Akhil Kasaraneni
Summary
Staff Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience leading frontend architecture, building scalable UI platforms, and improving performance across enterprise applications. Specialized in React, Node.js, and design systems. Delivered org-wide initiatives including a unified UI library used by 10+ apps, 30–200% performance improvements, and tooling used by 100+ engineers
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
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Bengaluru
08.2020 - Current
- Led a team of five engineers driving front-end architectural decisions, code quality standards, and reusable UI patterns across applications.
- Designed and delivered a unified React library adopted by 10+ applications, including shared UI components and standardized authentication flows, eliminating duplicated UI implementations across products.
- Centralized customer-specific deployments into a unified hosting platform, cutting deployment overhead, and eliminating CORS issues.
- Modularized internal applications into reusable packages, increasing code reuse.
- Architected and maintained a shared Webpack-based build system adopted organization-wide, standardizing development workflows, improving build reliability across all applications.
- Scaled and optimized the Cohort Visualizer analytics platform, cutting the frontend bundle size by approximately 30% through code-splitting, tree-shaking, lazy loading, and library-level optimizations.
- Built a high-throughput Cache Gateway for backend APIs, improving user load times from 6 to 7 seconds to approximately 2 to 3 seconds, and reducing backend load significantly.
- Developed a centralized documentation platform (Node.js, MongoDB, Redis), supporting dynamic MDX-based content for Product, Docs, and Engineering.
- Architected an MDX authoring pipeline with extensible custom components—code blocks, math rendering, environment selectors, and more—providing rich, interactive documentation consistently embedded across all UIs via a shared iframe system.
- Built a real-time announcements and release-notes system using WebSockets, and introduced a unified in-app 'nHelp' widget for documentation and updates, enhanced with customer, environment, and feature-level targeting to give Product fine-grained control over tooltips, documentation sections, and announcements.
- Modernized the internal remote desktop UI by migrating to React, removing legacy vulnerabilities, and improving maintainability.
- Built a Chrome extension that automates remote desktop navigation, reducing workflow time from approximately 2 minutes to 3 to 5 seconds.
- Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated versioning, testing, and publishing, improving release reliability and reducing manual effort.
Education
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology
Hyderabad08.2020
Skills
- Reactjs
- JavaScript (ES6)
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Nodejs
- Expressjs
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Nginx
- Webpack
Timeline
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08.2020 - Current
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology