Gagan Doddanna — Frontend engineer and UX designer

Gagan Doddanna

Engineer by training.
Designer by choice.

Frontend engineer with a design diploma. I close the gap between what users need and how systems scale.

Open to new roles
Remofirst · Arontel

The journey

CS engineer from India — MS in Computer Science at DePaul. While deep in systems, I watched UX reshape how software gets built — so I earned a design diploma alongside my degree.

Across three startups I've handled engineering, interface design, and performance simultaneously. No handoff layer. That's the gap I fill.

Not a pivot. An upgrade.

  • Performance is a feature. I measure it before I claim it.
  • Good UX cuts complexity. Great engineering keeps it cut.
  • I build for the person using the product, not the portfolio screenshot.

Background

Education & credentials

Education

  • MS Computer ScienceDePaul University · 2023
  • BE Computer ScienceVTU, India · 2020
  • Diploma in UX/UI DesignEdit Institute · 2023
  • AWS Solutions ArchitectAssociate · 2025
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner2024
  • Generative AI with LLMsCoursera · 2024

Experience

Where I've worked

Frontend engineer across a complex IVR and telecom platform — architecture, UX decisions, and production delivery without a handoff layer.

Built real-time dashboards for systems with thousands of concurrent nodes, optimizing state flow and rendering at depth.

Frontend architecture and platform revamp using Next.js and React across client-facing and internal products.

Built an AI-powered interview platform from scratch — real-time voice I/O, transcript rendering, and session state using OpenAI, Web Speech API, WebSockets, and Firebase.

Frontend and full-stack work across recruitment tech, enterprise data systems, and client-delivery environments — where the fundamentals got built.

Let's build something.

gagandoddanna@gmail.com