Jagadish Thamada
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
Innovative Frontend Engineer with 12+ years of experience building large-scale, consumer-facing web applications using Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js within microservices and SaaS architectures. Adept at translating customer insights into
intuitive, high-performance UI solutions and driving architecture
decisions that improve scalability, security, and visual consistency
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineer - American Airlines
American Airlines
Phoenix, AZ
01.2025 - Current
- Architected and evolved cloud-native, TypeScript-based application architectures spanning frontend and backend systems, enabling scalable, event-driven workflows across distributed microservices.
- Designed API-first platforms using TypeScript and Node.js, defining REST and GraphQL contracts, schema versioning strategies, and integration patterns to support high-throughput, asynchronous communication between services.
- Collaborated on event-driven system design leveraging message streaming platforms contributing to decisions around partitioning, consumer group patterns, retry strategies, and schema evolution for resilient data pipelines.
- Defined frontend and service-integration architecture aligned with microservices and cloud messaging systems, ensuring reliable event propagation, idempotent processing, and graceful failure handling.
- Established caching strategies across application layers (in-memory, Redis-style distributed caches, and API-level caching) to reduce latency, minimize redundant processing, and improve system throughput.
- Led performance-driven UI and API optimizations using memoization, virtualization, lazy loading, efficient query patterns, and payload minimization—driving up to a 40% improvement in Time to Interactive (TTI), and measurable API response gains.
- Built and governed a reusable, accessibility-first design system using TypeScript, React, and TailwindCSS, embedding WCAG 2.1 and ARIA best practices while accelerating development across multiple teams.
Lead Engineer - ExponentialAI
ExponentialAI
06.2024 - 12.2025
- Shaped and scaled cloud-native application ecosystems using TypeScript across UI and backend layers, enabling loosely coupled, highly scalable systems built on event-driven principles.
- Established API-centric system design with Node.js and TypeScript, defining robust REST and GraphQL interfaces, backward-compatible schema evolution, and asynchronous integration patterns for distributed services.
- Contributed to the architecture of streaming-based systems by influencing partitioning strategies, consumer coordination models, retry semantics, and contract evolution to ensure durable and fault-tolerant data flows.
- Orchestrated frontend and service-to-service interaction models aligned with microservice and messaging architectures, emphasizing idempotency, reliability, and resilience under partial failure conditions.
- Drove full-stack performance analysis by profiling compute utilization, async execution paths, memory behavior, rendering pipelines, and network overhead to uncover systemic inefficiencies.
- Delivered significant UX and API performance gains through advanced optimization techniques including component virtualization, intelligent caching, deferred loading, optimized query design, and payload reduction—resulting in up to 40% faster Time to Interactive and improved API latency.
Systems Analyst - Ivy Comptech
Ivy Comptech
03.2023 - 06.2024
- Built and evolved highly responsive, user-centric web interfaces using modern web standards and Angular, delivering up to 35% faster page load performance across key user flows.
- Enhanced large-scale Content Management System capabilities by optimizing data access patterns and feature workflows, significantly reducing content retrieval latency and improving editor experience.
- Designed and supported cloud-ready, horizontally scalable application infrastructure leveraging sharding, intelligent partitioning, and load-balancing strategies within AWS environments.
- Worked closely with Product, Platform, Backend, and DevOps teams to map system dependencies, establish clear integration contracts, and deliver complex features with measurable business impact.
- Strengthened delivery reliability by embedding automated quality gates, build validation, and test enforcement into CI/CD pipelines—accelerating releases while minimizing production regressions.
- Achieved 50%+ frontend performance gains by restructuring Angular applications with route-based code splitting, lazy-loaded modules, and a highly modular, maintainable architecture.
Senior Software Engineer - ServiceNow
ServiceNow
07.2022 - 01.2023
- Contributed to the design and evolution of large-scale SaaS platforms, applying system design principles to translate product requirements into scalable, resilient technical solutions.
- Deployed, operated, and scaled cloud-based services across multiple environments, including leading the introduction of a Store application integrated into the ServiceNow ecosystem.
- Played a key role in shaping platform capabilities by driving feature initiatives that significantly influenced module behavior and long-term product direction.
- Acted as a primary technical liaison for customer-facing environments, diagnosing production issues, coordinating fixes, and ensuring minimal disruption for enterprise clients.
Systems Analyst
Ivy Comptech
11.2020 - 07.2022
- Partnered with cross-functional teams (Product, Backend, DevOps) to identify interdependencies, define integration points, and deliver high-impact application features.
- Integrated automated build validation and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment errors and accelerating release cycles.
- Improved frontend performance by over 50% through the use of lazy loading, route-level code splitting, and a modular Angular architecture.
- Developed and consumed RESTful APIs within a Kafka-based microservices ecosystem, enabling real-time, scalable, and efficient data exchange with Angular clients.
- Led end-to-end development of a multimodal services platform, architecting Angular as the core UI layer to support real-time client interaction across multiple channels.
- Built and maintained a CMS-driven configuration platform, integrating third-party libraries and custom plugins for dynamic feature toggling and runtime configuration.
- Architected and delivered scalable Angular applications using RxJS-based state management, improving maintainability, reducing side effects, and simplifying unit testing.
Senior Software Engineer
Triad Software Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 10.2020
- Developed web application from scratch, encompassing both frontend and backend components.
- Designed UI with HTML5 and CSS3, incorporating animations and React framework functionalities.
- Migrated application components from jQuery to React to enhance performance.
- Handled server-side requests, ensuring efficient data management and retrieval using Mongoose.
- Published common library to NPM registry for wider accessibility.
- Created CAD application web interface, implementing PWA features using Angular.
- Gathered business requirements from clients to inform development process.
- Executed testing and deployed code in local test environment efficiently.
- Development of the web application from scratch.
- UI design using html, css and functionality implementation.
- Worked on clariti ,a workplace messaging app which uses Angular.
- Used Node.js to handle server side requests using Express framework and MongoDB for database.
- Integrated ensuite cloud to clariti to collaborate open any cad files have experience to handle server side requests and exposure to backend.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU
India06-2013
Skills
- JavaScript and TypeScript programming
- React, Node
- Redux toolkit and Ngrx state managementkit for State management
- HTML5 and CSS3
- Bootstrap and Tailwind components
- React Query
- Azure and Aws
- Kafka, Redis, Streams
- Express server
- Mongodb and Postgres
- AWS and Azure cloud services
- CI/CD with Jenkins automation
- Github, Bitbucket and Gitlab
- Prometheus , ELK stack
- GIT and other version control management
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Engineer - American Airlines
American Airlines
01.2025 - Current
Lead Engineer - ExponentialAI
ExponentialAI
06.2024 - 12.2025
Systems Analyst - Ivy Comptech
Ivy Comptech
03.2023 - 06.2024
Senior Software Engineer - ServiceNow
ServiceNow
07.2022 - 01.2023
Systems Analyst
Ivy Comptech
11.2020 - 07.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Triad Software Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 10.2020
Bachelor of Technology -
JNTU