Ali Aliyev
Frontend-focused Full-Stack Engineer
Based in Baku, Azerbaijan · Open to relocation
Employer-sponsored work authorization required
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 — PresentInterface 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 2025Frontend 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 2022Full-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 2020Frontend 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 pausedTeam 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 2022Built 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