Namit Yadav

Selected work

How I work

Decide in writing

Architecture decisions go in an ADR with the rejected alternatives and the consequences, reviewed before code moves. The record is what lets fifteen engineers in four pods disagree once and then ship the same way.

Ship dark, roll out per customer

Large changes land on the main branch behind a flag and go live one organisation at a time, with the legacy path as the fallback. Rollback is a config change, not a release.

Put the gate ahead of the deploy

Lint, unit tests and visual regression run on every pipeline, not after an incident. Reported bugs fell 30% once the gates were in.

Migrate once, not per app

When six apps share one library, upgrading them in a single coordinated move beats six partial ones: the library targets one set of peer versions and nobody maintains two.

Write down what went wrong

Every case study here ends with what I would do differently. The estimate I got wrong and the test I added late are the most useful part of the record.

Experience

1. Technical Lead – Frontend · Zinier

   Bengaluru · Jul 2024 – present

   • Functional lead for a 15-engineer frontend org across four pods. Mentor 7 engineers through structured 1:1s and career planning; contribute to frontend hiring.
   • Led the migration of 6 apps from React 17 to 18 and Node 14 to 22 in one coordinated move; Snyk vulnerabilities 734 → 215. Case study → (https://namityadav.github.io/work/react-18-migration/)
   • Built the feature-flag and experimentation layer in the shared component library. Every pod ships on it, rolling out per customer organisation with automatic fallback. Case study → (https://namityadav.github.io/work/feature-flags/)
   • Authored the ADR consolidating data grids onto one @tanstack/react-table implementation; 45+ grids migrated so far. Case study → (https://namityadav.github.io/work/data-grid-consolidation/)
   • Put lint, unit-test, CSS-lint and visual-regression gates (Storybook, Playwright) on every deployment pipeline; reported bugs fell 30%. Built a Slack bot tracking PR review quality.

2. Senior Frontend Engineer · Forto

   Berlin · Dec 2020 – Jun 2024

   • Owned frontend delivery end to end for the Process & Workflows team, one of six cross-functional teams building Forto's Transport Management System.
   • Built the team's micro-frontend with Webpack Module Federation; the team moved from synced releases to daily deploys, 2–3× the frequency. Case study → (https://namityadav.github.io/work/module-federation/)
   • Built the document-generation component for shipping paperwork (House Bill of Lading and related freight documents) via pdfgeneratorapi — legally operative documents where a data error delays a shipment.
   • Introduced end-to-end testing with Cypress; contributed reusable components to the centralised design system used by all six teams; mentored junior engineers and ran onboarding.

3. Frontend Engineer · Hevo

   Bengaluru · Dec 2019 – Oct 2020

   • Engineered the frontend for a high-scale data integration platform, maintaining >90% code coverage through TDD.
   • Partnered with backend and QA to architect end-to-end features from conception to production.

4. Technical Lead – Frontend · Empyra

   Bengaluru · Nov 2017 – Dec 2019

   • Promoted from Senior Frontend Engineer. Led a team of five engineers delivering the Cynaptx Career Services portal.
   • Drove the departmental shift from class components to React Hooks, improving reusability and team velocity.

5. Frontend Developer · Appunfold

   Bengaluru · Mar 2017 – Nov 2017

   • Built the front end for Appunfold (now UserIQ), a mobile customer-experience platform.

6. Senior Systems Engineer · Infosys

   Bengaluru · Jul 2014 – Mar 2017

   • Built a bank loan-origination application (Java, Ext JS) for Goldman Sachs and engineered securities data queries in SecDb.

Skills

Technical leadership

ADRs · Technical strategy · Mentorship · Hiring · RCA · Progressive delivery

Core frontend

TypeScript · React · Node · CSS Modules · Webpack

State & architecture

Redux · MobX · React Context · Micro-frontends · Module Federation

Testing & quality

Jest · React Testing Library · Cypress · Playwright · Visual regression · TDD

Delivery & infrastructure

CI/CD quality gates · Feature flags (Firebase Remote Config) · Performance optimisation

AI-assisted development

Codemods · Agent-assisted migrations and refactors

B.Tech (CSE), Inderprastha Engineering College, Ghaziabad · 2010 – 2014 · English, Hindi