Kumar Gaurav — Co-Founder

I’m a Senior Frontend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable, performance-critical frontend systems across SaaS, fintech, B2B commerce, and AI-driven platforms. My strength sits at the intersection of **product thinking and frontend architecture** — translating ambiguous business problems into high-leverage user experiences that scale. Currently, as a Founding Senior Engineer at Superleap AI CRM, I lead frontend architecture and product execution for core revenue-driving features, including: • WhatsApp-based conversational CRM workflows • AI-assisted Gmail-style email composer • Visual WYSIWYG email template builder • Webflow-like multi-page site builder integrated with CRM forms Beyond shipping features, I recently led a deep React Native performance overhaul that delivered: • 135% faster initial load • 154% faster form creation • 120% faster object switching • Improved JS/UI FPS and reduced frame drops This required refactoring global state architecture, eliminating render cascades, profiling deep list components, optimizing scroll behavior, and moving heavy workloads off the JS thread. Earlier in my career: * At Udaan (India’s leading B2B commerce platform), I improved high-volume dashboard performance and led landing page redesign efforts that increased engagement 6× by aligning UX decisions with seller acquisition goals. * At HSBC, I contributed to frontend modernization initiatives in regulated enterprise systems. * As a startup founder, I built fintech and marketplace products from scratch, gaining firsthand experience in product-market validation, user interviews, and iterative product design. I care deeply about: • Building interfaces that users actually adopt • Balancing technical elegance with business leverage • Designing systems that remain maintainable under growth • Owning features end-to-end, not just implementing tickets I enjoy working in small, high-ownership teams where frontend architecture and product thinking intersect. I’m open to senior frontend or product-focused engineering roles in stable product companies or high-growth AI-native startups — especially teams that value ownership, performance, and product depth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-driven platforms.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 7 yrs 8 mos

Skills

React
Frontend Architecture
React Native
Product Development
Full-stack Development

Career Highlights

Led performance overhaul delivering 135% faster load times.
Increased engagement 6× through UX redesign at Udaan.
Built AI-driven features enhancing user experience.

Work Experience

Superleap

Founding Senior Frontend Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

Self-employed

Senior Software Engineer (Independent Research & Open Source) (3 mos)

Archus

Senior Software Engineer (Contract) (3 mos)

Loopout

Founder (1 yr 1 mo)

udaan.com

Product Engineer L3 (1 yr 4 mos)

VERB Studio

Lead Mobile Engineer (10 mos)

AirTap

Co-founder & Lead Frontend Engineer (5 mos)

Graftale (Graftale Technologies Pvt Ltd)

Co-founder & Full-Stack Engineer (8 mos)

HSBC Technology India

Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Kumar Gaurav

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led performance overhaul delivering 135% faster load times.
Increased engagement 6× through UX redesign at Udaan.
Built AI-driven features enhancing user experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-driven platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactFrontend ArchitectureReact NativeProduct DevelopmentFull-stack Development

Other Skills

REST APIsProduct ExecutionPerformance AnalysisESBuildJavaScriptOpen SourceViteSaaSWeb CrawlingSearch AlgorithmsCustomer InterviewsWooCommercePerformance OptimizationVideo Playback OptimizationGraphQL

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Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Superleap

Founding Senior Frontend Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Lead frontend architecture and product execution across React and React Native codebases for an AI-driven CRM platform.
Designed and implemented WhatsApp-based CRM chat workflows (freeform + template-based), enabling faster outbound communication for sales users.
Built AI-assisted Gmail-style rich email composer with extensible formatting and state architecture.
Developed charting UI system (line, stacked bar, pie, funnel) inside reporting as flexible widgets for reuse within a dynamic 12×12 dashboard grid layout.
Built visual WYSIWYG email template builder and Webflow-style multi-page site builder integrated with CRM forms and authentication, empowering non-technical users to create marketing assets.
Collaborated closely with backend team on REST API schema design and data modeling decisions.
Led large-scale React Native performance overhaul delivering:
135% faster initial load
154% faster form creation
120% faster object switching
Improved JS/UI FPS and reduced frame drops
Eliminated render cascades via state refactoring and memoization; optimized deep list components and scroll handling.
Identified and resolved authentication token vulnerability.
Mentored frontend engineers and strengthened internal documentation practices.

