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I’m Hicham Ben Chaabene, a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with over 10 years of experience delivering scalable, high-performance web applications in international and cross-functional teams. I’m specialized in TypeScript, design systems, and frontend architecture, and I love taking ownership of frontend strategy, defining best practices, and building scalable solutions.
I’m collaborative, product-focused, and passionate about delivering clean, user-centric digital experiences. I’m proficient in CI/CD, performance tuning, and delivering production-ready solutions in fast-moving environments, and I enjoy mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives to improve product quality and user experience.
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English
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Work Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer at Castor
October 1, 2024 - PresentDesigned and delivered accessible, responsive UI components across 5+ mission-critical workflows, ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance and improving usability for diverse user groups. Revamped the Form Builder UX, introducing intuitive features like drag-and-drop, hierarchical field visualization, and dependency management—reducing form creation time and user error rates. Took ownership of key frontend workflows and contributed to shaping the internal design system architecture used across multiple product teams.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Castor
October 1, 2024 - PresentDesigned and delivered accessible, responsive UI components across 5+ mission-critical workflows, ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance and improving usability for diverse user groups. Revamped the Form Builder UX with intuitive drag-and-drop, hierarchical field visualization, and dependency management—reducing form creation time and user errors. Took ownership of key frontend workflows and helped shape the internal design system architecture used across multiple product teams.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Castor
October 1, 2024 - PresentDesigned and delivered accessible, responsive UI components across 5+ mission-critical workflows, ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance and improving usability for diverse user groups. Revamped the Form Builder UX with drag-and-drop, hierarchical field visualization, and dependency management—reducing form creation time and user errors. Owned key frontend workflows and contributed to shaping the internal design system architecture used across multiple product teams.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Provable Labs
September 1, 2024 - October 7, 2025Built and maintained features of a security lending trading platform, delivering user-centric solutions to navigate exceptionally large real-time data sets with personalized dashboards and custom real-time data visualization using Vue, ECharts, WebSockets and Vuex. Achieved over 80% code coverage and strong type safety using Vite and advanced TypeScript.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Provable Labs
September 1, 2024 - October 7, 2025Built and maintained features of a secure lending trading platform, delivering user-centric solutions to help customers navigate large real-time datasets. Implemented personalized dashboards and real-time data visualization using Vue, Vuex, ECharts, and GraphQL; collaborated across frontend, backend, QA, and product to deliver production-ready features.
Lead Frontend Engineer at Otrium.nl
December 31, 2022 - October 7, 2025Led migration of the Otrium.nl codebase from WooCommerce to a fully-fledged Next.js web application using CI/CD pipelines and leveraging microservices with GraphQL. Owned features from inception to deployment and contributed to shaping the internal design system architecture used across multiple product teams.
Lead Frontend Engineer at Otrium.nl
December 1, 2022 - October 7, 2025Led the migration of the Otrium.nl codebase from WooCommerce to a fully-fledged modern Next.js web application using continuous delivery pipelines and microservices with GraphQL. Owned features from inception to deployment, contributing to hiring frontend engineers and bridging collaboration across frontend, DevOps, Design, Backend, QA, and product. Expanded the application to over 10 countries, improving user experience across login, search, browse, and checkout flows. Mentored engineers and drove weekly performance improvements.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Travel Actions
December 1, 2022 - October 7, 2025Built a React-based customer success dashboard, integrating Twilio SDK to handle around 50K calls per month, featuring dynamic personalization by customer type, company tier, and product line with optimized routing for faster response times. Worked closely with a cross-functional agile team to ensure seamless integration and improved customer success workflows, reducing bounce rates and escalation incidents.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Trip Actions
December 1, 2022 - October 7, 2025Built a React-based customer success dashboard integrating Twilio SDK to handle around 50K calls per month, featuring dynamic personalization by customer type, company tier, and product line with optimized routing for faster response times. Worked closely with a cross-functional Agile team to ensure seamless integration and improved performance, enhancing customer success workflows and reducing bounce rates and escalations.
