Rajat Vijay
Director Of Engineering, AI at Certa.ai
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRajat Vijay is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently directs AI products and frontend engineering at Certa, where he’s spearheaded AI integrations and frontend excellence. He has a proven track record of scaling teams (4→15), driving architecture transformations like monorepo and TypeScript migrations, and improving reliability through TDD and a jump from 15% to 85% test coverage. His initiatives cut Largest Contentful Paint by 36%, reduced UI bugs by 40% via a company component library, and replaced Tableau with a React reporting module to cut licensing costs by 80%. Rajat blends hands-on frontend work—contributing to open-source projects like mathesar’s Svelte/TypeScript UI—with product-minded AI experimentation (DesignAI POCs for workflow and BRD conversions). He’s notable for operationalizing engineering practices (on-call, SMART goals, structured hiring) that raised team velocity and hiring quality. Based in Bengaluru, he is passionate about mentoring the next generation of engineers while keeping a pulse on open-source and AI-first frontend patterns.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Technology, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelors in Technology, Computer Science Engineering at JECRC UniversityMatriculation, General Studies, Matriculation, General Studies at Bikaner Boys SchoolJunior College, Science and Mathematics, Junior College, Science and Mathematics at Pragati International School
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Github Skills (19)
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
component-library10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
svelte10
frontend10
web-frontend10
javascript9
babeljs6
react6
momentjs6
angular-redux6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mathesar-foundation/mathesar
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly. 100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:172 reviews, 339 commits, 104 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rajat primarily refactored the icon storage and usage within the component library and core modules. This involved updating how icons are imported and used, improving code organization, and ensuring consistency in icon handling across different parts of the application's UI. The changes included alterations to existing TypeScript and Svelte files within the user interface. Furthermore, the user enhanced UI components by incorporating new badges.
access-controlpostgresqlpythondjangojavascript
rajatvijay/phocial
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
A social networking we-app that lets you add photos from other websites.
Contributions:106 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
networking
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