Apr 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Engineering manager of the Platform Core Frontend team at Razorpay responsible for the buildout of the popular open source Design System Blade on Web (React) & React Native. Abinash’s direction & leadership on Blade’s strategy helped accelerate the shipping of 50+ components & foundational tokens, improving developer experience & productivity, design consistency, managing & quantifying impact, evangelization & stakeholder alignments which helped the design system to become one of the most revered open source design systems in the community.
• Managed Razorpay’s web infrastructure centrally with a JS toolkit facilitating capabilities including scaffolding, linting, testing, builds, deployments (CSR & SSR), Error Monitoring (Sentry), Performance Monitoring (Synthetic & Real User Monitoring), A/B Experiments, Analytics Service, E2E Testing (Playwright), DDoS Protection for FE apps & integration with NextJS.
• Managed other Platform frontend product tasks associated with Razorpay Payments Reconciliation, Ledger, API Gateway (Edge), Observability, Messaging Service (Stork) & Razorpay’s Admin Dashboard.
• Created & managed the Omnichannel Acquisition team to deliver Self-Serve & Sales Assisted channels to onboard new merchants for the acquired Razorpay POS devices.
• Spearheaded a yearly Frontend initiative strategy to shift the focus of the org to infrastructure improvements aside of product delivery goals with themes being quantifying & improving the quality of app infrastructure (with Testing, Performance, CI/CD, Error Monitoring, Observability & Security as parameters), driving design consistency & brand identity by quantifying design system adoption and risk reduction by enforcing confidence through a centralised end to end testing tracking mechanism.
• Was part of the Engineering Branding core committee responsible for reviewing & publishing engineering content on the Razorpay Engineering blog including managing Tech social handles for Twitter & LinkedIn.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Product & Technical Lead for Productivity suite of apps that include the virtual assistant platform of Goldman Sachs used by ~50k users globally. Also lead other applications that provide access to the telephony, voicemail & notification systems to facilitate effective communication and collaboration firm wide.
• Technical responsibilities include development of web applications using JavaScript, Angular, React, TypeScript, RxJS, ngRx, CSS, Webpack, Electron, Promethus, Grafana, Kibana, Kubernetes etc., low-level design, system design, production support, release management, SRE, operational & health monitoring, risk management & mitigation, incident management, code reviews, mentoring, hiring & interviews.
• Product responsibilities include following Agile practices, backlog grooming, sprint planning & retrospectives, scrums, OKRs, stakeholder engagement, user research & interviews, usage analytics and managing user adoption & feedback. Also work with product managers to build product roadmap & memos, collaborate with designers to build mockups and prototypes, communicate with divisional leads and stakeholders to manage product & people growth, and engage with revenue divisions like Investment Banking and Global Markets to provide innovative engineering solutions to financial & productivity requirements.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• As part of the core UX engineering team at Goldman Sachs, was responsible for developing the UI Toolkit which was an integrated set of front end utilities offered in React and Angular and used to develop and maintain 1000+ external & internal web applications at the firm.
• Responsibilities included active development & maintenance of the codebase, identify & resolve bugs, encourage the open source model and review contributions, participate in frequent releases & investigate new components and models that could benefit developers and applications in the firm.
• Took an active interest in developing software and tools related to data visualisation, segregation and proper representation of data, data models, user research tooling & analytics. All applications developed conformed to accessibility guidelines, were responsive and mobile friendly, adhered to proper testing & followed regular deployment cycles.
• Also worked on internal Angular applications on Electron related to streamlining communication & increasing productivity in the firm. These applications helped solve business problems by simplifying interactions between stakeholders, facilitating meetings, conference calls and screen share.
• Technologies used include JavaScript, React, Angular, TypeScript, Redux, RxJs, ngRx, jQuery, AngularJS, Cypress, Enzyme, Jasmine, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Gulp, Webpack, Browserify, Rush, Karma, Git etc.
• Actively recruited in Goldman Sachs for JavaScript & front-end positions in Bengaluru, London & New York.

May 2017 – Dec 2017 · 7 mos

• Was part of the core User Experience engineering team at Goldman Sachs responsible for providing a coherent & streamlined user experience across all internal and external applications by developing and maintaining the UI Toolkit at the firm.
• Also worked on improving the JavaScript tooling infrastructure in the firm to enhance the front end development experience and provide libraries that could be reused across applications through simple commands to save on development time.

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led the front-end development team for the complete overhaul of the CouponDunia desktop & mobile websites using Angular 2 beta.
• Was also involved in the CD server-side rendered site & the GoSwag cashback project. Designed the CouponDunia browser extension to showcase merchant offers on all popular browsers.
• Responsibilities included requirement gathering with product managers, establishing prototypes with designers, designing the front-end architecture, code reviews, knowledge transfer & code maintenance. Was part of the technical recruitment team for front-end positions at CouponDunia.
• Technological experience included JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Angular 2, SASS, LESS, Gulp, Git etc.

Jul 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Worked on Business Intelligence via web reporting platforms for Microsoft, the main client of MAQ Softwares. Technologies used include JavaScript, jQuery, Angular JS, HTML, CSS, SharePoint, SQL & C#.
• Implemented JavaScript libraries for chart creation & advanced data-table functionalities for vibrant depiction of data on 20+ reports. These libraries were generic, responsive and cross browser compatible and were used for the interface of the external partner facing BI projects.
• Implemented other notable features like facilitating Object Oriented Design on web development through TypeScript, handling of AJAX requests & responses, cross-browser implementation of JavaScript & responsive behaviour of web pages through media queries & Bootstrap.
• Worked on data access layers for reproduction of data on reporting level using stored procedures written in SQL & handling of the service layer using C#.
• Improved the page load time of 15+ web reports via the implementation of standard processes like minification & bundling. Had an eye for tools that improve code quality & conformed to latest standards (JSHint, JSLint, TSLint, HTML/CSS validators).
• Gained experience on version control using Team Foundation Server (TFS) and work item tracking with Visual Studio Online.

Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Trained about the industry implementations of the .NET platform using C# and T-SQL. Followed industry coding practices, design patterns & other code improvement tools.
• Implemented an Employee portal modelled on the existing application here as part of the training process using ASP.NET MVC.
• Created a web location service using Google API for Geocoding & Reverse geocoding.