Career
Work Experience
8 years across early-stage startups — usually as the first or second frontend engineer, building the architecture the product would live with for years.
- Engineering LeadOct 2023 — present
- Leading a team of 8 frontend engineers — setting technical direction, running sprint planning, and mentoring engineers across skill levels.
- Architected a shared component system adopted across 3 product teams, cutting new feature development time by ~35%.
- Introduced structured agile practices that improved sprint predictability from 60% to 90%+ on-time delivery.
- Senior Software EngineerJan 2023 — Sep 2023
- Led frontend development for analytics and accessibility features across a large-scale retail SaaS platform serving thousands of dealerships.
- Coordinated across product, data, and backend teams to ship a major dashboard redesign in under 6 weeks.
- Drove accessibility improvements that brought key user flows into WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
- Software EngineerJun 2021 — Jan 2023
- Founding team member. Built the core customer-facing banking web app from zero — transaction flows, payments, onboarding, and cross-platform consistency.
- Proposed and implemented performance improvements that cut LCP on the payments flow from 4.2s → 1.9s.
- Owned the full frontend stack: architecture decisions, component library, CI setup, and code review standards.
- Software Engineer IIJan 2020 — Jun 2021
- First and only frontend hire. Architected and built the in-house product and marketing web presence single-handedly using Angular and React.
- Collaborated with designers to build and document an internal design system from scratch — later used as the foundation for all product work.
- Ensured cross-browser and mobile compatibility across all surfaces.
- Software EngineerFeb 2018 — Dec 2019
- Led the migration from AngularJS to React, unblocking the product roadmap and enabling faster feature delivery for 2+ years.
- Refactored and redesigned core user-facing components, improving UX consistency and reducing technical debt.
- Contributed to the team's internal design system and established frontend coding standards adopted company-wide.
Consulting & Freelance
Alongside full-time roles I have advised and consulted early-stage startups on frontend architecture, tooling, and team setup.
Interested in working together or want a second opinion on your frontend architecture?
divyanshukumar.work@gmail.com