Gaurang Kathiriya

About

Frontend engineer/lead who has owned end-to-end architecture for large customer-facing React/Next.js platforms, emphasizing strong API contracts (GraphQL + TypeScript codegen), automated quality guardrails, and performance as a feature. Built complex workflow UIs including a multi-step patient booking flow for New York’s largest healthcare provider and an admin dashboard handling 400,000+ USDA ingredient records, with disciplined state management, staged rollouts, and real-user monitoring.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• End-to-end frontend architecture leadership for large-scale web/mobile platforms
• Feature-based React + Next.js architecture separating platform concerns from business domains
• Strong API contract discipline using GraphQL + schema-driven TypeScript codegen
• Quality at scale via automated guardrails (TypeScript strict mode, linting, CI gates)
• Layered testing strategy (unit + targeted integration tests for critical flows)
• Performance engineering (SSR/CSR tradeoffs, code splitting, performance budgets, RUM, error tracking)
• Refactoring legacy React codebases into modular, domain-focused components with incremental rollout
• Complex workflow UI delivery (multi-step healthcare booking flow) with predictable state modeling
• Large dataset admin dashboard design (400,000+ ingredient records) using server-side search/pagination and Apollo caching
• Cross-functional collaboration with product/design using prototypes and iterative UX refinement
• Scaled consistency across teams through documentation, repo templates, and mentoring domain owners
• Safe fast-paced feature delivery using feature flags, staged rollout, monitoring, and rapid iteration

Reference Highlights

• Highly reliable under deadlines
• Strong ownership
• Leadership on frontend projects
• Delivered ahead of deadline
• Able to debug quickly and efficiently
• High defect throughput (closed a dozen in a sprint)
• Very effective cross-functional collaborator
• Thrives in fast-moving, iterative release environments
• Trusted to lead core consumer-facing frontend development
• Highly skilled frontend developer
• Excellent React and TypeScript skills (10/10)
• Takes ownership of features and code
• Delivers work in the right order / prioritizes effectively
• Sets direction for the team
• Led and delivered a complex booking flow on time
• Created early TypeScript definitions that guided other developers/teams
• Good communicator; expresses himself well
• Flags infeasible or overly time-consuming design requests early
• Proactive in fast-moving, iterative release environments
• Open and easy to work with