Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)

- Owned frontend development for Target Account and Circle experiences, optimizing rendering paths and data fetching for millions of daily sessions.
- Migrated Login and Account flows from a legacy monolith to Next.js micro-frontends, reducing coupling and enabling independent deployments.
- Collaborated with backend teams to evolve GraphQL schemas designed for React Query caching and SSR prefetching.
- Delivered robust automated testing coverage (Cypress, Playwright, React Testing Library) for functional and accessibility compliance.

Engineer

- Worked with a Fortune 50 client (Intel) as a Full Stack Developer.
- Across timezones: Malaysia, US, Costa Rica, Singapore etc.
- Influential user base incl. C-level executives.
- Worked on a React frontend and a DotNet backend.

System Engineer

<p>- Leading frontend engineering and performance initiatives for Target.com (150M+ monthly active guests), ensuring reliability, scalability, and accessibility at global scale.
- Architected and launched AI-powered Gift Finder and Holiday Wishlist experiences under Gift Registry, improving engagement and conversion during peak seasonal traffic by 35%+.
- Worked on a major SEO initiative by introducing SSR, orchestrating multiple parallel server-side API calls to prefetch content, improving speed, and crawlability across high-traffic campaigns.
- Delivered a feature that reduced missed delivery defects, avoiding ~$19M in projected costs and increasing guest satisfaction.
- Built a React Query-driven data layer, reducing redundant API calls by over 30% through optimized caching and stale-while-revalidate strategies.
- Designed and shipped an AI-powered Grafana plugin for automated dashboard analysis and real-time performance insights.
- Architected config-driven, SSR-ready UIs using Next.j</p>

Vivek T A

Engineering at Target