Lead Frontend Engineer at Otrium.nl
December 1, 2022 - October 7, 2025Led the migration of the Otrium.nl codebase from WooCommerce to a fully fledged modern Next.js web application using continuous delivery pipelines and leveraging microservices with GraphQL. Owned features from inception to deployment, collaborating with frontend, design, backend, QA, and product teams. Expanded to 10+ countries and improved UX across e-commerce funnels.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Trip Actions
December 1, 2022 - October 7, 2025Built a React-based customer success dashboard, integrating Twilio SDK to handle around 50K calls per month, featuring dynamic personalization by customer type, company tier, and product line with optimized routing for faster response times. Worked closely with a cross-functional agile team to ensure seamless integration and improved customer success workflows, reducing bounce rates and escalation incidents.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Otrium.nl
December 31, 2019 - October 7, 2025Successfully migrated user-facing applications to a stack consisting of Next.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and GitLab pipelines. Contributed to frontend development as part of a cross-functional Agile team and frontend guild, focusing on technical optimization and improving user conversion rates. Led adoption of unit and end-to-end testing and Storybook, and actively shared knowledge across teams.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Werkspot.nl
December 1, 2019 - October 7, 2025Migrated user-facing applications to a new stack including Next.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and GitLab pipelines. Contributed to frontend development within a cross-functional agile team and frontend guild, focusing on technical optimization and improving user conversion rates. Actively participated in knowledge sharing and decision making with engineers across teams.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Spot.nl
December 1, 2019 - October 7, 2025Successfully migrated customer-facing applications to a new stack consisting of Next.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and GitLab pipelines. Contributed to frontend development in a cross-functional agile team, focusing on technical optimization and improving user conversions. Introduced unit and end-to-end testing (Jest, Cypress) and Storybook; participated in knowledge sharing and cross-team decisions.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Fashiontrade
December 31, 2018 - October 7, 2025Built a Fashiontrade B2B marketplace in an Agile environment using a modern JavaScript stack (React/Redux/Styled Components) with BDD and TDD using Jest and Cypress; implemented Webpack/Gulp automation, and contributed to frontend development, testing, and collaborative UX design.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Fashiontrade
December 1, 2018 - October 7, 2025Built a Fashiontrade B2B marketplace in an agile environment using modern JavaScript stack (React / Redux / Styled Components) with BDD and TDD using Jest and Cypress for end-to-end testing; involved Webpack, Gulp, Bash scripts and Node-based tooling.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Fashiontrade
December 1, 2018 - October 7, 2025Built a Fashiontrade B2B marketplace in an agile environment using modern React/Redux/Styled Components; performed BDD and TDD with Jest and E2E testing; employed Webpack and Gulp pipelines; contributed to end-to-end frontend development.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Dubizzle
February 28, 2015 - October 7, 2025Worked as a senior frontend engineer contributing to the growth of Dubai-based e-commerce apps, building and maintaining high-traffic, device-agnostic web applications, delivering a remarkable user experience to millions of users across ten countries. Ensured cross-browser compatibility and accessibility for low-bandwidth and legacy browsers (IE8) using HTML/CSS, developing and maintaining an internal component library, and collaborating with other frontend engineers and UX designers.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Dubizzle.com (OLX / Naspers)
February 1, 2015 - October 7, 2025Senior frontend engineer contributing to the growth of dubizzle across ten countries. Built and maintained high-traffic, device-agnostic web applications, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and accessibility for low-bandwidth and legacy browsers. Led the development of an internal component library and design system in collaboration with frontend engineers and UX designers.
Senior Frontend Engineer at Dubizzle
February 1, 2015 - October 7, 2025Supported growth of a leading Dubai-based e-commerce platform by building and maintaining high-traffic, device-agnostic web apps; delivered a remarkable user experience to millions of users. Ensured cross-browser compatibility for low-bandwidth and legacy browsers (IE8) using HTML/CSS; developed and maintained an internal component library and design system; collaborated with frontend engineers and UX designers across multiple teams.
Education
Bachelor degree in IT and Arts of Multimedia at ISAMM, Manouba University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2009Bachelor's degree in IT and Arts of Multimedia at ISAMM, Manouba University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2009Bachelor degree in IT and Arts of Multimedia at ISAMM Manouba University
January 11, 2030 - October 7, 2025Qualifications
Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Professional Services
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