# Sergey Hovakimyan — Senior Software Engineer (AI-Augmented Practice) > Full-content dump of hovakimyan.dev for crawlers, LLM agents and AI > assistants. Everything on the site, in one plain-text fetch. > Canonical site: https://hovakimyan.dev > Last generated: 2026-08-14 ================================================================ PROFILE ================================================================ Name Sergey Hovakimyan Title Senior Software Engineer · AI-Augmented Software Engineer Location Glendale, California (open to remote) Email hovakimyan.serg@gmail.com Website https://hovakimyan.dev LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hovakimyanserg/ GitHub https://github.com/Hovakimyan Languages Armenian (native) · English (full professional) · Russian (full professional) Thirteen years building for the web, the last one mostly not by typing. Agents handle the implementation; I decide what should happen, check whether it did, and catch the thing that would have broken production on a Friday. Senior engineer at BuildOps on financial systems, and founder of two products built the same way. ================================================================ COMMON QUESTIONS ================================================================ Q: Who is Sergey Hovakimyan? A: Sergey Hovakimyan is a senior software engineer with 13+ years of experience, based in Glendale, California. He works at BuildOps in Santa Monica on a vertical SaaS platform for commercial contractors, and is the founder of Ashoon and co-founder of Kamui. Q: What does Sergey Hovakimyan do at BuildOps? A: He works across BuildOps' platform — mostly the React and TypeScript web app — and is part of the team behind financial operations: accounting periods, close, ledger integrity and reporting. He specs and reviews changes in that area and coordinates its releases, across 9 repositories spanning the web app, the financial core service, backend services, database migrations and end-to-end test suites. Q: What is Sergey Hovakimyan's experience with AI agents and agent-orchestrated development? A: Since mid-2025 he has worked almost entirely through AI coding agents rather than writing implementation by hand, operating at the specification, review and verification layer. He designs reusable Claude Code agents, skills and slash commands used by his team for code review, accessibility audits, architecture analysis and design-to-code via MCP, and has reviewed 268 pull requests for other engineers. He also built both of his own products end to end using the same workflow. Q: What technologies does Sergey Hovakimyan work with? A: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Redux, GraphQL and PostgreSQL, with Playwright and Jest for testing. On the AI side: Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and custom agents, skills and commands. He also works in micro-frontend architecture, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), internationalisation and CI/CD. Q: Has Sergey Hovakimyan led engineering teams? A: Yes. He spent five years at EPAM Systems, ending as a Software Engineering Team Leader running front-end teams of up to 12 engineers across client engagements in streaming media, social platforms, healthcare, consumer finance software, EV infrastructure and mobility. He ran hiring loops with 20+ technical interviews and mentored engineers who have since become seniors and leads. Q: What has Sergey Hovakimyan built independently? A: He founded Ashoon (ashoon.com), an AI customer-messaging platform that answers Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and website chat in 30 languages and takes orders directly from a DM, and co-founded Kamui (kamui.digital), a point-of-sale platform for independent retail with multi-tenant isolation enforced through Postgres row-level security. He also runs Ashoon Studio (ashoon.online), a web-design studio for small service businesses. Q: Where is Sergey Hovakimyan based, and is he available for remote work? A: He is based in Glendale, California and works at BuildOps in Santa Monica. He is open to remote engagements and has worked remotely with teams across Armenia, Europe and the United States. He speaks Armenian natively, plus English and Russian at full professional proficiency. ================================================================ SELECTED WORK ================================================================ 01. BuildOps — IC5 Software Engineer · AI-Augmented Practice April 2025 — Present · Santa Monica, California Engineering a vertical SaaS platform through an AI-orchestrated workflow — agents write nearly all the implementation; my work is specification, review, and verification, and I own the release train for financial operations. I work across BuildOps' vertical SaaS platform for the trades — most of my time in the React/TypeScript web app, and more recently on the team behind financial operations: accounting periods, close semantics, enforcement rules that have to hold across object types and fiscal years, ledger integrity, and the reporting layer above it. I knew none of that domain when I arrived. Learning it properly turned out to be the entire job, because an agent will hand you a beautifully clean function that does exactly the wrong thing to a ledger and never hesitate before doing it. I now spec and review changes in that area and coordinate its releases, alongside the broader product work. Since mid-2025 almost none of the implementation has been typed by hand: I design the agents, skills and slash commands the team uses, run deep-research agents to pressure-test trade-offs before anything is written, pair with them on tests and review, and wire Figma into production components through MCP. What actually changed is the unit of work: smaller changes, more of them, every one still read by a human before it merges. Alongside that I've reviewed 268 pull requests for other engineers and taken over release coordination for the area. The part worth naming is the cost: the hard work moved from writing code to reviewing structural decisions fast enough to keep pace, and I finish most days more tired than when I typed everything myself. Metrics: Reviews given: 268 · Repositories: 9 · Releases: Coordinated · Domain: Financial operations · Hand-written code: ≈ 0 — spec, review, verify · Stack: Agents · MCP · TS · React Tags: AI-Augmented, Agent Orchestration, Claude Code, MCP, TypeScript, React, Financial Systems, WCAG 2.1 AA 02. EPAM Systems — Software Engineering Team Leader → Lead September 2020 — April 2025 · Yerevan → Glendale, California Designed micro-frontend architecture and led a 12-engineer team across global accounts. Across nearly five years at EPAM I went from Senior to Team Leader. I architected a micro-frontend system in React/Redux/TypeScript that cut code dependencies by 30%, led a 12-person front-end team across multiple accounts, and shipped streaming features for a major client 15% ahead of schedule. Drove WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across the projects, extending reach to 15+ countries and lifting international engagement by 30%. Metrics: Team size: 12 · Code deps cut: −30% · Reach: 15+ countries · Standards: WCAG 2.1 AA Tags: Micro-Frontend, React, Redux, TypeScript, WCAG, i18n 03. Renderforest — Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer May 2019 — September 2020 · Yerevan Led a 5-person team rewriting Renderforest's flagship Video Maker — 10M+ users, 30M+ projects. Managed a cross-functional team of 5 (engineers + QA + design) on the rewrite of Video Maker, the company's flagship product. The rewrite boosted product performance by 40% and unlocked advanced features. Also launched a cross-platform Media Library that improved user workflow by 25%, and standardized internal development with a shared NPM component library that cut new-product setup time by 20%. Metrics: Users: 10M+ · Projects: 30M+ · Perf boost: +40% Tags: React, Video, Performance, Component Library 04. apolloBytes — Cloud Fleet Manager — Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer December 2016 — December 2018 · Yerevan Led the Silverlight → React migration of 10 modules in a 28-module maritime platform for Maersk + 3. Senior IC then Team Lead on Cloud Fleet Manager — a maritime fleet platform serving Maersk, Hanseaticsoft, Atlantic Lloyd, and Nordic Hamburg. Owned 10 of the platform's 28 interrelated modules through the Silverlight → React migration, ensuring performance and modern-browser compatibility while the legacy system stayed live. Established the team's coding, testing, and deployment practices that survived long after I left. Also contributed to cryptoeye.eu on the Node.js side, building cryptocurrency candles. Metrics: Modules migrated: 10 / 28 · Clients: Maersk + 3 · Team size: 5 Tags: React, Migration, Maritime, Architecture, Node.js ================================================================ DELIVERY RECORD (BuildOps) ================================================================ Merged pull requests I authored in the BuildOps org, by month — April 2025 to July 2026. Pull-request count is a vanity metric and I'd argue against anyone using it to measure an engineer, including me: the changes got smaller, so there are more of them. The shape isn't a claim that I got seven times better. It's the clearest picture I have of