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Chess, volleyball, singing
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Luqman Hakkim Syed
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Luqman Hakkim Syed

Chennai,TN

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Not actively looking

Desired Job Title

Senior Software EngineerMember of Technical StaffMTS-1Senior Staff EngineerStaff Engineer

Work Type

Full Time

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Location: Chennai, TN, India
Open to relocation: Yes

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Company CultureCareer advancementWork-life balance

Summary

Experienced Staff Software Engineer with 10.5+ years of experience building and scaling React-based web applications in high-traffic, enterprise environments. Strong track record in technical leadership, front-end architecture, and mentoring engineers to ship high-quality, user-centric features.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

MTS-1

PayPal
Chennai, TN
02.2025 - Current

Owned frontend architecture for key PayPal web journeys, using React, TypeScript, next and micro frontend patterns using module federations to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient experiences.
Established and enforced best practices around code quality, testing, and performance, including systematic reviews and continuous improvements to the UI stack.
Provided project leadership and hands-on mentoring from juniors to seniors, helping engineers adopt modern tooling, AI-assisted development, and agent-driven debugging to accelerate delivery.
Owned frontend architecture for PayPal’s 3DS experience in unbranded payments, which handles billions of dollars in transaction volume every year for global merchants and partners.

Senior Software Engineer

Hiver
(Remote)
01.2022 - 02.2025
  • Mentoring juniors and grooming them into proper SDEs.
  • Spearheaded multiple high critical projects from scratch end to end and delivering it by leading a team of 3-4 developers.
  • Worked on pretty much everything on frontend A to Z right from lower level to higher architectural changes.
  • Received rookie award for best performance in 2022.
  • Taking care of coordinating end to end with business and product and fostering ideas to working solutions.
  • Documenting every process, writing tech specs for every features, owning modules and doing POC and feasibility for newer ideas and implementations across organization. This includes occasional cross team collaboration and open communications to execute.

Frontend Engineer

Samsung Electronics
Chennai
02.2020 - 01.2022
  • Coded in React to develop features for both mobile and desktop platforms for s20, n20 and various other samsung products that were launched for their US Ecommerce.
  • Maintained and owned entire codebase from end to end which included all the products of samsung for their configurator platform.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new features for web applications.
  • Use regulatory and compliance standards for user interface designs.
  • Worked under payroll company Mobile programming private limited

Member of Technical Staff

Zoho Corporation Private Limited
Chennai
12.2016 - 02.2020
  • Built a backend regression server from scratch
  • Conducted code reviews, fixed bugs and created several modules in react from legacy codes and newer components.
  • Worked on internal Sas product of Zoho to send automated mails and various other features of Zac and Zacweb
  • Developed comprehensive documentation for various projects that facilitated knowledge sharing among teammates.

Education

BE - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Veltech Multitech Dr.RR Dr.SR Engineering College
04.2016

Skills

  • Web Technologies: React, Vue, HTML, CSS, JS, Git , Redux and node
  • Operating systems: Windows, Mac and Ubuntu
  • Architecture: Micro frontends, microservices, scalable frontend architecture, performance optimization
  • Practices: Code quality, AI‑assisted development, agent‑driven debugging, system improvements, industry best practices
  • Leadership: Project leadership, technical mentoring, cross-functional collaboration

Chess, volleyball, singing

  • Have secured bronze in corporate chess tournament for zoho in 2020.
  • Singing is my hobby and will continue to be.
  • I also play volleyball every week, participating in tournament leagues every month for fun, fitness and friendship.

Timeline

MTS-1

PayPal
02.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Hiver
01.2022 - 02.2025

Frontend Engineer

Samsung Electronics
02.2020 - 01.2022

Member of Technical Staff

Zoho Corporation Private Limited
12.2016 - 02.2020

BE - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Veltech Multitech Dr.RR Dr.SR Engineering College
Luqman Hakkim Syed