Vivek Chavan

Frontend Engineer with hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered products from scratch. Built the entire MVP frontend of Metantz (10k+ interviews) as a solo developer, engineered a LinkedIn automation Chrome extension using the Gemini API with ReAct prompting, and designed an email personalization system that improved candidate reply rates by 40%. Strong at transforming complex backend integrations into clean, reliable user workflows using React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

Software Engineer at SproutsAI (2024-10 – Present)

• Built an AI-powered LinkedIn Automation Chrome Extension using React.js, TypeScript, and Vite, enabling end-to-end workflows such as candidate browsing, connection requests, and automated messaging directly from the extension UI.
• Engineered a Gemini API-driven browser agent using ReAct prompting and accessibility tree analysis, with anti-detection mechanisms and failure handling for reliable automated execution.
• Built the entire MVP frontend of Metantz, an AI-powered candidate assessment platform, as a solo developer using Next.js, TypeScript, and Redux Toolkit. Delivered dynamic question rendering, real-time video recording (chunk uploads), chatbot integration, device-permission lobby, and conditional user flows. Platform has supported over 10k+ interviews.
• Designed a configurable email sequencing system with AI-driven personalization that dynamically resolved candidate data into templates, improving reply rates by 40%.
• Built automated candidate reply workflows using intent detection (positive/negative), enabling contextual follow-ups and scheduling flows that reduced recruiter effort by 90%.
• Developed the full email sequencing UI with rich text editing, dynamic previews, bulk operations, and workflow-driven automation configuration.
• Engineered resilient frontend flows for AI integrations, handling API failures, retries, and fallback states to ensure uninterrupted user workflows.

Software Engineer Intern at SproutsAI (2024-07 – 2024-09)

• Built a configurable analytics dashboard from scratch using React.js and Recharts, including dynamic charts and a custom table with pagination and infinite scroll.
• Implemented on-demand data fetching to reduce unnecessary API calls and improve performance.
• Developed candidate listing workflows and implemented RBAC, transforming unstructured backend data into structured UI.

Software Developer Intern at Klaimz (2024-02 – 2024-06)

• Owned over 60% of frontend codebase for a B2B SaaS MVP using Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
• Built analytics dashboards and optimized form handling, reducing API calls by 50%.

B.Tech in Computer Science – CSMSS Chh. Shahu College of Engineering (2020 – 2024)