Aakash Raina

Frontend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8+ years of frontend engineering experience
Led a team of 10+ engineers at Razorpay
Expert in building scalable web applications

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Frontend Engineer with expertise in scalable web applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactNode.jsJavascript

Other Skills

CI/CDDesign SystemsDockerExpress.jsGatsbyJSGitHub ActionsGrafanaGraphQLKubernetesPrometheusReact NativeReduxSentryStorybookjsTailwind

About

I’m a frontend engineer with 8+ years of core frontend experience & having deep expertise in building scalable, high-performing web applications and leading modern frontend initiatives. Over the years, I’ve worked across diverse domains—ranging from payments and fintech to customer experience—designing and delivering products that impact both end users and internal teams. I also have hands-on experience contributing to backend services and DevOps systems, giving me a holistic perspective across the stack. My skill set spans the breadth of frontend engineering: crafting intuitive user interfaces, architecting systems for scale, driving performance optimizations, and shaping developer workflows through CI/CD, design systems, and testing best practices. With hands-on experience across React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, and modern frontend tooling, I bring both technical depth and versatility. I’m passionate about creating scalable frontend systems, reducing technical debt, and improving developer experience through CI/CD optimizations, build systems, and design systems. Beyond execution, I bring a data-driven mindset—leveraging user insights, usage analytics, and A/B testing to guide product improvements. Tech Stack & Focus Areas: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Svelte, GraphQL, React Native, Next.js, GoLang, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes, Design Systems, Testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright), and observability tools (Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus).

Experience

Razorpay

3 roles

Lead Frontend Engineer

Promoted

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Architected and implemented the offline onboarding journey, enabling 100+ merchants to onboard daily and ensuring faster go-live for new merchants.
Currently leading a team of 10+ engineers within the Offline Onboarding POD, driving execution, technical direction, and contributing directly to Razorpay’s expansion into the offline payments business vertical.
Define and drive engineering OKRs in collaboration with team members including cross-collaboration, setting technical goals and executing strategies using metrics on performance, availability, quality, and developer productivity to ensure adoption of best practices, improved tooling, system modernization, and continuous improvement.

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Senior Frontend Engineer

Promoted

May 2021 – May 2025 · 4 yrs

Built and revamped core merchant dashboard experiences—including Payments, Settlements, Refunds, Support, Account Settings, and Search—from scratch, with full ownership of architecture, implementation, and delivery. These features are used daily by ~1M merchants, giving them greater control and visibility while driving self-serve adoption that reduced support tickets by 35%. Additionally, implemented alerting and monitoring on engineering and product metrics (Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus, Amplitude, Looker) to ensure reliability, performance, and continuous improvements.
Led & implemented initiatives to reduce technical debt and optimize engineering systems and products, improving performance, scalability, and developer efficiency. Spearheaded research and modernization efforts, including migration to GitHub Actions & TypeScript, optimization of CI/CD pipelines (improving build times by ~15%), migration to Webpack v5, adoption of linting tools, TypeScript, and TDD to improve code quality, achieving 90%+ unit test coverage, and optimizing bundle sizes to boost performance by ~10%. Implemented canary deployments & playwright tests, resulting in a ~45% reduction in production issues.
Mentored junior engineers and guided them toward promotions, introducing coding best practices and comprehensive documentation that reduced new hire onboarding time by 50%+. Contributed to Razorpay’s growth by serving on the frontend hiring panel, helping scale the Payments BU from 20+ to 80+ engineers.
Tech stack:
Languages/Runtimes: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, HTML5/CSS3, GraphQL
Frameworks/Libraries: React, Redux, React-Query, Styled Components, Webpack, React Native
Others: Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, Sentry, Grafana, Design system(s), Jest,
Playwright, React Testing Library

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Frontend Engineer

Apr 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

- Worked on Razorpay's Merchant Dashboard. Part of the Payments BU. Additionally, contributed to internals tools to improve operational efficiency.

JavaScriptReact

Clairvoyant llc

Software Engineer (UI)

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Developed an end-to-end analytics dashboard from scratch, building responsive UI in React & TypeScript and integrating with backend REST APIs to deliver interactive visualizations, extensive data-driven charts, and downloadable reports, enabling stakeholders to perform self-serve analytics and gain actionable insights.
Developed core functionalities of a cross-platform social media app using React Native, Expo, and NativeBase, targeting both Android and iOS. Contributed to features such as event creation, media creation, playback & sharing, and guest invitations, laying the groundwork for a seamless and engaging user experience across platforms.

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Pict acm student chapter

Technical Head

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

∙ Responsible for organising, managing all technical activities taking place under PICT ACM Students
Chapter. Activities included SIG's, tech talks, coding events, seminars.