About

Rakesh Purohit — Senior Frontend Engineer

Senior frontend engineer and DevRel at Rocket (rocket.new) with 5+ years building scalable React and Next.js platforms. I focus on performance, design systems, developer tooling, and growth-ready frontend systems. I also write for Rocket and DhiWise.

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1M+

Monthly users supported on a $70 infra budget via Vercel edge.

51.19%

Build time reduction using CRACO + esbuild (17m -> 8m).

90+

Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed after performance hardening.

80%

Organic traffic growth after Webflow -> Next.js + ISR.

100K+

Figma plugin users with 5K MAU in production.

20 hrs

Saved monthly through Gen-AI workflow automation.

1.8x

Faster latency via Redis HTML caching with auth/device variants.

30%

Server compute cost reduction from cache strategy.

Experience

Build history.

A mix of product engineering, developer tools, and frontend platforms.

Skills

Toolbelt.

React 18
Next.js
TypeScript
Server Components
Suspense
Context API
Redux
Zustand
React Native
Tailwind CSS
Webpack
CRACO
esbuild
Puppeteer
Strapi
Docusaurus
Edge Computing
Nx Monorepo
Vercel
Git
ESLint
Prettier
CI/CD
Storybook
GitHub Actions
CodeRabbit
HubSpot
Figma Plugin Dev
Design Systems
WCAG 2.1
ARIA
Lighthouse Audits
GA4
Mixpanel
Sentry
Clarity
JSON-LD
OpenAI
Claude

Credentials

Recognition, writing, and open source.

Awards, certifications, and community work that show up in how I build.

Recognition

  • India Quotient 30 Under 30

    Selected from 100 portfolio companies for exceptional contributions.

    2024

  • Employee of the Year

    DhiWise

    2022

Certifications

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): Hands-On with Agentic AI

    LinkedIn Learning

    2025

Writing & Speaking

Open Source

Education

  • MSc Information & Communication Technology

    JP Dawer Institute (VNSGU)

    2018-2020 - CGPA 7.18/10

  • Bachelor of Computer Applications

    SDJ International College (VNSGU)

    2015-2018 - CGPA 8.00/10