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Abdulkhader Muhammadkunhi

Lead Software Engineer

Summary

Lead Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience architecting and delivering high-performance, resilient web applications across enterprise and consumer-scale environments. Core specialisation sits at the intersection of PWA engineering for connectivity-challenged environments, real-time event-driven systems built on WebSockets and SSE, geospatial and map-driven interfaces, and optimistic UI patterns. In recent years, focus has expanded to AI-powered interfaces — streaming LLM experiences, speech-to-text/text-to-speech pipelines, and the API contracts connecting model inference to interactive UI.


Experience

Lead Software Engineer – Frontend · Stealth Startup
Oct 2024 – Present · UAE

Contributing to a proprietary, enterprise-grade, mission-critical application under NDA — details intentionally limited.

  • Building Optimistic UI patterns with robust conflict resolution, ensuring operators always see a responsive interface while maintaining eventual consistency with backend state
  • Architecting responsive, real-time frontend experiences powered by the ArcGIS Maps SDK, enabling live geospatial data visualisation with continuous, WebSocket-driven updates — no page reload required
  • Building end-to-end AI interfaces — streaming LLM responses, speech-to-text input, and text-to-speech output — delivering a voice-capable AI assistant within a complex, high-stakes data application
  • Designing the client-side layer of an event-driven architecture using WebSockets and SSE, ensuring low-latency state synchronisation between real-time data feeds and the UI
  • Owning frontend security posture — enforcing XSS prevention, secure token handling, and Content Security Policy standards throughout the application
React · TypeScript · ArcGIS Maps SDK · WebSockets · SSE · Optimistic UI · LLM Streaming · Speech-to-Text

Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack · LocAI Ltd (Acquired by ai71)
May 2024 – Oct 2024 · 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.

  • Built end-to-end AI interfaces spanning streaming LLM responses, speech-to-text input, automated document drafting, and PII redaction
  • Combined generative AI capability with the compliance-grade safeguards that legal-tech applications demand
React · Node.js · LLM Streaming · Speech-to-Text · PII Redaction

Chapter Lead & Principal Frontend Engineer · Floward
Jan 2022 – May 2024 · UAE

Led a chapter of frontend engineers across multiple product squads; set technical vision, coding standards, WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines, and career growth frameworks.

  • Architected a multi-brand design system and component library adopted across every product surface — reducing UI delivery time by ~40%
  • Implemented PWA capabilities (service worker caching, offline fallback pages, installability) improving resilience for MENA users in low-connectivity environments
  • Introduced Optimistic UI patterns for core checkout flows, reducing perceived latency and strengthening conversion confidence
  • Leveraged Next.js for SSR/SSG across marketing and product pages, driving Lighthouse scores above 90 through code-splitting, lazy loading, and Core Web Vitals auditing
  • Established a CI/CD-driven testing culture with automated Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress suites
  • Implemented a Micro Frontend Architecture, establishing clear domain ownership across Checkout, My Account, and Catalog
React · Next.js · Design Systems · PWA · Optimistic UI · Micro Frontends · Jest · Cypress · WCAG 2.1

Senior Frontend Engineer · Eyewa
Jun 2019 – Jan 2022 · UAE

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

  • Introduced GraphQL at the frontend layer, co-designing schemas with backend teams — eliminating over-fetching and improving page load times by 30%
  • Engineered a custom visual workflow builder — a headless CMS with drag-and-drop page composition — for non-technical stakeholders
  • Implemented Optimistic UI updates for cart and wishlist interactions while maintaining strict backend data consistency
  • Built automated visual regression and unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library; introduced Core Web Vitals monitoring in production
React · GraphQL · Optimistic UI · Jest · React Testing Library · Headless CMS

Lead Frontend Engineer · Sun & Sand Sports LLC
Mar 2017 – May 2019 · 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.

  • Spearheaded a full e-commerce frontend re-platform, improving conversion rate and reducing bounce rate through performance-driven, UX-focused engineering
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and Webpack-based build automation, cutting deployment times by 50%
  • Enforced accessibility, frontend security, and cross-browser compatibility standards across all delivered interfaces
Magento 2 · Webpack · CI/CD · Accessibility

Senior Full Stack Engineer · Aperto Middle East FZE
Aug 2015 – Feb 2017 · UAE

Owned full-cycle development across PHP, Node.js, and modern JavaScript for enterprise-scale client web applications.

  • Led RESTful API design, system architecture decisions, and database modelling across multiple concurrent client projects
  • Mentored junior developers and enforced high coding standards through structured code reviews
PHP · Node.js · REST APIs · System Architecture

Earlier Experience

  • Senior Web Developer · Webmedia7 FZE LLC — Oct 2014 – Jul 2015 · UAE
  • eCommerce Web Developer · Geant Online — Feb 2013 – Sep 2014 · UAE
  • Team Lead & Web Developer · SRV Infotech — May 2011 – Sep 2012 · INDIA

Skills

PWA & Resilient Architecture Progressive Web Apps · Service Workers · Web App Manifest · Offline-First Architecture · Background Sync · IndexedDB
Real-Time & Event-Driven Systems WebSockets · Server-Sent Events (SSE) · Event-Driven Architecture · Low-Latency State Sync
Geospatial & Data Visualisation ArcGIS Maps SDK · Map-Driven Interfaces · D3.js · Recharts · Mission-Control UI
AI & LLM Integration Anthropic Claude SDK · OpenAI SDK · Vercel AI SDK · AI Agents & Tool Use · Speech-to-Text / TTS
Frontend Core React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript (ES2023+) · Redux · Zustand · Vue.js · React Native / Expo
Backend Development Node.js · Express · Bun · PHP / Laravel · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis
Security & Quality XSS Prevention · JWT / OAuth · Content Security Policy · WCAG 2.1 Accessibility
Testing & Observability Jest · React Testing Library · Cypress · Playwright · Vitest · Lighthouse · Core Web Vitals
Design Systems & Workflow UI Design System Architecture · Component Libraries · Drag-and-Drop UI · Figma
DevOps & Tooling Git / GitHub / GitLab · CI/CD Pipelines · Docker · AWS · Turborepo · Webpack

Education

BTech · Electronics & Communication Engineering · AWH Engineering College
2006 – 2010 · India

Interests

Travel · Photography · Reading · Cricket