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Senior engineering for products that need to keep evolving.

Over more than 13 years, I've worked on large enterprise platforms, early-stage products, and smaller client projects. I've created several web platforms from scratch, including products that remain commercially active today. I've also joined mature codebases to modernize legacy code, improve performance, and keep delivery moving.

Most recently, I led frontend architecture for an AI-powered collaborative SaaS spanning multiple React and Next.js applications in a monorepo. I designed its architecture around SOLID principles, clear module boundaries, predictable state, and explicit dependencies. Although frontend architecture is my strongest area, I have also delivered Cloudflare Workers, Node.js services, and Python services, along with product-facing AI integrations involving RAG, LLM routing, and agentic workflows.

I use AI coding tools to accelerate research, implementation, and verification. I review and test their output, understand the code before accepting it, and remain responsible for the architecture, quality, security, and production behavior.

On the performance side, I've optimized production apps to hit Lighthouse 100s and cut page-load times by 2.5–3×. I've also led frontend architecture and delivery across product teams of up to seven people, coordinating frontend engineers, backend contributors, and design, and mentored 14 engineers across my career. My engineering philosophy hasn't changed in a decade: use boring, proven tools where stability matters, and isolate the ambitious pieces so the whole system stays reliable.

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role
Senior Frontend Engineer · React & TypeScript · Frontend Architecture · Applied AI
recent
frontend architecture · ai-powered collaborative saas · 2020-2026
experience
13+ years implementing high-impact web platforms
frontend
shared ui · storybook · design systems
architecture
state stores · repositories · api adapters · dependency injection
backend
cloudflare workers · node.js · python · fastapi · django / drf · rest apis
realtime
websockets · durable objects · WebRTC
ai
rag · llm routing · agentic workflows · local LLM · Codex · Claude
performance
lighthouse 100 · 2.5–3× page-load optimization
leadership
frontend-led product teams up to 7 · mentored 14 engineers
proof
Stack Overflow 5,000+ reputation
location
houston, tx · remote · u.s. work authorization
doctrine
boring where it matters, ambitious where isolated

02 Service record

Thirteen years of continuous progression from client web delivery to frontend architecture, full-stack systems, platform engineering, and applied AI.

Lead Front-End Developer → Lead Software Engineer responsibilities

Fearless Little

Initially led frontend development of a cross-platform product spanning web, mobile, and desktop from one React, Next.js, and React Native codebase. Subsequently expanded into Lead Software Engineer responsibilities for an AI-powered collaborative SaaS, including frontend and Cloudflare platform architecture, real-time systems, applied AI features, and team leadership.

Python / Full-Stack Developer

Uvik Softwareclient: SmileDirectClub

Expanded into full-stack delivery with Python and Django, React, and Vue, implementing SEPA payment modules and supporting frontend, API, testing, and performance work across enterprise platforms.

Senior Front-End Web Developer

SharpMindsclient: Piggy.eu

Defined and led the frontend architecture from scratch for the Piggy.eu loyalty and discount platform. Started as the sole frontend engineer, created the shared React and TypeScript UI foundation and Jenkins CI workflow, and supported the team as it expanded after the MVP launch.

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Senior Front-End Web Developer

SoftServe

Joined a data-heavy enterprise platform near delivery, contributing React and TypeScript frontend development, refactoring, performance optimization, code review, estimation, and junior-developer support. Reduced the most complex page load from approximately 2 seconds to 0.8 seconds through resource-loading analysis, React render optimization, and Redux data-flow improvements.

Senior Front-End Web Developer

SharpMindsclient: EazeGames

Designed the frontend architecture and implemented the original real-time HTML5 skill-gaming web application from scratch, including WebSocket product flows, competitions, payment UI, roles, webshop, internationalization, reusable UI foundations, and frontend CI.

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Front-End Web Developer

SoftServe

Developed an internationalized healthcare platform using Angular 2 during its early release cycle, contributing application architecture, framework migrations, module updates, refactoring, optimization, code review, customer communication, and team support.

Software and Front-End Developer

Softimus

Moved into specialized frontend engineering on a corporate medical-equipment platform, developing and modernizing client-side applications, email interfaces, and SEO and UI foundations with TypeScript, Gulp, and Stylus.

Software and Web Developer

Trilobite Web Studio

Created websites with a partner for private clients using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CMS platforms including WordPress, Joomla, OpenCart, MODX, and UMI.CMS.

03 Education & selected certifications

M.S., Power Generation / Alternative Energy (GPA 3.96/4.0) and B.S., Electrical Engineering - Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine. Evaluated as equivalent to U.S. M.S. and B.S.

04 Independent AI projects

Local-first AI assistant

Private agent with local model inference and data, LLM-as-router intent classification, and hybrid RAG on ChromaDB + SQLite FTS5. Integrates with Gmail and Telegram without a paid model API.

Offline Android AI English-practice app

On-device models for pronunciation and grammar training; privacy-preserving mobile AI.

STACK OVERFLOW 5,000+ REPUTATION · HOUSTON, TX · REMOTE · U.S. WORK AUTHORIZATION