Selected work.
Four case studies from a 13-year career. Architecture, leadership, and accessibility consistently treated as first-class engineering work.
Commit logs below are illustrative summaries of real work — the repositories themselves are private. Delivery figures under BuildOps are measured from merge history.
01BuildOps
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 coordinate releases for the financial-operations area.
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.
Reviews given: 268Repositories: 9Releases: CoordinatedDomain: Financial operationsHand-written code: ≈ 0 — spec, review, verifyStack: Agents · MCP · TS · React
| Month | Merged pull requests |
|---|---|
| Apr 2025 | 2 |
| May 2025 | 6 |
| Jun 2025 | 10 |
| Jul 2025 | 3 |
| Aug 2025 | 6 |
| Sep 2025 | 14 |
| Oct 2025 | 9 |
| Nov 2025 | 2 |
| Dec 2025 | 6 |
| Jan 2026 | 4 |
| Feb 2026 | 5 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 11 |
| May 2026 | 8 |
| Jun 2026 | 30 |
| Jul 2026 | 44 |
* a92f47c (HEAD -> main) feat(agent): a11y-audit skill — WCAG 2.1 AA in CI
* 7b9d104 chore(commands): /architecture-review slash cmd
* 5e1b083 perf: agent-paired LCP cut · −240ms
* 2f8e16a docs: design-to-code MCP recipe (Figma → React)
tags: AI-Augmented Agent Orchestration Claude Code MCP TypeScript React Financial Systems WCAG 2.1 AA
02EPAM 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%.
Team size: 12Code deps cut: −30%Reach: 15+ countriesStandards: WCAG 2.1 AA
* 8b2f1a9 (epam/streaming) feat: streaming player v2 · 15% ahead
* 3c4d5e2 refactor: micro-frontend boundary · −30% deps
* a3c4d5e (epam/a11y) fix(a11y): WCAG focus traps on modal
tags: Micro-Frontend React Redux TypeScript WCAG i18n
03Renderforest
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%.
Users: 10M+Projects: 30M+Perf boost: +40%
* 4e1f8c2 (rf/video-maker) feat: pipeline rewrite v2 · +40% perf
* 7d9a1c4 feat: cross-platform media library · +25% workflow
tags: React Video Performance Component Library
04apolloBytes — 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.
Modules migrated: 10 / 28Clients: Maersk + 3Team size: 5
* 1a2b3c4 (cfm/migration) feat: FleetGrid → React
* 9d8e7f6 chore: 28 modules migrated · last Silverlight removed
tags: React Migration Maritime Architecture Node.js