I'm Gleb Gorokhov, a product-minded Lead Full-Stack Engineer with 13+ years of experience turning business goals into fast, intuitive, high-impact web applications. I'm framework-agnostic, senior across modern front-end and back-end stacks, with strong database and API integration depth. I bridge founders, design, and engineering, taking products from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. I have a track record of rescuing stalled codebases and driving them to MVP, and I leverage AI tooling to ship faster while upholding a high bar for code quality, security, and maintainability.

Gleb Gorokhov

I'm Gleb Gorokhov, a product-minded Lead Full-Stack Engineer with 13+ years of experience turning business goals into fast, intuitive, high-impact web applications. I'm framework-agnostic, senior across modern front-end and back-end stacks, with strong database and API integration depth. I bridge founders, design, and engineering, taking products from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. I have a track record of rescuing stalled codebases and driving them to MVP, and I leverage AI tooling to ship faster while upholding a high bar for code quality, security, and maintainability.

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I’m Gleb Gorokhov, a product-minded Lead Full-Stack Engineer with 13+ years of experience turning business goals into fast, intuitive, high-impact web applications. I’m framework-agnostic, senior across modern front-end and back-end stacks, with strong database and API integration depth.

I bridge founders, design, and engineering, taking products from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. I have a track record of rescuing stalled codebases and driving them to MVP, and I leverage AI tooling to ship faster while upholding a high bar for code quality, security, and maintainability.

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Language

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Russian
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Work Experience

Founding Engineer / Lead Full-Stack Engineer at Deep Creator Inc.
September 1, 2025 - June 1, 2026
Joined as the first engineer and refactored an early-stage MVP into a scalable microservice architecture. Migrated plain SQL queries to typed Drizzle ORM across the product; reorganized the codebase into a pnpm monorepo with CI/CD pipelines, code standards, and deployment workflows from scratch. Designed and implemented the full product design system to improve UX consistency and trust. Built an AI chatter agent that handles fan conversations contextually, persona-driven, with re-engagement logic and media-aware replies. Built the AI content generation toolkit with multi-step image/video pipelines and Gemini-based quality estimation, a concurrency-controlled job queue with stale-job recovery, and SSE-based live status updates. Implemented multi-platform messaging infrastructure for WhatsApp and iMessage with cross-platform failover, webhook confirmations, and retry-safe workers. Developed the mass outreach and campaign system with audience segmentation, behavioral inbox filters, schedu
Senior Software Engineer (Front-End focus) at Cendars
July 1, 2025 - May 1, 2026
Built real-time trading terminals and wallet tooling for a high-frequency crypto platform. Implemented high-performance React 19 + TypeScript views streaming live market data over WebSockets into virtualized tables rendering thousands of rows. Delivered the perpetuals section (Hyperliquid + Coinglass data) and a prediction-markets platform integrated with Polymarket. Implemented wallet management and non-custodial login via Phantom and MetaMask (signature-based auth, viem), plus passkey/WebAuthn authentication. Built interactive charts (ECharts, Lightweight Charts) and custom D3.js visuals; owned features end-to-end from design to code, Storybook components, and API integration. Added API test automation and drove render-performance improvements with virtualization and memoization, including AI-assisted workflows for code review and fixes.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer & UX/UI Designer at Curamatic
July 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024
Designed the dashboard UI and built the design system for the product and public website. Solved dense UX problems in healthcare data interfaces and proposed multiple design options. Built and wired UIs end-to-end to the backend (TypeScript, Elixir/Phoenix LiveView, Tailwind). Architected Curamatic-to-Tableau integration with user-based access control to surface large volumes of data to customers.
Lead Full-Stack Engineer & Product Designer at DialedN Outdoors
June 1, 2023 - June 1, 2025
Core engineer on a 4-person team; designed and built a multi-vendor marketplace end-to-end. Architected Nuxt storefront, React admin/merchant dashboard, and Node.js/Nest.js + Medusa backend on PostgreSQL (Prisma + TypeORM). Implemented the Stripe checkout pipeline with Payment Intents and multi-vendor onboarding. Built AI-powered product matching, unified cross-shop cart/checkout, and real-time store-to-customer messaging (GraphQL + Hasura). Created a comprehensive end-to-end type-safety system across the monorepo and a Tailwind-based design system with a component library; established a Playwright/Vitest testing culture, optimized for pre-launch performance.
Senior Front-End Engineer at Lendflow
February 1, 2022 - April 1, 2023
Built the front-end in React + TypeScript (Chart.js, Tailwind) for a B2B embedded-lending platform. Led a no-code lending-flow builder to assemble credit journeys quickly. Implemented streaming financial visualizations and a relationship graph to surface anomalies in real time. Delivered a self-serve onboarding wizard and integrated the front-end with backend lending APIs.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at MYA (Meet Your Accountant)
April 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Took over a stalled platform for hiring accountants and drove it from a raw codebase to MVP launch. Re-architected front-end with strict TypeScript and a clean component structure. Built core platform features: accountant catalogue, profiles, private messaging, advanced search (Algolia), and Stripe subscriptions. Implemented Stripe webhooks to close a payment-event gap; hardened backend security and simplified the database schema. Added SSE real-time updates with E2E tests and scoped MVP vs. v2 with the founder to ship faster.
Senior Front-End Engineer at Aporia (acquired by Coralogix)
June 1, 2020 - March 1, 2021
Led a large-scale refactor of the ML model-monitoring dashboard, restructuring a tangled Vue/Vuex codebase into a strictly-typed, component-driven architecture. Rebuilt data-heavy monitoring experiences with virtualized timelines, model drift/anomaly alerting, and live metric charts. Eliminated render bottlenecks on high-volume data tables and standardized state management to improve responsiveness and maintainability.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer & UX/UI Designer at Mic’s Lab
September 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020
Designed and built a cross-platform app (Vue + Ionic, Node.js, Firestore, TypeScript) for athlete wellbeing and safeguarding. Led UX/UI, front-end, and API integration. Implemented AI-driven triage, built sport-specific interactive content with GSAP animations, and hardened security for sensitive player data.
Senior Front-End Engineer at Sofinco
November 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019
Refactored a complex banking/consumer-finance dashboard (Vue 2 class-based + TypeScript) to improve maintainability and performance. Rebuilt layouts to be responsive and cross-browser; added polished interface animations.
Founder & Team Lead at Versta Front-End Outsourcing Agency
September 1, 2015 - October 1, 2018
Founded and led an 8-developer front-end agency; mentored two juniors to senior level within 12 months. Standardized TypeScript, ESLint, and CI pipelines; delivered 100+ projects with a 95% client-renewal rate.
Front-End Developer & UX/UI Designer at Independent / Freelance
May 1, 2013 - August 1, 2015
Delivered 70+ projects for clients worldwide - responsive, pixel-perfect websites and web apps from scratch—with a 100% client-satisfaction rating.

Education

Computer Science (coursework) at ITMO University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

JavaScript Problem Solving Certification
April 1, 2025 - July 2, 2026
Vue.js Skill Assessment
December 1, 2021 - July 2, 2026
JavaScript, Top 1% (Testing)
May 1, 2021 - July 2, 2026
JavaScript Front-End Development Certification
May 1, 2021 - July 2, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment