Ishant Mehta

About Ishant Mehta

I\'m a frontend engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building products that serve 100K+ deployments/day and 10K+ daily users.Currently at Jisr, I operate in a hybrid IC/EM role, leading a team of 40 engineers (including 5 mobile) while staying hands-on for technical migrations and rebrands. I flex between the two based on what the project needs. Some examples from the past year- Introduced AI-assisted code review (CodeRabbit), cutting PR turnaround from 24 hours to 2 hours, shifting 80%+ of code comments to AI, and increasing PRs reviewed per engineer by 2.5x- Replaced Cypress with Playwright for E2E testing, growing automated coverage to 300+ test cases in 8 months while eliminating in costs- Led a full product rebrand in 4 weeks with just 2 engineers- Spearheaded a Design System migration with a team of 8, achieving 90%+ completion in 3 months- Drove the React 18 to 19 upgrade with no major regressionsBefore Jisr, I was at Arts Consolidated working on Operabase (a global platform for the OPERA industry), where I lifted the SEO score from 50 to 88, driving 3x organic traffic growth and 4x ticketing conversions.At Harness (5.5 years), I joined as the first UI hire in India and grew into a Staff Engineer / Tech Lead. I shipped 50+ features for the CD product serving daily users and deployments/day, and was part of the journey from $2M to $100M ARR.I started my career at Sprinklr, where I delivered the Engagement module used by 400+ enterprise customers and reduced page load time from 4s to 1.5s.I actively leverage AI tools (Claude, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit) to accelerate testing, migrations, and design system adoption. I believe the best engineering leaders are the ones who stay close enough to the code to make good decisions, while empowering their teams to do their best work.Always happy to connect and chat about frontend at scale, AI-augmented engineering, or building high-performing teams.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Jisr | جسر

   Feb 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Lead a cross-functional team of 40 engineers (including 5 mobile) across frontend and full-stack disciplines. Operate in a hybrid IC/EM capacity (50/50), flexing between hands-on engineering and people leadership based on project needs.Key achievements- Introduced CodeRabbit for AI-assisted code review: reduced PR turnaround from 24h to 2h, shifted 80%+ of comments to AI, increased PRs reviewed per engineer 2.5x- Replaced Cypress with Playwright; grew E2E test coverage to 300+ cases in 8 months using AI-assisted scenario generation- Led full product rebrand in 4 weeks with 2 engineers, zero impact to other workstreams- Spearheaded Design System migration with team of 8; achieved 90%+ completion rate in 3 months- Drove React 18 to 19 upgrade using AI-assisted breaking-change analysis, no major regressions- Launched bi-weekly knowledge-sharing sessions across engineering- Managed performance reviews, stack rankings, PIPs, and restructuring decisions- Designed and executed a hiring drive that landed 4 engineers in a single day

Education

• Dhirubhai Ambani University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Information and Communication Technology

  2011 — 2015

• Modern Vidya Niketan , Sector 17 , Faridabad

  High School, Non-Medical

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Reactjs
• Javascript
• Html
• Css
• Reflux
• Bootstrap
• C
• Java
• Data Structures
• Sql
• Programming
• Mysql
• Algorithms
• User Experience
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)