Diljeet Kakkar

Led and mentored a 10 member front-end and qa engineering teams, driving ownership, performance, and career growth through regular 1:1s, reviews, and technical coaching. Owned front-end architecture and technical roadmap, ensuring scalability, and maintainability across large-scale web platforms Designed and implemented component libraries and design systems, improving UI consistency and development velocity.

Lead Engineer - Ticketmaster India - Gurgaon

(2019-02)

• Led and mentored a 10 member front-end and qa engineering teams, driving ownership, performance, and career growth through regular 1:1s, reviews, and technical coaching.
• Owned front-end architecture and technical roadmap, ensuring scalability, and maintainability across large-scale web platforms
• Designed and implemented component libraries and design systems, improving UI consistency and development velocity.
• Delivered complex, business-critical features using React and Next.js, ensuring performance, and accessibility best practices.
• Established code quality standards, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines, reducing defects and improving release reliability.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and DevOps to translate requirements into robust technical solutions
• Optimized application performance through SSR, lazy loading, and state management improvements, enhancing user experience.
• Led production issue resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drove agile execution including sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and delivery tracking.
• Evaluated and introduced new tools, frameworks, and best practices to reduce technical debt and improve developer productivity.

Software Engineer - Pure Software Pvt ltd - Gurgaon

(2018-05 - 2019-01)

• Designed, developed, and maintained modern web applications using React.js, JavaScript (ES6+), Redux, Node.js, and responsive UI technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and Bootstrap.
• Built reusable, modular frontend components and architectures to improve maintainability, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborated with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and DevOps teams across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to production deployment.
• Developed and supported cloud-ready applications in AWS-based environments, following Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Authored and maintained technical documentation and internal knowledge bases to support knowledge sharing and faster onboarding.

System Engineer - Infosys Technologies - Bangalore

(2016-01 - 2018-02)

• Web application development using Reactjs, Redux, Flux, Bootstrap, ES6, Javascript.
• Creating microservices using Nodejs/Expressjs/KoaJs
• Building and Deployment of Web applications and Microservices using Jenkins and AWS
• Backend Development using Java and Nodejs.
• Strictly following Agile methodologies like Sprint planning, Retrospective meetings, Backlog grooming etc.