# Sergey Hovakimyan — Senior Software Engineer (AI-Augmented Practice) > Personal site at hovakimyan.dev. Built as an IDE-themed portfolio > (pages are files, sidebar is the file explorer, terminal is real). > If you're a crawler, LLM agent, or AI assistant indexing this site, > read this file first. ## About Sergey Hovakimyan is a senior software engineer based in Glendale, California with 13+ years of professional experience. Currently at BuildOps in Santa Monica (IC5 Software Engineer), working on BuildOps' platform for commercial contractors — most of his work in the React/TypeScript web app, and more recently on the team behind financial operations: accounting periods, close, ledger integrity, reporting. That domain was new to him; the engineering wasn't. He specs and reviews changes there and coordinates the area's releases. Works through agent-assisted development: specifies and reviews rather than typing implementation, owns release coordination for the financial-operations area, and has reviewed 268 pull requests for other engineers across 9 repositories. Every change human-reviewed before merge. Strengths: TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node.js / NestJS, micro-frontend architecture, financial systems, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), agent orchestration and MCP, engineering leadership, team mentorship. Founder of Ashoon (AI customer-messaging platform) and co-founder of Kamui (retail point-of-sale platform). Open to remote engagements. ## Contact - email hovakimyan.serg@gmail.com - linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/hovakimyanserg/ - github https://github.com/Hovakimyan - schedule https://calendly.com/hovakimyan-serg/30min - located Glendale, California, USA ## Routes - / Home — profile data as a TypeScript declaration - /work Selected case studies (BuildOps, EPAM, Renderforest, Cloud Fleet Manager) - /ventures Ventures — Ashoon (AI SaaS), Kamui (retail POS), Ashoon Studio, hovakimyan.dev - /writing Published articles (Medium) - /about Story, leadership philosophy, AI engineering, career git log - /contact Schedule a call or email directly - /readme Site navigation guide - /portrait Image preview - /package package.json (Sergey-as-a-package, themed) - /tsconfig tsconfig.json (operating rules, themed) - /gitignore .gitignore (anti-patterns, themed) - /resume **Plain resume — recruiter-friendly, no chrome** - /sergey-hovakimyan-resume.pdf **Printable PDF resume (US Letter)** - /resume.txt Plain-text resume (the same content, raw) - /llms.txt This file - /llms-full.txt Everything on the site, one fetch ## Resume — plain text NAME Sergey Hovakimyan TITLE Senior Software Engineer (AI-Augmented Practice) LOCATION Glendale, California, USA EMAIL hovakimyan.serg@gmail.com LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/hovakimyanserg/ EXPERIENCE 13+ years LANGUAGES English (Full Professional), Armenian (Native), Russian (Full Professional) SUMMARY Senior software engineer, 13+ years across JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Redux, GraphQL and PostgreSQL. Currently at BuildOps (Santa Monica) on financial operations — accounting periods, close, ledger integrity, reporting. New domain, learned properly and now owned: specs and reviews changes there, coordinates the area's releases. Works through agent-assisted development: specifies and reviews rather than typing implementation, owns release coordination for financial operations, and has reviewed 268 pull requests for other engineers across 9 repositories. Every change human-reviewed before merge. Also micro-frontend architecture, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), internationalization, TDD/BDD, CI/CD, Playwright, release management. Led a 12-engineer front-end team at EPAM. Founder of Ashoon and co-founder of Kamui, both built end to end with agents. EXPERIENCE BuildOps · IC5 Software Engineer · AI-Augmented Practice · April 2025 — Present · Santa Monica, CA Vertical SaaS platform for the trades industry. Most work in the React/TypeScript web app across the wider product; more recently on the team behind financial operations — accounting periods, close semantics, enforcement across object types and fiscal years, ledger integrity, reporting. Specs/reviews changes there and coordinates the area's releases. Operating an AI-orchestrated engineering practice — agents, custom Claude Code skills, and slash commands as the primary interface; manual code writing has been near-zero since mid-2025. Activities span: * designing reusable agents/skills/commands for the team (code review, a11y audits, architecture, design-to-code) * AI-driven research and architecture: deep-research agents evaluate options and pressure-test trade-offs before implementation * AI-paired testing and PR review (agent proposes, human owns) * AI-led WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audits surfaced in CI * design-to-code via Figma + MCP integrations Across the stack: 9 repositories — React/TypeScript web app, financial core service, backend services, database migrations, end-to-end test suites. AWS SDK migration verified against a local emulator; cross-repo full-stack changes. Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Playwright, Claude Code, MCP. Review and release ownership: 268 PRs reviewed for other engineers across 9 repositories; owns release coordination for the financial-operations area. Independent · Founder & Freelance Engineer (part-time) · April 2021 — Present · Remote - Ashoon (founder) — AI customer-messaging SaaS. https://ashoon.com - Kamui (co-founder) — POS platform for independent retail. https://kamui.digital - Ashoon Studio — web-design studio. https://ashoon.online - Toptal Network — member since 2021; intermittent part-time client engagements alongside full-time work. Both products were built end-to-end through agent-assisted development. EPAM Systems · Software Engineering Team Leader · Nov 2023 — April 2025 · Glendale, CA - Designed a Micro-Frontend Architecture in React/Redux/TypeScript; improved modularity and cut code dependencies by 30%. - Led a 12-person front-end team across multiple accounts; improved delivery times by 20%. - Ensured WCAG 2.1 AA compliance; extended reach to 15+ countries, boosted international engagement by 30%. - Shipped streaming features for a major client 15% ahead of schedule. - Increased team engagement + productivity by 20%; cut onboarding time by 30%; interviewed 15+ candidates. EPAM Systems · Lead Software Engineer · March 2022 — Nov 2023 · Glendale, CA Front-end leadership across multiple projects. Architected micro-frontend systems (build times -20%); recruited and built teams (20+ technical interviews); delivered advanced social-media application features (user engagement +15%); maintained 25% reduction in deployment errors via thorough code review. EPAM Systems · Lead Software Engineer · Nov 2020 — March 2022 · Yerevan, Armenia Promoted from Senior to Lead. Delivered client-centric solutions with a 95% client satisfaction rate. Implemented accessibility + internationalization (user reach +20%). Mentored junior developers. EPAM Systems · Senior Software Engineer · Sept 2020 — Nov 2020 · Yerevan, Armenia Reusable front-end components for a multicultural Scrum team. Toll-road payment system. Application performance optimization (load times -10%). Renderforest · Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer · May 2019 — Sept 2020 · Yerevan Led a 5-person cross-functional team rewriting Renderforest's flagship Video Maker (10M+ users, 30M+ projects, +40% performance). Launched cross-platform Media Library (user workflow +25%). Created shared NPM component library (new-product setup time -20%). EventGeek · Senior Software Engineer · Dec 2018 — April 2019 · Armenia Front-end development of the EventGeek application. apolloBytes · Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer · April 2017 — Dec 2018 · Armenia Cloud Fleet Manager — maritime fleet platform for Maersk, Hanseaticsoft, Atlantic Lloyd, Nordic Hamburg. Migrated 10 modules in a 28-module Silverlight → React migration; established team coding/testing/deployment practices. Built cryptoeye.eu Node.js backend (cryptocurrency candles). apolloBytes · Senior Software Engineer · Dec 2016 — April 2017 · Yerevan 28 interrelated Cloud Fleet Manager modules in parallel. Cyclop Technologies · JavaScript Developer · July 2016 — Dec 2016 · Yerevan MegaMarket product (React/Redux). Freelance · Web Developer · Dec 2013 — July 2016 International clients; high-quality responsive solutions. Instigate Mobile CJSC · Junior Web Developer · Aug 2013 — Nov 2013 "Armath" product (jQuery). EDUCATION Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Technology — Cyber Security · National Polytechnic University of Armenia · 2013–2017 TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages JavaScript, TypeScript, Hack Web Technologies React, Node.js, Redux, React Router, GraphQL, Next.js, NestJS State Management Redux Thunk, Reselect Practices Micro-Frontend Architecture, TDD, BDD, Unit Testing, CI/CD, Code Reviews UI & Styling Tailwind CSS, SASS, Styled Components Tools & Databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Git, Jest, Playwright, Webpack, Babel Agents Claude Code, MCP, custom skills/commands, agent orchestration Other WCAG Accessibility, Internationalization, Performance Optimization AI Agent-Based Development, Claude Code agents/ skills/commands, MCP, AI-augmented accessibility audits, AI-paired testing & code review Top Skills Lit, Leadership, JavaScript (per LinkedIn) ENGAGEMENT AREAS (currently open to) - Engineering leadership - Micro-frontend architecture - Accessibility audits & WCAG programs - AI-augmented development workflows - Team development & mentorship VENTURES Ashoon — AI customer-messaging SaaS that auto-replies to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and website DMs. Multi-tenant, RAG-powered, 30 languages. Built on Next.js + NestJS + PostgreSQL + pgvector + Redis + Stripe. https://ashoon.com Kamui — Point-of-sale platform for independent retail; co-founder. POS, delivery dispatch with live tracking, QR inventory, local printer agents, SMS/call tracking, AI assistant. Multi-tenant isolation via Postgres row-level security. Built on Next.js + PostgreSQL, hosted on Railway. https://kamui.digital Ashoon Studio — Web-design studio for U.S. small service businesses (salons, trainers, photographers, consultants). Brochure sites with integrated booking widgets, on Cloudflare Pages. https://ashoon.online hovakimyan.dev — the site you're indexing (IDE-themed personal site) https://github.com/Hovakimyan/hovakimyan.dev 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. LICENSE This site is open to indexing and quoting for legitimate purposes (recruitment, AI search, academic). Please attribute when quoting.