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Vaasav Kumar

🚀 Frontend Engineer | 0→1 Product Builder | FinTech | Ex-Founding Engineer@Togai (Acquired by Zuora).

Background

Frontend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications from scratch in fast-paced startup environments. Started my journey at Zoho (2018) and moved on to become the Founding Engineer & First Employee at Hypto, where I played a key role in building the product from 0→1. Hypto (FinTech SaaS) later evolved into Togai and was successfully acquired by Zuora.

Expertise

I specialize in architecting and shipping production-grade frontend systems with strong focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.

Current focus

Now actively learning courses for AI-powered applications, AI-integrated frontend systems — combining my strong frontend architecture background with the next wave of AI-driven innovation. I document hands-on practice in technical posts on DEV (AI assistants, LangChain, LLM tooling, and related topics).

Stack

Languages

EnglishFluent
TamilNative
HindiConversational

Experience

Zuora Private Limited

Senior Frontend Developer (SDE3)ChennaiPresent

Owns front-end delivery for Zuora project — Mediation Team and handle architecture design, product UI & technical documentation flows.

Togai

Frontend DeveloperChennai 2022 - 2024

As a Founding engineer, I built Togai projects from scratch to production which attracted our investors and got acquired by Zuora. Built SDK widgets for Dashboard and Billing pages.

Hypto

Application DeveloperChennai2019 – 2022

As a Founding engineer, I owned the web-app and website from build through deployment—maintenance, SEO, bug-fixes, and roadmap shaped by customer feedback. Built SDK-oriented tooling for docs and developer experience.

Zoho Corporation

Full Stack DeveloperChennai2018 – 2019

Worked with design and engineering to ship features end-to-end — from ideation through implementation and polish.

Education

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

B.Tech2014 – 2018Madurai

Where I found a lasting interest in software — and people who still feel like family.

Selected work

Digital Menus

Problem: Paper menus are hard to keep current.

Solution: Web menus and QR codes so guests always see the latest list on mobile.

digi-menu.web.app →

Resume Generator

Problem: You might heard of Mafia game, while playing with friends, you might have faced the issue assigning characters to each player.

Solution: A web app to assign characters to each player in a mafia game.

mafia-multiplayer.web.app →

Boost — Multiplayer

Real-time card game with vanilla JS, HTML, and Firebase. Pass and draw until you hold three of a kind.

boost-multiplayer.web.app →

Stocks Data

Compare stocks over a chosen window and explore sector breakdowns for the same period.

stocks-graph.web.app →

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