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Summary

  • Senior Architect — 12+ years of experience across marketplace (Myntra), B2B SaaS, and D2C, with founding-team roles.
  • Build and lead engineering teams while staying hands-on — from hiring and mentoring to owning delivery and the engineering practices behind it.
  • Seasoned in building products, frameworks, libraries, and developer tools of all scales.
  • Work at the frontier of AI-assisted development and build the agent skills, commands, and tooling underneath.
  • Teach and speak on UI engineering — from internal tech talks to public webinars.

Experience

Senior Architect · Tectonic

Jul 23 – May 26

Tectonic platformizes growth for D2C Shopify brands. As a founding engineer, I led UI across web and app — from the first in-house framework to the Shopify-native pivot.

  • Established the foundation for UI engineering — design, standards, and patterns — and stayed in the code, shipping alongside the team.
  • Architected and shipped the platform's first version solo — a schema-driven system of primitives that composed storefronts across web and a mobile app — validating the model and landing the first paying brands (The Label Life, Includ, Ohsogo).
  • Helped grow the platform to $1M ARR — lifting conversion 30–50% on nearly every storefront it onboarded.
  • Drove store onboarding as the platform grew into a self-serve builder — shipping flagship storefronts hands-on for brands like Frido, Bombae, and Vaaree, among a dozen-plus D2C names.
  • Extended the foundation to create mobile apps for each store — on Capacitor, reusing the web codebase — and authored the native integration plugins (Shopify Checkout Kit, Klaviyo) available on npm.
  • Set the technical hiring bar — from take-home to live rounds — and mentored 10–20 interns and juniors, several to promotion.

Spectrum

Spectrum was the pivot back into Shopify — Tectonic's growth platform for D2C brands, consolidating 30+ storefront apps into one system with experimentation, personalization, and playbooks. I led its UI and migrated existing stores onto it.

  • Built Spectrum's Studio — a visual builder with A/B testing and personalization baked in, letting merchants tailor the storefront to different customer cohorts.
  • Developed the Spectrum Shopify app — one install that wires the platform into a merchant's store, unlocking the theme and data everything else runs on.
  • Improved GTmetrix grades from E–F to A–B — replacing third-party app bloat with Shopify-native Spectrum sections, blocks, and snippets rendered server-side.
  • Introduced AI-assisted development across the team — Claude skills, commands, and hooks that encode and enforce Spectrum's theme and performance standards, so the team ships safely with AI.

Technical Lead · Virgio

Mar 22 – Jul 23

Virgio is a D2C fashion label. As a founding-team engineer, I led the UI engineering charter from day one for both app and web.

  • Owned the architecture, technical direction, and quality bar — leading a team of 3–5 and driving delivery end to end.
  • Built a universal frontend — one codebase across native and web, with ~80–90% of the code shared.
  • Built the page service and rendering engine — screens rendered on the fly from a backend schema, shipping content, layout, and flows live with no app release.
  • Launched in two months and crossed 100k+ installs, staying solid at scale — 99% crash-free rate with near-zero ANRs.
  • Ensured the app stayed fast and fluid even on low-end devices, media-heavy screens and all — through performance optimizations across rendering, caching, and data fetching.
  • Hired and grew the UI team — turning junior engineers into independent owners of end-to-end delivery.

Technical Lead · Myntra

Feb 19 – Mar 22

At Myntra, I joined the Vorta team as an SDE-2 and grew into a Technical Lead. I led the frontend for the Market Intelligence Platform (fka Vorta.ai) and re-engineered Spectrum — the internal React framework behind most of Myntra's in-house tools.

  • Led frontend hiring and mentored engineers on the team.
  • Drove engineering-wide talks on React, web development, and performance.
  • Raised the frontend performance bar across Myntra's internal apps through Spectrum CLI.

Market Intelligence Platform

  • Architected and built the frontend from scratch — shipped in a month with a two-engineer team.
  • Built the server-driven UI — dashboards, charts, and competitor views all rendered from backend-supplied config, personalized per seller.
  • Kept dashboards responsive at scale — dozens of Highcharts widgets over large per-seller datasets.

Spectrum

  • Re-engineered the CLI — every generated app shipped 70–80% smaller with performance baked in (lazy loading, resource hinting, etc.), and version upgrades went from manual to automated.
  • 30+ in-house tools ran on it — nearly every internal app at Myntra.

Web Developer · Greytip

Jan 17 – Jan 19

Greytip offers HR and payroll software through its greytHR suite. I revamped its Employee Self Service (ESS) portal — the employee-facing app for payslips, leave, and attendance — and built its Employee Onboarding module from scratch.

  • Conducted internal Angular and TypeScript training sessions.
  • Earned the Rising Star award.

Employee Self Service (ESS)

  • Built a JSON-driven UI framework from scratch that became the portal's rendering backbone.
  • Built the portal's UI kit — reusable components, services, and pipes — on an SCSS styling foundation.
  • Introduced and implemented app-wide state management with NgRx/Redux.

Employee Onboarding

  • Built a store-driven, multi-step wizard from scratch to collect new-hire data.
  • Enhanced a JSON-Schema forms framework to render onboarding's metadata-driven reactive forms.

Front End Developer · Eventifier

Oct 16 – Jan 17

At Eventifier, I worked on a social-media aggregation platform — a real-time “livewall” that pulled, curated, and embedded user-generated content from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+.

  • Built the livewall UI, moderation controls, and embeddable widgets that surfaced real-time social content across sites.

Software Engineer · In Time Tec

Jul 14 – Oct 16

I contributed to building Cartos — a managed-print-solution (MPS) tool where fleet designers plot and visualize enterprise printer fleets.

  • Architected and developed the entire frontend from scratch.
  • Built the interactive HTML5 Canvas editor (Konva) on a MEAN-stack SPA — designers dropped printers onto floor plans to lay out and visualize enterprise fleets.
  • Root-caused performance bottlenecks and kept the canvas responsive with the massive fleets of enterprises like HP and Xerox.
  • Established the frontend's unit-testing foundation with Karma and Jasmine.
  • Ran internal talks on JavaScript and AngularJS to level up the team.