Evgeny Orekhov

Lead Frontend Engineer

Lead Frontend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building complex SaaS platforms and high-performance web applications. Specializes in React, TypeScript, frontend architecture, and developer platform engineering. Proven track record improving performance, accessibility, developer experience, and engineering quality in large production codebases. Experienced technical leader driving cross-team initiatives, frontend standards, and engineering best practices.

Work

Senior Frontend Engineer

Forethought AI-powered customer support platform
– Present
Remote (US)

  • Worked on Solve — Enterprise AI Chatbot solution https://forethought.ai/platform/solve/

  • Tech lead for multiple frontend initiatives in a large React + TypeScript SaaS platform

  • Mentored 3 frontend engineers

  • Conducted 150+ frontend technical interviews

  • Led development of an internal React component library used across multiple products

  • Led initiatives to optimize frontend build pipeline

  • Introduced and led end-to-end and visual regression testing integrated into CI pipelines

  • Led accessibility improvements achieving WCAG compliance

  • Modernized frontend tooling improving build performance and developer experience

  • Defined and introduced frontend engineering standards (linting, testing, CI)

  • Collaborated with product and design teams to improve UI architecture and UX

Senior Frontend Developer

Axcient Enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery platform
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  • Worked on x360Cloud — Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace backup solution https://axcient.com/products/x360cloud/

  • Worked on x360Sync — Enterprise file sync and sharing solution https://axcient.com/products/x360sync/

  • Built large-scale web apps using Ember.js and Web Components

  • Led development of an internal Web Component library

  • Mentored 2 frontend engineers

  • Introduced automated frontend code quality standards

  • Improved CI pipelines and development workflows

  • Led framework and dependency upgrades

Lead Frontend Developer

Zyfra Industrial software for the digitalization of manufacturing
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  • Worked on Dispatcher MDC Web Client — Real-time manufacturing monitoring platform https://intechnology.ru/produkty/dispetcher-mdc/monitoring/

  • Worked on ChemInd Web UI — Internal IoT platform

  • Led frontend development for real-time industrial monitoring dashboards

  • Mentored 1 frontend engineer

  • Designed scalable React + Redux frontend architecture

  • Introduced CI pipelines and engineering standards

  • Improved developer workflows and maintainability

Senior Full-Stack Developer

WebCanape Software development agency building SaaS products
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  • Worked on Master — B2B dispatch SaaS platform https://mdcmaster.com

  • Worked on WAKEUP — Learning management system https://wakeup-s.com

  • Worked on Internal Password Manager — Internal credential management solution

  • Built multiple full-stack SaaS platforms

  • Designed REST APIs using Node.js and PHP

  • Implemented CI pipelines and automated deployments

  • Introduced zero-downtime deployment processes

  • Implemented monitoring and logging infrastructure

Education

Russian University of Cooperation

Information Systems and Technology
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Bachelor

Smolensk Industry and Economics College

Software Engineering for Computers and Computer-based Systems
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Senior Technician

Projects

holiday.css 🎉

Owner
– Present

A minimalist classless CSS theme with dark mode support

  • ⭐ 150+ GitHub stars

  • 📈 10k monthly hits on jsDelivr

eslint-config-hardcore

Owner
– Present

The most strict (yet practical) ESLint config for React, Vue, Node, and pure JS/TS

  • ⭐ 450+ GitHub stars

Skills

Programming Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP

Frontend

  • React
  • Redux Toolkit
  • RTK Query
  • Ember.js
  • Stencil
  • Web Components
  • Web Vitals
  • Accessibility
  • Sentry

UI & Styling

  • Material UI
  • Ant Design
  • styled-components
  • Sass
  • Highcharts
  • Ant Design Charts
  • C3.js
  • Storybook
  • Figma

Testing

  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • React Testing Library
  • Vitest
  • Jest
  • Argos CI
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • E2E Testing
  • Visual Regression Testing

Build Tools

  • Vite
  • Rsbuild
  • webpack

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • restify
  • PHP
  • Yii2

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • RethinkDB

DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Travis CI
  • nginx
  • OpenResty
  • Elastic Stack
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB

Source Control

  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket

Engineering Principles

  • Clean Architecture
  • TDD
  • SOLID
  • KISS
  • DRY
  • YAGNI
  • IoC
  • SoC

Legacy

  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • Smarty
  • Apache

Languages

English

Fluent

Russian

Native