--- title: Oleksii Popov β€” Resume canonical_url: 'https://oleksiipopov.com/resume/' markdown_url: 'https://oleksiipopov.com/resume/index.md' --- # Oleksii Popov Senior Full-Stack Software Developer (React/TypeScript/AWS/Node.js) - Website: [oleksiipopov.com](https://oleksiipopov.com) - LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/oleksii-popov](https://linkedin.com/in/oleksii-popov) - GitHub: [github.com/AlexeyPopovUA](https://github.com/AlexeyPopovUA) - Email: opportunities@oleksiipopov.com - Location: Klagenfurt am WΓΆrthersee, Austria - Education: MSc ## About Me I'm a front-end leaning full-stack software developer with 14 years of experience, including 7+ in senior roles. I build user-centric products, leveraging my expertise across frontend, cloud-native, and backend technologies. I specialize in architecting and developing high-scale single-page applications, UI libraries, and SDKs, while also implementing CI/CD pipelines, hosting, and distribution solutions. I excel at optimizing application performance for improved runtime efficiency and faster load speeds. My experience includes leading the development of high-quality technical solutions, conducting technical interviews, and mentoring team members. I also bring experience in defining project visions, setting development strategies, and prioritizing technologies to align with business goals. ## Contact details - Nationality: Dutch - I speak: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Dutch ## Skills ### Programming languages Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS ### Frontend React, Redux, TailwindCSS, Next.js, Storybook, Webpack, Lerna, npm, pnpm, yarn ### Cloud & Backend Node.js, AWS, AWS-CDK, AWS-SDK, Serverless, Express JS, SQL and non-SQL DBs ### Other technologies & AI Mastra AI, AI SDK by Vercel, Claude-code, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Jest, Selenium, Webpack, Lerna, Elastic Search & Kibana, Sumologic, NewRelic, SonarQube ## Experience ## Synthesia (Remote) 🌍 November 2025 – Present https://synthesia.io/ - Synthesia is the #1 rated AI video communications platform. Thousands of companies use it to create videos in 140 languages, saving up to 80% of their time and budget. πŸ‘‰ Trusted by Zoom, Xerox, Teleperformance, Amazon and more. ### Senior Software Developer November 2025 – Present - Empowering engineers to deliver high-performance features across the entire frontend stack - Collaboration on CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment efficiency and reliability - Establishing best practices for frontend tooling, fostering a culture of quality and innovation **Stack:** React, Typescript, Docker, Datadog, Node.js, AWS, Terraform ## Self-employed (Remote) 🌍 April 2025 – November 2025 ### Senior Software Developer at Innervate (Remote, contract) 🌍 April 2025 – September 2025 Innervate (formerly RevJet) provides a platform for digital advertising and marketing solutions. - Maintained and enhanced multiple full-stack web applications. - Engineered and implemented shared GitLab CI/CD pipeline templates reducing deployment time and complexity - Migrated more than 10 projects to the new CI/CD system - Developed AI-based migration tools and conducted experiments with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. **Stack:** React, Typescript, Next.js, Docker, Mastra AI, AI SDK by Vercel, Kubernetes, Node.js, GitLab ## Dynatrace (Klagenfurt am WΓΆrthersee, Austria) πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή October 2023 – March 2025 https://www.dynatrace.com/ - Dynatrace is an observability platform that uses AI to monitor application performance, cloud infrastructure, and user experience. ### Senior Software Developer October 2023 – March 2025 - Maintained and developed the new Kubernetes monitoring web application, including related services and libraries, serving more than 4000 enterprise customers. - Improved application performance by profiling React components and implementing targeted optimizations, reducing several heavy operations execution time by up to 6 times. - Conducted code reviews, refactored legacy code to modern standards - Participated in technical interviews for multiple teams. **Stack:** React, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Dynatrace, Node.js, Java ## TomTom (Amsterdam, Netherlands) πŸ‡³πŸ‡± January 2019 – September 2023 https://www.tomtom.com/ - TomTom is a global leader in location technology, providing navigation, maps, and traffic data for drivers, businesses, and smart cities ### Expert Software Developer March 2021 – September 2023 - Developed the core architecture of a new route planning web application plan.tomtom.com, designed for high performance and scalability, serving millions of users worldwide. - Started development of a new web SDK for TomTom public services, including its distribution infrastructure, improving