Armaan Ahluwalia

Frontend Engineer

South Delhi, Delhi, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in frontend performance optimization.
  • Led teams to develop revenue-generating applications.
  • Strong background in user interface and experience design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused frontend engineer with strong design and optimization skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavascriptUser Interface DesignReact

Other Skills

AdvertisingAgile MethodologiesBackbone.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)FlashFrontend DevelopmentFrontend Performance OptimizationGUI developmentGraphicsInteraction DesignMagentoNode.jsReact NativeReduxSocial Media

About

Passion for design, engineering, ideas and products that are truly delightful. I enjoy working on projects where approaching design and development as co-dependent processes can lead to smarter solutions and a better overall product experience.

Experience

Apollo.io

Senior Frontend Engineer

Oct 2022Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote, India

  • ⊙ Optimized frontend performance reducing load times for critical parts of the application ( all verticals ) from 2–6 seconds to under 80ms, resolving user frustration that was identified by the CTO as our highest priority item.
  • This exercise involved the following:
  • ✔️ Conducted a comprehensive codebase analysis to identify and address architectural inefficiencies. Identified massive anti-patterns that had gone unnoticed for years and were crippling the applications performance.
  • ✔️ Refactored core design system components owned by the design system team being used by every team at Apollo improving performance across teams
  • ✔️ Refactored components and surfaces on other teams to enable performance improvements on the search surface.
  • ✔️ Built a custom debugging library to optimize frontend performance, filling a gap not covered by open-source tools
  • ⊙ Led a team of frontend engineers in revamping the Companies Search tab for Apollo 2.0
  • ⊙ Developed the frontend for "lead scoring" in Apollo 1.0
  • ⊙ Contributed to growth experiments, UI enhancements, and analytics.
  • ⊙ Built internal tools to improve developer productivity specifically a dependency manager that identified dead code, identified code owners across teams and was able to identify dependencies per surface area on our codebase.
JavaScriptNode.jsUser Interface DesignUser ExperienceFrontend Performance Optimization

Swym

2 roles

Tech Lead, Frontend

Feb 2022Jul 2022 · 5 mos

  • Served as frontend tech lead. Led a team of 4 frontend developers
  • Architected & managed execution of a new application “Save for Later” bringing a new revenue stream to the company
  • Automated manual process of “Wishlist Button” insertion on the #1 Wishlist app on the Shopify app store cutting down customer support tickets
  • Conducted all Agile Ceremonies for the team (daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning)
  • Made sure no bugs were being shipped by conducting thorough PR reviews and deployments
JavaScriptFrontend DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Architected and coded the company’s flagship application “Wishlist Plus” deployed across more than 26000 merchant websites with millions of users worldwide. (React, Redux)
  • Architected and coded a new application “High Touch Commerce” which created a whole new stream of revenue for the company for clients in physical retail
  • Created a new frontend infrastructure on Webpack allowing developers to develop their websites on remote e-Commerce websites with hot-reloading
ReactReduxFrontend Development

Airbase

Software Engineer

Feb 2019Oct 2019 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Product manager and front-end developer on a new data dashboard for their data reporting tools.
  • Worked on improving features for their web application (React/Redux) as well as some reusable components for developers to use.
  • Developed and launched their customer-facing site on Webflow working with design, marketing, PMs and the CEO
ReactFrontend Development

Zulip

Open Source Developer

Jun 2018Feb 2019 · 8 mos · Remote

  • Upgraded them to Webpack 4.0
  • Developed a new flow for image uploads in React Native/Redux/Flow
  • Improved frontend tooling by porting old tests in vanilla JavaScript to TypeScript • Contributed to improvements in visual design for their application
React NativeJavaScriptTypeScript

Dataminr, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

May 2012Jul 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • First hire on the frontend team that eventually grew to 15 people across two teams.
  • Developed a large part of V1.0 of the client facing application.
  • Helped transition the app to V2.0 on a new framework –– React/Redux
  • Played a major part in designing and maintaining the early front-end architecture built on Backbone.js.
  • Developed infrastructure, plugins and tools to help internal teams as well as developers on our team
  • Mentored junior developers through their time at Dataminr.
  • Performed code reviews keeping in mind user experience, clean code and maintainability
  • Vetted new frameworks, plugins and front-end technology
  • By far the most passionate player on the Dataminr soccer team.
ReactBackbone.js

Night agency

Interactive Developer & Designer

Jun 2010May 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Worked on ad campaigns for big brands like Hanes, Champion, Nestlé Buitoni, Playtex, Avon, Tequila Avión and Dial working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. This involved working with the brands to come to the right compromise between their needs and the agency's values and vision.
  • Designed websites, banner ads, iPhone applications and Facebook tabs.
  • Identity and branding for both our own company as well as decks for new business pitches.
  • Designed prototypes for the company’s startup accelerator.
Web DesignFlashWordPressMagento

Fakeup

Design Intern

Jan 2010May 2010 · 4 mos

  • Worked at FakeUp as an intern during my final year at Pratt doing –
  • Creative for Amtrak – Parks in Your Backyard
  • Banners for Yahoo!
  • internal promotional creative.

Fisheye design

Design/Development Intern

Jun 2009Jul 2009 · 1 mo

  • Designed annual review mailer for Youthreach.
  • Provided technical direction on the development of the Fisheye website.
  • Did research on fisheye social initiatives.

Bionic yarn

Designer / Developer

May 2009Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Designed and developed websites for Bionic Yarn (Co-owned by Pharrell Williams) and its sister companies. While working with them I managed and created –
  • Flash Websites
  • Wordpress Blogs
  • Magento eCommerce site
  • XHTML/CSS/Javascript pages
  • Experimental Flash projects

Kaleidoscope entertainment

Graphic Designer

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr

  • Designing promotional material for various movies as well as designing creative for internal pitches and decks.

Education

Pratt Institute

Associate Degree ( With Honours ) — Digital Design and Interactive Media

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Delhi University

Bachelor of Arts (BA) — Economics ( With Honours )

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Modern School

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