I'm a product-minded Lead Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in turning business goals into fast, intuitive, and high-impact web applications. I pride myself on bridging the gap between founders, design, and engineering, leading teams from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. My expertise lies in architecting scalable front-ends, optimizing performance, and ensuring we build the right product the right way. I enjoy tackling complex challenges and have led projects across various sectors, including fintech, e-commerce, and ML SaaS platforms. Beyond my technical acumen, I focus on creating seamless user experiences and building strong, efficient teams.

Gleb Gorokhov

I'm a product-minded Lead Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in turning business goals into fast, intuitive, and high-impact web applications. I pride myself on bridging the gap between founders, design, and engineering, leading teams from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. My expertise lies in architecting scalable front-ends, optimizing performance, and ensuring we build the right product the right way. I enjoy tackling complex challenges and have led projects across various sectors, including fintech, e-commerce, and ML SaaS platforms. Beyond my technical acumen, I focus on creating seamless user experiences and building strong, efficient teams.

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I’m a product-minded Lead Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in turning business goals into fast, intuitive, and high-impact web applications. I pride myself on bridging the gap between founders, design, and engineering, leading teams from ambiguity to launch with minimal oversight. My expertise lies in architecting scalable front-ends, optimizing performance, and ensuring we build the right product the right way.

I enjoy tackling complex challenges and have led projects across various sectors, including fintech, e-commerce, and ML SaaS platforms. Beyond my technical acumen, I focus on creating seamless user experiences and building strong, efficient teams.

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Language

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Russian
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Work Experience

Lead Front-End & Product Designer at DialedN Outdoors
December 31, 2025 - July 21, 2025
Led a full-stack rebuild of the core marketplace platform focusing on performance and user experience. Engineered the checkout pipeline with StripePayments, boosting cart-to-payment conversion by 18%. Built StripeConnect onboarding for 400+ partner stores, automating payouts and saving ~30h/week for finance. Delivered a real-time financial dashboard with sub-50ms interactions. Achieved a perfect 100 Google Lighthouse score pre-launch via optimization. Architected a new design system and component library using Tailwind CSS, cutting feature lead-time by 30%. Established a testing culture with 95% UI test coverage. Set up a real-time messaging system for store-customer communication using GraphQL and Hasura.
Senior Front-End Developer at Lendflow
December 31, 2022 - July 21, 2025
Owned the front-end for a complex B2B lending platform. Led the no-code lending-flow builder enabling banks to assemble credit journeys quickly. Implemented streaming financial data visualisations handling 100k+ points at 60fps. Created a real-time relationship graph for fraud detection. Delivered a self-serve onboarding wizard reducing integration from ≈3 weeks to <1 day. Reduced heavy chart page load times by 40%.
Senior Front-End Developer at Aporia
December 31, 2021 - July 21, 2025
Revamped key user-facing pages and improved UX, contributing to a 12% reduction in customer churn. Re-architected the data-pipeline monitoring dashboard with React+D3, improving query speed 2×. Added virtualised timelines and alerting widgets helping fintech AI customers detect anomalies faster.
Senior Front-End Engineer at Sofinco
December 31, 2020 - July 21, 2025
Owned the credit-products analytics dashboard for 500k+ active loans. Introduced GraphQL-federated micro-frontends in Next.js, trimming first load by 35%. Implemented a WCAGAA-compliant design system reducing design bugs by 40%. Added contract tests for GraphQL endpoints, catching 30% of breaking changes pre-merge.
Founder & Team Lead at Versta
December 31, 2018 - July 21, 2025
Built and led an 8-developer front-end squad with effective code reviews and growth plans, elevating juniors to senior contributors in under a year. Served as primary client liaison for fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS customers achieving a 95% client-renewal rate. Introduced agency-wide TypeScript, ESLint, and CI pipelines, cutting regression bugs by 40%. Mentored team in React performance profiling, reducing average Time-to-Interactive by ~35%. Delivered 100+ complex projects for top Russian-based agencies and global brands.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science at St.Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2017

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Retail, Professional Services