Kashif Muhammad

Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+ years building production React/TypeScript platforms for fintech, govtech, and high-volume SaaS, specializing in LLM integration and AI-powered workflows (OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude, Ollama, RAG pipelines). Currently leading a 6-engineer team at Elastic Email on a platform processing 2B+ emails/month. Comfortable owning architecture end to end sprint planning, code review, CI/CD, and release, in fully remote, cross-timezone teams.

Lead Frontend Engineer at Elastic Email (2025-04 – Present)

• Lead a team of 6 frontend engineers through Agile sprints, owning architecture decisions, PR reviews, and biweekly releases for a SaaS email platform processing 2B+ emails/month.
• Designed the React + TypeScript UI architecture for a platform with 500K+ monthly active users; frontend-related production incidents dropped by roughly a third after the redesign.
• Built and shipped three production AI workflows (OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude, Ollama) for content generation and data processing, removing an estimated 12 hours/week of manual work from the team.
• Shipped integrations with Wix, Shopify, WordPress, and Canva, opening 3 new partner distribution channels and contributing measurably to new signups.
• Added full-stack features in Node.js/Express to unblock frontend delivery when backend capacity was constrained, and raised automated test coverage from 45% to 78% via GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Senior Frontend Engineer (Contractor) at Xische & Co — Dubai Municipality (2024-05 – 2025-04)

• Delivered the React + TypeScript frontend for a government digital-services platform used by 500K+ citizens, scoring 4.7/5 in post-launch citizen satisfaction research.
• Integrated 12+ REST APIs into real-time dashboards and rolled out Redux Toolkit across a 200K+ LOC codebase shared by 3 concurrent teams, cutting state-related bugs by ~40%.
• Built an OpenAI-powered request-routing feature that auto-classifies and triages 10,000+ citizen service requests per day, taking most of the manual triage step out of the workflow.
• Grew the shared component library by 30+ components, shortening average feature build time and keeping the design system consistent across teams.
• Fixed-term government contract; ended on schedule at contract close rather than by choice.

Senior Frontend Engineer at EarnFlex (2023-03 – 2024-05)

• Built cross-platform features in React, React Native, and Vue.js for a UK fintech product that grew to 150K+ active users during this period.
• Integrated on-device Ollama LLMs and text-to-speech directly into core product features, cutting third-party AI API spend to zero — roughly $4,000/month saved.
• Standardised Redux and Vuex patterns across 3 product codebases, which shortened new-engineer onboarding and reduced state-related defects.
• Mentored 3 junior engineers via weekly 1:1s and introduced PR templates that brought average review turnaround down from 4 days to under 1 day.

Frontend Developer at Horizon Digital (2022-03 – 2023-02)

• Delivered 8 web and mobile applications (React, React Native, Vue, Flutter) for Australian enterprise clients across retail, logistics, and finance.
• Built a WCAG 2.1-compliant, fully responsive component library that became the base design system across 5 client projects.
• Automated document-processing workflows with OpenAI APIs, saving clients an estimated 15+ hours/week of manual effort per engagement.
• Improved page-load performance across 3 production apps through code-splitting, lazy loading, and bundle optimisation.

React Developer at TechXperts (2021-02 – 2022-03)

• Built React + Redux frontends for 10+ e-commerce and logistics clients, translating Figma wireframes into pixel-accurate production UI.
• Cut initial page-load times through code-splitting and lazy loading across deployed applications.

BS in Software Engineering – International Islamic University, Islamabad (2017 – 2021)