Evgeny Orekhov

Lead Frontend Engineer

React • TypeScript • Frontend Architecture • Developer Experience

Lead Frontend Engineer with 11+ years of experience building complex SaaS platforms and high-performance web applications.

Experienced technical leader focused on frontend architecture, engineering standards, and cross-team initiatives that scale engineering productivity.

Key Achievements:

Core Expertise:

Work

Senior Frontend Engineer

Forethought AI-powered customer support SaaS platform for enterprise clients
– Present
Remote (US)
  • Worked on Solve — Enterprise AI Chatbot solution https://forethought.ai/platform/solve/

  • Tech lead for multiple frontend initiatives in a large React + TypeScript SaaS platform within a 10+ frontend engineer international team

  • Mentored 3 frontend engineers

  • Conducted 150+ frontend technical interviews

  • Led development of an internal React component library used across 3 products

  • Led initiatives to optimize frontend build pipeline

  • Introduced and led end-to-end and visual regression testing integrated into CI pipelines

  • Led accessibility audits and improvements achieving WCAG compliance

  • Modernized frontend tooling improving build performance and Developer Experience

  • Defined and introduced frontend engineering standards (linting, testing, CI)

  • Collaborated with product and design teams to improve UI architecture and UX

Senior Frontend Developer

Axcient Enterprise SaaS platform for business continuity and disaster recovery
  • Worked on x360Cloud — Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace backup solution https://axcient.com/products/x360cloud/

  • Worked on x360Sync — Enterprise file sync and sharing solution https://axcient.com/products/x360sync/

  • Built large-scale web apps using Ember.js and Web Components in an 8-engineer international frontend team

  • Led development of an internal Web Component library used across 2 products

  • Mentored 2 frontend engineers

  • Introduced automated frontend code quality standards

  • Improved CI pipelines and development workflows

  • Led framework and dependency upgrades

Lead Frontend Developer

Zyfra Industrial software for the digitalization of manufacturing
  • Worked on Dispatcher MDC Web Client — Real-time manufacturing monitoring platform https://intechnology.ru/produkty/dispetcher-mdc/monitoring/

  • Worked on ChemInd Web UI — Internal IoT platform

  • Led frontend development for real-time industrial monitoring dashboards

  • Mentored 1 frontend engineer

  • Designed scalable React + Redux frontend architecture

  • Introduced CI pipelines and engineering standards

  • Improved developer workflows and maintainability

Senior Full-Stack Developer

WebCanape Software development agency building SaaS products
  • Worked on Master — B2B dispatch SaaS platform https://mdcmaster.com

  • Worked on WAKEUP — Learning management system https://wakeup-s.com

  • Worked on Internal Password Manager — Internal credential management solution

  • Built 2 full-stack SaaS platforms and 1 internal web app

  • Designed REST APIs using Node.js and PHP, and implemented 3 production microservices (file upload, notifications, ticket management)

  • Implemented CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, monitoring and logging infrastructure

Full-Stack Developer

WebCanape Software development agency building SaaS products
  • Worked on Master — B2B dispatch SaaS platform https://mdcmaster.com

Education

Russian University of Cooperation

Information Systems and Technology

Bachelor

Smolensk Industry and Economics College

Software Engineering for Computers and Computer-based Systems

Senior Technician

Projects

holiday.css 🎉

Owner
– Present

A minimalist classless CSS theme with dark mode support focused on simplicity and responsiveness

  • ⭐ 150+ GitHub stars

  • 10k monthly hits on jsDelivr

eslint-config-hardcore

Owner
– Present

The most strict (yet practical) ESLint config for React, Vue, Node, and pure JS/TS

  • ⭐ 450+ GitHub stars

Skills

Programming languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP

Frontend

  • React
  • Redux Toolkit
  • RTK Query
  • Ember.js
  • Stencil
  • Web Components
  • Web Vitals
  • Accessibility
  • Sentry

UI & styling

  • Material UI
  • Ant Design
  • styled-components
  • Sass
  • Highcharts
  • Ant Design Charts
  • C3.js
  • Storybook
  • Figma

Testing

  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • React Testing Library
  • Vitest
  • Jest
  • Argos CI
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • E2E Testing
  • Visual Regression Testing

Build tools

  • Vite
  • Rsbuild
  • webpack

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • restify
  • PHP
  • Yii2

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • RethinkDB

DevOps & infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Travis CI
  • nginx
  • OpenResty
  • Elastic Stack
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB

Source control

  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket

Engineering principles

  • Clean Architecture
  • TDD
  • SOLID
  • KISS
  • DRY
  • YAGNI
  • IoC
  • SoC

Legacy

  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • Smarty
  • Apache

Languages

English

Fluent

Russian

Native