Sagar Sehwag
Frontend @ Simpplr | Ex-Zomato
A Software Engineer specializing in the development of scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, and a strong commitment to long term engineering quality. I enjoy experimenting with Golang as well.
Projects
Content Studio is a modern, block-based editor for creating pages, offering drag-and-drop layouts, auto-save, and improved performance. Built on Tiptap, it supports feature-flagged extensions and is used to create feeds, blogs, pages, and event pages.
ReactTypeScriptTiptapEditorDOMTypeScript00Interactive visual demos explaining how rich text editors work under the hood — rendering, contentEditable, Selection API, state models, update loops, and node data structures. Built from scratch with zero external UI libraries.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindSystem DesignTypeScript00A Chrome extension to download and track Pluralsight courses. Rewrote and maintained the extension with keyboard shortcuts for course downloading, stop controls, and timed requests to avoid blocking.
JavaScriptChrome ExtensionDOMJavaScript31671
Experiences
- •Building a modern employee experience platform trusted by leading brands including Zoom, Nutanix, Docusign, Workday, Coursera & Fox.•Led a team of 7 frontend engineers through the concurrent development of a new Content Studio along with a major technical upgrade for the editor, Introducing modern state management and a headless editor, while actively mentoring junior engineers.•Designed and built an automated system to generate previews for content templates, improving performance and discoverability at scale.•Stepped up to lead a 6+ engineer Zeta pod, shipping 5+ features across 3 quarters.•Designed and implemented a large-scale content migration from Froala to Tiptap, affecting over 500k pages, using a custom two-stage process that prevented visual regressions.•Mentored ~15 junior/new engineers over the years at Simpplr.
Technologies
ReactTypeScriptTiptapMicro FrontendsModule Federation - •Spearheaded the 6-month initiative to take the rich text editor (built with the headless Tiptap library) from EAP to GA. Acted as the de facto pod lead for the Canada team, guiding 7 frontend engineers through development, coordination, and handoff.•Led the effort to rebuild the Simpplr Control Center as a Micro Frontend (MFE) leveraging a modern technology stack, boosting modularity and scalability.•Designed and delivered a self-contained Page Template module, built with scalability in mind and structured for easy future migration to a micro frontend with minimal refactoring (<10%).
Technologies
ReactTypeScriptTiptapMFEWebpackModule Federation - •Created a user-friendly platform onboarding tour to introduce new users to the product's key features.•Migrated the existing jQuery codebase to React and delivered many small independent features.
Technologies
ReactJavaScriptjQueryCSS - •Generalized an existing notification system to support multiple applications across various sub-companies, including HyperPure, enhancing scalability and flexibility.•Docker containerized the notification service to streamline deployment and improve the development workflow.•Developed a resumable uploading functionality for large CSV files (in gigabytes) to AWS S3.
Technologies
GolangBeegoKafkaJavaScriptMySQLDocker