Staff Frontend Engineer · Bangalore, India
Building web products that are fast, scalable, and dependable.
I'm Zeel — a frontend engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable web and mobile applications, leading engineering teams, and driving projects from conception to deployment.
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Experience
2014 — presentStaff Frontend Engineer · Lightup Data
Sole frontend architect for the platform — built the Energy design system (48 components), redesigned the monitor page end to end, and shipped the LLM management surface (full CRUD). Led a full modernization to React 19, Ant Design v6, and Vite with route-level code splitting and RTK Query, cutting initial-load payload by 45%.
Mobile Engineer (Part-time) · Toast
Built features for the Toast mobile app and shipped an iOS app in React Native, taking it through App Store review to release.
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend · Tekion
Led CRM module development end to end — planning, scrum facilitation, and cross-functional coordination. Built the CRM Reports module from scratch, contributed to the Template Builder in React, and shipped mobile features across 1.5+ years of React Native work.
Software Engineer 2, Frontend · Swiggy
Built the Swiggy Super landing page with server-side rendering on Express.js; developed and maintained web features in React and TypeScript following TDD practices.
Member of Technical Staff · Qubole
Integrated Google Cloud support into Qubole's data platform using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
Product Engineer, Frontend · Sprinklr
Migrated the publishing module from a Backbone MVC architecture to React, maintaining the legacy stack through the transition.
Software Developer, Full Stack · Aspiring Minds
Designed a normalized question-bank database in MySQL and built internal tooling with PHP and Python.
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Selected Projects
Phone-number OTP verification for a mobile app: three Firebase Functions handle OTP generation and validation, with SMS delivery via Twilio and a UI built in Expo on Firebase Auth.
A Reddit-style forum where users create topics, posts, and comments — GitHub sign-in with NextAuth, UI in Headless UI, data layer with Prisma on the Next.js framework.
Built as part of Stephen Grider's Udemy course — a hands-on exploration of Next.js concepts: routing, server components, caching, and deployment on Vercel.