Ali Aliyev

Frontend-focused Full-Stack Engineer

Based in Baku, Azerbaijan · Open to relocation

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Professional summary

Frontend-focused full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience across 10+ products. At Yandex, I lead and own the Pickup Point Platform and build tools that improve developer experience and engineering efficiency. My focus is React, TypeScript, frontend architecture, design systems, performance, and full-stack development.

Target roles: Senior Frontend Engineer · Frontend Platform Engineer · Frontend-focused Full-Stack Engineer

Technical skills

Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, shadcn/ui

Frontend / server state: TanStack Query, Redux, Redux-Saga

Architecture: Feature-Sliced Design, Design systems, Micro-frontends

Backend & desktop: Node.js, WebSockets, tRPC, REST, GraphQL, Rust, C#, SQL

Infrastructure & delivery: Docker, LXC, ArgoCD, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Linux

Experience

Yandex

May 2025 — Present

Interface Developer

Employer location: Moscow, Russia

Internal grade: Senior-Middle

  • 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.

Farcana

Feb 2023 — May 2025

Frontend Developer · T-shaped / full-stack scope

Employer location: Abu Dhabi, UAE · Remote

  • 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.

Onix

Nov 2020 — Oct 2022

Full-Stack Developer & Tech Lead

Employer location: Moscow, Russia · Remote

  • 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 Interactive

Jul 2018 — Aug 2020

Frontend Developer

Employer location: Moscow, Russia · Remote

  • 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.

Selected projects

VAULT · Founder & Engineer

Started Jan 2022 · Development paused

Team product

React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux Toolkit, Feature-Sliced Design, Rust, C#, ArgoCD.

  • Team-product monthly revenue grew 3×, from ₽10k to ₽30k. Reported LCP fell by about 75% (3s → 800ms), and the bundle by 66% (180KB → 60KB).
  • Migrated deployment to ArgoCD: more than three releases per week and deployment time reduced from 25 to 10 minutes.

Neko Launcher · Engineer, group project

Nov 2020 — Oct 2022

Built with Michitta.

React, Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query, tRPC, Tauri, Rust.

  • Group-project results: 300 organic installs, 70% first-week retention, and reported launch time under 2 seconds.
  • Implemented checksum and signature validation, associated with an approximately 90% reduction in exploiters.

Education

RANEPA · M.Sc. Economics, Mathematics & Information Technology · 2023 — 2025

Web Development specialization

Highest honors · Diploma 5.0 · GPA 4.0 / 4.0

Moscow State University (MSU) · Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics · 2019 — 2022

GPA 3.9 / 4.0 · Transferred to RANEPA

Languages

Native: Russian, Azerbaijani · Fluent: English, Turkish · Studying: Japanese, Chinese

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