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Rohan Gotwal

A frontend engineer at heart who builds the whole product end to end: the polished interface people touch, and the backend that powers it.

Role
Frontend Engineer & Indie Hacker
Currently
Frontend Head at Classhero
Location
Delhi, India

Selected work

Products I've co-founded, designed, or shipped end to end.

  • A D2C hair-accessories & gifting brand I co-founded and built on Shopify. I own the storefront end to end - custom Liquid widgets like a pincode delivery-date checker and an offers modal - while my co-founder Kanishka runs ops and growth.

    ARR
    $100K
    Instagram followers
    24K
    • Shopify
    • Liquid
    • D2C
  • Product analytics for founders who don't want another dashboard. It watches your app and emails a plain-English daily summary - plus instant alerts when something spikes or breaks.

    • SaaS
    • React
    • Supabase
  • A social-post scheduler I designed and shipped end to end in a single 12-hour build sprint. Plan, queue, and schedule everything from one calendar.

    • Next.js
    • Supabase

About

I lead the frontend at Classhero, an EdTech startup, working remotely from Delhi. Day to day I own the UI - the design system, the component architecture, and the small details that make software feel trustworthy. Nights and weekends I build my own products, which is where I've learned the most about shipping, listening to users, and what actually moves the needle.

I care about fundamentals more than the framework of the week - I'd rather understand why something works than wire together tools I can't debug. I build in public, ship fast, and take distribution as seriously as the code.

Skills

Frontend
  • React
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • HTML / CSS
  • Responsive & mobile-first design
  • Animation & micro-interactions
Commerce
  • Shopify (Liquid)
  • Theme development
  • Storefront widgets
  • App development
Backend & infra
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • REST APIs
  • Serverless
  • WebSockets
  • WebRTC
AI-assisted dev
  • Claude Code
  • Custom workflows
  • Agentic build pipelines
Ways of working
  • Git / GitHub Actions
  • Design critique & product thinking
  • Build in public

Experience

  1. Jan 2025 – Present

    Frontend Head

    Classhero · Full-time · Remote

    I lead frontend at Classhero - owning the UI architecture, the design system, and the polish that carries from the product through to its district-facing marketing.

  2. Jul 2024 – Dec 2024

    Software Engineer

    Samagra - Transforming Governance · Full-time · New Delhi, India · Remote

    • Led development of the official SamagraX website from scratch using Gatsby, Netlify CMS, and JAMstack - improving load times by 30% with cloud-based content management.
    • Used GraphQL to strengthen data-fetching, reducing API call latency by 20%.
  3. Aug 2023 – Jun 2024

    Software Engineer

    Nordstone · Full-time · London, United Kingdom · Remote

    • Led the migration from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture with React and Webpack Module Federation, improving modularity and cutting build times by 50%.
    • Integrated complex state management with Redux and the Context API, optimizing large data-driven apps and reducing state-related bugs by 40%.
    • Integrated APIs and managed PostgreSQL for data consistency and optimized queries, reducing response times by 30%.
  4. Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

    Open Source Developer

    Code for GovTech (C4GT) · Internship · Remote

    • Contributed to a high-traffic PWA built with Next.js, Redux, GraphQL, and Docker.
    • Implemented unit and end-to-end tests with Cypress, improving coverage by 40%.
    • Led Docker-based development environments to streamline local setup and speed up deployments.
  5. May 2022 – Jul 2023

    Frontend Developer

    EventGraphia · Full-time

    • Boosted performance by over 60% on a platform serving 20,000 daily users, keeping it smooth through traffic surges.
    • Led the front-end team building features and UI with React, Django, JavaScript, and CSS3 - responsive across mobile and web with cross-browser support.
    • Worked with the backend on RESTful APIs and dynamic content rendering, reducing server response times and improving load speeds.
  6. Nov 2021 – Feb 2022

    Software Developer

    CuriousJr · Internship · Remote

    Built JavaScript web apps that help kids learn to code - focused on making coding education accessible and enjoyable through interactive, instruction-driven exercises.

  7. Mar 2021 – Jun 2021

    Mentor

    GirlScript Summer of Code · Part-time · India

    Reviewed DSA submissions from a large pool of contributors, guiding them toward well-formatted, documented, bug-free code with edge cases handled - then merged the best into AlgoTree.