I make things fast, mostly by deleting things.

I am a frontend engineer in Bengaluru, India. I joined ShopTrade as an intern in 2023 and I am now SDE 2 and technical lead, owning frontend architecture across every client platform and leading three engineers.

Almost all of my production experience is commerce and healthcare: regulated, high-consequence storefronts where a slow page costs money directly and an incorrect order costs considerably more than that. Two of the estates I work on sell medical equipment through insurance. That context has made me a more careful engineer than a greenfield product would have — you cannot ship a hopeful guess into a flow that decides whether somebody receives a breast pump.

What I actually enjoy is the unglamorous half of the job. Reading a waterfall. Deleting a script nobody remembers adding. Making an interaction interruptible. Getting a keyboard path right. Most performance work is subtraction, and most of the rest is noticing that something is being done twice.

I use AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot — as daily tools rather than as a novelty, with repo-level standards files so generated code starts from the project's conventions. I also review all of it before commit, because generated code fails differently from human code: it is confidently plausible, and plausible is the hardest thing to catch in review.