Kanat Zholayev

Led frontend architecture and delivered multiple major user-facing product areas including online payments, subscriptions, e-book reading, and podcast streaming. Reduced page load times by 30% by rebuilding caching and optimizing state management. Migrated the entire admin panel (10+ workflows) to React to improve scalability and maintainability. Refactored the frontend to support offline functionality, reducing user-reported issues by about 30%. Increased automated test coverage to over 60% to reduce production regressions. Mentored two junior developers through structured code reviews and knowledge-sharing, and collaborated with designers on responsive UX improvements.

Split a monolithic frontend into micro-frontends using single-spa, enabling parallel delivery for five product teams. Ran an internal React/HTML training program and onboarded six engineers to the team’s frontend stack. Built and maintained a shared component library adopted across multiple internal products. Delivered custom data visualizations using Chart.js with unit test coverage across critical components. Refactored legacy interfaces and delivered the team’s first integration with a Hugo/C# backend and an API layer.

Built new features for a high-traffic eCommerce site in close collaboration with Product and the Technical Director. Partnered with designers to translate requirements into high-performance user interfaces, focusing on UI implementation and frontend delivery quality.