Sumedh Kanade, BE, MD.

A unified front-end development and product design skill set.

Hi! 👋 I'm a Contract Senior Frontend Engineer from New Zealand 🥝 with a passion for solving challenging problems with Design Thinking and effective UI/UX design — all brought to life with world-class frontend engineering.

Contract software development for some of the biggest brands in New Zealand and the world

VeVe and Marvel logosPwC logoYellow (New Zealand) logoStuff News logo

01/Commercial Projects

VeVe (2023-2024)

Contract Snr. Frontend Developer & Product Designer

VeVe Comics - in partnership with Marvel

I was brought on to help VeVe, partnering with Marvel, to design & build a new comics offering that would appeal to both comic fans and digital collectors. Through research and collaboration with key stakeholders at VeVe & Marvel, I designed a comics web store & reader app (iOS, iPadOS, Android) that balanced desirability, feasibility & viability. I was then part of the frontend development (web) team that built a fully responsive, accessible, SEO-enabled comics web store that, within 2 weeks of launch, earned over half million dollars in revenue & racked up 5,000 app installs. Read more

Developed using

ReactNextJSTypeScriptTailwindCSSCSS3HTML5JestAccessibilitySEOCypressFigma
VeVe Comics home page in a desktop web browser
VeVe Comics product page in a desktop web browser
VeVe Comics Reader app showing the reading mode screen
VeVe Comics Reader app on the iPad showing a library of purchased comic books
screenshots of iPhone VeVe Comics Reader App

PwC (NZ) (2021-2022)

Contract Frontend Lead & Product Designer

PwC Treasury Intelligence

PwC faced the challenge of the improving operational efficiency of its Corporate Treasury services. I was the sole frontend developer and product designer for an innovative SaaS app - Treasury Intelligence - that tackled this issue. The app was nominated as one of the submissions from PwC New Zealand for most innovative app across the global PwC network. Customers who used the app during alpha-stage testing loved it and committed to signing up for the app as soon as it was officially released. Read more

Developed using

ReactNextJSTailwindCSSTypeScriptHTML5CSS3JestCypressMSWAccessibilityFigma

Yellow (NZ) (2020-2021)

Contract Frontend Developer & Product Designer

Yellow's Websites and Online Store Product

Yellow embarked on a new project that would enable thousands of small to medium businesses in New Zealand to set up an online presence in under 15 minutes. The product, called Online Store, allows users to essentially sign up for an account with Yellow, fill out a short form, and within moments get a beautiful, performant, and SEO-optimized website to showcase their products and services. I was the sole front-end developer and product designer for this product. Additionally, I revamped the design of Yellow’s customer portal tool and built a reusable component library adopting the new design. Read more

Developed using

ReactGatsbyTypeScriptTailwindCSSHTML5CSS3SEOAccessibilityFigma
yellow online store product page screenshot
Yellow's online store product allows customers to quickly create an online store integrated with Shopify.
yellow website builder product screenshot
Yellow's website builder product allows customers to quickly create a brand website.
Pagespeed
The online store site outperformed all major competition tested in the industry-standard Google Pagespeed test for performance.
Google Lighthouse metric results for Robyn's Undies site.
The online store site outperformed all major competition tested in the industry-standard Google Lighthouse test for performance, accessibility, search engine optimization, and best practices.

02/Personal Projects

logos of NodeJS, ExpressJS, Prisma, Typescript, and JWT

REST API with NodeJS, ExpressJS, JWT-based auth, and Prisma as ORM(2024)

A simple demo REST API built with NodeJS & ExpressJS with Prisma as ORM on top of a SQLite database. JWT-based authentication. Uses TypeScript and a best-practice architecture with routes, controllers, services, and DAO layers.

Developed using

NodeJSExpressJSTypeScriptPrismaJWTWinston
a spinning top referencing the movie inception

This portfolio site(2023)

A fully-responsive, performant, accessible and search engine optimized portfolio site built with GatsbyJS (a React framework). Content hosted on Contentful CMS; styled with TailwindCSS.

