About
Rakesh Purohit — Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior frontend engineer and DevRel at Rocket (rocket.new) with 5+ years building scalable React and Next.js platforms. I focus on performance, design systems, developer tooling, and growth-ready frontend systems. I also write for Rocket and DhiWise.
1M+
Monthly users supported on a $70 infra budget via Vercel edge.
51.19%
Build time reduction using CRACO + esbuild (17m -> 8m).
90+
Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed after performance hardening.
80%
Organic traffic growth after Webflow -> Next.js + ISR.
100K+
Figma plugin users with 5K MAU in production.
20 hrs
Saved monthly through Gen-AI workflow automation.
1.8x
Faster latency via Redis HTML caching with auth/device variants.
30%
Server compute cost reduction from cache strategy.
Experience
Build history.
A mix of product engineering, developer tools, and frontend platforms.
Skills
Toolbelt.
Credentials
Recognition, writing, and open source.
Awards, certifications, and community work that show up in how I build.
Recognition
India Quotient 30 Under 30
Selected from 100 portfolio companies for exceptional contributions.
2024
Employee of the Year
DhiWise
2022
Certifications
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Hands-On with Agentic AI
LinkedIn Learning
2025
Writing & Speaking
- Rocket blog contributor
Developer experience, frontend systems, and performance writing.
- DhiWise Blog contributor
React, Next.js, and frontend architecture topics (10K+ monthly readers).
- Medium technical articles
Modern frontend development and product engineering.
React India 2025 CFP submitted
Talk proposal on modern frontend systems and performance.
Open Source
- React Test Case Generator
VS Code extension for automated React test creation.
- react-amplitude-hooks
React hooks wrapper for Amplitude analytics.
- React Gujarati Documentation
Maintainer of Gujarati React docs.
Education
MSc Information & Communication Technology
JP Dawer Institute (VNSGU)
2018-2020 - CGPA 7.18/10
Bachelor of Computer Applications
SDJ International College (VNSGU)
2015-2018 - CGPA 8.00/10