Alexey Popov

Remote

Architecting Angular 22 applications end-to-end — zoneless, signals, standalone and OnPush throughout, with NgRx Signals stores. Designed a type-safe API layer: an Orval client auto-generated from OpenAPI with zod runtime validation — signal-based httpResource for reads, HttpClient services for mutations. Built a self-authored Nx monorepo of shared Angular libraries (design-system tokens from Figma, theming, inline-SVG icons, notifications, feature flags, dev-auth tooling), auto-versioned and idempotently published to a private GitLab Package Registry. Quality enforced by a custom ESLint plugin (private #fields, inject()-only DI, RxJS hygiene), a multi-plugin Prettier stack, 100% test coverage and duplication / circular-dependency gates in CI.

• A high-traffic consumer product on web SSR and Smart TV — ~4M users and ~100k devices, inside an Nx monorepo of 5 apps and 81 libraries. Shipped the SSR web features (age-gating and PIN compliance, profile, subscriptions, legal consent) and the gamification vertical — achievements, levels, leaderboards — to both web and TV.
• Led the authentication migration — off a legacy provider onto corporate SSO, on web SSR and Smart TV at once: sessions with heartbeat, short-lived tokens, HTTP interceptors, guest entry, a mixed mode and a new refresh-token flow, plus WebSocket device management with per-subscription limits. Rolled out behind feature flags and cleaned back out afterwards — ~170 commits across two apps.
• Designed two libraries from scratch and wrote almost all of the code — the Smart TV navigation layer (API contract, caching, a fallback catalogue that keeps the app navigable when the backend is down, product and performance metrics) and a resource-only data layer on signal httpResource: a per-session cache dropped on profile switch, no-retry on cache hits, error normalisation, fully spec-covered.
• Inherited a frontend team of one and built it out across three directions — my own group of 4–5, a reporting vertical of 5 and an international one of 2 — hiring every engineer myself over 70+ interviews.
• Own the release for all three frontend teams: I cut the epic, the teams raise the MRs, I merge once the approvals land — often as one of the reviewers. Reviewed an external contractor team's code for a year, then hired the senior who took it over.
• Introduced unit testing to a project sitting at 0% coverage and taught 20+ developers to write it — the main app now runs ~10,400 unit tests at 89% coverage gated in CI, and the greenfield projects sit at 100%.
• Own production health — Sentry, performance metrics and the regression runs for the whole project. Defects reaching production fell from the 10–12 per sprint I inherited to 2–3.
• Built the GitLab CI/CD from scratch on Kubernetes runners — reusable templates shared across projects, nx affected, three-way sharding that clears 10,400 tests in ~3 minutes, and coverage, duplication, circular-dependency and custom approval gates, with a custom ESLint plugin enforcing the conventions.
• Published an Nx monorepo of 13 shared Angular libraries — design-system tokens from Figma, theming, SVG icons, notifications, feature flags, dev-auth, a generated Orval API client and test helpers — auto-versioned into a private GitLab registry and consumed by 3 apps.

• Angular
• NgRx
• Signals
• RxJS
• TypeScript
• CI/CD
• Jira
• Confluence

US, Remote

5th Kind CORE (Sohonet) — the distributed digital-asset management platform film and TV production runs on: ~10k users, with Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros., Epic Games and Universal among its clients.

• Led the migration to a layered NgRx architecture over about a year, staged to keep the product shipping — new features first, then auth and the core user / permissions / roles services, then the rest.
• Made multi-select on large virtualized lists roughly 200× faster — 180–200 ms down to 0.4–0.5 ms per item — through an OnPush + immutability overhaul.
• Wrote custom virtual-scrolling strategies for dynamic-height items, and complex forms via ControlValueAccessor.
• Ran 20+ technical interviews, hired and mentored newcomers, and set up the code-review process for a team that ran 4–5 strong and peaked at 8.

Sohonet — 5th Kind CORE platform ↗

• Angular
• NgRx
• RxJS
• Ionic
• Angular Material
• WebSocket
• Ag-grid

Taganrog

Owned the product's UI architecture and the refactoring roadmap that went with it.

• Designed the UI architecture and refactoring plan, then shipped 10+ major features against it.
• Rolled CSS variables and an OnPush + immutability strategy across the codebase.
• Built and released the mobile iOS / Android app with Ionic; ran Angular / JS interviews and trained new hires.

• Angular
• Webpack
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Ionic
• WebSocket

Taganrog

Full-stack development (Angular + Node.js) for international US/EU clients via Upwork — SPAs and the Node.js back ends behind them, with direct client communication in English.

★ Top Rated · 100% Job Success · Upwork

• rademacher.de ↗
• pooltrackr.com ↗

• Angular
• Node.js
• TypeScript

Taganrog

Built 50+ landing pages and online stores with a focus on responsive layout and performance.

• Angular
• Node.js
• SVG
• Animation