Anand Kumar

About

Principal Frontend Architect · Publicis Sapient · Bengaluru

I'm a Principal Frontend Architect with 19 years of experience designing and delivering web systems at enterprise scale. My work spans micro-frontend architecture, BFF (Backend for Frontend) design, performance engineering, and accessibility — for clients in retail, healthcare, financial services, and SaaS.

My focus is the intersection of product velocity and platform stability: giving large engineering organisations the architectural patterns, tooling, and governance they need to ship independently without creating distributed chaos.

I've worked onsite with teams in the UK, US, and Canada. Currently based in Bengaluru at Publicis Sapient, working on enterprise-scale platform modernisation.

Experience

Publicis Sapient·Manager, Experience Technology · Principal Architect
Sep 2018 — present

Frontend and BFF architect across retail, eCommerce, healthcare, and B2B. Led up to 10+ direct reports; delivered onsite in Canada and UAE; drove engineering standards, ADRs, and architecture governance across programs.

Publicis Sapient·Lead, eXperience Engineering · Senior Associate Technology L2
May 2015 — Sep 2018

Led and contributed to frontend delivery across grocery, sporting goods, and fashion eCommerce clients. Built component libraries, accessibility patterns, and CI/CD pipelines.

Magic Software Pvt. Ltd.·Senior Analyst · Technical Lead
Nov 2009 — May 2015

Led Flash/Flex-to-HTML5 migration for EdTech platforms. Managed 8+ engineers; delivered onsite in UK. Designed modular activity framework using Backbone, Marionette, and RequireJS.

Chetu India Pvt. Ltd.·Software Engineer · Tech Lead
May 2007 — Nov 2009

Delivered web and multimedia applications for healthcare and consumer clients using Flash, Flex, and ActionScript. Progressed to tech lead; owned estimation and delivery.

Skills

Architecture

Micro-frontendsBFF PatternADRsDesign SystemsSystem DesignCore Web Vitals

Leadership

Team LeadershipTech StrategyArchitecture GovernanceHiring & InterviewsMentoringDelivery Planning

Frontend

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.jsReduxViteModule FederationWebpackHTML5CSS3SASSEmotionMaterial UI

Mobile

React NativeiOSAndroid

Backend / BFF

Node.jsNestJSExpress.jsGraphQLREST APIs

Testing

JestPlaywrightReact Testing Library

DevOps

GitGitHub ActionsJenkinsGoogle Cloud BuildDockerNginx

CMS / Identity

AEMDrupalKeycloak

Monitoring

New RelicDatadogDynatraceGoogle AnalyticsGTM

Cloud

GCPAWSAzure

Certifications

Apollo GraphQL Associate

Apollo GraphQL

IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

IBM

Prompt Engineering for Developers

DeepLearning.AI / Anthropic

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)