Pawan Kolhe

UI Designer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI initiative improving user experience.
Built scalable design systems and component libraries.
Optimized CI/CD pipelines reducing build times significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in React and TypeScript.

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Skills

Core Skills

ReactTypescriptFrontend Development

Other Skills

AWS AmplifyAWS CodePipelineAdobe IllustratorAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularC (Programming Language)CI/CDCLICascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationEmotionFigmaFigma (Software)FirebaseGit

About

Working on Platform, Engineering Productivity (Frontend), and AI initiative @ Certa.ai Frontend Engineer with 4.5+ years building enterprise-scale applications in React and TypeScript. Strong product mindset with a focus on performance, accessibility, and maintainability. Specialize in design systems, developer tooling, and leading small teams to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions. Checkout my side-projects: 🚀 color-calendar: https://www.npmjs.com/package/color-calendar (200+ stars of GitHub | 1200+ weekly npm downloads) 🚀 Bold UI component library: https://github.com/PawanKolhe/bold-ui (Modern, fast, and accessible react component library) Current tech stack JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Svelte, Emotion, Vite, Vitest, react-query Previously worked with: Redux, Vue, Ionic, Angular, Node.js, MongoDB 🔗 Personal Website: https://pawankolhe.com 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/PawanKolhe 🔗 CodeChef: https://www.codechef.com/users/pawankolhe

Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Galileo

Senior UI Engineer

Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Certa.ai

2 roles

Frontend Engineer (SDE 2)

Feb 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Improved frontend performance metrics (LCP, FCP, DCL) by 36% and
reduced bundle size by 32%, significantly improving user experience.
Setup performance monitoring and alerts using Sentry.
Led the AI initiative (Design Agent) from frontend, architecting chat UI and
AI-driven features. (https://www.getcerta.com/platform/certa-ai)
Re-built an interactive workflow progress visualization using
React Flow library improving feature utilization by 71%.
Build a JSON schema-driven React form builder for No-Code Studio platform., cutting
implementation time for large forms by ~2–3 hours.
Drove developer experience (DX) and tooling initiatives: dependency
management, code quality standards, library upgrades, bundler
optimizations, and more.
Executed monorepo-wide migrations: Yarn → pnpm, Webpack → Vite,
Jest → Vitest, React Router upgrade, TypeScript upgrade.
Optimized CI/CD pipelines by reducing GitHub Actions build times by 35%
through dependency caching and Nx distributed caching.
Contributed to tech and product roadmap, collaborated cross teams for
dependent feature releases, did code reviews, and mentored peers.

ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptSentryReact FlowJSON schema+3

Frontend Engineer (SDE 1)

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Took ownership of building our Design System React components library using Storybook.
Wrote code migration scripts using jscodeshift to migrate icon imports across the code base.
Pioneered an automated icons pipeline: SVG icons in Figma → React icon components in codebase,
saving ~10mins for each icon imported. Blog: https://blog.certa.dev/generating-react-icon-components-from-figma
Worked on no-code Studio platform that allows users to build end-to-end workflows in days/weeks instead of months.

ReactStorybookjscodeshiftSVGFigma

Custiv

Frontend Engineer

Apr 2021 – Jun 2021 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

▪ Built React component library and design system using TypeScript, Rollup,
and Storybook.
▪ Developed major features for supplier and customer dashboard utilizing
MobX for state management.
▪ Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions for
deploying Docker containerized microservices and publishing npm library.

TypeScriptRollupStorybookMobXAWS CodePipelineGitHub Actions+1

Major league hacking

Open Source Fellow

Feb 2021 – Apr 2021 · 2 mos · Remote

Contributed to AWS Amplify CLI
https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli
Won Top Open Source Award at Orientation Hackathon & Best Community Building Award at Halfway Hackathon.

AWS AmplifyOpen Source

Classcard

Frontend Developer

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

▪ Built cross-platform mobile app from scratch using Ionic framework with Angular,
TypeScript. Integrated REST APIs, FCM, auth. 10k+ downloads. Integrated push notifications, custom calendar widget, user authentication, attendance check-in, and more.
▪ Migrated large sections of PHP and jQuery code to reusable VueJS
components, increasing time to interact (TTI) performance metric by 82%.
▪ Integrated REST APIs, implemented new features and bug fixes on the web platform, and build custom UI components.
📱 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reportcard.student
📱 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/reportcard-student/id1513617144

IonicAngularTypeScriptREST APIsVueJSFrontend Development