Hello ! I'm Vikram Rao
Senior Frontend Engineer (Full-Stack)
InfoOpen to opportunities
Rostock, Germany
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Years of Experience
About Me
Hi, I’m Vikram. I’m a Senior Frontend Developer with over seven years of experience across a San Francisco startup, US federal government contracting, and SaaS and GovTech projects in Germany. This range has given me a strong understanding of how to build and scale products across very different environments.
My core focus is frontend development with React, TypeScript, and Next.js, but my background in Computer Engineering and Electronics allows me to operate as a generalist. I’m comfortable moving across backend, databases, and DevOps when the problem requires it.
A central thread in my work is machine learning and AI. I started with image recognition early in my career and now build AI-assisted development workflows and extend component systems so LLM-based agents can generate, understand, and work with code autonomously.
I approach problems divergently and often avoid the obvious path, especially when things are ambiguous. I find a way forward and carry ideas through to execution.
Outside of work, you’ll find me behind a camera, on my bike, on a dance floor, or exploring somewhere new in the world.
Work Experience
Frontend Developer
publicplan GmbH
Full Time - Remote
Düsseldorf, Germany
11/2023 – Present
2 years 5 months
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Tech Stack
InfoTypeScriptInfoReactInfoNext.jsInfoViteInfoStorybookInfoMaterial UIInfoJestInfoDockerInfoGitHub CopilotInfoOpenAIInfoCypressInfoGitLabInfoGitHubInfonpmInfoExpress JS
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Key Responsibilities
- Designed and deployed full-stack microservices, enhancing scalability and functionality across multiple customer projects.
- Developed and shipped a Next.js citizen-facing care-services search portal end-to-end — bootstrapping the project infrastructure, building core UI components, implementing static pages, and iteratively delivering responsive, accessible layouts across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Built a full-stack internal employee skills & competency platform from scratch with an AI-assisted development workflow to enforce consistency and accelerate delivery across the codebase.
- Built and shipped a production React component library from scratch (kern-components), delivering 20+ accessible, WCAG-compliant UI components with full keyboard navigation and ARIA support — and extended it with AI-agent integration, enabling LLM-based tools to discover, introspect, and generate code using the library via structured Storybook metadata, and agent skill boilerplates.
- Developed and implemented a secure mailbox platform for a client project, integrating the BundID authentication system to enable the secure transmission of confidential messages to citizens within a document workflow platform.
07/2021 – 09/2023
2 years 2 months
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Tech Stack
InfoNext.jsInfoJavaScriptInfoReactInfoMaterial UIInfoReduxInfoJestInfoGitHubInfonpm
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Key Responsibilities
- Developed frontend features to control and configure proprietary in-house hardware boxes that record and analyze WiFi/network packets in real time, serving ISP clients across their network infrastructure.
- Engineered a high-performance network packet visualization feature as the sole frontend developer — processing 100,000+ network packets using Web Workers to offload computation from the main thread, chunking data for progressive rendering, and implementing zoom-optimized D3.js graphing with performance tuning to maintain smooth interactivity at scale.
- Led a full framework upgrade across the codebase — running codemods, migrating deprecated APIs, and modernizing the frontend architecture to improve long-term maintainability and security.
- Integrated i18n localization, making the platform available in English and German for international ISP clients.
- Expanded frontend test coverage using Jest, React Testing Library, and MSW, ensuring stability across critical network control workflows.
03/2020 – 07/2021
1 year 4 months
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Tech Stack
InfoReactInfoReduxInfoJavaScriptInfoAWSInfoDockerInfoGitHubInfonpmInfoGraphQL
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Key Responsibilities
- Redesigned and modernized the UI/UX of Monitor, an inventory management dashboard used by health department officials in Nigeria to track and manage medicine supply chains across the country.
- Led the data entry workflow redesign end-to-end — simplifying complex inventory processes for non-technical users operating in a resource-constrained environment.
- Developed and shipped new features iteratively, working closely with stakeholders to ensure the platform met the practical realities of public health inventory management.
- Improved software reliability by integrating Capybara e2e tests, systematically reducing UI-related regressions across critical tracking workflows.
07/2018 – 10/2019
1 year 3 months
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Tech Stack
InfoReactInfoReduxInfoJavaScriptInfoAWSInfoFirebaseInfoSwiftInfoAndroidInfoPythonInfoC++InfoMySQLInfoGitLab
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Key Responsibilities
- Built a cross-platform mobile app (iOS & Android) for Yu-Gi-Oh! collectors to digitize and manage their card inventories using React Native — leading the design process and contributing across the full stack.
- Designed and implemented a custom image recognition algorithm using OpenCV to automatically detect, classify, and catalog physical Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in real time via the device camera — replacing a fully manual inventory process.
- Architected an offline-first local data sync system — building pipelines to transform and export the main database into SQLite, download it onto devices, and writing wrapper layers to abstract local data fetching for seamless offline access.
- Automated data extraction and image processing pipelines to identify card metadata from camera input, significantly reducing the time needed to onboard a collection.
Skills
Frontend Development
Backend Development
Architecture & Design
Tools, DevOps & Workflow
Education
B.Sc.
Electronics & Communication Engineering
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, TN, India
View Degree07/2012 – 06/2016