Ashwin Kumar

Developed and maintained customer onboarding portal using React 18+, TypeScript, and Material UI for secure interfaces.

• Integrated frontend with multiple external web services for real-time validation of customer identity.
• Led planning and implementation phases for Next.js migration, enhancing server-side rendering performance.
• Collaborated with UX team to translate high-fidelity designs into WCAG-compliant UI components.
• Utilized Storybook to create a design system, accelerating UI development with reusable components.
• Ensured continuous quality delivery through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and rigorous Jest testing.
• Engaged in technical discussions, code reviews, and cross-functional collaboration in an agile setting.
• Developed software applications for payment processing systems, focusing on security and scalability.

• Spearheaded the redevelopment of Volkswagen’s spare parts ordering system, transitioning from legacy
JavaScript + AJAX to a modern React (v17) + Node.js stack.
• Designed and developed customer-facing UIs using React 17 with TypeScript, improving code
maintainability and front-end performance.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to rebuild the application from scratch, focusing on external
automotive clients, such as car dealerships and production units.
• Developed scalable components and handled client-side state management, integrating REST APIs to
ensure seamless parts ordering and inventory visibility.
• Ensured accessibility and responsiveness across devices, adhering to best practices in UI/UX and design
consistency.
• Actively contributed to CI/CD pipeline enhancements, performing unit testing and API mocking during
development phases.
• Worked in an Agile environment with bi-weekly sprints, Jira-based planning, and regular stakeholder
demos.

• Developed high-performance, interactive UIs using React, and TypeScript, with a strong focus on core web
vitals—achieving a 40% improvement in Time to Interactive (TTI).
• Built scalable, reusable components using Storybook, Material-UI, and TailwindCSS, ensuring visual
consistency and faster development cycles.
• Collaborated with UX teams to translate wireframes into responsive and accessibility-compliant (WCAG)
interfaces.
• Integrated frontends with RESTful Spring Boot services, optimizing client-server communication for
minimal latency.
• Utilized AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudFront) and Azure DevOps pipelines to deploy and manage UI services
in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized frontend applications in
a microservices architecture.
• Designed real-time data visualizations and interactive whiteboard elements for Miro’s gaming-style
collaboration workflows.
• Worked with cross-functional teams across the EU in an Agile/Scrum setup, contributing to sprint
planning, code reviews, and CI/CD improvements.