Sagar Vaghela

Sagar Vaghela

Senior Frontend Engineer
India
Gujarati, English, Hindi
Full-time On-site

About Me

Driven Senior Product Engineer with 10+ years building and scaling enterprise web platforms, leading cross-functional teams to 3–4x performance gains and ~$18K annual savings through architectural optimisation, performan…

Experience

Senior Product Engineer (Advisory System Analyst, Band 7B)

IBM · Pune, India
May 2021 - Present · 5 years 6 months

<p>Engineered frontend architecture for 10K+ enterprise financial platform users, improving load time by 30% through Next.js SSR, code splitting, and lazy loading.</p><p> Reduced production defects by 35% within 12 months by introducing strict TypeScript typing, 100% unit test coverage, and automated error tracking.</p><p> Architected a reusable UI component library across 18 product teams, accelerating feature development velocity by 40% and reducing design-to-production time from 10 weeks to 8 days.</p><p> Designed and engineered a Generative AI and Agentic AI-powered workflow automation platform using Claude and OpenAI APIs, orchestrating autonomous, multi-step workflows across 81 manual processes, reducing analyst workload by 50% and recovering $45K in annual engineering time.</p><p> Developed Agentic AI workflows with LLM-driven reasoning, tool integration, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop validation to automate complex enterprise processes and improve operational efficiency.</p><p> Improved LLM response accuracy by 35–45% through systematic prompt engineering, context optimisation, structured prompting, and token optimisation, while reducing monthly AI infrastructure spend by 25–30% ($3K monthly savings).</p><p> Managed an API integration platform, reducing integration delays by 50% through API simulation tools and contract-first design, enabling 3 development teams to work in parallel and accelerating time-to-market by 3 months.</p><p> Led and mentored 3–4 direct reports and 2+ matrix engineers, establishing code review standards, architectural decision frameworks, and career development programs, improving delivery efficiency by 25% and retention by 30%.</p><p> Accelerated CI/CD pipelines by 30% through GitHub Actions optimisation, test parallelisation, and deployment automation, reducing time-to-production from 3 hours to 6 minutes for critical patches.</p><p> Conducted 40+ technical interviews and established a scalable engineering hiring process, contributing to 8 successful hires and strengthening engineering excellence standards across IBM organisations.</p>

Senior Software Engineer

IVL Global Inc. · Pune, India
Mar 2019 - May 2021 · 2 years 2 months

<p>Developed a full-stack internal HR technology platform for Avaya Inc. to efficiently manage employee profiles, technical skills, competencies, and workforce data.</p><p> Built responsive and scalable user interfaces using React.js, AngularJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, and CSS3.</p><p> Developed interactive data visualisations using D3.js to provide meaningful insights into employee skills and organisational capabilities.</p><p> Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and reusable UI components.</p><p> Led frontend development activities, delegated tasks, performed code reviews, and supported team members to ensure high-quality and timely delivery.</p><p> Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, estimation, requirement analysis, and project delivery.</p><p> Applied Git-based version control, coding standards, and software engineering best practices to maintain a scalable and maintainable codebase.</p>

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Neosoft Technologies · Pune, India
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019 · 8 months

<p>Developed and maintained scalable web and mobile applications using React.js, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS, and Ruby on Rails across multiple client projects.</p><p> Built cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, delivering reusable components and consistent user experiences across iOS and Android platforms.</p><p> Contributed to the development of a gaming application, implementing interactive user experiences, application logic, and performance-focused frontend components.</p><p> Developed features for Picstagraph, a social media application, including interactive user experiences, content-driven workflows, and responsive application interfaces.</p><p> Engineered multi-site management capabilities using React.js, enabling scalable management of multiple web properties through reusable frontend architecture.</p><p> Implemented interactive, location-based mapping features using Leaflet.js and integrated REST APIs to support dynamic geospatial functionality.</p><p> Rapidly adopted AngularJS and React Native to contribute across web and mobile projects, demonstrating adaptability across multiple frontend technology stacks.</p><p> Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams using Agile development practices, Git-based version control, code reviews, and AWS cloud services.</p>

Software Developer

Narola Infotech · Surat, India
Jan 2017 - May 2018 · 1 year 3 months

<p>Maintained and enhanced the Grabhouse web platform (Ruby on Rails, Yii2), cutting production defects by ~30% and improving overall application stability.</p><p> Managed database migrations and schema updates to support reliable releases and evolving business requirements with near-zero release rollbacks.</p><p> Developed responsive frontend features in React.js, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 to improve usability and engagement across key flows.</p><p> Built and maintained a WordPress-based mass-media and marketing platform used by internal teams for campaign launches and content distribution.</p><p> Supported Heroku-based deployment and production environments, reducing incident resolution time by ~25% through close collaboration with cross-functional teams.</p>

Skills

React.js Next.js TypeScript JavaScript Redux React Query Micro Frontends Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Single Page Applications (SPA) Performance Optimisation Component Architecture Design Systems Node.js Express.js RESTful APIs GraphQL WebSockets Microservices MongoDB PostgreSQL Prisma ORM Redis SQL NoSQL Databases Claude API OpenAI API Prompt Engineering System Prompt Design Token Optimisation AI Workflow Automation AI Agents AI-Powered UX AWS S3 EC2 Lambda CloudFront Azure CI/CD Pipelines GitHub Actions Jenkins Docker Nginx Sentry New Relic Logging Feature Flags Technical Architecture System Design Frontend Architecture
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