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Open to work · Remote-friendly · Tbilisi, Georgia

Pavel
Novaikin.

Front End Senior/Lead Developer

Ten years turning messy, complex requirements into
clean, reliable products — and three years leading the team that ships them.

10 yrs front-end · 3 yrs as team lead · 30K daily active users · fintech · crypto · media · large-scale sports · React · Vue / Nuxt · TypeScript · greenfield setup · code review & mentoring · performance
Open to
Front-End Lead · Tech Lead · Senior Front-End · Front-End Architect · Engineering Lead
10+
years shipping
production front-ends
6
engineers in the
largest team I led
30K
daily active users
served & scaled
20%
faster load times
after optimization

About

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Front-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.

Proof points
Shipped & maintained 3 production apps serving 30K daily active users at a crypto news platform.
Led a full major-version framework upgrade and stood up greenfield projects end to end.
Optimized data flow to cut load times by 20% across the main product.
Migrated a FinTech codebase JavaScript → TypeScript and refactored it toward SOLID.
core stack  TypeScript · React · Vue · Nuxt · Next · Angular · Node / Nest · GraphQL · Tailwind / SCSS · Vite · Feature-Sliced Design

Experience

2017 — now
01
Nov 2025 — Present 7 months
Front-End Team Lead at News Company (NDA) NOW
“The Times” in the crypto industry — a high-traffic news platform.
  • 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.
Team LeadershipSystem DesignCI/CDSentryGrafanai18n
02
Jun 2023 — Nov 2025 2 yrs 5 mos
Senior Front-End Developer at News Company (NDA)
“The Times” in the crypto industry.
  • 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.
Vue / NuxtPerformanceAPI IntegrationUX
03
Apr 2022 — Jun 2023 1 yr 3 mos
Senior Front-End Developer at Cryptopay.me
  • 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.
SPAStrapiDashboard
04
Feb 2021 — Apr 2022 1 yr 3 mos
Fullstack Developer at Introduct tech
  • 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.
NativeScriptAngularNuxt.jsKeycloak
05
Jan 2019 — Apr 2021 2 yrs 4 mos · FinTech
Front-End Team Lead at AAATrade
  • 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).
Team LeadershipTypeScriptSOLIDMiddleware
06
Jan 2018 — Jan 2019 1 yr 1 mo · Sports portal / CRM
Front-End Developer at Strict Logic
  • 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.
WebSocketReal-timeLarge-scale
07
Jun 2017 — Jan 2018 8 months · Travel service
Front-End Developer at Arview
  • Crafted the service front-end from pixel-perfect designs.
  • Authored many custom Angular components; tested every feature at sprint's end.
AngularPixel-perfect
08
Earlier · 2008 — 2016 Web Developer at Paraweb, and System Administrator at TUSUR (Tomsk State University of Control Systems & Radioelectronics).

Toolkit

10 groups
languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPython
front end
ReactVueNuxt.jsNext.jsAngular
state management
PiniaVuexReduxZustandMobX
styling
TailwindSCSSBootstrapReka UIRadix UI
backend & apis
Node.jsNest.jsBunFastAPIGraphQLREST
mobile
ExpoIonicCapacitorElectron
cms · auth · baas
Payload.jsStrapiKeycloakSupabaseFirebase
testing
VitestJestPlaywrightCypress
build · devops
ViteWebpackGitlab CISentryGoogle Lighthouse
architecture
Feature-Sliced DesignRxJS
everything · all skills
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonReactVueNuxt.jsNext.jsAngularPiniaVuexReduxZustandMobXTailwindSCSSBootstrapReka UIRadix UINode.jsNest.jsBunFastAPIExpoIonicCapacitorElectronGraphQLRESTPayload.jsStrapiKeycloakSupabaseFirebaseVitestJestPlaywrightCypressViteWebpackGitlab CISentryGoogle LighthouseFeature-Sliced DesignRxJS

Education & languages

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Education

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
Faculty of Management Systems, Data processing information
2018 · Bachelor

Languages

Russian NATIVE
English C1 · ADVANCED