Frontend engineer with 8 years building and scaling production web applications, currently leading frontend architecture at Aviasoft. Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and micro-frontend architecture, with a strong track record of improving performance, migrating legacy systems, and mentoring engineers across multiple teams. Comfortable owning features end-to-end—from UI to backend integration. Proven ability to ship major user-facing products, reduce load times, raise automated test coverage, and refactor codebases for maintainability, scalability, and offline-ready experiences.

Kanat Zholayev

Frontend engineer with 8 years building and scaling production web applications, currently leading frontend architecture at Aviasoft. Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and micro-frontend architecture, with a strong track record of improving performance, migrating legacy systems, and mentoring engineers across multiple teams. Comfortable owning features end-to-end—from UI to backend integration. Proven ability to ship major user-facing products, reduce load times, raise automated test coverage, and refactor codebases for maintainability, scalability, and offline-ready experiences.

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Frontend engineer with 8 years building and scaling production web applications, currently leading frontend architecture at Aviasoft. Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and micro-frontend architecture, with a strong track record of improving performance, migrating legacy systems, and mentoring engineers across multiple teams.

Comfortable owning features end-to-end—from UI to backend integration. Proven ability to ship major user-facing products, reduce load times, raise automated test coverage, and refactor codebases for maintainability, scalability, and offline-ready experiences.

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Lead Frontend Developer at Aviasoft
April 1, 2024 - Present
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.
Frontend Developer at Dodo Brands
December 1, 2021 - April 1, 2024
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.
Frontend Developer at Accept Agency
August 1, 2021 - December 1, 2021
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.
Frontend Developer at Factum Agency
September 1, 2018 - August 1, 2021
Built and shipped 50+ high-converting landing pages using React and Redux. Delivered the team’s first full-stack projects on the MERN stack, including database architecture design. Built four third-party integrations connecting external software into existing e-commerce admin panels.

Education

Master of Information Systems at International Information Technology University
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Bachelor of Information Systems at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

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Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment