Evgeny Orekhov

Lead Frontend Engineer

Lead Frontend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building international B2B SaaS platforms, ranging from AI products to enterprise systems. Deep expertise in the React/TypeScript ecosystem and design systems.

Experienced technical leader focused on frontend architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team initiatives that scale engineering productivity.

Key Achievements

Core Expertise

Work

Senior Frontend Engineer

Forethought AI-powered customer support SaaS platform for enterprise clients
– Present
Remote (US)
  • Worked on Solve — Enterprise AI Chatbot solution — https://forethought.ai/platform/solve/

  • Acted as a technical lead in an international team of 10+ frontend engineers working on a large React + TypeScript SaaS platform

  • Spearheaded development of a React component library used across 3 products, helping standardize UI and improve reusability

  • Collaborated with product, design, backend, and QA teams to shape features, improve UX, and align on technical trade-offs

  • Owned and upgraded frontend engineering standards, including CI, linting, testing, and code quality practices

  • Introduced and led end-to-end and visual regression testing across two projects, improving release stability and reducing production bugs

  • Led performance optimization initiatives covering Web Vitals, rendering speed, bundle size, network requests, and CI/CD pipeline efficiency

  • Owned accessibility initiatives, auditing interfaces and ensuring WCAG compliance, which helped enable contracts with several major enterprise clients

  • Owned tech stack modernization and major framework upgrades

  • Mentored 3 frontend engineers, contributing to team growth through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical feedback

  • Conducted 150+ technical interviews, actively participating in hiring and maintaining the quality bar for the frontend engineering team

Senior Frontend Developer

Axcient Enterprise SaaS platform for business continuity and disaster recovery
  • 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 2 large-scale web apps using Ember.js and Web Components in an 8-engineer international frontend team

  • Led development of a Web Component library in Stencil used across 2 products, helping standardize UI and improve reusability

  • Introduced and owned frontend engineering quality standards, including CI and linting

  • Owned tech stack modernization and major framework upgrades

  • Mentored 2 frontend engineers, contributing to team growth through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical feedback

Lead Frontend Developer

Zyfra Industrial software for the digitalization of manufacturing
  • 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

  • Acted as a technical lead for 2 industrial web products, making architecture decisions and coordinating feature development

  • Introduced and owned frontend engineering quality standards, including CI, linting, testing, code quality practices, and tech stack modernization

  • Mentored 1 frontend engineer, contributing to team growth through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical feedback

Senior Full-Stack Developer

WebCanape Software development agency building SaaS products
  • 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 2 full-stack SaaS platforms and 1 internal web app

  • Designed REST APIs using Node.js and PHP, and implemented 3 production microservices (file upload, notifications, ticket management)

  • Introduced and owned engineering quality standards, including CI and linting, and tech stack modernization

  • Owned unit testing across products, increasing code coverage to 95%

  • Implemented CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, monitoring and logging infrastructure

Full-Stack Developer

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

Education

Russian University of Cooperation

Information Systems and Technology

Bachelor

Smolensk Industry and Economics College

Software Engineering for Computers and Computer-based Systems

Senior Technician

Projects

holiday.css 🎉

Owner
– Present

A minimalist classless CSS theme with dark mode support focused on simplicity and responsiveness

  • ⭐ 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
  • React Hooks
  • Redux Toolkit
  • RTK Query
  • React Router
  • Context API
  • Ember.js
  • Stencil
  • Web Components
  • Web Vitals
  • Accessibility
  • Sentry
  • REST API
  • CORS
  • CSP
  • WebSocket

UI & styling

  • Material UI
  • MUI
  • 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
  • End-to-End Testing
  • E2E Testing
  • Visual Regression Testing

Code Quality

  • ESLint
  • Prettier
  • Stylelint
  • Husky
  • lint-staged

Build tools

  • Vite
  • Rsbuild
  • webpack
  • Babel

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

Project Management

  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Notion

Languages

English

Fluent

Russian

Native