About me
I’m Ali Aliyev (Gilvex), a frontend-focused full-stack engineer based in Baku, Azerbaijan. I have 8+ years of experience across product teams, frontend architecture, and full-stack development.
At Yandex, I lead and own the Pickup Point Platform and build tools that improve developer experience and engineering efficiency. My employment title is Interface Developer; platform leadership describes my responsibility.
Seeking: Senior Frontend Engineer · Frontend Platform Engineer · Frontend-focused Full-Stack Engineer.
Employer-sponsored work authorization required.
What I work on
Architecture & shared UI
At Yandex and Farcana, my work has included feature-based architecture, rendering performance, and component-library work using Radix UI. React and TypeScript are my main frontend tools.
Developer experience
My Yandex work includes a dependency Updater and rapid-release pipelines. At Farcana, I built internal tools and an Events Factory for reusable business logic.
Technical leadership
I currently lead and own Yandex’s Pickup Point Platform. At Onix, I led a distributed team, mentored junior engineers, and drove technical decisions across services.
Technical skills
Frontend
Frontend / server state
Architecture
Backend & desktop
Infrastructure & delivery
Product-building breadth
I worked on VAULT with a team; development is currently paused. Neko Launcher is a group project with Michitta. These projects extend my scope into Rust, desktop integration, backend services, and deployment.
Experience
I live in Baku, Azerbaijan. The locations below identify employers.
YandexCurrentInterface DeveloperMay 2025 — Present
I lead and own the Pickup Point Platform and build developer tooling for engineering efficiency.
Senior-Middle is the internal grade; the employment title is Interface Developer.
- Lead and own the Pickup Point Platform; build tools that improve developer experience and engineering efficiency.
- Across my wider Yandex work, modernized UI infrastructure serving millions of daily users, introduced feature-based architecture to reduce coupling, and optimized rendering and loading flows.
- Established rapid-release pipelines and built a dependency Updater to keep packages current and reduce exposure to known CVEs.
- Delivered internal logistics features with reported savings in the millions of rubles.
FarcanaFrontend DeveloperFeb 2023 — May 2025
Real-time AI search, streaming chat, and frontend architecture and component-library work.
T-shaped / full-stack scope
- Built an AI search interface in 48 hours using WebSocket pooling and TanStack Query. Reported workload: about 200ms average latency at 50 concurrent requests, no observed timeouts, CPU and RAM below 70%.
- Built WebSocket-streamed chat for custom AI characters in a separate AI agents platform.
- Migrated a legacy codebase to Feature-Sliced Design and rebuilt the component library with Radix UI primitives for an accessible design-system foundation.
- Built internal tools and an Events Factory to modularize reusable business logic.
OnixFull-Stack Developer & Tech LeadNov 2020 — Oct 2022
Led a distributed team, mentored junior engineers, and automated build and deployment workflows.
- Led a distributed team, mentored junior engineers, and drove technical strategy across multiple services.
- Delivered a government / Sberbank partnership landing page under strict compliance requirements.
- Cut build-to-deploy time by more than 50% with TeamCity, Portainer, and Git-based image builds; resolved complex Redux performance bottlenecks.
Arcanica InteractiveFrontend DeveloperJul 2018 — Aug 2020
Game interfaces, Discord integrations, and content management tools.
- Designed application architecture, a custom inventory system, and Discord bot integrations.
- Built an embed manager for non-technical users and integrated an in-game website and news manager for real-time updates.
Education
RANEPA
M.Sc. Economics, Mathematics & Information Technology
Web Development specialization
Highest honors · Diploma 5.0 · GPA 4.0 / 4.0Moscow State University (MSU)
Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics
GPA 3.9 / 4.0 · Transferred to RANEPALanguages
Russian · Azerbaijani
English · Turkish
Japanese · Chinese
SENIOR ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Have a role in mind?
I’m interested in Senior Frontend, Frontend Platform, and frontend-focused Full-Stack roles. Send me a role description or tell me about your team.