Senior Frontend Engineer / Team Lead

Worked as an independent remote contractor in a full-time engagement, becoming Team Lead for the final two years. Designed and owned a reusable React and TypeScript library with a shared data layer and headless UI components, reducing backend feature integration time by two to three times versus the previous approach.

Built and maintained React and Next.js applications using Redux, REST APIs, WebSockets, Zod, SSR, ISR, the App Router, and React Server Components. Owned semantic versioning and release management within a Lerna monorepo, reduced client bundle size by 20%, and improved Lighthouse LCP and FCP metrics.

Led a frontend team of four to five engineers through planning, prioritization, architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and monthly one-to-one meetings. Expanded automated coverage with Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright, and introduced Claude Code workflows and reusable AI-assisted development skills.

Worked across the Auto Catalog and Commercial Company SPA projects after promotion from Frontend Software Engineer. Built an online car catalog with React, Next.js SSR, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, live filtering, responsive multi-step forms, and a custom gallery indicator component.

Estimated, assigned, and reviewed frontend work in a small cross-functional team, while implementing unit and end-to-end tests. Improved catalog performance through lazy loading and bundle delivery optimization, increasing Lighthouse FCP and LCP scores.

Led development of a closed corporate portal from Figma designs using Vue 3, Composition API, Pinia, and Ant Design. Implemented JWT authentication, dynamic content sections, and HTTP/2 request handling.

Rebuilt the frontend for an online cinema platform serving more than one million monthly users. Migrated work to TypeScript and improved application speed by 1.7 times through asynchronous components, lazy-loaded images, static CSS, Webpack bundle splitting, and HTTP/2 delivery.

Customized the video player, developed film-list interfaces using Swiper.js, and implemented authentication and role-based views for users with different access levels.

Built a B2B loan selection platform enabling agency staff to submit lending program requests to multiple banks and complete client loan applications through a unified workflow.

Designed a reusable multi-step validated form that adapted to different bank APIs. Delivered pixel-perfect interfaces from design mockups using TypeScript, Nuxt, Vue, and Stencil.js, including a custom infinite-scroll select web component and Docker deployment setup.

Built an internal Jira-style deal-tracking board for a real estate agency with approximately 700 agents. The system supported listing data, deal stages, and agent workflows.

Used Vue.js, Nuxt, Vuex, and TypeScript to develop the internal application.

Founded and operated a real estate agency in Russia. Managed agency operations before transitioning into software development through a full-stack development program.

Worked as a teaching and research assistant in a university department focused on physics and electronics.

Completed a PhD-level Candidate of Engineering Sciences degree.

Completed a master's degree in Informatics, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication.

Professional Node.js application development certification.

Professional Node.js services development certification.

Completed a full-stack web development program covering PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and React.