Mikita Hancharou

Optimized platform performance across Next.js and GraphQL services by identifying bottlenecks, applying code-level and architectural improvements, and validating results with metrics and benchmarks. Improved developer experience by reducing CI/CD friction, stabilizing build/test pipelines, and adding productivity tooling. Owned traffic quality initiatives to detect and mitigate bots, scrapers, and AI crawlers to protect infrastructure and analytics quality. Coordinated security-related engineering work between security and product teams, translating security requirements into practical technical changes. Improved observability using Sentry alerting, structured logging, log enrichment, root-cause analysis, and production error triage.

Co-founded and led engineering for a B2B SaaS networking platform using LinkedIn Connector data to support warm introductions, sales, recruiting, fundraising, referrals, and trust-based business collaboration. Acted as technical lead/founding engineer, owning system architecture across a web app, Electron desktop app, backend APIs, background jobs, infrastructure, integrations, and production monitoring. Designed and built scalable product features with TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Electron, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, and Vercel. Established engineering workflows including CI/CD pipelines, code quality checks, linting/formatting, deployment automation, error tracking, monitoring, documentation, and release practices. Led technical hiring, architecture decisions, technical documentation, roadmap discussions, stakeholder communication, delivery planning, and technical trade-off analysis; balanced product iteration speed with maintainable architecture, produc

Designed and implemented data-transfer libraries and backend APIs for campaign management and analytics. Built NestJS services with PostgreSQL, TypeORM, RabbitMQ, RxJS, and Docker/Kubernetes. Introduced contract testing with Pact to improve reliability between platform components. Automated technical documentation generation and supported product demos, retrospectives, and technical design discussions.