- Shipped & maintained 3 production apps serving 30K daily active users; led a full major-version framework upgrade and stood up greenfield projects end to end (ESLint, Prettier, Husky, Sentry, i18n, GTM, Grafana monitoring).
- Owned engineering standards & code quality — conventions, thorough reviews, a GitHub workflow with LLM-assisted self-review, automated CI quality gates, dependency upgrades.
- Led a team of 3 front-end engineers — feature decomposition, tech-debt tracking in Jira, transparent estimation, technical interviews.
- Drove cross-functional work with DevOps, backend, Product and the CTO.
Pavel
Novaikin.
Ten years turning messy, complex requirements into
clean, reliable products — and three years leading the team that ships them.
production front-ends
largest team I led
served & scaled
after optimization
About
// profileFront-end developer turned team lead — 10 years building, scaling and owning web applications, the last three with lead responsibilities behind them.
Over the past decade I've shipped products across fintech, crypto, media, and large-scale sports platforms — from real-time trading systems to a high-traffic news platform. Moving between such different domains taught me to get up to speed fast, pick the right approach for each problem, and stay independent of any single tool or framework.
I've delivered and scaled apps serving tens of thousands of daily users, set up greenfield projects end to end, and grown teams through code review, mentoring, and technical hiring — working closely with backend, DevOps, and product. I also bring UI design sense, testing with Mocha & Jest, and hands-on browser debugging & performance work.
Experience
2017 — now- Delivered several key sections of the main website, improving structure and UX consistency.
- Contributed to a smooth, backward-compatible major framework migration.
- Optimized how data is created, processed, stored & presented — cut load times 20%.
- Integrated 5 third-party APIs and 20+ partner widgets; stepped up to lead the team during the lead's absence.
- Built & refined the core user dashboard used by ~20,000 customers.
- Created a new SPA presentation site — 5 core + 12 nested pages.
- Built a standalone company blog with Strapi as a headless CMS.
- Developed 2 mobile apps (Android & iOS) with NativeScript + Angular.
- Built a help-desk front-end and an isomorphic Nuxt.js web app from scratch.
- Implemented Keycloak.js-based authorization.
- Led a front-end team of 6 — scrums, mentoring, interviewing, task supervision.
- Owned tech stack & quality; introduced code review and incident management.
- Migrated the project JS → TypeScript; refactored toward SOLID; reduced client CPU load.
- Designed a middleware API and automated deploys (Bamboo).
- Built my front-end module for a large, scalable system for a world sports association.
- Stable WebSocket connection to middleware for real-time data.
- Built an email-service front-end; gathered requirements directly with clients in Germany.
- Crafted the service front-end from pixel-perfect designs.
- Authored many custom Angular components; tested every feature at sprint's end.