# Sangwin Gawande: Front-End Architect & Technical Lead

> Sangwin Gawande is a front-end architect and Technical Lead based in India and open to relocation, with 11+ years of experience designing, modernising and scaling enterprise web and mobile platforms. His work spans migration architecture for large legacy estates (Angular to React.js across 200+ repositories and 500+ screens; 800+ websites onto Adobe Experience Manager SaaS), the engineering platform around them (monorepo, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Google Cloud Run), performance and production reliability, and AI-assisted engineering. AWS Certified Developer - Associate.

## Profile
- Website: https://sangw.in/
- CV (PDF): https://sangw.in/Sangwin-Gawande-CV.pdf
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sangwin
- GitHub: https://github.com/sangwin
- Medium: https://medium.com/@sangwin
- Location: India (open to relocation)
- Job title: Front-End Architect & Technical Lead (Legacy Modernisation)
- Current role: Consultant, Engineering · Technical Lead · L2 Support Team Lead at GlobalLogic (March 2025-present)
- Experience: 11+ years in software engineering and technical leadership
- Open to roles: Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Front End), Front-End Architect, Technical Lead
- Scope: owns architecture and delivery across 2 concurrent client programmes, 200+ repositories and a team of 6 engineers, plus L2 production support
- Notice period: 90 days
- Leading teams since: 2017
- Certification: AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02), Sep 2025 - Sep 2028
- Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
- Professional interests: Front-End Architecture, Technical Leadership, Application Modernization, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AI-assisted Engineering, Performance Engineering, Back-end and DevOps

## Book a Session
- Visitors can book a session from https://sangw.in/ using the "Book a session" button; the request is sent by email to imsangwin@gmail.com.
- Session types: introductory call, architecture / migration consultation, performance & Lighthouse review, AI-in-engineering session, mentoring / career session.

## Architecture Expertise
- Front-end system design: component architecture, state management (Redux), API integration, performance and release strategy for large multi-team front ends.
- Application architecture: modular, component-based front-end architectures; micro-frontend to monorepo consolidation; reusable UI libraries; React.js, Next.js, Angular; backend API integration.
- Modernisation strategy: legacy-to-modern migration planning at estate scale; dependency upgrades, functional parity, testing and production validation; migration playbooks, guides and CI/CD migration reports.
- Platform & DevOps: GitHub repository standards (branching, access, workflows), GitHub Actions CI/CD, deployments to GCP Cloud Run and related services, Canary and feature-flag releases.
- Performance & reliability: bottleneck analysis, page-load and build-time optimisation, response times held under 3 s, Lighthouse, root cause analysis (RCA), SLA-driven incident management.
- Quality & governance: code-review standards; Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, SonarQube.
- Multi-site & global delivery: multi-country, multi-language platforms on AEM SaaS; accessibility and SEO standards across international markets.
- Site reliability (SRE) and production support: L2 support lead, application health and log monitoring, incident triage, production bug fixes, root cause analysis, SLA adherence, canary releases and feature flags.
- Currently growing in back-end (Node.js, NestJS, APIs, databases) and DevOps (GitHub Actions, Docker, cloud deployments), using Claude Code to learn faster while building.
- AI automation (current role): bringing AI tools into the team's workflow to automate repetitive development tasks, reduce manual effort and save development time.
- AI-enabled engineering: Claude Code, Gemini and GitHub Copilot applied to code conversion, testing, automation, code analysis, performance investigations and documentation.

## Key Engagements (case studies)

### Enterprise Front-End Modernisation & Platform Migration (GlobalLogic, 2025-present)
- Technical Lead across two concurrent projects; owned technical strategy and end-to-end delivery.
- Context: 200+ repositories and 500+ screens on legacy Angular and micro-frontends, with source control and pipelines on GitLab.
- Approach: consolidated micro-frontends into a monorepo, moved repositories to GitHub with standard branching, access and workflows, built GitHub Actions pipelines deploying to GCP Cloud Run, integrated backend APIs with new React.js front ends.
- Outcome: 200+ repositories migrated to GitHub and deployed to GCP with automated CI/CD; 500+ screens modernised on React.js and validated through to production.

### AEM SaaS Multi-Site Platform Migration (Publicis Sapient, 2021-2025)
- Front-End Lead for a global consumer-products brand portfolio across multiple agencies, markets and languages.
- Outcome: 800+ websites delivered ahead of schedule; nominated for the client's "Partnering for Client Impact" and "Consumer Products - Recognition & Gratitude" awards.