Developed using

ReactGatsbyTypeScriptTailwindCSSHTML5FigmaSEOAccessibility
screenshot of WSJ clone site in both mobile and desktop browsers

Wall Street Journal Clone(2022)

A fun weekend project showcasing a fully responsive online newspaper layout. Inspired by one of my favorite news site designs - the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Developed using

ReactGatsbyTailwindCSSTypeScriptHTML5CSS3
algovizr-image

Algovizr(2021)

An interactive, fully responsive web app that lets you visualize and understand how famous algorithms in software engineering work. For now, it shows the bubble sort algorithm in action.

Developed using

ReactNextJSTailwindCSSTypeScriptHTML5CSS3
covidinperspective.com (1)
covidinperspective.com (2)

COVID-19 In Perspective(2021)

A project to let visitors explore trends in data from the COVID-19 pandemic, with the hope of bringing perspective to the global picture. Global distribution and correlation between metrics relating to the pandemic can be explored in an interactive way.  International data sourced from Oxford's Our World In Data.

Developed using

ReactNextJSTailwindCSSTypeScriptHTML5CSS3
screenshot of blindtest website

Camera Blind Test(2019)

This full-stack app conducts a smartphone camera blind test where users pick photos they like without knowing which camera took the photos. The users then find out which camera they ended up liking the most. The app also shows a global tally for most liked camera. The backend was a Spring Boot (Java) Rest API hosted on AWS EC2 with a SQL datastore. The frontend was made with Angular v6. Version 1 is currently retired while I move the backend to a serverless architecture using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB.

Developed using

AngularTypeScriptHTML5CSS3Spring Boot (Java)HibernateMySQL

03/Skills and Technologies

Frontend Development

React
NextJS
Gatsby
Gatsby
TailwindCSS
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3
Angular
SEO
Accessibility
icon for cypress, a testing framework
Cypress
icon for jest, a testing framework
Jest
MSW
MSW
Storybook

Backend Development

  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • NodeJS
  • Express
  • Spring Boot (Java)
  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • ORM

DevOps

  • CI/CD
  • AWS API Gateway
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • AWS CloudFront
  • AWS S3
  • AWS Route53
  • AWS EC2
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Active Directory

Fundamentals

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Functional Programming
  • Unit Testing
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • UML Design Patterns
  • Git
  • Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Design Thinking
University of Auckland (New Zealand) logo

Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Engineering (Software)

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

&
University of Otago (New Zealand) logo

Bachelor of Medicine,

Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)

University of Otago (New Zealand)

04/Recommendations

"Sumedh was instrumental in the front end development of PwC Treasury Intelligence. He was relentlessly focused on the user experience, gaining meaningful and comprehensive feedback throughout the design process and aligning our approach with best-practice principles and high-quality names/examples. He was able to quickly understand the 'why', so he could better think about the 'how' for the UI and worked well with the back end / wider team to bring features and outputs to life. It was a pleasure to have him on the team - all the best going forward Sumedh!"

Tom Lawson, AMCT

Tom Lawson, AMCT

ex-Manager, Executive Director

PwC (NZ) (2021-2022)
"Detail-oriented (like with a magnifying glass), self-motivated, and exceptionally focused on customer-oriented outcomes, Sumedh set the standard across the Product Design & Front End solution work for VeVe Comics. Prototyping, user testing coordination, making life easier for Marketing / Operations teams, working with teams all over the world, detailed FE building, last minute tweaks or incident response FE changes - Sumedh has done it all with us at VeVe to a very high level."
Jade Becroft

Jade Becroft

ex-Manager

VeVe (2023-2024)

"Sumedh was hired to help build the next generation of our customer portal and Yellow's new website product, and was able to quickly adopt and implement the latest front end technologies to deliver a great fully responsive user experience and blazing fast performance. Sumedh brought a new focus on user interface design to our front end team, and quickly became a wizard in Figma, React, Gatsby and Tailwind CSS. Most importantly, Sumedh was never afraid to challenge conventional thinking and was always willing to discuss, learn and contribute no matter the topic or task, and I'm sure that we will work together again at some point in the future."
Justin Menga

Justin Menga

ex-Manager, Chief Architect

Yellow (NZ) (2020-2021)

