Nitish Kumar
Senior UI Developer
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Strapi CMS
I work at Value Research, on the team building the platforms millions of Indian investors use every day. When I joined in 2023, the frontend ran on HTML, jQuery, and PHP. Today it's React, Next.js, and a headless CMS built on Strapi.
Getting there took research, testing a few frameworks, and helping shape the CMS architecture so the content team could publish pages without waiting on a code deployment. It shipped, and it's been live ever since, with the content team publishing independently. It wasn't a solo effort, and I learned a lot along the way about what actually holds up in production. These days I also guide the frontend team on architecture decisions and run peer code reviews.
I love writing code, building things, and solving real problems, and I want to keep taking on harder ones.
Experience
- Senior UI Developer at Value Research · March 2026 - Present. Mentoring the frontend team and guiding UI architecture, legacy code, technical SEO, and code reviews.
- UI Developer at Value Research · May 2023 - March 2026. Helped build the Strapi and Next.js integration and modernized legacy pages into a component-based system.
- Software Engineer Intern at CodeQuotient · Dec 2022 - May 2023. Built full-stack features with React, Node.js, and MongoDB in an Agile team.
Work
- Value Research Learn Platform: Next.js app with headless CMS integration, dynamic page generation, and a component system that lets the content team publish without code changes.