Frontend engineer · 13+ years of experience

Hello, I'm Asif.

I'm a frontend engineer building systems for complex products.

Currently a Senior Staff Software Engineer at FourKites, working on design systems, frontend architecture, and product interfaces for logistics software.

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Kolkata, India

01 / ABOUT ME

About the work.

I build product interfaces and the shared tools that make them easier to develop.

That has included app marketplaces, developer portals, component libraries, design systems, and data-heavy dashboards. Some of it is visible to customers; much of it gives other teams a reliable place to start.

I've worked with React, Vue, Svelte, and web components. I tend to focus on clear interfaces, accessible behavior, and the practical details of shipping and maintaining them.

02 / EXPERIENCE

From products to platforms.

My path from building interfaces to setting frontend direction and creating foundations other teams can build on.

Sep 2024 — Present

FourKites

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Setting frontend direction for enterprise logistics products through shared UI architecture and AI-assisted development tools.

Established the Elemental Design System (EDS) as a shared UI foundation across FourKites products.
Defined modular frontend architecture for a large monorepo and data-heavy product dashboards.
Made EDS knowledge available to AI-assisted UI workflows through an MCP server and Claude plugins with focused skills.
Built Catalyst, a generative UI library for composing interfaces dynamically from reusable parts.

Aug 2023 — Sep 2024

Mesh.ai

Principal Software Engineer · Frontend

Led frontend work for a performance management product during a broader product experience refresh.

Led a team of five frontend engineers and partnered with design and product to guide the refresh.
Built and maintained Rabbit, the flexible component library behind the product design system.

Apr 2018 — Aug 2023

Freshworks

Staff Engineer · Frontend

Senior Software Engineer (2018–20) → Lead Software Engineer (2020–22) → Staff Engineer (2022–23)

Grew from senior to staff engineer while building the frontend foundations of the Marketplace and Developer Platform.

Unified the public Marketplace and in-product app gallery on one codebase for a catalog of more than 1,200 apps.
Created Crayons, an open-source web component library that gives Freshworks app developers a shared UI foundation.
Built developer-facing experiences across the portal, website, and tools for creating and publishing apps.
Shipped a 40 KB Svelte widget for in-product app discovery and contributed to testing, accessibility, and delivery tooling.

Public work

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Component libraryCrayons Open-source UI components for Freshworks app developers.(opens in a new tab)Developer websiteDeveloper Platform Documentation and entry points for building and publishing apps.(opens in a new tab)App catalogMarketplace Public catalog and in-product discovery from a shared codebase.(opens in a new tab)

Apr 2016 — Apr 2018

Cognizant

Programmer Analyst

Delivered client-facing web interfaces and hybrid mobile apps, and built Angular-based DevOps tools with distributed teams.

Oct 2013 — Apr 2016

Hexaware Technologies

Software Engineer

Maintained an enterprise platform for building and deploying Cordova and PhoneGap apps. Built internal apps on that platform, including a ticket approval flow for managers.

03 / WRITING