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I'm a product-focused Software Engineer with 3+ years building and shipping user-facing web experiences end-to-end, from design partnerships through implementation, rollout, and monitoring. I thrive on solving complex problems, delivering robust, performant features, and collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams to drive measurable business impact. I excel in performance optimization, accessibility, instrumentation, automated testing, production monitoring, and reducing technical debt through refactors and code reviews. I enjoy integrating REST APIs, aligning with stakeholders on priorities, and raising quality through automated testing and CI. I’m comfortable working across the full stack and with multiple client engagements to ship production-grade experiences.…I'm a product-focused Software Engineer with 3+ years building and shipping user-facing web experiences end-to-end, from design partnerships through implementation, rollout, and monitoring. I thrive on solving complex problems, delivering robust, performant features, and collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams to drive measurable business impact. I excel in performance optimization, accessibility, instrumentation, automated testing, production monitoring, and reducing technical debt through refactors and code reviews. I enjoy integrating REST APIs, aligning with stakeholders on priorities, and raising quality through automated testing and CI. I’m comfortable working across the full stack and with multiple client engagements to ship production-grade experiences.

Kiran Kumaravel Pillai

Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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I'm a product-focused Software Engineer with 3+ years building and shipping user-facing web experiences end-to-end, from design partnerships through implementation, rollout, and monitoring. I thrive on solving complex problems, delivering robust, performant features, and collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams to drive measurable business impact. I excel in performance optimization, accessibility, instrumentation, automated testing, production monitoring, and reducing technical debt through refactors and code reviews. I enjoy integrating REST APIs, aligning with stakeholders on priorities, and raising quality through automated testing and CI. I’m comfortable working across the full stack and with multiple client engagements to ship production-grade experiences.…I'm a product-focused Software Engineer with 3+ years building and shipping user-facing web experiences end-to-end, from design partnerships through implementation, rollout, and monitoring. I thrive on solving complex problems, delivering robust, performant features, and collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams to drive measurable business impact. I excel in performance optimization, accessibility, instrumentation, automated testing, production monitoring, and reducing technical debt through refactors and code reviews. I enjoy integrating REST APIs, aligning with stakeholders on priorities, and raising quality through automated testing and CI. I’m comfortable working across the full stack and with multiple client engagements to ship production-grade experiences.

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I’m a product-focused Software Engineer with 3+ years building and shipping user-facing web experiences end-to-end, from design partnerships through implementation, rollout, and monitoring. I thrive on solving complex problems, delivering robust, performant features, and collaborating with product, design, and analytics teams to drive measurable business impact.

I excel in performance optimization, accessibility, instrumentation, automated testing, production monitoring, and reducing technical debt through refactors and code reviews. I enjoy integrating REST APIs, aligning with stakeholders on priorities, and raising quality through automated testing and CI. I’m comfortable working across the full stack and with multiple client engagements to ship production-grade experiences.

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Work Experience

Software Developer at Good Growth

March 1, 2025 - Present

Built and shipped ecommerce modules using React (Vite) and TypeScript, integrating REST APIs and analytics tracking; owned the build, test, release process and production monitoring. Led the Waitrose Cellar PDP rebuild, redesigning a responsive Product Description Page with AI-generated product details and tracking, increasing time on page by 30%. Delivered features including personalized recommendations (event-driven logic + API integration) and Wickes homepage rebuild with Add-to-Cart from Search, coordinating with analytics and leadership to meet deadlines. Implemented Playwright-based E2E regression coverage with Checkly monitoring across PDP components, scheduling checks every 4 hours to detect breakages. Supported the team with peer debugging and onboarding for the Wickes client; led refactors migrating from Redux to Redux Toolkit. Achievements include production-grade demos that helped win new enterprise clients (Vodafone inline contract-cost calculator; Costco “Shop where you

Specialist Programmer at Infosys

May 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023

Built client-facing web and Java applications, including a React SPA for dataset tracking and a legacy Java application supporting semiconductor defect scanning systems. Developed a React SPA to track datasets with real-time status visibility across enterprise data assets. Modernized a legacy Java application (KLA Voyager 1055, Puma 9600); migrated RDMA scripts/workflows and refactored Java code to support updates. Improved UI performance by optimizing component rendering and reducing load times. Strengthened quality with Jest test coverage and regression checks, resolving 50+ bugs and handling 25+ critical customer escalations for Samsung and Hitachi, sustaining high client satisfaction.

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions

September 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022

Contributed to an end-to-end web application using the MERN stack, ensuring scalability and high performance. Developed and optimized Express.js REST APIs with async/await and middleware/routing improvements to reduce response times and latency. Implemented React navigation with React Router and enhanced code quality through code reviews and peer programming.