Product Engineering/2022 — 2023
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Chrome extension that turns LinkedIn profiles into ATS candidates
- Role
- React / Next.js Extension & Application Developer
- Year
- 2022 — 2023
- Discipline
- Product Engineering
- Stack
- 7 technologies
A SaaS recruitment platform that integrates with LinkedIn to scan candidate profiles, pushes them through a custom applicant tracking system, and surfaces analytics for hiring decisions.
01The problem
Recruiters live in LinkedIn but their pipeline lives in an ATS. Every profile that matters gets re-entered by hand, which is both slow and where the data quality goes.
02The approach
A Chrome extension in React and TypeScript with Ant Design, scanning candidate profiles in place on LinkedIn and passing them into a custom ATS on a Java back end over PostgreSQL, hosted on Google Cloud. The extension had to work inside a page it does not control, which constrains almost every decision about DOM access and resilience.
03The outcome
Delivered as the LinkedIn-facing capture surface for the platform, feeding the ATS and its hiring analytics.
04Decisions worth noting
- 01
Extension operating inside LinkedIn's own DOM — a page whose markup can change without warning.
- 02
Profile capture feeding a custom ATS rather than a generic CRM, so downstream analytics stayed meaningful.
- 03
React and TypeScript shared between the extension and the wider application.