Kartik Jha
Professional Summary
Software developer with 5 years of experience in full-stack development, specializing in React, Node.js, TypeScript, and AI integration. Proven track record in building scalable educational platforms and delivering high-impact products with modern development practices.
Work Experiences
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Synchronized efforts between Product, Design, and QA teams to align technical roadmaps and ensure the seamless execution of large-scale projects, hitting all major KPIs.
- Led an engineering team to deliver product enhancements, resulting in measurable efficiency gains across internal and client-facing platforms.
- Built the ecosystem from the ground up, encompassing the Evaluation Engine and Field-Implementation suite.
- Developed a unified FLN data hub that consolidated workflows and automated reporting, providing critical pedagogical insights used to inform nationwide, government-led strategies for addressing FLN challenges in India.
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- Synchronized multiple departments to achieve 100% KPI hit rate on all major product launches in the current cycle.
- Architected a nationwide FLN data pipeline used for informing government educational strategies across India.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Modernized Legacy infrastructures into scalable Node.js, TypeScript, and NextJS solutions, achieving a 73% increase in API performance while maintaining 100% backward compatibility.
- Refactored backend services for high-traffic educational tools, reducing system latency by 60% through optimized query execution and atomic transaction handling.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
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- Achieved 73% increase in API performance through strategic modernization of legacy Node.js infrastructure.
- Reduced overall system latency by 60% by refactoring core educational tools for high-traffic workflows.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Directed the technical strategy for high-performance interactive web applications, ensuring seamless project delivery.
- Engineered math-intensive GLSL shaders and optimized WebGL pipelines to maximize rendering performance.
- Collaborated with design and content teams to translate creative concepts into actionable technical roadmaps.
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- Optimized complex WebGL rendering pipelines to achieve elite-tier performance.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Led the transition to a modern tech stack, achieving performance increase and a drastic reduction in legacy technical debt.
- Developed a robust React WebGL framework utilizing Three.js and React Three Fiber, ensuring cross-browser compatibility.
- Created an internal Design Library for standardizing UI components, accelerating frontend delivery time.
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- Established an internal Design Library that standardized UI components and significantly reduced frontend delivery time across projects.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Developed and maintained internal web applications and business tools, automating manual processes to enhance productivity.
- Contributed to the modernization of legacy systems and UI/UX enhancements with a focus on front-end performance.
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- Automated multiple manual business processes via internal tools, resulting in measurable team productivity gains.
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- Specialized in designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and secure AI integrations for various contexts.
Independent Projects
Skills & Outcomes
Product Ownership
Owning the end-to-end delivery of high-impact educational tools by aligning data-driven insights with product strategy. Includes Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) expertise.
Strategic Leadership
Presenting technical milestones and project outcomes to senior leadership, influencing strategic business decisions. Bridging the gap between rigid engineering standards and fluid, user-centric educational design.
AI Engineering
Specialized in designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Expertise in building secure, schema-driven AI integrations for educational contexts.
Full-stack Engineering
Expertise in the core React stack (React Router, TanStack Query, Zustand, NextJS) and building scalable applications with strict TypeScript patterns.
Back-end Engineering
Designing robust, type-safe, modular systems using Node.js and TypeScript. Implementing patterns like Domain-Driven Design and optimizing performant SQL/NoSQL databases.
Front-end Engineering
Proficient in building accessible, high-performance design systems using Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, and atomic component patterns.
Domain Expertise
Ed-tech
In-depth understanding of the educational ecosystem and the synthesis of pedagogy with technology.
Leadership
Technical Mentorship
Proven expertise in mentoring high-performance teams and establishing rigorous technical standards.
Stakeholder Management
Ability to bridge technical complexity and business goals to drive executive-level decision-making.
Technologies
frontend
backend
databases
ai
Tools
Education
Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur
B.E. Electronics
Self Taught Programmer