developer experience and reducing integration time. - Designed and implemented a microservice for authentication. - Authored technical documentation for knowledge sharing and onboarding for new team members. - Supported and improved AWS CI/CD system, high concurrency automation testing infrastructure and performance testing dashboard. - Conducted code reviews, technical interviews, hiring, mentorship. Participated in customer support duties. ### Senior Software Developer January 2019 – March 2021 - Established a new development team, helped to hire 2 developers and 1 QA, onboarded to multiple projects. - Architected and developed the core of a next-generation Road Trips web application, featuring pre-rendering, server-side rendering, and localization, supporting a global user base. - Implemented a robust AWS CI/CD system with feature branch support, enabling parallel development and faster release cycles. - Created a high-concurrency automation testing infrastructure that reduced Selenium test execution time from 2 hours to 3-5 minutes, a 96% decrease. - Developed a performance testing analysis system and web application observability tools, providing data-driven insights for performance optimization. **Stack:** React, Redux, Typescript, Next.js, TailwindCSS, GraphQL, Docker, Node.js, AWS, AWS-CDK, AWS-SDK, Grafana, Storybook, Java, Selenium, GitHub Actions, Microservices Architecture, API Development ## Albelli (Amsterdam, Netherlands) πŸ‡³πŸ‡± April 2016 – January 2019 https://www.albelli.nl/ - Albelli specializes in personalized photo products like photo books, wall art, and calendars. ### Software developer > Senior software developer April 2016 – January 2019 - Participated in development and maintenance of online photo editors and hybrid mobile application. - Introduced latest JavaScript support into the mature product (100k executable lines). - Introduced the latest unit testing system - Developed different tools for debugging, logging and fixing customer issues, participated in customer support. - Set up code quality monitoring system. **Stack:** JavaScript, TypeScript, SCSS, Node.js, google-closure-library, Mocha, Java, Selenium ## Various companies (web studios and outsourcing) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ August 2011 – April 2016 ### QA > Junior PHP > JavaScript Developer August 2011 – April 2016 - Developed frontend and server-side components for cloud management and energy management platforms. - Built and maintained small to mid-scale web applications, marketing and e-commerce sites using PHP, JavaScript - Refactored legacy PHP / jQuery codebases to modular, maintainable architectures, reducing defect rates and easing feature delivery - Collaborated with designers and PMs to scope features, estimate effort, and deliver iterative releases under tight outsourcing timelines - Participated in code reviews, led technical interviews, requirement analysis, hired multiple developers and QA, mentored junior developers and QA. **Stack:** JavaScript, SCSS, Node.js, Java, jQuery, CSS, PHP, MySQL, WordPress ## Education ### MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Cryogenic technology) National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute of Ukraine 2009 - 2011 ### BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Cryogenic technology) National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute of Ukraine 2005 - 2009 ## Certificates - [Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners - Hands-on](https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-f1c86ecf-2f67-4cea-8a6d-8db5b7ffbd39/) β€” Udemy, January 2024 - [Data structures: Measuring and Optimizing Performance](https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/23F54S3MXLY7) β€” Coursera Course Certificates, November 2015 - [Object Oriented Programming in Java](https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/Q43W5UTZT6VZ) β€” Coursera Course Certificates, October 2015 - [Introduction to TypeScript](https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-71722OOL/) β€” Udemy, July 2015 ## Own projects ### Personal software development blog and portfolio This is my personal software development blog, portfolio and CV. It is a statically exported web application. It is built using Next.js, TailwindCSS and AWS Serverless Image Handler. - [Website](https://oleksiipopov.com) ### Hobby blog for my wife Static website generated by Gatsby JS, backed by Netlify CMS and Github as an identity provider and backend. Also AWS lambda for oAuth via GitHub - [Website](https://www.zapiskimami.com) ### Advanced Logger Open-source isomorphic javascript module for reporting data (logs) to remote log storages like SumoLogic and Loggly with support of different reporting strategies - [Website](https://www.advancedlogger.com) - [GitHub](https://github.com/AlexeyPopovUA/advanced-logger)