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
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
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
– 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
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
BSc · Information Technology
2022 – 2025
Skills
DockerESLintWebpackBabelTurborepoViteZodRadix UIStorybookWebSocketsREST APIsExpressNode.jsPlaywrightVitestDjangoTailwind CSSTypeScriptNext.jsReact
Languages
English (Professional working proficiency)