Pourush Shrestha

Senior Frontend Engineer · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

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Senior Frontend Engineer with nearly 7 years shipping high-traffic e-commerce features at scale. Co-lead the Product Explore area of Gap Inc.’s Product Detail Page (PDP) platform across Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta, serving millions of daily users. Own frontend architecture end-to-end in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS — from server/client rendering boundaries to flag-driven rollouts.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, FrontendJul 2025 – Present
G2O · Client: Gap Inc.
  • Co-lead, Product Explore (PDP): Drive technical direction for 6 product discovery features — Recommendations, Product Grouping, Multiple Variant Grouping (MVG), Upsell/Cross-sell, FindMine, and Quick Add; shipped 4 features to production with zero missed launch dates and set architecture standards for the area.
  • Frontend Architecture: Define server/client component boundaries in Next.js, dynamically load below-the-fold client components, and parallelize and cache server-side data calls to keep high-traffic PDPs fast; gate releases with Optimizely feature flags and A/B segment cookies for safe, incremental rollouts.
  • Mentorship & Onboarding: Paired with a software engineer to ramp them up on the PDP codebase, page architecture, Optimizely feature flags, and A/B segment logic, supporting their day-to-day delivery.
  • Feature Lead, Loyalty Gated: Drove sell-outs within 24 hours for loyalty-gated products reaching 2M+ card members; led delivery from soft launch to full rollout by integrating Decision API, CAM token auth, and Optimizely, then shipped a New Relic observability dashboard post-launch.
  • Led Compare Similar Styles (Product Grouping & MVG v2): Architected and delivered the feature brand-wide in React and TypeScript, driving $1M+ in projected revenue uplift on PDPs serving millions of daily users.
  • Feature Lead, Multi-Brand Retheme: Redesigned 5 core PDP components across all four storefronts on schedule using design system tokens and cross-team code reviews, earning direct client commendation at launch.
Senior Software Engineer, Platform & ArchitectureSep 2021 – Jun 2025
G2O · Client: Abercrombie & Fitch

Joined as Software Engineer (2021); promoted to Senior Software Engineer (2023)

  • Built reference Micro-Frontend (MFE) pages adopted by 4 product teams: Delivered Profile, Checkout, Product, and Catalog references, cutting per-team onboarding from 3 weeks to 1 and improving deployment velocity by 20%+; implemented an NGINX reverse proxy for routing and load balancing across the MFE orchestration layer.
  • Restored full tracking accuracy across 50,000+ daily sessions: Eliminated a race condition in the analytics pipeline; built an orchestration-layer test suite with 90%+ coverage, cutting integration defects by 65%.
Backend Software EngineerJan 2021 – Jul 2021
U-Haul Inc.
  • Reduced login failures by 30% for 50,000+ users: Built a Node.js/Express authentication system; cut new-hire ramp-up from 3 weeks to 1 by restructuring onboarding documentation.
Software EngineerOct 2019 – Dec 2020
Omviser LLC · Axxess Inc.
  • Cut technical debt by 40% and production bugs by 50%: Modernized a legacy JavaScript codebase to ES6+ with 85% test coverage and improved load performance by 20%; built Axxess Hospice dashboard features driving 10% revenue growth.

Projects

Personal Portfolio · pourushshrestha.comNext.js · TypeScript · MDX · Tailwind CSS
  • Scored 100 desktop / 99 mobile across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO: Built a database-free site with an all-Server-Component architecture and MDX/Markdown-driven content for about, resume, and blog sections, shipping minimal client JavaScript with zero backend overhead.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript (ES6+)TypeScriptHTML5CSS3GraphQLSQLPython

Frameworks & Libraries

ReactNext.js (App Router, Server Components)ZustandReduxRTK QueryNode.jsExpressTailwind CSSSassStorybook

Testing & Tooling

JestPlaywrightReact Testing LibraryWebpackViteDockerCI/CDNew RelicOptimizelyNGINX

AI-Assisted Development

Claude CodeClaudeOpenAI CodexChatGPT

Education

M.Sc. Software EngineeringMay 2020
Villanova University · GPA 3.76/4.0