// about
Ishant Agarwal is a Senior Frontend Engineer and Tech Lead with 7+ years of experience building real-time, data-dense interfaces across B2B SaaS, travel tech, fintech and logistics. Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, working at Makro Pro - Thailand's largest B2B grocery platform.
He has led frontend engineering at Makro Pro (Thailand's largest grocery platform), Agoda (global travel tech, Booking Holdings), Publicis Sapient (enterprise fintech serving 8.1M+ users), and Wheelseye (logistics platform scaled from 5,000 to 2M+ trucks). His work spans design systems, micro-frontend architecture, observability stacks and web performance engineering.
Ishant is open to senior and lead frontend roles - remote worldwide or relocation with visa sponsorship. 30 day notice period.
// expertise
Design Systems
Architecting component libraries and token systems at scale - 50+ components at Makro Pro
Micro-frontends
Module federation and BFF patterns across large engineering orgs at Agoda and Publicis Sapient
Observability
Full Grafana, Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty stacks - MTTD reduced 60% at Makro Pro
Web Performance
Lighthouse 45→96 at Wheelseye, 32% JS payload reduction at Agoda, Core Web Vitals across all roles
Frontend Architecture
Owning technical roadmaps and system design for teams of 8+ engineers across B2B SaaS products
Testing Infrastructure
80% E2E coverage with Playwright, zero-downtime releases at Agoda
AI Workflow Integration
Integrated Claude Code into CI/CD pipeline at Makro Pro - automated code review catching i18n, accessibility and design system drift on 100% of TS/TSX PRs
Real-time Systems
Real-time shipment tracking and live logistics dashboards at Wheelseye, powered by Server-Sent Events (SSE)
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