Harshal Malkan - Frontend Engineer

4+ years building AEM and Edge Delivery Services platforms for HDFC, Aditya Birla Group and Adobe's own team, plus full-stack Next.js products of my own.

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Enterprise platforms,shipped end to end.

Five engagements spanning AEM migrations, Edge Delivery Services and an AI-assisted backend service, mostly for teams operating at national or platform scale.

01Adobe (Bangalore team)

Adobe XSC

Migrated 5 of Adobe's 11-industry demo platform to Edge Delivery Services in under 3 weeks, retrofitted mobile responsiveness onto 6 more, and architected a backend servlet that exports JCR content as structured JSON for an existing native mobile app.

Adobe Edge Delivery Services
React to Edge Delivery Services migration
AEM authoring
Mobile responsiveness retrofit
Backend architecture
JCR to JSON export
AI-agent-guided development
Native app integration

95+: Lighthouse score, desktop and mobile
11: industries on the DSN platform
5: sites migrated

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02HDFC Ltd., now HDFC Bank

HDFC Ltd. / HDFC Bank

Rebuilt HDFC's marketing and transactional platform on AEM with full feature parity, then led the post-merger rebrand into HDFC Bank.

Drupal to AEM migration
Content & Experience Fragments
Financial calculators
Post-merger rebrand

75%+: performance improvement
+11%: SEO
+10%: organic CTR

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03Aditya Birla Group

Birla Opus Paints

Built the complete e-commerce frontend for Birla Opus's national launch across 1,000+ pages in five months.

E-commerce frontend
GraphQL data utilities
PLP, PDP, cart, checkout
Multi-step lead forms
Shared component library

1,000+: pages delivered
5: months
1,000: SKUs

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04Teachers Mutual Bank

Teachers Mutual Bank

Delivered a high-performance, block-based frontend architecture with a multi-brand theming system running on a single codebase.

AEM Franklin / EDS
Multi-brand theming
Figma-to-SCSS automation
Performance tuning

90-95: mobile Lighthouse across key pages
1: codebase serving several brands

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05PwC (DEPT proof of concept)

PwC RAG AI

Built a Figma-to-AEM AI pipeline using Figma's MCP server and VS Code Copilot, generating production-ready AEM components directly from designs.

Figma MCP pipeline
AI agent and skill instructions
AEM component generation
Design token system

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Independent products

Built, shipped and running in production

HMX1 Store Front

A modern e-commerce storefront with a dynamic product catalog, category browsing, cart and secure Stripe checkout, order history, and color and size filters.

Next.js / React / TypeScript / Tailwind / Stripe / Prisma / PostgreSQL

Live site Repo

StoreFlowNest

An e-commerce admin dashboard with a Next.js frontend decoupled from a custom Express.js and Prisma backend, JWT authentication with role-based access, and integrated sales analytics.

Next.js / TypeScript / Express.js / Node.js / Prisma / PostgreSQL / Stripe / JWT

Live site Repo

SVKM's Usha Pravin Gandhi College

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2019202120222025

2019 - 2022

BSc Information Technology

SVKM's Usha Pravin Gandhi College

Graduated with a 9.73 / 10.0 CGPA, the foundation for a frontend-first engineering path.

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

Website Manager, Internship

TEDxUPG Event

First production website ownership: managing and shipping the event site end to end.

Jul 2022 - Oct 2025

Junior Developer

DEPT (formerly Tekno Point)

Delivered enterprise AEM builds for HDFC and for Aditya Birla Group's Birla Opus Paints launch, plus JavaScript financial calculators used across banking pages.

Oct 2025 - Present

Software Developer

DEPT (formerly Tekno Point)

Owns frontend delivery on Adobe XSC with Adobe's Bangalore team, built PwC's Figma-to-AEM AI pipeline, and set up a component library that cut feature scaffolding by about 30%. Mentors junior developers.

The stack behindthe platforms.

AEM and Edge Delivery Services at the core, and the modern frontend stack around it.

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23 tools · one stack

Languages

Platforms

Frameworks

State & Data

Tools

Available forfreelance work.

I take on a limited number of freelance projects. Pick a card to start an enquiry, or tell me what you need below.

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Websites & landing pages
Fast, search-friendly marketing sites and launch pages in Next.js.
- Responsive build from your design
- SEO, metadata and analytics set up
- A 90+ mobile Lighthouse target
Teachers Mutual Bank · 90-95 mobile Lighthouse
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E-commerce storefronts
Shopify stores, themed or headless, and Adobe Commerce storefronts.
- Shopify theme or headless Next.js storefront
- Catalogue, filters and search
- Cart and checkout on the platform
Birla Opus · Adobe Commerce, 1,000 products via GraphQL
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Dashboards & web apps
Admin panels and internal tools on Next.js, Express and PostgreSQL.
- Authentication and role-based access
- Data views and sales analytics
- API and database design
StoreFlowNest · JWT auth, roles and analytics
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Performance audits & fixes
Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse audits, with the regressions fixed, not just reported.
- A full Lighthouse and Web Vitals audit
- The fixes, shipped
- Before and after numbers
HDFC · 75%+ performance improvement
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+Agencies and Adobe partners: white-label frontend support, including AEM and Edge Delivery Services.

Tell me aboutthe project.

Expect a reply within 24 to 48 hours. No brief yet is fine: we can shape it together.

Frontend engineeringfor platforms thatcarry real traffic.

Enterprise platforms,shipped end to end.

Adobe XSC

HDFC Ltd. / HDFC Bank

Birla Opus Paints

Teachers Mutual Bank

PwC RAG AI

HMX1 Store Front

StoreFlowNest

The stack behindthe platforms.

Available forfreelance work.

Websites & landing pages

E-commerce storefronts

Dashboards & web apps

Performance audits & fixes

Tell me aboutthe project.

Frontend engineeringfor platforms thatcarry real traffic.

Enterprise platforms,shipped end to end.

Adobe XSC

HDFC Ltd. / HDFC Bank

Birla Opus Paints

Teachers Mutual Bank

PwC RAG AI

HMX1 Store Front

StoreFlowNest

The stack behindthe platforms.

Available forfreelance work.

Websites & landing pages

E-commerce storefronts

Dashboards & web apps

Performance audits & fixes

Tell me aboutthe project.