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Frontend Engineer | JavaScript, TypeScript, React

About

Senior Front End Engineer (6 years) specializing in front end architecture at scale, AI product interfaces, rich-text editors (TipTap/Quill), design systems, micro-frontends, performance for high-traffic consumer products, real-time streaming UIs. Proven ability to lead teams, and successfully migrate tech stacks.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Frontend Engineer at Mercor, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, Remote, • Independently shipped a cross-platform Electron activity monitor desktop application from scratch, with secure OS level permissions, worker-offloaded capture, offline upload queue with retry • Engineered agentic dev workflows by setting up automated AFK scaffolding pipelines + HITL review gates, saving 4–5 hrs/week per developer

Senior Frontend Engineer at HealthPlix, Nov 2023 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Architected a real-time voice transcription app for 50+ min consultations using WebSocket chunked streaming, Web Worker audio encoding, Service Worker offline persistence with auto-replay enabling zero audio loss • Automated consultation documentation, saving 5 min/patient, resulting in a total of thousands of doctor-hours saved monthly • Migrated core editor from Quill.js to TipTap, cutting bundle size by 50%+ and transcript load from 12s, resulting in improved adoption of the editor from 20% to 80% • Improved micro-frontend architecture with Module Federation resulting in 73% faster load times (15s to 4s) and 60% improved scores across the Core Web Vitals (FID, LCP, CLS) and their supporting metrics • Owned the frontend build and deployment workflow – Vite config, bundle analysis, CI pipeline and reduced the development build time from 6 mins to 40 seconds • Mentored 3 junior engineers through TypeScript adoption resulting in fewer runtime errors, and measurably faster delivery

Frontend Engineer at OLX Group, Oct 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Led the development of a design system, achieving its delivery within 2 months, with strict component APIs, shipped as a versioned internal npm package, and used by 14 teams within OLX • Built layered test strategy for design system, using Jest/RTL, Cypress, and Storybook, resulting in 40% decrease in bug reports, and 95% test coverage • Optimized web applications across multiple projects, leading to a 20% reduction in loading times, and a 25% increase in conversion rates • Designed component architectures and API schemas across multiple OLX products for modularity and maintainability

Frontend Developer at Collegedunia, Nov 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Migrated core modules to Next.js, enhancing the user experience by reducing page load time by 40%, and also resulting in 35% higher engagement • Built custom CKEditor plugins automating content generation, saving 120+ hrs/month for a 600-person editorial team • Designed and implemented an in-house employee monitoring web app, empowering 800 employee with attendance tracking, leave applications, expense filings, and issue tracking

Business Analyst at Infosys, Mar 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, • Analyzed and reported data-driven insights on customer data to suggest growth opportunities • Identified key insights from the client’s customers data leading to product improvements and increased client’s sales by 2.5% in the subsequent quarter • Created reports and dashboards in Tableau for presenting analysis to the client • Improved the client's in-house automation tool by identifying the bugs in the tool Tech Stack: SQL, Tableau, Advanced Excel, Google Sheets

System Engineer at Infosys, Nov 2014 - Feb 2015 · 4 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, • Led a team of developers in the development of the automation system’s modules • Used SQL in aggregating data and VBA to automate the database creation resulting in the reduction of 250 working hours per entry schedule • Headed the delivery of the project and did the knowledge transfer to the client Tech Stack: SQL, VBA, Advanced Excel

System Engineer Trainee at Infosys, Jun 2014 - Oct 2014 · 5 mos, India, • Developed an Online-Retail store application using Java, SQL, HTML and CSS • Analyzed the data of all the purchases over a week's period of the Online Retail Store application Tech Stack: Java, SQL, HTML, CSS

Education

Data Science Bootcamp - Online, Edwisor.com

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/somyanath