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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 2024Present
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 2024Oct 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 2022May 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 2019Jan 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 2017May 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 2015Feb 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 2014Jul 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 2013Sep 2014
Geant Online·UAE

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

Team Lead & Web Developer

May 2011Sep 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

20062010

India