Ajay Kumar
Founding Engineer at Adalat AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Kumar is a founding engineer with six years of experience building high-performance web and mobile applications, now based in the UAE. He specializes in React and React Native front-ends, and has driven performance-led improvements—cutting page load from 2s to 300ms and reducing bundle size by 20% at Gan.ai. He has deep experience turning UI systems into production features, from a server-driven website builder and Storybook design systems to an AI-powered rich-text editor contribution on the open-source Plate repo. His background spans startups and product teams (Gan.ai, Mercari, MathWorks, Chartr) and includes building analytics platforms with Elasticsearch, real-time video campaign insights, and a production PWA serving millions of daily riders. As a hands-on maker and mentor, he pairs product intuition with practical tooling: Nx monorepos, React-Query, Cypress/GitHub Actions, and Next.js to ship reliable, testable systems. Ajay’s work often blends UI polish with backend scalability—delivering measurable retention and latency wins while contributing to open-source UI tooling.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Design, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Design at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
slate10
react10
typescript-types10
shadcn-ui9
wysiwyg8
ai4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
udecode/plate
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Rich-text editor with AI and shadcn/ui
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ajay primarily focused on refining the UI components within the rich-text editor. Their work involved refactoring logic related to alignment and type determination in dropdown menus, contributing to the user interface's functionality. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the logic for handling different block types and overall user experience. They also updated variable names for clarity within the dropdown components.
airich-text-editorslatewysiwygreact
kumarajay0412/kumarajay0412
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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