Building for the web.
Across the stack.
I’m Ali, a full-stack engineer with a frontend focus. I work on interfaces, architecture, and the systems that make them reliable.
Senior Interface Developer at Yandex.
Selected work
03Aril
A collaborative planning workspace with editable canvases, Markdown, and real-time cursors.
Vagabond UI
A React component library with 38 component families, light and dark themes, and attention to interaction details.
Vault
A community gaming platform for 15,000 members, with substantial improvements to loading and deployment times.
Experience
Full résumé- May 2025 — Present
Yandex (opens in a new tab)
Senior Interface Developer (Frontend)
Develop and maintain web interfaces with React and TypeScript. Contribute to frontend architecture and maintainability, support engineering quality through testing and code review, and document technical decisions and mentor teammates.
React · TypeScript
- Feb 2023 — May 2025
Dizzaract · formerly Farcana (opens in a new tab)
Frontend Developer
Built the AI search frontend in 48 hours using pooled WebSockets and TanStack Query, averaging around 200 ms across 50 concurrent requests. Built chat streaming, a shared component system, and backend-for-frontend event integrations.
React · TanStack Query · Radix UI · Tailwind CSS · Storybook
- Nov 2020 — Oct 2022
Onix
Full-Stack Developer
Led three junior developers and restructured Redux state management, bringing typical feature delivery down to about one week. Reduced deployments from hours to around 40 minutes with TeamCity, Portainer, and Docker.
React · Redux · Docker · TeamCity · Portainer
- Jul 2018 — Aug 2020
Arcanica Interactive (opens in a new tab)
Frontend Developer · part-time
Built web architecture, inventory and Discord integrations, and embed and news management for a Unity horror game with 5,000 players.
Web architecture · Discord integrations
Pet Projects
05Tools, prototypes, and curious little detours.
Quota Board
Provider quotas, reset countdowns, and credit balances, right inside the OpenCode terminal.
Opens in a new tabPolygon / Vault
A gaming-community prototype for web and desktop, with a local game launcher and demo community data.
Opens in a new tabNeko Launcher
A Minecraft launcher built with a team, bringing a React interface to the desktop with Tauri and Rust.
Dingir
A developer-tool experiment for compiling TypeScript into bytecode and packaging it for distribution.
Opens in a new tabDiscordg
A TypeScript library extending Discord.js for the Dingir tooling ecosystem.
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A little about me
I’m Ali, an engineer based in Baku with eight years of commercial experience building with React and TypeScript. My work spans frontend architecture, performance, testing, and the tooling that helps teams ship.
At Yandex, I work on interfaces and frontend delivery. I also build full-stack products with Node.js, Express, and databases. My projects include Aril, a collaborative planning workspace, and Vagabond UI, a React component library.
React & TypeScript Node.js & SQL Design systems