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Basit Siddiqui
Senior Frontend Lead specializing in ed-tech platforms and gamified learning
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Frontend lead with ~6 years building edtech platforms (LMS + CMS) using Svelte and React/TypeScript. Manages a 6–7 person team and owns architecture, CI/CD, and production quality practices (error boundaries, crash/downtime alerting). Has hands-on experience improving performance at scale via micro-frontends, lazy loading/code splitting, and virtualization/pagination for heavy UI screens (e.g., Bonzo game platform).
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Key Strengths
- Led end-to-end delivery of an edtech learning management system frontend
- Team leadership (managed 6–7 developers) with ownership of code reviews and architecture consistency
- Scaled quality practices in production (error boundaries, crash/downtime alerting, CI/CD)
- Built complex role-based CMS dashboards in React + TypeScript with Redux state management
- Performance optimization in real-world UI (pagination + virtualization for heavy rendering, loaders for perceived performance)
- Strong collaboration with product/design using Figma and iterative feedback (e.g., payment flow adjustments)
Reference Highlights
- Exceptional professionalism
- Clarity in leadership and communication
- Strategic vision
- Strong ownership of front-end features and architecture
- Strong technical expertise in front-end engineering
- Thoughtful leadership
- Ensures best practices and consistent standards
- Efficient and on-time delivery
- Proactive in driving architecture and decisions
- Guides developers through implementation and reviews
- Strong cross-functional collaborator
- Helps refine requirements and suggests UI/technical improvements
- Effective in fast-moving, iterative environments
- Friendly and easy to work with
- Strong people/team management
- Took full ownership of frontend work
- Reliable feature delivery
- Led efforts individually and within a team
- Strong work ethic (worked 12+ hour days to meet deadlines)
- Hands-on problem solver
- Delivered successful high-impact integration under tight deadline
- Helped drive significant user growth via McDonald's integration (hundreds of thousands of users over a year)
- Experienced in React (5+ years)
- Quick learner
- Maintains code quality and maintainability (keeps new code in check)
- Patient listener with PMs and designers
- Strong cross-functional collaboration; stakeholders generally happy
- Able to deliver on time despite late design inputs
- Proactive/continuous engagement with product manager to unblock work
- Performs well in fast-moving, iterative environments once ramped up
- Grew over time and took on many frontend challenges
- Trusted to lead frontend for a core consumer-facing product
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