Headline

🚀 Senior Software Engineer @ Fletch | Full Stack & Frontend Specialist | React.js, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, MongoDB | UI/UX Enthusiast | Mentor | Driving Tech Innovation

About

Hi, I'm Manik Sharma, a passionate technologist with over 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable web applications. My journey in tech began with curiosity and quickly evolved into a purpose: to build user-centric products that solve real-world problems. 🛠️ What I Do I specialize in Full Stack and Frontend Engineering with a strong command over: Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Redux, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Styled Components Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Python, Django, MongoDB, RESTful APIs, Firebase Tooling & DevOps: Webpack, Babel, Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Vercel, Netlify Testing & Quality: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress Performance & Accessibility: Lighthouse, SEO, Core Web Vitals, ARIA standards 🧠 Highlights from My Journey 🧩 Built and launched the RAZOR Chrome Extension single-handedly — enhanced web usability and gathered hundreds of users in its beta launch. ⚙️ Revamped a monolithic legacy system into a modular React-Redux architecture, reducing load times by 40% and increasing dev velocity by 30%. 🌐 Delivered complex SPA dashboards and enterprise tools for global brands across HRTech and SaaS domains. 🧭 Spearheaded the frontend of an internal ERP platform, now used across multiple Fortune 500 clients. 👨‍🏫 Passionate mentor — helped 10+ junior developers grow into strong contributors by guiding them on code quality, design systems, and debugging strategies. 🔐 Developed secure authentication flows using JWT, implemented role-based access control, and integrated with third-party APIs. 📈 Optimized web performance and accessibility to achieve Lighthouse scores of 95+ consistently. 💡 Why I Love What I Do I believe in building with empathy — understanding both the user and the engineer. I enjoy diving deep into new frameworks, exploring design systems, and solving architectural challenges. Whether it's simplifying complex UI workflows or improving time-to-interactive, I get a thrill from turning friction into flow. 🤝 Let’s Connect I'm always open to: Collaborating on challenging products Mentoring aspiring developers Exploring new opportunities in fast-paced environments Feel free to reach out at maniksharma2014.ms@gmail.com or DM me here. Let’s build something impactful together.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Fletch, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Remote

Senior Software Engineer I at Talent500, Apr 2023 - Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Remote, • Built a scalable SaaS platform to manage candidate profiles using React.js, Node.js, and MongoDB, streamlining recruitment workflows. • Refactored and optimized a legacy codebase, improving overall web app performance and reducing page load time by 30%. • Developed the RAZOR Chrome Extension independently — published on the Chrome Web Store to enhance user productivity. • Implemented single-page applications (SPAs) with React, Redux, ES6, and Webpack, delivering seamless and fast user experiences. • Used React Router for client-side routing, ensuring data synchronization and efficient navigation across views. • Led front-end development for a recruitment portal’s customer-facing interface using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and React Redux. • Built responsive and interactive UI modules using AJAX, Axios, Fetch API, and jQuery for real-time data rendering. • Designed pixel-perfect, cross-browser compatible interfaces with SCSS, Flexbox, and custom CSS3 styling. • Used Webpack and Babel for modular bundling and ES6+ compatibility across legacy browsers. • Contributed to product lifecycle via design discussions, code reviews, bug triage, and functional walkthroughs with cross-functional teams. • Integrated reusable components using NPM libraries, accelerating development by 20%. • Worked extensively with modern JavaScript (ES6) features such as Arrow Functions, Template Literals, Classes, and Destructuring for cleaner, maintainable code. • Collaborated with UX designers to implement pixel-perfect designs while maintaining design system consistency.

Software Engineer II at Talent500, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos, Remote, • Developed a SaaS application for managing candidate profiles using React, Python, and Django. • Refined and optimized a legacy codebase to significantly enhance overall web application performance. • Single-handedly developed the RAZOR Chrome extension using Chrome Web Store concepts and APIs. • Worked with ES6 features such as Arrow Functions, Template Literals, Classes, and Destructuring Assignments to write clean and maintainable code. • Developed single-page applications (SPAs) using React Redux architecture, ES6, and Webpack for efficient bundling and module management. • Utilized React Router to create a SPA that binds data to specific views and keeps it in sync with the server for dynamic user experiences. • Actively participated in brainstorming sessions, technical design, code reviews, bug triage, and functional walkthroughs to ensure high-quality delivery.

Software Engineer I at Talent500, Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr, • Developed Canvas, an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) using React.js, Node.js, and MongoDB to manage user profile data and deliver actionable analytics. • Built RAZOR, a Chrome Extension from scratch using React and Chrome APIs, empowering Talent Acquisition teams to automate and scale candidate outreach. • Optimized candidate page performance by minimizing API calls and restructuring the DOM, resulting in significantly faster load times. • Migrated multiple UI modules to Next.js, enabling server-side rendering (SSR) and substantially improving SEO and initial page load speed

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Chitkara University

Public links

github: https://github.com/manik8