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Lead Software Engineer / Frontend Team Lead

Oct 2024 - Present

* Led engineering initiatives for product delivery, architecture, and AI-assisted development workflows. * Designed and implemented an agent-based development platform (skills, specifications, reusable agents), reducing implementation effort by 2–3 story points per task. * Established engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality gates, reducing feature delivery time. * Built scalable frontend architecture while collaborating closely with backend services and product teams. * Introduced Playwright-based testing strategy, reducing manual QA effort by 90%. * Mentored junior developers, two of whom advanced to middle-level within a year.

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Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2020 - Oct 2024

* Developed high-load distributed applications using Kotlin, Spring Boot, Angular, and TypeScript. * Delivered end-to-end full-stack features for distributed applications serving 100k+ users, managing the entire lifecycle from requirements gathering to production support. * Optimized SQL queries, application architecture, and caching strategies, improving response time by 30%. * Built automated testing pipelines using Selenium.