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Lead Front-End Engineer @ MSN Sports

Hi, I'm Sanjay. I lead, build, and ship.

I lead front-end at Microsoft, and on the side I build full-stack products end-to-end — from architecture and shared libraries to the small tools that ship along with them.

Lucknow, India
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About

A bit about me

I'm a UX/UI developer focused on sports web experiences. I currently lead front-end for Microsoft's Bing & MSN Sports, where I own shared infrastructure and most of the user-facing pages — the libraries, architecture, and patterns the team builds on.

Day to day that means driving performance and data accuracy through testing, automation, and live-site quality tracking, and collaborating across teams with the usual Microsoft stack — Azure DevOps, Loop, and CI/CD pipelines.

Outside Microsoft, I advise an early-stage AI analytics startup as a fractional CTO, and I've been building open-source tools and side projects since 2015 — currently focused on Tooloogle, a growing platform of developer utilities.

Work

A short trail

  1. Lead Front-End Engineer · Microsoft — Bing & MSN Sports

    2019 — Present

    Leading front-end for the sports experience — owning shared infrastructure, core pages, and the libraries the team builds on. Focused on architecture, performance, data accuracy, and the testing & automation workflows that keep it all reliable. Currently working on AI and Edge pages for sports — for example, ICC.

  2. Technical Advisor · AI analytics startup

    2025 — Present

    Advising an early-stage AI dashboard company as a fractional CTO — product architecture, front-end foundations, and hiring guidance.

  3. Front-End Engineer · Microsoft — Azure

    2017 — 2019

    Worked on internal Azure tooling across Angular, TypeScript, and .NET web APIs.

  4. Independent work & open source · Side projects

    2014 — Present

    Building and maintaining open-source tools and small products. Currently focused on Tooloogle — a growing platform of developer utilities.

  5. Front-End Developer · Sequretek

    2017

    Short stint at a Mumbai cybersecurity company. Worked on the front-end of a corporate antivirus desktop application using Electron, jQuery and Node.js packaging.

  6. System Engineer · Tata Consultancy Services

    2014 — 2017

    First-job home. Shipped front-ends and Java backends for clients like GE and Avis. Learned a lot, fast.

Projects

Things I've built

A small selection of products and tools — some shipping, some evolving, all built end-to-end.

Tooloogle

Featured

A growing platform of fast, privacy-friendly online tools — formatters, converters, generators, and developer utilities.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Monorepo
VisitCode

AI Hebrew Assistant

Featured

RAG-powered chatbot that answers Hebrew queries by retrieving from thousands of local documents.

  • FastAPI
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • Python

Smart Home Automation

Featured

Custom React Native app + ESP32 firmware to control home devices through an API-driven automation layer.

  • React Native
  • ESP32
  • MQTT
  • IoT

Tooloogle Android

React Native companion for Tooloogle — the web toolset plus extra Android-native utilities, shipped on the Play Store.

  • React Native
  • Android
  • Mobile
Play Store

Chess4Life

Web app to help kids learn and play chess online, designed for classrooms and at-home practice.

  • Web
  • Education
  • Chess
Visit

chessboardjs-arrow

Lightweight utility to draw annotation arrows on Chessboard.js boards — for tutorials, analysis tools, and interactive demos.

  • JavaScript
  • Chess
  • Open Source
Code

ui-grid-multiselect-filter

AngularJS ui-grid plugin adding multi-select column filters. Used in production by other teams.

  • AngularJS
  • Plugin
  • Open Source
Code

Indian States & Districts

Open dataset of Indian states and districts in JSON and CSV — a small reference others reuse.

  • Dataset
  • Open Source
Code

Windows Password Recovery

Desktop utility to recover and reset lost Windows account passwords through a bootable USB workflow.

  • Windows
  • Desktop
  • Tool

Writing

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Step-by-step guide to scheduling daily MongoDB backups, uploading them to AWS S3, and managing local retention — production-ready and battle-tested.

Toolbox

What I work with

Front-End

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vite
  • Tiptap
  • LitElement
  • Ionic

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • FastAPI
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • ElasticSearch
  • ChromaDB

Mobile & Desktop

  • React Native
  • Capacitor
  • Electron

AI & Data

  • RAG Architecture
  • Embeddings (LaBSE)
  • Ollama
  • LLM-powered apps
  • Metabase

IoT & Hardware

  • Arduino
  • ESP8266 / ESP32
  • Home automation

Contact

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