Joseph Chalunkal

Led the front-end development for IBM's Watsonx Orchestrate platform, focusing on building intelligent automation tools such as Agent Builder, Flow Builder, and Connections. Delivered enterprise-grade, scalable UI experiences that empower users to create, orchestrate, and manage AI-powered agents.

Key Responsibilities & Contributions:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture:
  Led a team of frontend engineers to architect and implement modular, performant, and scalable UI components using React, TypeScript, and Carbon Design System.
  Collaborated with UX designers, backend teams, and product managers to ensure seamless user experience and alignment with business goals.
• Flow Builder: Spearheaded the creation of a low-code visual flow editor for orchestrating business processes using drag-and-drop functionality.
  Implemented flow node architecture, real-time canvas interactions, undo/redo capabilities, and conditional logic support.
  Integrated with backend microservices to support execution logic, data mapping, and trigger mechanisms.
• Connections:
  Built UI components for managing third-party integrations (Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc.), allowing users to authenticate, configure, and manage data sources securely.

• Responsible for development, testing and deployment of UI features
• Extensively involved in enhancing the application by identifying the
  opportunities for improvement, making recommendations, designing and implementing systems.
• Improved the performance of application through architectural updates, modularisation, and adoption of cutting-edge practices.
• Acting lead for offshore team of 6, across two cities.
• Reduced the loading time of a micro-app by 50%.
  
  
  

• Contributed as a full-stack developer.
• Participated in complete product cycle from ideation to deployment.
• Revised, Modularised and updated the legacy code.
• Developed highly reusable responsive user interfaces.
  
  
  
  

• Improved system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures.
• Involved in debugging to find out and fix critical issues.
• Developed highly reusable responsive user interfaces using React.js.
• Prepared unit test cases and supported automated test coverage.