Arikumar Raji

Accomplished and forward-thinking Staff Software Engineer and Front-End Architect with over 15 years of professional experience designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise-scale SaaS platforms. Demonstrated success driving technical leadership and long-term product evolution across diverse public and private sector domains, including Municipal Governance, Healthcare, Recruitment, and Global E-Commerce. Highly specialized in Angular architecture, multi-tenant cloud-native systems, advanced UI engineering, and deep performance optimization.

A pioneer in AI-augmented engineering workflows, leveraging agentic AI framework architectures, custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and automated code review pipelines to exponentially accelerate delivery, enforce robust code health, and deliver measurable business value.

Staff Software Engineer at Framsikt AS (2017-03 – 2026-05)

Serve as the technical spearhead and UI architect for Framsikt's premier multi-tenant SaaS platform, utilized extensively by Norwegian municipalities for budgeting, financial planning, complex reporting, and regulatory document production.

• Enterprise Architectural Evolution: Spearheading the strategic multi-year migration and modernization of the core web application (Budget.web) from legacy AngularJS architecture to Angular 20, successfully eliminating severe technical debt and dramatically enhancing platform scalability.
• Documentation & Governance: Authoring and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation using C4 modeling structures and infrastructure deployment diagrams; established Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to standardize technical governance.
• Component Libraries & System Design: Engineered a highly performant, accessible, and reusable Angular component library layered on top of Kendo UI, establishing consistent design-system standards and cutting feature development cycles across distributed engineering squads by 35%.
• Security Hardening & Advanced Integration: Successfully integrated CKEditor 5 for real-time collaborative multi-user editing, configuring rigorous client/server-side sanitization pipelines via DOMPurify to guarantee comprehensive OWASP Top 10 web security compliance.
• UI Optimization & Performance Engineering: Orchestrated massive client-side performance enhancements across data-dense grids and financial charts utilizing advanced lazy loading, DOM virtualization, explicit On Push change detection strategies, and strict bundle-budget tuning, reducing immediate page load times by 40%.
• Full-Stack & CI/CD Synergy: Actively contribute across the full technical stack, engineering robust backend RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core, provisioning cloud infrastructure in Azure, and constructing optimized CI/CD workflows within Azure DevOps.
• AI-Augmented Engineering Leadership: Formulated and executed the company's AI-assisted development roadmap, integrating GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and CodeRabbit automated code reviews, resulting in a 25% boost in team development velocity and a marked reduction in post-release defects.

Senior UI Developer at Harman Connected Services (2013-04 – 2017-02)

Client: Framsikt AS. Highcharts Migration & Analytics Architecture: Led a business-critical project managing the migration, localization, and performance optimization of global Highcharts configurations across the enterprise data analytics engine, enabling responsive rendering of thousands of complex municipal data rows.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Functioned as the primary front-end technical liaison, collaborating closely with product owners, stakeholders, and overseas engineering leads (Martin, Rudi, Silje) in Norway to refine technical requirements and map intuitive user journeys.
• Responsive Web Design (RWD): Redesigned legacy responsive modules utilizing Bootstrap 5 and advanced SCSS/LESS preprocessors, ensuring flawless device cross-compatibility and accessible layout compliance across public sector user bases.

UI Developer / Senior UI Developer at Harman Connected Services (2013-04 – 2015-12)

Software Engineer at Photon Infotech (2010-01 – 2013-12)

Master of Computer Applications in MCA – Anna University, Coimbatore (2010)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Periyar University, Salem (2007)