decisions.

Frontend Developer at Sparklin, Jan 2021 - Oct 2021 · 10 mos, Delhi, India, Worked as a Frontend Developer On Multiple Projects For Icici Banking , Developed their UI interface using Angular Worked on multiple modules from scratch Served as the Lead for Nirvana , it’s a revamp UI for icici internet banking developed on Angular 8 TechStack: JS | ANGULAR | SCSS | TS | HTML5 | CSS3 | BOOTSTRAP

System Engineer at Infosys, Dec 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, System Engineer at Infosys, Got trained in Python,DBMS,JAVA,Selenium and UFT System Engineer , worked as a SDET Engineer on ANZ Bank project Worked on WebdriverIO ,JS and Postman API, ES6, HTML CSS

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

Senior Secondary, Mathematics and Computer Science, Evergreen public school