Experience

Minds + Assembly · New York, NY · Contract 2025 - Present

• Lead architecture and hands-on development for complex digital products in healthcare, designing scalable frontend systems in close partnership with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Own technical direction from planning through release, translating business and product requirements into maintainable systems while balancing delivery speed with long-term maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and raise standards for accessibility, performance, code quality, and delivery.
• Partner with design leadership to evolve design token systems and component architecture, improving UI consistency and speeding up implementation across projects.

Publicis Health · New York, NY 2025

• Led delivery across design, QA, and engineering for Johnson & Johnson web platforms and digital initiatives, improving team alignment, execution, and release quality in an Agile environment.
• Managed and mentored a frontend team of 9 engineers and coordinated offshore teams while staying hands-on in architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Reverse-engineered and documented existing legacy React frameworks, identified bottlenecks, and improved GitLab CI/CD workflows to speed releases and improve maintainability.

Catalyst Game Labs · Spokane, WA · Contract 2024 - 2025

• Owned full-stack architecture and implementation for a large application migration to modern PHP and MySQL, optimizing queries and backend logic to reduce load and improve reliability.
• Modernized a large-scale monorepo web application by refactoring 50+ legacy modules, reducing technical debt, and improving readability, maintainability, debugging speed, and developer velocity.
• Influenced roadmap and technical direction while introducing scalable UI patterns, stronger component foundations, reusable design-system practices, and A/B testing workflows.

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WeMovin · Bellevue, WA 2024

• Architected the system design for a scalable Next.js and TypeScript application, defining SSR, ISR, and hydration strategies.
• Integrated Google Maps JavaScript API libraries, predictive search, and real-time filtering for a high-performance real estate search experience.
• Led a cross-functional team of developers and designers from concept to MVP, aligning technical decisions with product vision in a fast-paced startup environment.

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Vue Health · Boston, MA 2022 - 2024

• Led development of web applications and delivery across multiple accounts, managing offshore teams, mentoring junior engineers, and aligning stakeholder goals with UX, technical execution, accessibility, SEO, and performance.
• Established a new design system and standards through cross-team collaboration and documentation, reducing development time while improving delivery speed and UI consistency.
• Designed and led implementation of a reusable internal frontend framework and shared component libraries that cut development time for interactive Veeva CLM presentations by 50% and improved consistency across builds.

Reverence Global · Oakland, CA 2020 - 2022

• Built engineering processes from the ground up while leading a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and strategists.
• Defined technical strategy, architecture, delivery standards, and CI workflows.
• Developed and maintained web applications, custom themes, and plugins across WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, Gatsby, and other platforms.
• Introduced SEO and WCAG protocols while standardizing development pipelines and engineering practices to improve performance, usability, maintainability, efficiency, and code quality.

Freelance · Ashland, OH 2016 - 2020

• Designed, developed, and maintained dynamic websites with custom full-stack functionality.
• Integrated payment processing and automated email campaigns.
• Supported SEO optimization, frontend implementation, backend functionality, and ongoing site maintenance.
• Utilized Google analytics tools and SEO marketing.
• Created Ads, Graphics, Logos, Icons, and publications for print using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Multiple companies · Russia 2003 - 2016

• Founded, co-founded, and supported multiple small business and startup initiatives across strategy, operations, partnerships, positioning, and early-stage execution.
• Built experience in finance and investing, including managing an investment fund and applying a risk-aware, long-term approach to decision-making and value creation.
• Consulted with small companies on business direction, operational planning, positioning, partnerships, and growth strategy.
• Participated in international business relationships and advisory or board-level roles for smaller companies, gaining experience in stakeholder alignment, strategic decisions, and company-building.