Frontend developer with 6 years of experience shipping end-to-end web projects and solving real business problems for high-value products. I’m comfortable adapting fast when requirements shift, thinking product-first, and finding practical solutions. I also enjoy hackathons and coding competitions, because they help me grow, collaborate with strong engineers, and connect with people building startups, Web3 products, and AI-driven solutions.

Damir Potnov

Frontend developer with 6 years of experience shipping end-to-end web projects and solving real business problems for high-value products. I’m comfortable adapting fast when requirements shift, thinking product-first, and finding practical solutions. I also enjoy hackathons and coding competitions, because they help me grow, collaborate with strong engineers, and connect with people building startups, Web3 products, and AI-driven solutions.

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Frontend developer with 6 years of experience shipping end-to-end web projects and solving real business problems for high-value products. I’m comfortable adapting fast when requirements shift, thinking product-first, and finding practical solutions.

I also enjoy hackathons and coding competitions, because they help me grow, collaborate with strong engineers, and connect with people building startups, Web3 products, and AI-driven solutions.

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Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Intermediate
Ukrainian
Fluent
Russian
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Work Experience

Independent Engineer / Open-Source at Independent
April 1, 2026 - Present
Independent TypeScript product work focused on Web3 tooling, real-time interfaces, and production-grade frontend architecture. Maintained and shipped private production TypeScript projects for other Web3 trading projects, executing transactions with ~99% success rate on the first attempt (less than 1 second). Built and shipped a P2E/P2O NFT GameFip project with a genre-unique auto-battler in a stylized 3D low-poly fantasy world. Advanced Next.js 16/React 19 app routing patterns across production-grade side projects. Tech includes TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Bun, MongoDB, Redis, WebSocket/SSE, CI/CD, and AI-assisted workflows.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Bodega Estudio
December 1, 2024 - April 1, 2026
Frontend delivery for company dApps and P2E products across architectures, user flows, interactive graphics, and performance. Built a scalable Solana wallet authentication system for 1,000+ users using SIWS-style signed challenges with domain/origin binding, Redis-backed single-use nonces, Ed25519 signature verification, and access/refresh JWT rotation. Reduced the main scene triangle count from 12M to 4M and improved performance by 78% via instancing and custom shaders. Owned an interactive Three.js/R3F pipeline with Drei and React Spring for GLB and USDZ scenes holding a stable frame budget across desktop and mobile. Hardened the API surface with host/origin/referrer guards, Redis IP rate limiting, CSRF-safe atomic nonce consumption, geo-IP session enrichment, and structured pinologging.
Frontend Engineer at VGS Co.
October 1, 2022 - November 30, 2024
Main company frontend product and internal libraries for wallet integrations, product UI, tooling, and releases. Replaced a legacy wallet connector with a custom integration and scaled supported wallets from 8 to 100+ across multiple apps, contributing to a reported 254% user-base increase. Shipped production interfaces for wallet authentication, token operations, payment flows, and NFT marketplace UX. Owned build configuration, bundle optimization, CI/CD pipelines, and multi-environment deployments for a small product team.
Full-Stack Developer at SSDC Inc.
May 1, 2020 - September 30, 2022
Main web developer in a small studio handling projects end-to-end: implementation, backend integration, deployment, and support. Built the main website for a WAX play-to-earn project end-to-end (frontend, backend integration, wallet auth, and production deployment). Delivered a user-facing platform with React, Wax.js, Anchor Link, Node.js, and Express.js. Operated the stack on a VPS using Nginx routing and delivery tuning; scaled to 10,000+ users and $241,525+ in marketplace turnover.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering at Kharkiv Technological University (IT-STEP)
September 1, 2020 - June 1, 2024

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Gaming, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Computers & Electronics

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