Headline

Senior Software Engineer | Frontend Architecture | React • TypeScript | AI-Assisted & Agentic Development | Banking & Fintech

About

Experienced software professional with a strong track record of delivering enterprise-grade products in both startup and product company environments. Skilled in building scalable, high-performance web applications, driving architectural decisions, and collaborating across teams to deliver impactful, user- focused solutions. Committed to technical excellence, team mentorship, and continuous innovation.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

github copilot

notebooklm

openai

Work experience

Senior Software Development Engineer at Zeta, Jul 2022 - Present · 4 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, What I do: - Own frontend architecture and technical direction across 9+ enterprise banking and fintech applications — driving system design decisions and governing scalability and technical debt. - Lead a company-wide PaaS platform for debugging, logging, and monitoring, adopted across the org. - Guide adoption of AI-assisted development practices (GitHub Copilot, Claude) across teams to accelerate delivery and improve engineering efficiency. - Lead a core team of engineers and mentor 12+ engineers company-wide through architecture discussions, design reviews, and structured onboarding. Impact: - Led the shift from static dashboards to an AI-powered conversational observability interface, cutting issue detection time by 70%. - Built a reusable frontend platform (shared UI libraries, Web Components, Micro Frontend architecture) that accelerated application delivery by 30% across teams. - Established PR, branch, and commit standards for a core team of 4-5 engineers — improving code clarity and cutting rework by 20%. - Drove standups and cross-functional execution, unblocking teams on external dependencies to keep releases on track.

SDE II at Zeta, Nov 2019 - Jul 2022 · 2 y 8 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, 1. Built an organization-wide observability platform connecting 9+ services across zones, Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure resources — giving teams unified visibility through persona-driven dashboards and cutting issue discovery, team identification, and resolution time by 70% 2. Owned end-to-end delivery for frontend workstreams, from repo setup and technical planning through Figma walkthroughs with UX/Product, sprint execution, and client delivery calls 3. Collaborated closely with DevOps, Project Management, and SRE teams to ensure smooth application integration, aligning technical delivery with operational and infrastructure requirements 4. Adopted TypeScript across applications and migrated multiple apps to a new design system, improving code reliability and ensuring visual and functional consistency across the suite of applications

SDE II at Nineleaps, Aug 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1. Developed enterprise-grade applications for Tesco, serving 10,000+ employees — delivering scalable frontend solutions that improved operational productivity by 20% 2. Led frontend development by optimizing application architecture, data flow, and service communication — increasing development efficiency by 30% while improving maintainability and team collaboration 3. Re-architected a legacy application into a lightweight, high-performance solution by introducing reusable components, optimized authorization workflows, and efficient state management — reducing bundle size and minimizing unnecessary API calls

Full Stack Engineer at Busigence Technologies, Aug 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, 1. Built frontend interfaces for a decision intelligence platform, enabling users to configure, run, and visualize outputs from machine learning and deep learning models (RNN, CNN, and others) through an intuitive UI — improving application performance by 30% 2. Built full-stack features integrating backend algorithms with multiple databases, and streamlined deployment using Jenkins and Docker — improving deployment speed and reliability 3. Developed backend services using Django and RabbitMQ, designed REST endpoints and message-driven workflows to reliably process and route requests across the platform

Front End Associate at Busigence Technologies, Feb 2017 - Jul 2017 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Worked as an Front End Associate. Worked on the different application of the company. Building base of the product with technologies like node JS, Ember JS adnd Rapheal JS. Developing the product with the design and worked closely with designer.

Education

Master’s Degree, Software Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/karthikeyan71