Rohit Jain

Engineering Manager and principal-level frontend engineer with 15+ years architecting, scaling and modernising large customer-facing platforms across SaaS, cybersecurity and enterprise. Leads a cross-geography team of seven while owning the architecture hands-on. AI-first in practice: LLMs in the product, in the engineering workflow, and in a production media pipeline built and operated end to end.

1. Engineering Manager — Frontend — HivePro Inc.

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Cybersecurity · Threat Exposure Management · Remote / Pune, India

   • Lead, mentor and grow a team of 7 engineers across three time zones — hiring, performance reviews, career growth and roadmap planning.
   • Led an end-to-end re-architecture that cut page load time by ~63% and lifted Core Web Vitals, accessibility and developer velocity with it.
   • Drove AI adoption across the engineering workflow — coding assistants and automation in development, testing and documentation, with measurable onboarding gains.
   • Established code-review standards, CI/CD pipelines and frontend testing practice (Jest, React Testing Library) that cut regression rates.
   • Escalation point for high-risk changes and production incidents; own the post-incident review.

2. Senior Software Engineer — Viasat Inc.

   Dec 2021 — Jun 2023

   Global satellite communications · Carlsbad, CA, USA

   • Designed customer-facing web applications with React, Node.js and GraphQL for a large SaaS-style platform.
   • Implemented monorepo and micro-frontend architecture, enabling independent team ownership and decoupled, safely reversible deployments.
   • Contributed to AWS deployments (EC2, S3, CloudFront) and CI/CD, focused on rollback safety and observability.

3. UI Engineer / Senior Frontend Developer — Zensar Technologies

   Feb 2015 — Dec 2021

   Deployed at Cisco Systems · San Jose, CA, USA

   • Delivered large-scale customer-facing and internal enterprise applications in React, Angular, Backbone.js and Marionette.js.
   • Led modernisation of legacy Backbone/Marionette applications onto React, reducing technical debt and improving performance.
   • Drove adoption of TypeScript and shared component libraries across teams for type safety and UI consistency.

4. Senior Software Engineer — Mastek Services Ltd

   Jul 2014 — Dec 2014

   UK Government projects · Pune, India

   • Built greenfield applications for UK Government projects, partnering on REST API design, compliance and accessibility.

5. Senior Software Engineer — InfoBeans Systems

   Jun 2012 — Jun 2014

   Full-stack delivery · Indore, India

   • Worked across frontend and backend — database modelling, Java REST APIs and UI development; mentored junior engineers.

6. Senior Web Developer — Indore Labs

   Jun 2010 — Jun 2012

   Client applications · Indore, India

   • Delivered client applications in Java/Struts — schema design, backend APIs and unit testing.

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

• Automated AI media pipeline thepulsenews.in

  Production content pipeline — Gemini for scripting and quality scoring, ElevenLabs for voice, Remotion for programmatic rendering, orchestrated in n8n on Docker with Cloudflare R2. Scheduled, multi-language, with fail-closed content gates and batch resilience.

• Proxmox home lab mylocalcloud.in

  Multi-VM Proxmox lab running self-hosted services, exposed through Cloudflare Tunnels with no open ports. Designed, built and operated solo.

• EquiSplit equisplit.mylocalcloud.in

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