Piyush Zingade

Piyush Zingade

Frontend Engineer

Mumbai, India

#OpenToWork

About

Frontend/Product Engineer with 3 years of experience building production-grade SaaS products with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Experienced in frontend architecture, design systems, performance, developer tooling, and cross-functional product development. Creator of Motionwind, an open-source animation compiler with nearly 200 GitHub stars and acceptance into the Mintlify OSS Program.

What I'm looking for

Frontend Engineer

Experience

Chatarmin

Frontend Engineer

Chatarmin

Apr 2026 – Present

– Led a console-wide design system migration, replacing 12 core UI primitives and establishing reusable frontend patterns with Tailwind CSS, reducing UI inconsistencies by nearly 60%. – Designed and optimized production-scale Next.js applications using App Router, Server Components, SSR, ISR, client-side data fetching, and caching strategies to improve rendering performance and frontend scalability. – Optimized rendering performance for large datasets using virtualization, lazy rendering, memoization, and efficient data-fetching patterns, reducing interaction latency by 40% across tables containing over 5,000 rows. – Owned cross-browser compatibility and frontend reliability across the application, resolving 15+ Safari/WebKit rendering and interaction issues in production. – Built internal TypeScript migration tooling using ESLint rules and codemods, increasing typed coverage from 55% to 85% while improving developer experience and frontend maintainability. – Defined reusable component APIs, accessibility standards, and frontend engineering patterns (WCAG 2.1, ARIA, keyboard navigation) adopted across the engineering team. – Mentored frontend engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and implementation guidance, helping establish consistent engineering practices and improve code quality across the team.

Tailwind CSSNext.jsTypeScript
Cityflo

Product Engineer-2 (Frontend Lead)

Cityflo

Jan 2026 – Jul 2026

– Owned production-scale customer-facing booking, search, and dashboard experiences used by thousands of daily commuters, driving frontend architecture and feature delivery from implementation through production launch. – Led the frontend architecture migration from a single-package Vite application to a pnpm + Turborepo monorepo, establishing modular package boundaries, shared tooling, and scalable build infrastructure while reducing CI time by 45%. – Designed frontend architecture and reusable patterns for shared application modules, component libraries, data-fetching flows, and feature development across multiple product surfaces. – Built and maintained a shared component library adopted across multiple product surfaces, establishing reusable UI architecture and engineering standards that improved consistency and reduced duplicate implementation. – Owned the complete booking experience from product requirements to production delivery, collaborating closely with product, design, and backend teams and contributing to a 12% increase in completed bookings. – Implemented backend APIs using Django/DRF alongside frontend features and established frontend testing standards with Vitest and Playwright, improving engineering quality and release confidence.

DjangoVitestPlaywright
Paylix

Frontend Engineer

Paylix

Aug 2024 – Dec 2025

– Partnered directly with founders to drive cross-functional product development, translating product requirements and Figma designs into scalable React and TypeScript applications from concept to production. – Designed and maintained a reusable frontend design system consisting of 40+ production-ready components, design tokens, and interaction patterns, reducing feature delivery time by approximately 30%. – Led frontend performance improvements through bundle optimization, lazy loading, and image optimization, consistently achieving 90+ Lighthouse performance scores across key production user journeys.

ReactTypeScriptLighthouse
Freelance

Frontend Developer

Freelance

Jan 2023 – Aug 2024

– Owned end-to-end delivery of production-ready web applications for founders and startups, covering frontend architecture, responsive UI, performance optimization, deployment, and developer experience.

Frontend ArchitectureResponsive DesignPerformance Optimization

Education

University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

BSc · Information Technology

2022 – 2025

Skills

DockerESLintWebpackBabelTurborepoViteZodRadix UIStorybookWebSocketsREST APIsExpressNode.jsPlaywrightVitestDjangoTailwind CSSTypeScriptNext.jsReact

Languages

English (Professional working proficiency)