A full-stack engineer in Baku. I work on interfaces at Yandex (opens in a new tab) and build tools of my own.
A collaborative planning workspace with editable canvases, Markdown, and real-time cursors.
Images move from left to right. Hover or focus to pause. Select an image to enlarge it. Use the left and right arrow keys or swipe to browse. The page animation control pauses all motion.
A React component library with 38 component families, light and dark themes, and attention to interaction details.
Images move from right to left. Hover or focus to pause. Select an image to enlarge it. Use the left and right arrow keys or swipe to browse. The page animation control pauses all motion.
A Minecraft launcher built as a team project with React, Tauri, and Rust.
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Frontend Engineer
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
Frontend Developer
Built the AI search frontend in 48 hours with pooled WebSockets and TanStack Query, averaging about 200 ms across 50 concurrent requests with zero timeouts. Migrated the legacy frontend to Feature-Sliced Design in three months, built the company design system the whole frontend team adopted, and replaced polling with WebSocket streams for live updates.
React / TanStack Query / WebSockets / Radix UI / Tailwind CSS / Storybook / ArgoCD
Independent projects
Led development of Vault’s web platform and game servers for a 15,000-member Discord gaming community, including its infrastructure and authentication. Built the React and Tauri client for Neko Launcher, a team project for about 300 players.
React / Tauri / TanStack Query / Pterodactyl / OAuth / Nx
Full-Stack Developer
Led three junior developers, one of whom was promoted to mid-level, and restructured Redux state management, cutting typical feature delivery from 1–2 months to about one week. Replaced hours-long manual deployments with push-to-deploy pipelines of about 40 minutes using TeamCity, Portainer, and Docker, and moved the team to trunk-based development.
React / Redux / GraphQL / Nx / Docker / TeamCity / Portainer
Frontend Developer · part-time
Designed the web architecture for SCP: Deleted Chronicles, a Unity horror game with 5,000 players, including a custom inventory system, Discord bot integrations, an embed manager for non-technical staff, and an in-game news manager.
Web architecture / Discord integrations
Tools, prototypes, and curious little detours.
An Android shift timer: clock in, take lunch, clock out. It counts down your working hours offline and keeps a monthly shift history.
Provider quotas, reset countdowns, and credit balances, right inside the OpenCode terminal.
A gaming-community prototype for web and desktop, with a local game launcher and demo community data.
A community gaming platform for 15,000 members, where I led development of the web platform and game servers.
A developer-tool experiment for compiling TypeScript into bytecode and packaging it for distribution.
Opens in a new tabA TypeScript library extending Discord.js for the Dingir tooling ecosystem.
Opens in a new tabI’m Ali, an engineer based in Baku. I’ve built for the web since 2018, part-time at first and full-time since 2020, mostly with React, Next.js, 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 PostgreSQL. My projects include Aril, a collaborative planning workspace, and Vagabond UI, a React component library.