"I highly recommend Sumedh as a front-end developer. He has a strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React and has a keen eye for design. Able to take a project from conception to completion with minimal supervision and consistently delivers high-quality work. Sumedh is a strong problem-solver, able to troubleshoot and debug code effectively. I have no doubt that Sumedh would be a valuable asset to any project."
Rohit Gabriel

Rohit Gabriel

Cloud Architect

PwC (NZ) (2021-2022)

"Sumedh is a positive force for good. His passion and commitment to deliver whilst adhering to best practice and the end user in mind. As a non technical marketer demanding the best and Rolls Royce of functionality to promote the very best to our customers, Sumedh always remained pragmatic and easy going and open to feedback and requests whilst remaining focussed on delivery. Enjoyed working with Sumedh and hope I get to work with him again in the future!"
Renee Tan

Renee Tan

Head of Marketing

VeVe (2023-2024)

"I had the pleasure of working with Sumedh during the development of our Treasury Intelligence reporting tool. Sumedh was brought in as the frontend lead and was very quickly able to understand the requirements despite not having a background in Treasury. Sumedh provided invaluable experience to the team from previous projects he's been involved with. He provided valuable input into the design of the frontend to ensure the user experience was enhanced. He has a fantastic work ethic, he took constructive criticism well and implemented changes in a timely manner...Sumedh was great to work with and was a well liked member of the team. A real asset to the team."
Raj Verma

Raj Verma

Corporate Treasury

PwC (NZ) (2021-2022)

"Sumedh joined our team initially as a contract front end developer, but very quickly stepped up his responsibilities when the ever evolving environment meant we were short on technical leadership amongst both a global pandemic, and a directive to work remotely on his first day with us. Coordinating across both front, back and infrastructure work he quickly became someone who could be thrown a problem with myself comfortable knowing that it would be sorted. His sense of humour, and love for pizza or broccoli (depending on the day), reminded everyone that we could laugh, and still achieve things. Definitely something we will miss. I wouldn't hesitate to bring Sumedh in again if the opportunities arose."
Jade Becroft

Jade Becroft

ex-Manager

Stuff News (2020-2020)

"I worked closely with Sumedh on a new product's inception at Stuff, and it was such an inspiring and humbling experience. Amidst the coronavirus lockdown, a tech lead leaving, and the sudden transition to remote working, Sumedh was one of the big support pillars in our team. He proactively took on responsibilities to relieve pressure and inspired us all on how to sail through this difficult period with ease. He has a knack for creative problem-solving and innovates where it makes sense. I've seen Sumedh diving at the deeper end of details while being cognizant of high-level design and architecture. He is fluent in both design and development in such depth that not only was he our bridge between the two in the team, but he also provided valuable technical guidance on those topics. It has been such a delight working with him. I hope we find each other at another opportunity soon."
Paras Singh

Paras Singh

Senior DevOps Engineer

Stuff News (2020-2020)

"I've had the pleasure of working closely with Sumedh at Healthlink; His efforts were instrumental in delivering an important healthcare project for the Australian sector. Sumedh's discipline and focus is second to none. He takes the quality of his code quality seriously, and is constantly researching new techniques and innovations. His rare combination of medical expertise and software engineering makes him a versatile and competent asset. At a crucial stage in the project Sumedh used his medical expertise to produce an 'impossible' solution for diagnosis search and attribution. Sumedh brings an infectious energy to the team, he thinks two steps ahead about the long term consequences of our design decisions - invaluable given the frenetic pace of our project. I feel that I am a better developer for having worked with him."
Victor Jones

Victor Jones

Senior Frontend Developer

Healthlink (2017-2018)

"...I wholeheartedly endorse Mr. Kanade as someone who has a bright future and will perform admirably for any organization."
Michael Swetnam

Michael Swetnam

Chairman and CEO

Potomac Institute (2005-2004)

"Above and beyond. Sumedh is ever the model professional. He operates to the highest of standards and often goes and above and beyond to deliver and achieve positive outcomes. Adaptable to evolving requirements, he is able to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders."

Mitchelll Mak

Mitchelll Mak

ex-Manager, Head of Product

VeVe (2023-2024)
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