Chetan Dasauni

Senior software engineer based in Vancouver, BC, with 10+ years shipping scalable, accessible web platforms. I work across React, TypeScript, Node, Ruby on Rails, and Python, with deep focus on frontend architecture, performance, and AI-assisted development workflows.

1. 2025 — Present

   Senior Software Engineer

   Scribd · Vancouver, BC

   AI-augmented engineering on a consumer reading platform.

   • Lead SEO and AI-bot discoverability strategy: structured data, server-side rendering, and content surfaces tuned for both search engines and LLM-driven discovery.
   • Design per-PR preview environments with Google Cloud Build to accelerate review and reduce regressions reaching main.
   • Pioneer AI-assisted development workflows: Cursor agents that scope tickets into draft PRs and write test coverage; a Claude Code setup with codebase-specific skills and Mermaid-based AI memory orchestrated through a top-level orchestrator skill.
   • Ship experiments and fixes across a Ruby on Rails + React codebase as part of the broader product surface.

   • Ruby on Rails
   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Google Cloud Build
   • Cursor
   • Claude Code

2. 2022 — 2025

   Senior Frontend Software Engineer

   Intuit · Vancouver, BC

   Enterprise architecture at scale.

   • Architected a complete frontend rewrite grounded in Single Responsibility, Separation of Concerns, and Loose Coupling principles.
   • Cut code duplication from 300+ files to ~20 with a reusable React widget scaffold, saving the team a week or more per feature shipped.
   • Owned an end-to-end Lead Capturing capability spanning Java Spring Boot and React, with Akamai for security and routing.
   • Drove platform-wide Core Web Vitals and accessibility improvements.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Java Spring Boot
   • Akamai
   • Core Web Vitals
   • Accessibility

3. 2020 — 2022

   Senior → Staff Software Engineer

   Unbounce · Vancouver, BC

   Frontend platform work — design systems and build tooling.

   • Cut deployment times from 15 minutes to 3 by restructuring a monolithic repo into a Lerna-based packaging system.
   • Modernized a design system with Storybook and TypeScript adoption across consuming applications.
   • Prototyped a customizable page builder using CSS variables and CSS Grid template areas.
   • Promoted from Senior to Staff Software Engineer; mentored engineers through 1:1s and learning sessions.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Lerna
   • Storybook
   • CSS Grid
   • Design Systems

4. 2016 — 2020

   Frontend Developer → Senior Full Stack Developer

   Sycle · Vancouver, BC

   Five years growing into a senior IC, owning the full product delivery lifecycle on a SaaS platform.

   • Led the migration from AngularJS to React across the product.
   • Championed TypeScript adoption across the codebase.
   • Shipped custom D3 analytics dashboards that landed at industry conferences.
   • Partnered with database architects on MySQL query and API optimizations.
   • Helped establish coding standards that outlived my tenure.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • AngularJS
   • D3
   • MySQL
   • Node.js

5. 2015 — 2016

   Software Developer

   Thrinacia Software Solutions · Vancouver, BC

   First software developer role — building front-end for crowdfunding platforms.

   • Built responsive AngularJS components and crowdfunding campaign pages with Semantic UI and Bootstrap.
   • Short chapter, but where frontend really clicked: the immediacy of UI work, the breadth of the open web, the tight feedback loop set the direction for everything that followed.

   • AngularJS
   • Semantic UI
   • Bootstrap
   • JavaScript

1. 2014 — 2015

   Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science

   Douglas College · Vancouver, BC

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