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Hi, I’m Lauri Laks—a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer and React/React Native specialist with 10 years of experience shipping scalable frontend apps and leading migrations. I thrive on pragmatic technical decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering user-facing features from 0 to 1. I’m remote-friendly, outcomes-driven, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. I enjoy building design systems from scratch, integrating complex payment gateways, and solving hard problems at scale.…Hi, I’m Lauri Laks—a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer and React/React Native specialist with 10 years of experience shipping scalable frontend apps and leading migrations. I thrive on pragmatic technical decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering user-facing features from 0 to 1. I’m remote-friendly, outcomes-driven, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. I enjoy building design systems from scratch, integrating complex payment gateways, and solving hard problems at scale.

Lauri Laks

Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Lauri Laks—a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer and React/React Native specialist with 10 years of experience shipping scalable frontend apps and leading migrations. I thrive on pragmatic technical decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering user-facing features from 0 to 1. I’m remote-friendly, outcomes-driven, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. I enjoy building design systems from scratch, integrating complex payment gateways, and solving hard problems at scale.…Hi, I’m Lauri Laks—a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer and React/React Native specialist with 10 years of experience shipping scalable frontend apps and leading migrations. I thrive on pragmatic technical decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering user-facing features from 0 to 1. I’m remote-friendly, outcomes-driven, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. I enjoy building design systems from scratch, integrating complex payment gateways, and solving hard problems at scale.

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Hi, I’m Lauri Laks—a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer and React/React Native specialist with 10 years of experience shipping scalable frontend apps and leading migrations. I thrive on pragmatic technical decisions, mentoring teams, and delivering user-facing features from 0 to 1.
I’m remote-friendly, outcomes-driven, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. I enjoy building design systems from scratch, integrating complex payment gateways, and solving hard problems at scale.

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Work Experience

Lead Senior Frontend Engineer at Aspire Software Systems

October 1, 2024 - Present

Led development of the publisher dashboard used by media partners to manage media and create content placement offers. Drove analytics functionality across the platform and designed and built an internal Figma analytics plugin. Implemented a new design system and frontend migration from the legacy UI, including runtime switching between UI versions. Engineered a frontend ecosystem comprising a web admin interface, a Node.js SDK, and a cohesive design system. Enabled poll creation programmatically or via the admin interface to capture feedback and prioritise features. Designed and implemented pre-built components to ensure consistency and scalability, and integrated Stripe, Adyen, and Braintree gateways. Improved reliability with unit and Playwright end-to-end testing. Contributed to the v2 carpooling app with real-time data management and payment/booking integration.

Senior Frontend Developer at Moody's Analytics

May 1, 2022 - October 31, 2024

Developed user verification processes; created a reusable UI kit for consistent design; performed unit, visual, and end-to-end testing to ensure quality. Implemented features such as live chat, push notifications, and photo uploads; leveraged Firebase for real-time updates and Cloudinary for optimized photo hosting. Established a dependable API infrastructure on Railway and implemented Fastlane for rapid deployments. Led frontend stack decisions and architectural improvements, including secure authentication for a multi‑sided marketplace and publishing apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Full Stack Developer at Neotech Development

November 1, 2019 - April 30, 2022

Collaborated cross-functionally to ensure seamless frontend-backend integration; built customer-facing features from 0-1 including a real-time driver tracking system; developed reusable UI components for cross-team usage; introduced new development tools to improve workflows; ensured code quality through unit and visual testing.

React Frontend Developer at Inbank

July 1, 2015 - October 31, 2019

Developed a DCIM solution for data-center management using HTML5/JS, React, and Node.js; integrated external systems such as SMS gateways, payment gateways, and bookkeeping; maintained company sites on WordPress; actively participated in technical discussions to align with project goals; maintained and evolved the codebase for performance and future scalability.

Senior Lead Frontend Engineer at Aspire Software Systems

October 1, 2024 - Present

Led development of the publisher dashboard used by media partners to manage their media and create content placement offers. Drove analytics functionality across the platform and designed and built an internal Figma analytics plugin. Implemented a new design system and frontend migration from the legacy UI with runtime switching between UI versions. Engineered a frontend ecosystem comprising a web admin interface, a Node.js SDK, and a cohesive design system. Enabled programmatic and admin-driven creation of polls for efficient feedback collection and feature prioritisation. Designed and implemented pre-built components to ensure consistency and scalability. Integrated Stripe, Adyen, and Braintree payment gateways and improved platform reliability through unit and Playwright end-to-end tests. Contributed to the v2 carpooling app with real-time data management and payment/booking integration.

Frontend Developer at Inbank

July 1, 2015 - October 1, 2019

Developed a DCIM solution for data center management using HTML5/JS, React, and Node.js. Integrated external systems like SMS gateways, payment gateways, and bookkeeping systems. Managed company sites on WordPress and actively contributed to technical discussions and solutions, ensuring performance, maintainability, and future scalability.