Saikat Guha

Software Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India9 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Contributed to React, Redux, and Jest open-source projects.
Led UI initiatives at Microsoft Teams for improved performance.
Developed a library to streamline Redux development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend Developer with strong expertise in UI frameworks and open-source contributions.

Contact

sktguha@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ReactJestRedux

Other Skills

AJAXCC++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Chrome ExtensionsCore JavaDojoHTMLHTML5JSPJavaJavaScriptPuppeteerPython

About

Saikat Guha (sktguha@gmail.com, linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sktguha/) Hi 👋 , I have contributed code to official React and also Redux, Jest , the most popular UI libraries. React PRs (Total 135 lines diff made in React ( +76, -59 ), +1 more in progress) - https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/20023 - https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/19939 - https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/19985 Redux PR - https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/pull/3749 Jest PR - https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/10842 More planned for these and other popular open source projects. About me Senior Software Engineer - UI at Microsoft. ex-Salesforce, ex-Directi. Experienced JavaScript Developer for 7+ years with good knowledge of its quirks and good parts. In a love/hate relationship with the language, owing to its odd quirks on one hand and its good functional and powerful expressive capabillities on the other hand. Working in React and Redux stack. I frequently go around reading the codebase of popular open-source projects like React, Redux(have PRs merged to both of them, you can check above for more details) , Underscore, Lodash etc.

Experience

Stealth startup

Engineer

Aug 2025 – Nov 2025 · 3 mos

Shaping core product and engineering direction for AI-powered finance automation. Collaborating with product and design.

Confluent

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025 · 7 mos

Procore technologies

Senior Frontend Developer

Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 6 mos

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · India

UI Lead – Microsoft Teams
Led UI for the Device Management team and contributed to the Policy team.
Drove core Teams UI infrastructure initiatives, improving performance, consistency, and scalability across the product.

Rippling

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer – Rippling (UI Platform Team)
Built reusable React + TypeScript components adopted across multiple product teams.
Implemented visual testing and unit testing pipelines using Jest, Puppeteer, and React Testing Library (RTL) to ensure reliability and consistency.

ReactTypeScriptJestPuppeteerReact Testing Library

Salesforce

Member Of Technical Staff - Frontend

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

UI Lead – Salesforce
Led the UI portion of an internal tool from scratch to General Availability within 1 year.
Designed and built ReduxSimplifier, a configurable library that reduced boilerplate and accelerated development across multiple projects ( not open-sourced yet).
Leveraged Salesforce’s VTO policy to contribute to leading OSS projects including React and Jest, with further contributions in progress to Underscore and React ESLint.

ReduxUI Development

Publicis sapient

Senior Associate L1

Jul 2019 – Apr 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Zeta india

Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Mar 2019 · 4 mos · Banglore

Worked on vue.js in expense management

Directi

Frontend Engineer

May 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Software Engineer – Flock
Owned platform APIs for the Flock client (apps), Chrome extension client, and related areas — implementing features and supporting cross-team integrations.
Collaborated with the Flock Apps team to resolve issues and ensure platform stability.
Mentored new developers, onboarding them to the codebase and accelerating their contributions.
Discovered and resolved a critical security exploit that had persisted in the codebase for 4.5 years.