Summary
Manan Joshi is a frontend-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building and owning user-facing platforms, currently shaping web architecture at Hearst Autos after leading MotorTrend’s frontend migration. He excels at end-to-end ownership—driving architectural decisions, setting frontend patterns, and balancing performance, maintainability, and product needs across teams. His work has delivered measurable impact, including a frontend re-architecture that cut infrastructure costs substantially and an AI-powered chatbot that introduced new discovery patterns. Comfortable across the full stack, he adopts new tools early and experiments in AI to inform pragmatic, production-ready solutions. A mentor and frequent decision-maker on frontend trade-offs, he thrives in environments that value curiosity, craftsmanship, and long-lived systems.
10 years of coding experience