VBVinay BandiLead Frontend Engineer
Experience

A journey across states

Six roles, six cities, two countries, 11+ years — from jQuery beginnings in Delhi to leading React platform architecture in Chicago. Here’s the route I took, one stop at a time.

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Six moves, in order — hover, tap, or focus a stop to trace the route.

START1DelhiIND · 20142BirminghamAL · 20153San JoseCA · 20164FraminghamMA · 20185EvanstonIL · 2019NOW6ChicagoIL · 2022
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  1. Where it began — Delhi, India

    2014Delhi, India

    UI Developer

    GlobalLogic

    Started my career building interactive, user-friendly web interfaces with jQuery and Ajax, consuming SOAP/XML web services with end-to-end testing.

    JavaScriptjQueryAjaxXMLJSPMVC

  2. Delhi → Birmingham, AL

    2015 — 2016Birmingham, AL

    UI Developer

    BBVA Compass

    Delivered single-page applications with AngularJS — custom directives and filters, Bootstrap responsive UIs, and Karma/Jasmine unit testing.

    AngularJSJavaScriptBootstrapSQLKarmaJasmine

  3. Birmingham → San Jose, CA

    2016 — 2018San Jose, CA

    Front End / ReactJS Developer

    Adobe

    Built interactive UI experiences with React and Bootstrap, responsive across screen sizes, with reusable front-end libraries and JEST test coverage.

    ReactJavaScriptSASSNode.jsBootstrapGit

  4. San Jose → Framingham, MA

    2018 — 2019Framingham, MA

    UI Developer / ReactJS Developer

    Staples

    Developed responsive, accessible React SPAs in an Agile team — Redux stores, drag-and-drop interactions, and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to ship to test environments.

    ReactReduxJavaScriptSASSNode.jsJenkins

  5. Framingham → Evanston, IL

    2019 — 2022Evanston, IL

    Sr → Lead Front End / ReactJS Developer

    Cardinal Intellectual Property

    Promoted from Senior to Lead. Built interactive React applications for IP and marketing products — Redux state management, reusable component libraries, and a strong Jest unit-testing culture.

    ReactReduxJavaScriptMaterial-UIKendo ReactFormikJest

  6. Evanston → Chicago, IL

    2022 — NowNowChicago, IL

    Lead Software Engineer

    The Aspen Group (TAG)

    Lead the architecture of modern, scalable web applications on Next.js (App + Pages Router) with GraphQL and REST, across a multi-brand healthcare platform serving 1,000+ locations.

    • Migrated an SEO-critical platform (tens of thousands of pages) from Gatsby SSG to Next.js SSR + App Router, decoupling publishing from deployments.
    • Architected a shared multi-brand frontend powering Aspen Dental, ClearChoice, WellNow, Lovet, and Chapter from one codebase and themed design system.
    • Built reusable React component libraries and schemas; drove test automation with Jest, Vitest, and Cypress in GitLab CI/CD, with Sentry runtime monitoring.
    • Mentor engineers, run code reviews, and set team-wide standards.
    Next.jsReactTypeScriptGraphQLMaterial UITailwindCypressSentry