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Chirag Mittal

Lead Software Engineer/Frontend & AI-Augmented Engineering
statusOpen to collaborations
00/Profile

Building 0-to-1 products at the edge of consumer apps and frontier AI. Seven years across CRED, Zamp AI, and now Sarvam AI. Open-sourced a design system with 871+ GitHub stars. Currently architecting LLM-native, MCP-driven UI and AI-augmented developer workflows.

7+ yrs
frontend × AI
871★
open source · NeoPop
0→1
10+ launched products
99.99%
crash-free reliability
01/Experience
03 items
Bengaluru·Architecting LLM-native UI primitives and AI-augmented developer workflows for the Indus app.
  • 01.01
    Indus app, 0→launch in 2 weeks
    Architected and shipped the Indus app end-to-end. Launched at 4.8 on App Store, 4.6 on Play Store.
    0-to-1Launch
  • 01.02
    Crash-free reliability at 99.99%
    Drove crash rate from 16% → 0.01% via end-to-end observability, hardened render boundaries, rationalised native-bridge contracts.
    ReliabilityObservability
  • 01.03
    OEM partnership with HMD Global (Nokia)
    Closed a strategic deal to pre-bundle Indus across HMD's device portfolio — firmware-level organic distribution.
    Partnerships
  • 01.04
    MCP UI widget framework
    Designed and delivered an end-to-end framework enabling LLMs to render rich, agentic, multi-modal interfaces inline. Demoed live with Swiggy at the Razorpay FTX 2026 keynote.
    MCPLLM-native UI
  • 01.05
    3–4× faster feature cycles via AI workflows
    Orchestrated AI-augmented developer workflows across the team — Cursor, custom Claude Code agents, MCP tool servers, prompt-engineered scaffolding, skill-driven automations.
    AI toolingDX
  • 01.06
    Platformised the frontend stack
    Set direction for shared runtime contracts, schema-driven UI, unified rendering primitives. Elevated the design system with refined motion and craft-led primitives.
    PlatformDesign system
Bengaluru·Built a global event-driven runtime so AI agents could call the frontend as first-class functions. Led the frontend team of 5.
  • 02.01
    Event-driven runtime for AI agents
    Built a global runtime through which AI agents can use the frontend as first-class function calls or small composable workflows.
    ArchitectureAgents
  • 02.02
    83% faster dashboard load (12s → 2s)
    SSR, pre-caching, Service Workers, and chunk optimisation.
    Performance
  • 02.03
    Frontend team of 5
    Hiring, mentoring, defining review standards and engineering culture.
    Leadership
  • 02.04
    zamp.ai website in one week
    Heavy animations, shipped end-to-end.
    CraftMotion
  • 02.05
    Internal meta-framework around 'resources'
    Optimistic updates, live sync, prefetching, caching, declarative data dependencies. Features that took 10 days now take 2.
    DXFramework
  • 02.06
    Web Vitals observability
    Speed Insights and production-issue debugging.
    Observability
  • 02.07
    Monorepo migration
    Better scaling across multiple products.
    Architecture
Bengaluru·Five years across CRED Garage, NeoPop, Pay, Mint, Access, Rewards, Onboarding and CS tooling.
  • 03.01
    CRED Garage — 0-to-1, led team of 2
    Built the full product for vehicle owners. Wrote a custom three.js wrapper for animated 3D models, solved performance for multi-vehicle interactive switching.
    0-to-1three.js
  • 03.02
    NeoPop design system — 871★ on GitHub
    Built a React component library with design tokens. Led a team of 10 to redesign the entire CRED app. Open-sourced — 871 stars, 128 forks, featured on Product Hunt.
    Design systemOpen source
  • 03.03
    Scaled frontend team 4 → 11
    Hired, shortened the interview funnel with bespoke assignments, mentored, drove adoption of XState, TypeScript, Hooks, monorepos.
    HiringLeadership
  • 03.04
    CRED Rewards — top-3 engagement feature
    Timer-based Q&A game with casino-machine UI, 3D button motions coded in native CSS (no Lotties). Scroll tracking via IntersectionObserver without re-renders. 25% DAU/WAU.
    EngagementCraft
  • 03.05
    Onboarding — −64% Day-1 uninstalls
    WebView product to engage waitlisted users with credit-score insights. Shipped to 100% of users without an app update. Questionnaire flow lifted gating funnel by 2pp, cut CAC by 10%.
    GrowthWebView
  • 03.06
    CS / Internal tools
    In-house conversational chatbot in WebView, GPT-powered Web SDK, self-serve CRM cutting dev bandwidth in half, workflow library boosting ops efficiency 70%.
    Internal toolsGPT
  • 03.07
    CRED Pay — RentPay & Max
    Built CRED's biggest revenue line. Launched RentPay in 3 weeks. State-machine architecture lets Product launch new payment categories with zero dev effort.
    RevenueXState
  • 03.08
    CRED Mint, Access, Tech Optimisations
    Built Mint invite flows in Flutter. Shipped a JS SDK for partner D2C brands to integrate CRED as auth provider. Lazy-loading + code-splitting across web views.
    FlutterSDK
02/Skills
01Languages & Frameworks
TypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsFlutterthree.jsXStateHTMLCSSC/C++
02AI & Agentic Tooling
Claude Code (custom agents)CursorMCP servers & toolsLLM-native UX patternsPrompt engineeringSkill-driven automation
03Engineering
System DesignFrontend ArchitectureSSRService WorkersWeb VitalsPerformanceObservabilityMonoreposDesign SystemsMotion
04Cloud & Tools
AWSGitHubCI/CDFigmaVS CodeXcode
05Leadership
Tech leadershipHiring & mentoringEngineering strategyCross-functional partnership
03/Education

B.Tech, Computer Science

MSRUAS · 20162020
University Gold MedalistCGPA 9.4CBSE XII 94% (topped CS)