ReactReact NativeREST APIsFrontend ArchitectureProduct Execution

Self-employed

Senior Software Engineer (Independent Research & Open Source)

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Patna, Bihar, India · Remote

Built Meact.js, a lightweight React-like framework implementing a render tree, reconciliation algorithm, and hook APIs to deepen understanding of rendering internals.
Implemented client-side renderer inspired by react-dom.
Built server-side multi-page framework with loader/action pattern (inspired by Next.js and Remix).
Configured ESBuild for tree-shaken and code-split bundles.
Deployed HackerNews clone as demonstration app.
Explored rendering abstractions, dependency injection patterns, and framework design trade-offs.
GitHub: [https://github.com/kgj-0x64/meact.js](https://github.com/kgj-0x64/meact.js)
Explored LLMs and prompt engineering to convert book texts into audiobooks where each actor and the narrator get their own voices. Gemini LLM was used to identify characters, their genders and dialogue attribution, and to produce a schema-bound SSML output which is finally fed into GCP's TTS API and stitched as one audio output at pipeline's end. Its code is public on Github at https://github.com/kgj-0x64/llm-audiobook-experiment.

ReactESBuildJavaScriptOpen Source

Archus

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Nov 2023 – Feb 2024 · 3 mos · Remote

Led React + Vite frontend development for early-stage SaaS platform for freight brokers.
Built dynamic editable data table abstraction using TanStack Table.
Collaborated with CTO on Spring Boot backend and DynamoDB integrations.
Shipped production-ready features under tight iteration cycles.

ReactViteSaaS

Loopout

Founder

Sep 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · India · Remote

Loopout was an experimental e-commerce search product exploring TikTok-inspired input-free discovery and real-time recommendations.
Built a web crawler and indexing pipeline for product listings and card deals scraped from leading/popular brands.
Built frontend application and backend services supporting embeddings-based search using Vespa.
Conducted structured customer interviews to evaluate product-market fit and to discover a core problem.
Led small team of interns to prototype, market survey and iterate rapidly.
Tried other product experiments in parallel.

Web CrawlingSearch AlgorithmsCustomer InterviewsProduct Development

Udaan.com

Product Engineer L3

May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Led redesign and frontend implementation of Udaan Express landing pages; increased rate-calculator engagement 6× and generated 600+ support requests in first month (20% new seller leads).
Improved performance of high-volume 3PL order dashboard via pagination and virtualization.
Integrated WooCommerce REST APIs enabling sellers to manage orders within dashboard.
Designed reusable table and filtering patterns adopted in broader order workflows.
Presented warehouse-driven UX insights influencing roadmap decisions.

ReactWooCommercePerformance Optimization

Verb studio

Lead Mobile Engineer

Jun 2020 – Apr 2021 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built and deployed Android and iOS apps using React Native.
Optimized video playback performance and user interaction responsiveness.
Implemented live video chat functionality using PubNub.
Contributed to UX planning and delivery timelines.

React NativeVideo Playback Optimization

Airtap

Co-founder & Lead Frontend Engineer

Dec 2019 – May 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Built React Native fintech app enabling India's first credit-over-UPI payments.
Integrated GraphQL APIs, Firebase authentication, Razorpay payments.
Achieved 8.5K+ installs and ~900 active users.
Processed ₹400K+ in transactions from ₹80K credit pool.
Led frontend architecture and UX design.

React NativeGraphQLPayments Integration

Graftale (graftale technologies pvt ltd)

Co-founder & Full-Stack Engineer

Mar 2019 – Nov 2019 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Built marketplace platform using Next.js, React Native, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Developed seller dashboard for catalog, order, and analytics management.
Designed backend GraphQL APIs, keyword-based search of products using Algolia, and authentication & checkout flows.
Onboarded 10–15 boutique sellers during pilot phase.

Next.jsGraphQLMarketplace DevelopmentFull-Stack Development

Hsbc technology india

Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

Led a team of four freshers to build a React-based UI component library for ATM frontend systems.
Participated in migration of legacy Dojo web application to React.
Built Java-based SQL reporting automation tool.
Contributed to multi-country API unification initiative spanning 30+ regions.
Designed a chatbot’s conversation flow using DialogFlow as a proof-of-concept to build an IVR alternative.

ReactJavaSQL Automation