Aamir Shah

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams.
Led the development of AI-powered user interfaces.
Pioneered React.js adoption for improved UX.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on UI architecture and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipFrontend Architecture

Other Skills

AI-powered UI innovationAndroid DevelopmentAngularJSCC++CSSCross-functional team collaborationCross-team code reviewsFrontend best practicesGitHTMLJSONJSPJavaJavaScript

About

Engineering leader with ~14 years of experience in scaling high-performing teams, building resilient UI platforms, and delivering user-centric products at scale. I specialize in turning complex product visions into elegant, scalable solutions through a blend of strategic thinking, architectural rigor, and deep technical collaboration. 🔹 Currently leading the Movement UI Pillar at project44, where I'm building the Bangalore Centre of Excellence from the ground up, driving organizational scale, architectural excellence, and AI-powered UI innovation across teams. 🔹 Previously at Nutanix, I led a 20+ member global engineering team, owning the end-to-end delivery of Prism, their flagship infrastructure management UI, focused on usability, scale, and performance. 🔹 At Flipkart, I built and scaled the Payments UI stack, powering millions of daily transactions on both web and mobile, with battle-tested resilience during Big Billion Day peak loads. I’m passionate about: 🔹 Building empowered, outcome-driven engineering cultures 🔹 Driving cross-functional alignment between Product, Design, and Engineering 🔹 Scaling design systems and UI platforms that accelerate product velocity 🔹 Embedding AI and automation to elevate developer productivity Let's connect if you're building ambitious UI products or scaling teams with purpose. 🚀

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Project44

Sr. Engineering Manager

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading the Movement UI Pillar at project44, owning the end-to-end delivery of high-impact, AI-powered user interfaces that drive seamless supply chain visibility experiences across platforms.
🚀 Founding team member at p44 India, instrumental in scaling the UI org from ground zero to a thriving team of 20+ engineers across multiple seniority levels.
🧩 Built and standardized a proprietary Design System Framework, now implemented across all internal sub-apps, driving visual consistency and accelerating UI development cycles.
🤖 Spearheading AI evangelism within the org, leveraging AI tools and workflows to enhance developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
🛠️ Championing code consistency, design principles, and UI architecture best practices, while aligning teams around a unified North Star Vision.
📈 Partnering with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and AI/ML to ensure delivery of scalable, intuitive, and performant UIs.

Engineering LeadershipFrontend ArchitectureUI/UX StrategySystems Design

Nutanix

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · On-site

Led and scaled the Prism India UI team, owning delivery, execution, and operations for one of Nutanix’s core product interfaces. Transformed a small 4-member team into a globally distributed, high-performing unit spanning Bangalore, Pune, Warsaw, Berlin, and San Jose, peaking at 21 engineers.
🛠️ Established Pune as a Center of Excellence by launching and scaling a local UI team from the ground up, driving autonomy, quality, and innovation.
✅ Instituted a robust unit testing culture, taking test coverage from negligible to 90%+, significantly improving code quality and release confidence.
🎯 Played a hands-on role in architecture design, peer reviews, and technical implementation, particularly for complex UI modules and performance-critical components.
🚀 Mentored and grew junior developers into senior contributors through continuous coaching, career planning, and code/design leadership.
💬 Maintained lowest attrition across the org, recognized for building a team-first, growth-oriented culture that prioritized long-term career development and technical ownership.

Engineering LeadershipFrontend ArchitectureUI/UX StrategySystems Design

Sr. Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019 · 6 mos · On-site

Led the development of Disaster Recovery (DR) as a Service, delivered as a hybrid UI solution compatible with both on-premise infrastructure and cloud environments, enabling robust business continuity for enterprise clients.
🧪 Ensured high standards of UI quality, performance, and reliability across key modules, delivering mission-critical features with precision.
🔍 Participated in and led cross-team code reviews and design document evaluations, upholding architectural consistency and engineering best practices.
👨‍🏫 Actively mentored junior engineers, helping them level up in design thinking, frontend testing, and scalable UI development.
📄 Authored and reviewed design documents across teams to drive clarity, alignment, and technical rigor across the frontend org.

Member of Technical Staff - 4

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

⚛️ Pioneered the adoption of React.js at Nutanix, leading the transition from legacy frameworks to a modern frontend stack, improving developer velocity, maintainability, and UX consistency.
🧩 Led the implementation of “Broker”, a cross-platform abstraction framework that streamlined interactions between frontend and backend services, enabling a shared interface model across multiple products.
⚙️ Delivered key performance optimizations across the UI stack, including load-time reduction, lazy loading, and smart caching, resulting in a significantly faster and smoother user experience.

Member of Technical Staff - 3

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos · On-site

Working with the Prism UI team.

Flipkart.com

UI Engineer

Aug 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Key contributor to Flipkart’s Payments UI Platform, responsible for delivering seamless, secure, and scalable user interfaces that powered millions of daily transactions across web and mobile.
💳 Architected and scaled the Payments UI stack, directly impacting sales and ensuring high availability during peak sale events like Big Billion Day, withstanding massive traffic surges and complex load conditions.
🧩 Collaborated closely with design, product, and backend teams to ship payment flows that were intuitive, performant, and conversion-optimized.
🛠️ Played a core role in refactoring legacy codebases, modularizing components, and improving long-term maintainability and testability.
🚀 Introduced and implemented frontend best practices around performance monitoring, accessibility, and responsive design at scale.
🧠 Mentored junior engineers and contributed to frontend guilds, shaping standards and promoting engineering excellence across teams.

Sourcebits llc

UI Engineer

Jul 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Web & Mobile Apps Development.
At Sourcebits, I was primarily involved in making various Web Apps from scratch. I was mainly focused on the JavaScript side. I've used HTML and CSS/SCSS extensively for more than 2 years.
You can find more about me from Sourcebits Blog - http://www.sourcebits.com/#!/blog/article/meet-the-engineers-aamir-web-developer