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Abdulkhader Muhammadkunhi

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About

Building at the intersection of engineering and design

I'm a Lead Software Engineer with more than 15 years of experience architecting and delivering high-performance, resilient web applications across enterprise and consumer-scale environments. Holding a BTech in Electronics & Communication Engineering, I bring an engineering-first mindset to frontend architecture — treating client-side systems with the same rigour for reliability, latency, and fault tolerance traditionally reserved for backend and embedded systems.

15+

Years of Experience

Experience

Where I’ve built things

Lead Software Engineer – Frontend

Oct 2024 — Present
Stealth Startup·UAE

Contributing to a proprietary, enterprise-grade, mission-critical application under NDA. While specific product details remain confidential, the scope of the role centers on frontend systems where reliability and real-time accuracy are non-negotiable.

ReactTypeScriptArcGIS Maps SDKWebSocketsSSEOptimistic UILLM StreamingSpeech-to-TextText-to-SpeechCSP / XSSNext.jsVitest

Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

May 2024 — Oct 2024
LocAI Ltd (Acquired by ai71)·UAE

Full-stack engineer building an AI-powered platform for legal advisory services — a domain where accuracy, traceability, and data sensitivity carry direct professional and legal consequences.

ReactNode.jsLLM StreamingSpeech-to-TextPII RedactionFull StackNext.js

Chapter Lead & Principal Frontend Engineer

Jan 2022 — May 2024
Floward·UAE

As Chapter Lead, set the technical vision, coding standards, WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines, and career growth frameworks for a chapter of frontend engineers spanning multiple product squads — combining hands-on architectural leadership with people development.

ReactNext.jsDesign SystemsPWAOptimistic UIMicro FrontendsJestCypressCI/CDWCAG 2.1Vite

Senior Frontend Engineer

Jun 2019 — Jan 2022
Eyewa·UAE

Designed and delivered a responsive, accessible, high-performance frontend for a fast-growing e-commerce platform serving millions of users across MENA.

ReactGraphQLOptimistic UIJestReact Testing LibraryCore Web VitalsHeadless CMS

Lead Frontend Engineer

Mar 2017 — May 2019
Sun & Sand Sports LLC·UAE

Directed a team of frontend engineers across concurrent projects for one of the region's leading sports retailers, defining architecture, coding standards, and Magento 2 frontend theming strategy.

Magento 2WebpackCI/CDAccessibilityTeam Leadership

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Aug 2015 — Feb 2017
Aperto Middle East FZE·UAE

Owned full-cycle development across PHP, Node.js, and modern JavaScript for enterprise-scale client web applications, working directly with clients to gather requirements and translate them into robust, maintainable technical specifications.

PHPNode.jsREST APIsSystem ArchitectureMentorship

Senior Web Developer

Oct 2014 — Jul 2015
Webmedia7 FZE LLC·UAE

Part of the earlier full-stack and web-fundamentals chapter of my career, building e-commerce and client web experiences.

eCommerce Web Developer

Feb 2013 — Sep 2014
Geant Online·UAE

Built e-commerce web experiences during the foundational, full-stack phase of my career.

Team Lead & Web Developer

May 2011 — Sep 2012
SRV Infotech·India

Early team leadership and web development role that laid the foundation of my full-stack and web fundamentals, later maturing into a specialisation in frontend architecture, performance, and resilient systems design.

Skills

Tools of the trade

Expert Proficient Familiar

PWA & Resilient Architecture

Progressive Web AppsService WorkersWeb App ManifestOffline-First ArchitectureBackground SyncCache-First / Network-FirstIndexedDBConnectivity-Resilient State

Real-Time & Event-Driven Systems

WebSocketsServer-Sent Events (SSE)Event-Driven ArchitectureLow-Latency State SyncHigh-Frequency UI Updates

Geospatial & Data Visualisation

ArcGIS Maps SDKMap-Driven InterfacesGeospatial Visualisation (GIS)D3.jsRechartsMission-Control UI

AI & LLM Integration

LLM-Powered UIStreaming AI InterfacesAnthropic Claude SDKOpenAI SDKVercel AI SDKAI Agents & Tool UseSpeech-to-Text / TTS

Frontend Core

ReactNext.js (SSR / SSG)TypeScriptJavaScript (ES2023+)ReduxZustandContext APIVue.jsAngularRemixReact Native / ExpoTailwind CSS

Backend Development

Node.jsExpressBunPHP / LaravelPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisVPS / Caddy / PM2

APIs & Integration

REST APIsGraphQLAPI Contract Design

Security & Quality

XSS PreventionJWT / OAuthContent Security PolicyWCAG 2.1 Accessibility

Testing & Observability

JestReact Testing LibraryCypressPlaywrightVitestVisual Regression TestingLighthouse AuditingCore Web VitalsIncident RCA

Design Systems & Workflow UI

Design System ArchitectureComponent LibrariesVisual Workflow DesignersDrag-and-Drop UIFigma

DevOps & Tooling

Git / GitHub / GitLabCI/CD PipelinesDockerKubernetesAWSTurborepo / LernaWebpack

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedis

Education

Academic foundation

BTech in Electronics & Communication Engineering

AWH Engineering College

2006 — 2010

India