### Verizon Telecom: Performance & Production Reliability (GlobalLogic, 2025-present)
- Team Lead / Technical Lead and L2 Support Team Lead for a team of 6 engineers.
- Approach: page-load improvements, Canary and production feature flags, RCA-driven L2 incident resolution with application health and log monitoring.
- Outcome: response times held under 3 s; stable releases and SLA adherence.

### Servcorp: AngularJS → Angular Re-Platform
- Team Lead; migrated to Angular 5 and redesigned cleanup and build processes: build time cut by 30%+.

### Web Application Performance Recovery (smartData Enterprises, 2017-2018)
- Load time cut from 55 s to 10 s and build time reduced by 20%.

### Healthcare Communication Platform (Kratin LLC, 2016-2017)
- Built the web side of a healthcare communication platform running on web, Android and iOS.
- Implemented real-time WebSocket messaging kept in sync across platforms, and read receipts showing message status in real time.

### Peek@Menu
- Founder and developer of a free QR-code digital menu service replacing paper and plastic menus in restaurants and hotels.

### Other Projects
- GIVE Gita: website and optimised checkout for a spiritual-learning app: 20% more clicks and purchases.
- Cabblo: intercity cab-booking marketplace with live quotes (Ionic, Angular, Node.js, MongoDB).
- Cympler-Mails: bulk email platform with usage analytics and cost estimation.
- RISE Living: real-time property operations app for managing building staff and residents (Ionic).
- Toolsvilla: e-commerce development using Magento.

## Career
- GlobalLogic (A Hitachi Group Company): Consultant, Engineering · Technical Lead · L2 Support Team Lead (March 2025-present); leads two concurrent client programmes and a team of 6 engineers.
- Publicis Sapient: Senior Experience Engineer · Front-End Lead (November 2021-February 2025).
- GlobalLogic: Associate Consultant Engineering · Associate Technical Consultant (August 2019-November 2021); Eminence Award Q4-2020.
- Persistent Systems: Senior UI Developer (June 2018-July 2019); Bravo Work Award Q1-2019.
- smartData Enterprises: Ionic Developer (Big Data) · Associate Delivery (April 2017-May 2018).
- Kratin LLC: Associate Technologist (July 2016-April 2017); real-time WebSocket messaging and read receipts for a healthcare communication platform across web and mobile.
- Flying Penguins: Junior Developer (Full Stack) (May 2015-June 2016).
- Refer to the CV for the complete and authoritative chronology.

## Education and Awards
- B.E., Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering & Research (RTM Nagpur University), 2014; 1st place, final-year project.
- Certifications: AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02); ReactJS (Publicis Sapient, 2024); React (LinkedIn Learning); Angular (Udemy).
- Awards: Eminence Award (Q4-2020), Bravo Work Award (Q1-2019), Client Appreciation (2018), Client Bonus (2017).

## Technical Skills

### Front-End
React.js, Next.js, Redux, Angular, AngularJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Less, Webpack, Angular Material, PrimeNG.

### Architecture
Monorepo, micro-frontends, component libraries, API integration, microservices.

### Back-End and Data
Node.js, NestJS, Express, Laravel, GraphQL, REST APIs, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka.

### Cloud and DevOps
Google Cloud (Cloud Run), AWS (EC2, ECR), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vercel, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Canary releases, feature flags.

### Testing and Quality
Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, SonarQube, Lighthouse.

### AI Tools
Claude Code, Gemini, GitHub Copilot.

### Platforms
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM SaaS), React Native, Ionic, Cordova, Magento, WordPress, SuiteCRM.

## Contact and Availability
- Email: imsangwin@gmail.com
- Open to consulting sessions on enterprise web platforms: AEM and framework migrations, AngularJS/Angular to React modernisation, web performance (Lighthouse/RUM) improvements, front-end architecture reviews, and AI-assisted engineering.
- Location: India; open to relocation.
- Time zone: IST (UTC+5:30); overlaps with UK, EU, Middle East and Australian working hours.

## Additional Resources
- [Portfolio and professional experience](https://sangw.in/)
- [CV (PDF)](https://sangw.in/Sangwin-Gawande-CV.pdf)
- [GitHub repositories](https://github.com/sangwin)
- [LinkedIn profile](https://linkedin.com/in/sangwin)
- [Medium articles](https://medium.com/@sangwin)

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