Principal Engineer · GenAI & Agentic Systems
Gaurav
Makkar.
13+ years shipping production frontends. Currently building agentic platforms at UiPath — with bandwidth for select advisory work and 0→1 product builds.
A senior IC who's spent a decade making React apps feel inevitable.
From healthcare records and robotics warehouses to Adobe's marketing cloud and now UiPath's agentic platform — the constant has been hard frontend problems with real users on the other side. Two patents along the way. Currently most curious about where agentic UX is going.
Gaurav Makkar
Bangalore, India
I'm Gaurav— a Principal Engineer based in Bangalore, currently building the GenAI & agentic surface of UiPath Apps. Before that, five years at Adobe shipping marketing cloud SPAs and earning a US patent on natural-language search.
My happy place is the boundary between great product instinct and hard engineering — design systems, agent UX, performance budgets, and the kind of refactors that quietly unblock a whole team.
Outside work: a dad, a quiet coffee snob, and an unreasonable optimist about where AI products are going next.
Thirteen years, five companies, one through-line.
Healthcare, robotics, property tech, marketing cloud, and now agentic automation. The domains rotate; the discipline of shipping production frontends doesn't.
- Bangalore·Mar 2025 — Present
UiPath
Principal Software Engineer
UiPath Apps · Low-code/Pro-code Platform
- Building a GenAI-powered low-code/pro-code platform with human-in-the-loop interactions across traditional RPA and agentic automation.
- Mentor a team of 6 full-stack engineers.
- Lead training, knowledge sharing, documentation, and architectural review forums.
GenAIAgenticReactTypeScriptRPAArchitecture - Jan 2020 — Mar 2025·Noida
Adobe
Senior Computer Scientist
Adobe Campaign · Experience Cloud
- Patent filed — Data-Driven Email Content Design with Generative AI.
- Patent granted (US-11960517-B2) — Continuously Evolving Ask Interface for Natural Language Search with pluggable Answer Providers.
- Built the Web UI from scratch — architecture, testing, deployment strategy.
- Unified onboarding across heterogeneous SPAs and a dynamic notifications system.
GenAINL SearchReactDesign SystemsPatents - Gurgaon·Aug 2018 — Oct 2019
Proptiger / Housing.com
Lead Software Development Engineer
Housing.com · Property Discovery
- Led a team of 6–7 frontend engineers on the demand/buyer side.
- Drove user conversion, engagement, and organic search traffic gains.
ReactPerformanceSEOTeam Lead - Feb 2017 — Aug 2018·Gurgaon
GreyOrange
Senior Software Development Engineer
Butlers · Robotics Warehouse Management
- Real-time tracking and analytics UI for a robotics WMS automating warehouse operations.
- ReactJS frontend over high-throughput streaming data.
ReactRoboticsRealtimeAnalytics - Gurgaon·Feb 2013 — Feb 2017
MphRx
Software Development Engineer
Minerva · Jarvis · Fisike (Healthcare)
- Built three products end-to-end: a clinical data platform, an XMPP chat server in Node, and a healthcare social network.
- EMR / HL7 integration for clinical data exchange.
AngularJSNodeXMPPHL7MongoDB
Patents.
Both are about making interfaces think — natural-language search that learns its sources, and email that designs itself from customer data.
Continuously Evolving Ask Interface for Natural Language Search
A pluggable answer-provider architecture that lets a natural-language search surface incrementally learn and route across heterogeneous backends.
Data-Driven Email Content Design with Generative AI
Generative pipeline that composes campaign emails grounded in customer-data signals — closing the loop between segmentation and content.
Pick the shape of help you need.
A few clearly-defined ways to work together, from a one-off architecture review to embedded principal-IC time to a full 0→1 build. Engagements are intentionally limited so each one gets serious attention.
GenAI & Agentic Platform Work
LLM features, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and human-in-the-loop interfaces — built for production, not demos.
- Agent orchestration & tool-use design
- RAG, evals, guardrails, observability
- Human-in-the-loop UX patterns
Frontend Architecture & React Leadership
Scale React/TS codebases without the spaghetti. Design systems, perf budgets, micro-frontends, mentorship.
- Architecture reviews & refactors
- Design system & component strategy
- Performance, DX, testing strategy
Fractional Principal · Advisory
Embedded part-time as your senior IC voice — for early-stage teams who need a Principal but can't hire one yet.
- Tech strategy & roadmap pressure-testing
- Hiring loops & technical interviewing
- Standards, rituals, code review culture
Full Product Builds · 0 → 1
End-to-end builds for founders — design, frontend, backend, infra, deploy. Ship the v1 that earns the next round.
- Full-stack delivery (React/Next + Node/Py)
- Cloud setup, CI/CD, observability
- Honest scope & weekly demos
Currently full-time at UiPath. Engagements scoped to evenings/weekends or short focused sprints — declared and disclosed.
Stack.
The tools I reach for first — but stack is downstream of judgment, and judgment is the thing you're really hiring.
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Redux
- Angular
- Tailwind
- Webpack
AI / Agentic
- LLMs
- RAG
- Agent Frameworks
- Evals
- Prompt Engineering
Backend
- Node.js
- Express
- Python
- GraphQL
- REST
- Microservices
Data & Infra
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cypress
06 — Let's build
Got an idea worth
shipping?
Tell me what you're building, where you're stuck, or what your next quarter looks like. I read everything and reply within 48 hours.
Bangalore, India