Abhinav Pandey

Abhinav is a self-driven, passionate, and ambidextrous Principal Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience, specializing in frontend architecture, DevOps, and building high-performance, accessible applications. At Amazon AWS, he optimized a data-heavy landing page, reducing load times by 20%. He created migration guidelines for updating the UI framework, coordinating a year-long effort with 30 developers and 1000+ files, all without customer impact. Abhinav conducted an A11Y audit, fixing accessibility issues and making the console more inclusive. He also enhanced the release process by refining flaky test cases and adding git hooks to prevent deprecated component usage. At Autodesk, he architected a public-facing React MFE for Autodesk.com, serving 500k+ users daily. He migrated deployments from Jenkins to AWS CDK with GitHub Actions, enabling faster iterations and zero-click releases. Abhinav developed a RAG app using Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search, allowing customers to query 17M+ knowledge base articles with responses in under 100ms. He led the overhaul of the E2E testing framework across multiple apps, replacing legacy tests with Playwright and integrating them into CI/CD to catch bugs early. At Walmart, he led a team of 10+ engineers across India and the US to build a React Native app for Sam’s Club fulfillment. He redesigned the push notification module, reducing failures from 60% to 1%, and added enhanced metrics and logging for faster issue resolution. Abhinav championed TDD practices, leading to smaller release cycles and higher test coverage, and built an operations dashboard for real-time store performance monitoring. At GE Power, he built a cost-saving React app aimed at reducing operating expenses by $500M, led a team of contractors for feature development, and automated deployments with Jenkins. Previously, at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, he developed a crisis communication platform with Rails and Twilio APIs, set up MySQL replication, and created interactive D3.js charts for KPI tracking. Abhinav has worked with global clients as a freelance developer, turning ideas into products. He’s skilled in React, TypeScript, NodeJS, NextJS, Python, AWS CDK, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with a passion for building scalable, accessible, and high-performing applications.