Nishtha Arora
Senior Software Engineer
512-960-5457 · nishtha.arora26@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/nishthaarora · TX
Senior frontend engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable React applications, design systems, and developer tooling. Led migration of 80+ components to a new design system, improving UI consistency across multiple product teams. Builds AI-powered agents and automation tools using Claude SDK and LLMs to accelerate developer productivity and code quality. Currently monitoring and driving AI adoption (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) across engineering teams.
Experience
- Developed an AI Adoption Dashboard tracking GitHub Copilot and Cursor usage, giving leadership visibility into adoption trends and ROI
- Led migration of 80+ components from classic design system to Flow design system, improving UI consistency and accelerating development velocity across multiple product teams
- Documented 80+ components in Storybook, streamlining design-to-development handoff and reducing onboarding time for new engineers
- Mentored 4+ junior and mid-level engineers and defined scalable frontend architecture patterns and coding standards adopted across multiple engineering teams
- Led frontend development across concurrent projects, delivering scalable, maintainable solutions on schedule and improving cross-team delivery predictability by ~20%
- Unified two design system libraries into a single scalable foundation, reducing design inconsistencies by 40% and improving component reuse across product teams
- Streamlined CI/CD pipelines and ArgoCD workflows, reducing deployment failures by 40% and accelerating release reliability across multiple environments
- Applied AWS, S3 to support cloud infrastructure and data ingestion workflows, improving data availability and operational efficiency by ~25%
- Collaborated on product work to help ship features faster and align engineering delivery with product priorities across the roadmap
- Architected a shared React component library adopted across 10+ product teams, accelerating development speed and improving UI consistency at scale
- Implemented Cypress-based integration testing, enhancing test coverage by 85% and improving CI/CD pipeline stability
- Delivered customer-facing features that drove a 15% increase in product adoption across key user workflows
- Synthesized feedback from 20+ customer calls to align feature development with user needs and strengthen engineering-product strategy
- Resolved 100+ bugs ahead of SLA deadlines, improving team delivery metrics and customer satisfaction
- Transformed image-based email reporting system to a React-based solution, boosting email content quality and control by 90%
- Developed consumer-facing features for a high-traffic dating platform serving 10M+ users, supporting reliable and engaging web experiences at scale
- Created reusable UI components and advanced the internal design system, improving development consistency across 4+ engineering teams
- Partnered with UX and product teams to deliver accessible, performant, responsive web experiences, improving page usability and load performance by ~20%
- Advanced A/B testing frameworks and analytics instrumentation to measure feature impact and inform product decisions across high-traffic user journeys
Education
- MBA, Finance & Marketing, Institute of Marketing and Management, India (September 2008–November 2010)
- BBA, IP University, India (August 2005–August 2008)
Skills
Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Next.js, Redux, GraphQL
AI & Agents: Claude SDK, LLM Prompt Engineering, AI Agent Development, AWS Bedrock, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Amazon Titan Embeddings, RAG Pipelines, Agentic Tool Calling, MCP, FastMCP, ChromaDB, LangChain Text Splitters
Testing & Observability: Cypress, Playwright, React Testing Library, Datadog (RUM), Jest
Backend / Platform: Node.js, FastAPI, REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, AWS, S3, Bedrock, ArgoCD, SQL
Tools & Platform: Git, GitHub, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Figma, Storybook, Jira, Docker
Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS