Sharjeel Iqbal

Software Engineer | Musician | Coding Enthusiast

Sharjeel Iqbal
I'm a software engineer based in Anaheim, California, focused on building thoughtful, scalable frontend systems that balance performance, usability, and long-term maintainability. I currently work at Headwire.inc, where I collaborate with enterprise clients to design and build customer-facing experiences, internal tooling, and CMS platforms used by real users at scale. A lot of my work lives at the intersection of frontend architecture and content platforms—configuring, customizing, and authoring CMS components while modernizing legacy systems and improving both developer and author workflows. I enjoy taking ideas from concept to execution, whether that means refining UI/UX, improving performance, or building tools that make other people’s jobs easier. Outside of work, you’ll usually find me at a coffee shop deep in code, on a basketball court, playing guitar or piano, snowboarding, reading, or catching a live concert. I enjoy collaborating with people who care about building things the right way. If you’re curious, take a look at one of my projects and see what I’ve been working on.

Tech Stack

JavaScript (ES5/ES6+) | TypeScript | React.js | Next.js | Tailwind CSS | CSS | SASS | LESS | Bootstrap | Material UI | Chakra UI | jQuery | Vue.js | Node.js | Express.js | REST APIs | CMS | AEM | Franklin Headless CMS | Cypress | Jenkins | CI/CD | SQL (PostgreSQL) | NoSQL (MongoDB) | Mongoose | AWS | S3 | Java | Go

Pitchur Perfect.

Professional Experience

2022 – Present

Palo Alto Networks — Software Engineer, Frontend (via Headwire.inc)

  • Embedded as a frontend engineer on Palo Alto Networks’ large-scale documentation platform, delivering customer-facing UI and internal tooling for a globally used product.
  • Led a site-wide frontend UI/UX overhaul of a legacy AEM-based system, modernizing frontend architecture to improve performance, accessibility, and usability for external customers.
  • Owned significant portions of the frontend platform, working with Java backend components, JavaScript, Webpack, LESS, and existing client-side libraries to refactor legacy patterns and improve maintainability.
  • Drove measurable performance improvements (~27%) by optimizing build pipelines, reducing bundle size, minimizing render-blocking assets, and improving caching strategies, resulting in stronger Core Web Vitals.
  • Designed and built internal authoring and platform tooling, including automated link validation and metadata/tag enforcement utilities, enabling non-technical writers to publish at scale and reducing publishing errors.
  • Owned frontend platform modernization and quality initiatives by reducing long-standing technical debt and stabilizing the codebase for long-term scalability.
  • Implemented automated end-to-end testing using Cypress and integrated test suites into Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines to enforce build quality, prevent regressions, and improve release confidence.
  • Technologies: JavaScript, Webpack, LESS, Cypress, Jenkins, Java, AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), REST APIs.
2022 – Present

Headwire.inc — Software Engineer, Frontend

  • Delivered custom CMS and content platform solutions for multiple clients, focusing on scalable frontend architecture and authoring workflows.
  • Designed and built a React-based CMS using Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, and REST APIs, leveraging a component-driven architecture with reusable and composable UI blocks.
  • Built components capable of generating and configuring other components, enabling flexible page construction and reducing long-term development overhead.
  • Implemented Franklin Headless CMS to support schema-based content modeling and decoupled delivery, enabling scalable content workflows across client sites.
  • Authored comprehensive technical documentation to standardize adoption, accelerate onboarding, and support long-term maintainability for engineering and content teams.
  • Focused on building frontend systems that balance developer experience, content author efficiency, and maintainable architecture across diverse client environments.
  • Technologies: React, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, REST APIs, headless CMS platforms, component-based frontend architecture.

Education

2021

LearningFuze

Dedicated over 800+ hours to gain coding experience (70/hours per week) applying computer science fundamentals in a simulated work environment.

I ♥

Art, Guitar, Piano, Video Games, Travelling, Hiking, Reading, Basketball, Snowboarding, Festivals, Concerts

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