Abhishek Thorat

1. Pypestream

   Sep 2020 to Present, Remote

   Conversational AI platform for enterprise customer experience.

   1. 2025 Staff Frontend Engineer
   2. 2022 Technical Lead
   3. 2021 Senior Frontend Developer
   4. 2020 Frontend Developer
   • Set technical direction and own architecture decisions across the frontend, from the customer-facing chat widget to the AI-agent studio.
   • Partner with product and design from feasibility to release, and lead the resolution of production issues for enterprise customers.
   • Mentor engineers through design and code review; turned team knowledge into written standards and an AI-assisted review workflow the whole team uses.
   • Added typecheck and test gates to CI, and moved the team to contract-first, generated API types instead of hand-written ones.

   Pype

   Pypestream’s new chat widget, which banks, insurers and consumer brands embed on their websites. It serves about 2 million sessions a month. I’m its technical lead.

   • Designed the architecture on Lit web components and XState, so the same code runs as a floating widget or a full page instead of two products to maintain.
   • Built the embed SDK customers add to their sites, with a strict public API so internal changes don’t break customer pages.
   • Created a platform for customers’ CX teams to build their own chat components, with a versioned contract, JSON Schema config and a CLI, so they ship custom experiences without waiting on our releases.
   • Brought it to parity with the legacy widget it replaces, including rich messages, surveys, PII masking, video, and 48 locales with right-to-left support.
   • Led WCAG 2.x AA accessibility work: focus management, screen-reader announcements and a keyboard model for every component.
   • Made it resilient with a three-tier error boundary and reliable reconnect and session restore, so a network blip doesn’t lose a conversation.
   • Built a live preview layer for the widget inside our internal builder apps, so customers see styling and content changes as they make them.

   AI-agent studio

   A platform where teams build AI agents from prompts, voice first and text next. Each agent is a YAML-based specification with its own visual canvas, and can call LLM services as it runs.

   • Own the frontend end to end: the prompt-driven agent builder, a visual canvas over each agent’s specification, editors, and voice and chat test flows.
   • Worked across services on multi-tenant correctness, debugging issues down to the data layer.

2. Tech9

   Sep 2019 to Sep 2020, Pune

   Software Engineer

   • Set up the initial stack and engineering practices for new applications, and worked with UX and product to shape frontend solutions in React on a Go backend.

3. GreenOrbit (formerly Effective Digital)

   Feb 2018 to Sep 2019, Pune

   1. 2019 Senior Frontend Developer
   2. 2018 Frontend Developer
   • Analyzed requirements, proposed frontend solutions and built them in React for GreenOrbit, a digital workplace product.
   • Reviewed the codebase to keep design and implementation consistent and improve usability.

4. Tudip Technologies

   Sep 2015 to Feb 2018, Pune

   1. 2016 JavaScript Developer
   2. 2015 iOS Developer
   • Worked directly with clients on requirements and deadlines, building React, Meteor and TypeScript applications with unit tests.
   • Ran internal training sessions on JavaScript and React for other developers.
   • Contributed to Form.io’s open-source React renderer, the library that renders Form.io forms in React apps.
   • Started with native iOS apps in Swift: responsive portrait and landscape layouts, social sign-up, and TAGKeyboard, an open-source pod that fixes the keyboard covering text fields.

Products I’m building outside work, end to end.

• TathastuPre-launch

  A digital legacy service. People write messages that reach the people they choose only after a human-verified life-status check. Messages are encrypted in the browser, so the server never sees them.

  Nx monorepo, Next.js, Hasura GraphQL, PostgreSQL with row-level security, Web Crypto (PBKDF2, AES-GCM, RSA-OAEP), Firebase Auth, React Native

Smaller tools I made because I wanted them, plus open-source fixes.

• Stylewright

  A browser extension for writing per-site CSS overrides. Fully local, and nothing is applied until you ask.

  TypeScript, Manifest V3, CodeMirror

  Source on GitHub

• Screen Time Tracker

  A macOS menu-bar app that tracks screen time, pausing on lock and surviving restarts. Uses about 30 MB when idle, with hand-drawn SVG reports.

  Rust, Tauri 2, TypeScript

  Source on GitHub

• Word Improvisation

  A random-word improv game for remote teams to play on video calls.

  Next.js, React, MUI

  Play itSource on GitHub

• Form.io contributions

  Contributions to Form.io’s open-source React renderer: tests for most of its form components, a data grid fix and inline layout support.

  React, JavaScript

  Merged pull requests

• GitButler contributions

  A few small fixes to GitButler, an open-source Git client I was excited to contribute to.

  Svelte, Tauri

  Merged pull requests

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 2011 to 2015