Staff Frontend Architect
Architect by trade. Consultant by habit. Builder by nature.
Staff Frontend Architect with 15+ years of experience. Currently leading architecture and development of a real-time healthcare messaging platform (5,000+ users, 500+ concurrent) with cross-platform React/React Native codebase and 80% shared business logic. Expert in building design systems, component libraries, and scalable architecture. Open source contributor and published technical writer. I use Claude Code and GitHub Copilot daily — AI-assisted workflows increased my team's delivery speed by 25%.
A free, open-source Expo module that extracts text from PDFs using native APIs. Works with Expo SDK 49+, full TypeScript support, processes documents in milliseconds.
A Technology Consultant's journey from skeptical observer to AI-powered developer. How GitHub Copilot Agent Mode changed my daily workflow building healthcare apps.
How to decouple UI from domain logic for scalable frontend applications. A practical guide to clean architecture patterns in React.
Your Wealth. Your Vault.
Offline-first, privacy-focused wealth management for India. AI extraction engine parses insurance documents from 16 providers with 94% accuracy.
16 providers · 94% accuracy
Real-time communication at scale
Architected real-time healthcare messaging platform with 5,000+ users and 500+ concurrent connections. Rebuilt from legacy Angular into React (web) & React Native (mobile) with ~80% shared business logic.
5,000+ users · 500+ concurrent
Open-source PDF extraction for Expo
Open-source npm package for native PDF text extraction in React Native/Expo apps. Uses PDFKit (iOS) and PDFBox (Android). Processes documents in milliseconds.
500+ weekly downloads
Technology Consultant & Frontend Architect
Oct 2022 – Present
Architected real-time healthcare messaging platform (5,000+ users, 500+ concurrent) with cross-platform React/React Native codebase, 80% shared business logic. Set up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. Introduced AI-assisted development increasing delivery velocity by 25%. Mentoring 4 frontend engineers.
Lead Software Engineer → SDE III
July 2021 – Oct 2022
Led 5-engineer frontend team building e-commerce platform. Created reusable UI component library. Implemented Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); integrated Shopify APIs, AWS, Okta authentication.
Sr. Development Consultant
Oct 2017 – July 2021
Led UI development for scientific publication platform used by millions of researchers globally, within 10-person team. Built React component library adopted across multiple teams. Drove adoption of TDD and functional programming.
Sr. Software Engineer
Oct 2015 – Oct 2017
Delivered frontend for DOMO (BI), Cvent (events), Symantec (security) using React, Angular, Redux. Collaborated with global client teams across US and India.
Sr. Web Developer
July 2012 – Aug 2015
2x Best Employee of the Year. Built Facebook game Startup49; integrated payment gateways and social APIs.
Web Developer
May 2010 – July 2012
Built profile creation platform using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery.
Anthropic
2026
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
2006 – 2010
“Pathik's architectural decisions transformed how our team delivers software. His ability to simplify complex systems is rare and incredibly valuable.”
— Colleague, via LinkedIn