Abhishek Chandrasenan

Frontend Lead · AI media · UAE · Remote · in production

• —Took the platform from an empty repository to public beta in four months — 4 generation modes, 20 generation types, onboarding, an asset library, and a creator marketplace. Next.js 16 + React + TypeScript.
• —Built the generation backend: API routes and server actions that submit jobs to AI model providers, background jobs that track status, provider webhooks that store results.
• —Wired Stripe and WorkOS end to end — checkout, credit-granting webhooks, session handling — and social publishing to 11 platforms with OAuth, a content calendar, and a composer.
• —Set up Datadog monitoring, a 4-environment gated release train, and product analytics from scratch: funnels, generation conversion, referrals, ads attribution.
• —Cut explore-page CLS from 0.66 to 0.003, traced an 8.3s LCP to a 14.8MB chunk and defined the fix, mentored 3 engineers, and built the team's AI-assisted dev workflow.

Lead Frontend Engineer · Founding frontend · Fintech

• —Founding team hire. Built and owned the customer, admin, and sales web apps from launch to 50K+ monthly active users, on Django services and Java banking APIs.
• —Led the frontend team — code review, testing, and release standards that cut production incidents by 60% (Sentry).
• —Rebuilt core payment flows: transaction time down 30%, JS bundle down 40%, Lighthouse from 39 to 81.
• —Raised mobile KYC completion from 25% to 85% with funnel analytics and A/B-tested redesigns.
• —Built an 80+ component Storybook design system used across all 3 apps; shipped RBI-aligned payment and KYC flows, fixed VAPT findings, added CSP/CSRF/XSS defenses.