Frontend engineer · Kathmandu, working remote

I design, build & ship scalable reliable impactful performant products.

I turn messy briefs into products people actually use, from the first sketch to production and the messy middle in between.

See selected work rabinthapa.rb1@gmail.com
  • 5+ Years shipping
  • 0 → 1 Greenfield launches
  • End‑to‑end Design · code · ship
  • 22 Production releases

I like the part where the plan meets prod.

I'm Rabin — a frontend engineer who's spent the last five years turning half-finished Figmas and napkin sketches into things real people use, every day.

I sit happily between design and engineering. I'll argue about line-height on a Tuesday, ship a terraform change on a Wednesday, and write the doc explaining both on a Thursday. The most interesting work for me is the messy middle — where the plan meets prod and you find out what's actually true.

Currently building at UXCam. Previously: Veda-App, BitpointX, RGB IT Solution.

What I do

Four things, end to end.

  1. 01

    Products that talk back

    React and Next.js apps that ship animation, accessibility, and i18n as features, not afterthoughts.

    • Motion
    • WCAG
    • RTL+
    • i18n
  2. 02

    Frontends that don't ossify

    Token-driven design systems that survive a re-skin, a new PM, and a new feature on the same day.

    • Tokens
    • Storybook
    • Typed
    • Theming
  3. 03

    A whole stack on AWS

    Comfortable end to end. Lambda, S3, CloudFront, IaC — enough to ship a feature without waiting on backend.

    • Serverless
    • Containers
    • IaC
  4. 04

    Take the plan all the way

    From RFC, to roll-out, to support — the whole loop. Owned, mentored, documented, deprecated when it's time.

    • RFC
    • Mentor
    • Owned

Five years, four real jobs.

Each role expanded the scope I owned: from client sites, to a team of three, to sole ownership of a Web SDK thousands of B2B clients depend on.

  1. 2024 →

    Senior Frontend Engineer UXCam

    Sole owner of UXCam's Web SDK serving thousands of B2B clients, driving the roadmap, architecture, and production calls end to end. Pitched and shipped the Flutter Web Replay Capture SDK that opened a new revenue line, cut dashboard API calls by 33% with service-worker caching, and won the 2025 internal AI Hackathon with "AI for Renewals". Also own the frontend observability stack and the CI/CD pipeline.

    RemoteKathmandu, NP
  2. 2023 → 24

    Mid-Senior Frontend Engineer Veda-App

    Led a frontend team of three on a school-operations suite running in 1,200+ schools. Owned the full lifecycle across React, Next.js, Vue, and Lit, migrated a legacy PHP/jQuery codebase to web components, and shipped Veda Inventory, Veda Monitoring, a Next.js CMS, and a Gemini-powered chatbot with Redis and BullMQ rate limiting.

    On-siteKathmandu, NP
  3. 2022 → 23

    React / Next.js Developer BitpointX

    Built SEO-focused React, Next.js, and Svelte apps including WiseAdmit, a student-consulting platform shipped end to end. Integrated HubSpot, Amplitude, GA, and Hotjar, set up Jest and React Testing Library, and led a Svelte to SvelteKit migration while mentoring trainees on the path from core JS to React.

    On-siteKathmandu, NP
  4. 2021 → 22

    React / Next.js Developer RGB IT Solution

    Delivered React, Next.js, and HTML projects across telemedicine, restaurant ordering, and portfolio sites. Worked with Tailwind, Bootstrap, Redux, TanStack Query, and Framer Motion on small budgets and tight timelines, learning how the boring parts of the job are the parts that matter.

    On-siteKathmandu, NP
Rabin working on a laptop beside a wide window, a city skyline in the distance

Builds anywhere there's a window.

Working from Kathmandu. Usually with a cup of coffee.

A loop, not a line.

How I work, in four moves that keep repeating.

  1. 01

    Talk & align

    Read the doc. Get on the call. Get to the smallest version that's still valuable. The questions that don't get asked here become the surprises in prod.

  2. 02

    Design in code

    Prototype in real React. Tokens before pixels. Real content, real states, real edge cases — faster than Figma for everything past the first sketch.

  3. 03

    Ship to prod

    Small, reversible, observable. Roll out behind a flag, watch the chart, then breathe. Tuesdays — always Tuesdays.

  4. 04

    Learn & write it down

    Post-mortem the surprises. Write the doc. Re-skin the loop. Repeat. If it isn't written down, it didn't happen.

Stuff I wrote down so I'd remember.

Featured · Dec 2024 · Medium

Next.js + PayPal, the easiest way to ship payments

A practical walkthrough of integrating PayPal into a Next.js app, because a seamless payment experience can make or break your product.

Read on Medium
  1. 01 OAuth for Next.js 14 with Auth.js & Prisma Sep 2024
  2. 02 Deploy your Next.js app with Docker Sep 2024
  3. 03 Dockerize MongoDB for Prisma replica sets Sep 2024
  4. 04 Host your first Go Templ app on Railway Aug 2024
  5. 05 All posts on Medium Archive

What I'm actually doing this week.

In flight · week of 25 May 2026

  • → Hardening Flutter Web Replay Capture for high-traffic B2B clients WIP
  • → Wiring TARA AI's streaming-LLM UX — SSE on the frontend, agent loop on the backend WIP
  • → Auditing the SDK's retry policy against last week's burst pattern WIP
  • ○ Studying for the MBA — marketing specialization, finals next month STUDY