Basit Siddiqui

About

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).

Experience

Education

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