Frontend Engineer · Bengaluru, India

Building mobile and web products that ship scale delight last .

I'm Animesh — a frontend engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. I care about thoughtful interfaces, performance, accessibility, and the small details that make products feel polished and reliable.

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Selected Work

Live products I've designed, built, and shipped end-to-end.

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Zoca

AI marketing for local businesses

Founding Engineer · Live

An AI-powered platform that brings clients to salons, spas, and wellness businesses on autopilot — client discovery, lead conversion, and retention without dashboards or marketing teams. Trusted by 1,000+ businesses. Foundation backed a successful $6M seed round.

What I shipped

  • Architected the React Native mobile app and Next.js web app from scratch.
  • Built a server-driven UI system that ships dynamic components Over-The-Air — no App Store releases needed.
  • Engineered a Google Calendar–style appointment view with service selection, time-slot management, and integrated checkout.
  • Shipped a drag-and-drop website editor so non-technical merchants can build branded sites end-to-end.
  • Integrated end-to-end Stripe payments with custom Stripe Elements, plus Tap to Pay on iPhone for in-app contactless payments.
  • Authored internal iOS (Swift / Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java) native modules for camera, payments, and platform APIs.
  • Led migration to React Native's New Architecture (Fabric renderer + TurboModules).
  • Built a CI/CD pipeline (Expo Dev Client, EAS Build, Fastlane) that cut manual deploy effort by 90%.
  • Designed a custom design system, reducing UI development time by 40%.
  • Maintained 100% crash-free sessions in production via Sentry, error boundaries, and disciplined releases.
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Stripe
  • Tap to Pay
  • Server-Driven UI
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
App Store ↗ Google Play ↗ Web app ↗
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Chrone

AI-led local marketing

Frontend Lead · Live

A B2B SaaS that helps local merchants rank on Google, win more leads, and earn 5-star reviews through automated marketing. Scaled adoption to 500+ businesses and $1M+ ARR.

What I shipped

  • Led frontend development across the mobile app and merchant dashboard.
  • Built end-to-end OAuth 2.0 integrations with Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for social authentication and content publishing.
  • Developed real-time upload progress tracking with WebSockets, reducing customer support tickets by 30%.
  • Optimized data fetching with intelligent caching strategies (React Query, persisted cache), improving fetch speed by 80%.
  • Shipped an Instagram Stories–style feature using Reanimated and Gesture Handler, boosting in-app engagement by 50%.
  • React Native
  • OAuth 2.0
  • WebSocket
  • React Query
  • Reanimated
App Store ↗
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Side Projects

Things I make on the weekend — shipped solo, end-to-end.

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Grovely

Puzzle your day

Solo · Live on iOS

A polished daily-play puzzle app — Jigsaw, Sudoku, Sliding Tile, and Memory Match in one experience. Built and shipped solo, end-to-end: design, native modules, backend, store listing.

What I built

  • Designed and built four distinct puzzle engines sharing a single level system, XP, and three-star scoring.
  • Implemented a daily challenge with streak tracking and reset logic, plus a progressive level map.
  • Built an offline-first architecture with cloud backup, so progress follows the player across devices.
  • Crafted the full polish layer — haptics, sound, dark/light mode, custom avatars, and full-screen scene photography.
  • Shipped to the App Store solo, including store assets, screenshots, and review flow.
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Reanimated
  • Cloud Sync
  • Offline-first
App Store ↗
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Experience

A short timeline of the teams I've built with.

  1. Dec 2023 — Present Bengaluru

    Founding Frontend Engineer

    Zoca

    Architected the React Native mobile app and Next.js web app from scratch. Built server-driven UI for OTA component shipping, end-to-end Stripe and Tap to Pay payments, OAuth flows, and a drag-and-drop website editor. Led the migration to React Native's New Architecture (Fabric / TurboModules) and maintained 100% crash-free sessions in production.

  2. Aug 2023 — Nov 2023 Kolkata

    Software Developer

    MPS Info Services

    Delivered 8 mobile and web applications for tax and wedding-management platforms. Cut backend API latency by 50% with frontend caching and optimized fetch logic. Engineered multi-role dashboards with real-time insights and role-based access.

  3. Jan 2023 — Jun 2023 Bengaluru

    Support Engineer Intern

    Amazon India

    Automated deployment pipelines for internal tools, improving CI efficiency 10x and cutting build time from 12 minutes to under 6. Authored onboarding documentation and earned a full-time return offer.

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Skills & Tooling

What I reach for to ship reliable products.

Languages & Frameworks

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React Native
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express

State & Data

  • Redux Toolkit
  • React Query
  • Zustand
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • WebSocket
  • MMKV

Mobile & Native

  • Fabric / TurboModules
  • Expo / EAS
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Tap to Pay
  • OTA Updates
  • Push Notifications
  • Deep Linking

Backend & Cloud

  • Firebase
  • Supabase
  • OAuth 2.0
  • Stripe API
  • SQL
  • Server-Driven UI

Testing & Quality

  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Detox
  • Sentry
  • a11y
  • i18n

DevOps & Tools

  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Fastlane
  • Webpack
  • Vite
  • Figma
  • Linux
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Let's build something.

Open to roles and interesting collaborations.

mondalarup808@gmail.com LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