Akshay Rohatgi

Frontend Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India10 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience in full-stack development.
Expert in microservices and web performance optimization.
Led significant projects at Adobe and Disney+ Hotstar.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS and web performance optimization.

Contact

akshayrohatgi94@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesFull-stack DevelopmentReactMicrofrontendWeb Application DevelopmentAngularSapui5Agile Development

Other Skills

ABAPAJAXAPI DevelopmentAWS LambdaAkamaiAmazon DynamodbAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaArchitectureCDNCSS3Clean CodingCode ReviewCoding Experience

About

Senior Fronted Heavy Full-Stack Engineer with 10+ years of expertise in designing and optimizing scalable, high-performance web applications. Extensive experience in building Micro-frontends, Design Systems, microservices, and third party integrations solving authentication, performance, and security challenges. Strong background in web performance optimization, CDNs, AWS DynamoDB, API Design and web security. Connect with me on https://topmate.io/akshay_rohatgi/ for mock interviews or 1:1 mentorship.

Experience

10 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Adobe

2 roles

Computer Scientist 2 / SDE IV

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Architected and launched production-ready ChatGPT conversation-flow apps within two weeks in close collaboration with OpenAI, leading UI development and providing technical insights that helped the team enhance MCP server capabilities, streamline workflows, and deliver greater value to ChatGPT for PDFs.
Drove org-wide adoption of Acrobat’s Request License Workflow, aligning stakeholders across surfaces and delivering a reusable UI micro-app adopted by 7+ teams—streamlining SMB license approvals and unlocking monetization for GenAI features.
Spearheaded Acrobat’s integration (~50K ratings, 4.1★) as the default PDF viewer in Microsoft Teams, driving alignment across Adobe and Microsoft teams, re-architecting permission flows to meet enterprise adoption, and delivering a 40% performance improvement (p75 7s → <4s)—driving adoption across millions of users.
Architected and deployed a CDN-based edge solution, improving file load performance by ~2.5s in the third party ecosystem and eliminated unnecessary infra costs replacing legacy solution
Architected and scaled a multi-cloud file import service, enabling real-time ingestion for GenAI research workflows across the org and reducing end-to-end latency by over 50%.
Designed and delivered an OpenAI-powered meeting summarization bot for Microsoft Teams, automating MoMs, action items, and key takeaways—accelerating collaboration across enterprise teams.
Led end-to-end development of @mention notifications for PDFs in Teams, a widely adopted collaboration feature that improved engagement across millions of enterprise users.
Driving org-wide dev productivity efforts, standardizing Cursor (memory banks, rules), creating MCP server for PDF operations and leading enablement sessions
Mentoring multiple junior engineers and aligning cross-functional frontend teams through architecture reviews, and setting up shared tooling and guidelines.

AkamaiRedisAWS LambdaJSON Web Token (JWT)Technical RequirementsVanilla JavaScript+33

Computer Scientist / SDE III

Nov 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

ODataAWS LambdaMobXTechnical RequirementsVanilla JavaScriptWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)+24

Disney+ hotstar

SDE2

Jan 2021 – Nov 2021 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Led a team of 6 to rewrite the Hotstar website using Widget Architecture powered by Server-Driven UI, Protobuf, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) for improved consistency and performance.
Created Lerna-powered Monorepo for shared isomorphic frontend libraries, enabling reuse across 5+ teams and boosting dev velocity.
Collaborated on a core team to build a reusable component library using the Atomic Design Pattern, driving consistency and scalability across product surfaces.
Designed and delivered a Protobuf-based analytics library with schema validation, ensuring high-fidelity event tracking while reducing bandwidth by ~50% and cutting storage costs—critical to maintaining stability during peak IPL traffic.
Implemented Impression Tracking across Web, mWeb, TV, and LR platforms, optimizing tray performance with batched HTTP requests.
Designed an HTTP Library with retry, caching, error handling, and request cancellation, improving reliability and efficiency.
Enhanced Continue Watching logic, ensuring consistent playback state across all Hotstar web platforms.

MobXVanilla JavaScriptREST APIsReactContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Webpack+14

Nagarro

2 roles

Associate Lead Engineer

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Implemented state syncing across multiple browser tabs using Broadcast Channel, ensuring a single application instance with consistent state across all tabs and the server, enhancing UX by enabling seamless multi-monitor usage for improved workflow efficiency.
Improved application performance by leveraging WebWorker for grid calculations, coloring and email parsing, preventing UI freezing and ensuring a smooth 60FPS experience.
Implemented Micro-frontends and enabled communication / routing between them.
Optimized page load time and resolved UI rendering bottlenecks, ensuring compliance with Core Web Vitals for a smoother user experience.
Created user configurable layout component to customize the page layout for Card based Smart UI widgets.

ODataVanilla JavaScriptREST APIsNgRxContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Webpack+11

Senior Engineer

Dec 2019 – Jun 2020 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

ODataVanilla JavaScriptREST APIsNgRxContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Webpack+11

Deloitte india (offices of the us)

2 roles

Consultant

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

Improved performance by combining HTTP requests into one to reduce the network latency using batching.
Lazy Loaded the images in the feeds/bulletin as the user scrolls.
Developed a web-based portal to club and live track the shipments using Google Maps API.
Added Service worker for notification on shipment creation.
Created dynamic user input form via JSON from server.
Created Custom Form Validators for WBS management.
Create type-ahead smart components which auto loads the data in page size as specified by the user.

ODataSAP S/4HANASQLSAPUI5Agile DevelopmentHTML 5+4

Business Technology Analyst

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr

ODataSAP S/4HANASQLSAPUI5Agile DevelopmentHTML 5+4

Accenture

2 roles

Application Development Analyst

Dec 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

Improved performance of a critical application by 80%.
Created dashboard displaying KPI for client system.
Enabled queue processing to prevent user blocking on the processes which takes a lot of time.
Automated the retrial of queues reducing the manual efforts by reading the dump data for failed queues.

ODataSAP S/4HANASQLAgile DevelopmentABAPCode Review+1