the unit of work changing, and I'd rather show the data than make the claim without it. 268 — PRs reviewed for other engineers 9 — Repositories touched Coordinated — Releases, financial ops 16 — Months at BuildOps Merged pull requests by month: Apr 25: 2 May: 6 Jun: 10 Jul: 3 Aug: 6 Sep: 14 Oct: 9 Nov: 2 Dec: 6 Jan 26: 4 Feb: 5 Mar: 0 Apr: 11 May: 8 Jun: 30 Jul: 44 ================================================================ VENTURES ================================================================ Ashoon — AI that instantly replies to your Instagram, Facebook & WhatsApp DMs — so you never miss a sale. Ashoon is an AI customer-messaging platform that automates conversations across Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and website chat. It learns each business — products, prices, FAQs, policies — and replies like the smartest teammate, 24/7, in 30 languages. It doesn't just chat: it takes orders, books appointments, and registers customers right from a DM, with full team handover when humans need to step in. Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, NestJS 11, Prisma + PostgreSQL, pgvector (RAG), Redis + BullMQ, Stripe, Socket.io https://ashoon.com Kamui — One POS to run your whole shop. Kamui is a point-of-sale platform for independent retail, built with a co-founder and shipped in 2026. It replaces the stack of disconnected tools most shops run: POS and order management across in-store, pickup and delivery; delivery dispatch with live driver tracking; QR-based inventory; receipt and ticket printing through local printer agents; SMS and call tracking; and an AI assistant that answers questions about the business. Multi-tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer with Postgres row-level security rather than in application code, alongside role-based staff access, optional 2FA, audit trails, and age-restriction compliance for regulated retail. Built end-to-end through agent-assisted development. Stack: Next.js, React, PostgreSQL (row-level security), Multi-tenant, Railway https://kamui.digital Ashoon Studio — Professionally-designed websites for U.S. small service businesses. Ashoon Studio is the web-design studio I run alongside my engineering work. We ship clean brochure sites (3–5 pages) for salons, beauty pros, trainers, photographers, dentists, and consultants. Every site is mobile-responsive from 375px, integrates the client's existing booking tool (Fresha · Square · Acuity · Calendly · etc.), and ships static on Cloudflare Pages so it stays fast and cheap to host. Stack: Astro, Tailwind v4, TypeScript, Cloudflare Pages https://ashoon.online hovakimyan.dev — The site you're on. Built from scratch as a showcase of the practice — Sora display + DM Sans body + Fira Code accents, Three.js hex prism in the hero, full WCAG-compliant interactive surfaces. Source is public on GitHub. Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind v4, Three.js, OpenNext, Cloudflare Workers https://github.com/Hovakimyan/hovakimyan.dev ================================================================ WRITING ================================================================ Coding Pattern — Two Pointer — Medium, July 2024 The two-pointer technique for arrays and linked lists — when it applies, why it beats the nested loop, and how to recognise the shape of the problem. https://medium.com/@hovakimyan.serg/coding-pattern-two-pointer-cb490fedeec1 Coding Pattern — Sliding Window — Medium, August 2021 Sliding window as a general-purpose pattern: the fixed and variable variants, and the class of problems it collapses from quadratic to linear. https://medium.com/@hovakimyan.serg/coding-pattern-sliding-window-e085c433f598 ================================================================ TECH STACK ================================================================ Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Hack Frameworks: React, Next.js, Node.js, Redux, GraphQL, Nest.js Practices: Micro-Frontend, TDD, BDD, Unit Testing, Code Reviews, CI/CD, WCAG, Performance Tools: Git, Jest, Playwright, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Agents: Claude Code, MCP, Custom skills & commands, Agent orchestration ================================================================ MORE ================================================================ Plain-text resume https://hovakimyan.dev/resume.txt Recruiter resume https://hovakimyan.dev/resume Printable PDF https://hovakimyan.dev/sergey-hovakimyan-resume.pdf Index for agents https://hovakimyan.dev/llms.txt This site is open to indexing and quoting for legitimate purposes (recruitment, AI search, research). 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