I’m Kajal Patel, a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise applications. I specialize in React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, and I have a strong track record delivering scalable frontend architectures and cloud infrastructure. My work spans designing robust UI frameworks, implementing secure authentication, and shaping end-to-end solutions that empower product teams. I thrive in collaborative settings with product, design, and engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and solving complex problems with a bias for action and a focus on quality. I enjoy driving impact through architecture, code quality, and efficient delivery while fostering inclusive teamwork and knowledge sharing.

Kajal Patel

I’m Kajal Patel, a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise applications. I specialize in React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, and I have a strong track record delivering scalable frontend architectures and cloud infrastructure. My work spans designing robust UI frameworks, implementing secure authentication, and shaping end-to-end solutions that empower product teams. I thrive in collaborative settings with product, design, and engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and solving complex problems with a bias for action and a focus on quality. I enjoy driving impact through architecture, code quality, and efficient delivery while fostering inclusive teamwork and knowledge sharing.

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I’m Kajal Patel, a Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience building large-scale enterprise applications. I specialize in React, Next.js, Node.js and TypeScript, and I have a strong track record delivering scalable frontend architectures and cloud infrastructure. My work spans designing robust UI frameworks, implementing secure authentication, and shaping end-to-end solutions that empower product teams.

I thrive in collaborative settings with product, design, and engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and solving complex problems with a bias for action and a focus on quality. I enjoy driving impact through architecture, code quality, and efficient delivery while fostering inclusive teamwork and knowledge sharing.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Frontend Developer at FCT (First Canadian Title)
May 1, 2025 - Present
Built foundational end-to-end infrastructure, partnering with product owners, design and cross-functional teams to deliver React.js, Node.js, GraphQL and TypeScript solutions that reduced underwriting processing time from 2 hours to 5 minutes. Engineered shared UI components and authentication libraries adopted across 4+ enterprise applications, establishing a scalable foundation and eliminating code duplication for consistent user experiences and secure authentication. Accelerated feature delivery by 30% by establishing spec-driven AI development workflows with MCP and GitHub Copilot, producing production-ready code, documentation, and automated tests with >95% unit and E2E test coverage. Implemented observability, analytics, and feature flag capabilities that enabled data-informed decisions, solving production issues faster and controlled feature rollouts.
Senior Software Engineer at GE Vernova
January 1, 2022 - May 1, 2025
Designed frontend architecture for customer-facing energy platforms using React, Redux and TypeScript, supporting products contributing to $20M+ in revenue. Improved applications’ performance by 10x in data-heavy energy dashboards through virtualization, lazy loading, memoization, and caching strategies, achieving sub-2-second load times. Solved CI/CD capacity issues during a GitLab-to-GitHub migration by introducing self-hosted runners, unblocking development for 50+ engineers. Introduced macOS development environment with onboarding standards that reduced setup time from 3 weeks to 3 days for new engineers.
Software Engineer at GE Vernova
April 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Built geospatial network for complex energy datasets using React, Redux, and TypeScript, enabling real-time analysis of grid data supporting 30K nodes. Enhanced large-scale data visualization efficiency by 20% through optimized WebGL-based rendering strategies, improved state management techniques and efficient client-side data processing. Developed results comparison system enabling side-by-side cost and risk evaluation graphs using Recharts, collaborating with Product and Design to balance technical complexity and customer experience.
Full Stack Engineer at SBE Canada
July 1, 2018 - March 1, 2020
Modernized legacy desktop applications into web applications supporting repair intake, parts ordering, refurbishment workflows, and operational reporting. Owned full-stack development using React, Node.js, and MySQL, delivering technician performance tracking, device registration, and repair management solutions used across service center operations. Integrated manufacturer, Google Vision, UPS, and Purolator APIs while migrating core services to microservices, improving system reliability and automating key operational workflows.
Junior Web Developer at Excellent Web World
January 1, 2016 - February 1, 2017
Developed user-centric interfaces for 150+ applications across e-commerce (B2B and B2C), education, directory, real estate, medical, and social networking, marketing and job portals, ensuring alignment with customer goals while collaborating in a small team.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Gujarat Technological University
July 1, 2010 - June 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet