Pune, India

Rohit Jain

I lead frontend teams and still hold the architecture. Fifteen years of it.

Engineering Manager · Principal Frontend Engineer

63%faster page loads

The end-to-end re-architecture I led at HivePro cut page load time by roughly 63% across a live threat-exposure platform — and took Core Web Vitals, accessibility and developer velocity up with it.

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About

Engineering Manager and principal-level frontend engineer, 15+ years building large customer-facing platforms across SaaS, cybersecurity and enterprise.

I lead a cross-geography team of seven at HivePro — hiring, performance, roadmap — while staying hands-on with the architecture. Previously Viasat and seven years at Cisco.

AI-first in practice, not in pitch: LLMs in the product and in the engineering workflow, plus a production media pipeline I designed and operate myself.

Two tracks

Led

What I'm accountable for when the work is other people's.

  • A team of seven, three time zones

    Hiring, performance reviews, career conversations and roadmap planning for a cross-geography frontend team — plus the culture work that makes any of it stick.

  • AI adoption across the engineering workflow

    Introduced coding assistants and automation into development, testing and documentation. Measurable gains in developer productivity and onboarding speed, not a pilot that quietly died.

  • Release quality as a system, not a rule

    Code-review standards, CI/CD pipelines and frontend testing practice (Jest, React Testing Library) that cut regression rates rather than just adding process.

  • The escalation point

    High-risk changes and production incidents come to me, and the post-incident review is mine to run. Partnering across backend, product and security to balance performance, security and delivery.

Built

What I'm still personally responsible for in the codebase.

  • A 63% cut in page load time

    End-to-end re-architecture of a React platform at scale. State management, code-splitting and bundle optimisation strategies that also made the thing maintainable.

  • Monorepo and micro-frontend architecture

    At Viasat — independent team ownership, faster onboarding, and deployments that could go out decoupled and roll back safely.

  • Legacy migration at Cisco scale

    Seven years moving Backbone and Marionette applications onto React, and driving TypeScript and shared component libraries across teams for type safety and consistency.

  • A production AI media pipeline

    Gemini, ElevenLabs and Remotion orchestrated in n8n on Docker with Cloudflare R2 — scheduled, multi-language, and hardened against the failure modes that only show up in production.

Selected work

Automated AI media pipeline

Personal · production system

An end-to-end content pipeline that embeds LLMs directly in the product: Gemini for scripting and quality scoring, ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, Remotion for programmatic rendering, orchestrated in n8n on Docker with Cloudflare R2 storage.

The interesting part isn't the generation — it's the cost governance, the fail-closed content gates, and the batch resilience that stops one bad item aborting a run. Taking AI from prototype to a dependable scheduled system is mostly engineering, not prompting.

Gemini · ElevenLabs · Remotion · n8n · Node.js · Cloudflare R2

Proxmox home lab

Infrastructure

A multi-VM Proxmox lab running my own services — photo library, finance tooling, APIs, an AI agent gateway — exposed to the internet through Cloudflare Tunnels with no ports open.

Running your own infrastructure is the cheapest way to keep operational instincts sharp. I've had an OOM cascade take the whole box down and had to read the journal to find it. That experience transfers directly to the day job.

Proxmox · Docker · Cloudflare Tunnels · Linux · pm2

EquiSplit

Product · web + Android

A Splitwise-style expense-sharing platform with web and Android clients on Node.js and MongoDB — push notifications, async event handling, and conflict-resolution logic.

Built to stay consistent when the network isn't. Most of the real work was in reconciling state after a client had been offline, which is where naive sync designs fall apart.

Node.js · MongoDB · React · Android

Experience

  1. 2023 — Present

    Engineering Manager — Frontend

    HivePro Inc. · Cybersecurity · Threat Exposure Management · Remote / Pune

  2. 2021 — 2023

    Senior Software Engineer

    Viasat Inc. · Global satellite communications · Carlsbad, CA

  3. 2015 — 2021

    UI Engineer / Senior Frontend Developer

    Zensar Technologies · Deployed at Cisco Systems · San Jose, CA

  4. 2014

    Senior Software Engineer

    Mastek Services Ltd · UK Government projects · Pune

  5. 2012 — 2014

    Senior Software Engineer

    InfoBeans Systems · Full-stack delivery · Indore

  6. 2010 — 2012

    Senior Web Developer

    Indore Labs · Client applications · Indore

  7. 2006 — 2010

    Bachelor of Engineering

    Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV)

Skills

Leadership
Team management · Hiring · Performance reviews · Technical strategy · Roadmapping · Agile / Scrum · Stakeholder alignment
AI
LLM integration (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI) · Coding assistants · Prompt engineering · Workflow automation (n8n) · AI reliability & cost governance
Frontend
React · TypeScript · Next.js · Redux Toolkit / Saga · Angular · Micro-frontends · Design systems · Jest / RTL · Core Web Vitals · WCAG
Backend
Node.js · Express · REST · GraphQL · Java REST services · WebSockets · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis
Platform
AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront) · Docker · CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Proxmox · Linux · Observability
Architecture
Micro-frontends · Monorepo (Nx, Turborepo) · Microservices · Event-driven · Distributed systems · System design