Kuanysh Tokanov
@kuanyshtokanov
Software engineer who delivers end-to-end React/TypeScript and backend products with performance, reliability, and observability at the core.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Software Engineer focused on owning end-to-end delivery of product features across frontend and backend, with a strong emphasis on integration boundaries, consistency, and scalable architecture. In my current role in Tallinn, I’ve driven improvements across merchant-facing workflows from planning through production readiness.
I optimize performance end-to-end: I improved key page load times from 8–11 seconds to ~3 seconds by changing data fetching patterns, reducing unnecessary requests, and tightening rendering logic. I also increased reliability by introducing structured error handling, logging, and monitoring, and by identifying performance bottlenecks under real production load.
I take engineering quality seriously—ensuring observability, feature flags, rollback strategies, and post-release monitoring are part of the Definition of Done. During my manager’s paternity leave, I stepped into Engineering Manager responsibilities to keep delivery moving, unblock the team, and align stakeholders, while mentoring engineers to raise code quality and maintainability.
Earlier, I built and scaled internal platform experiences and services (React/Angular and API contract work), created a universal history service UI, and delivered full-stack products using the MERN stack, including Stripe/Acuity integrations for booking and payments. Before that, I developed and supported enterprise systems in banking environments, including performance fixes and mission-critical reliability improvements.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Engineer (Interim EM)
Printify
Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)
Owned end-to-end delivery of product features across React/TypeScript frontend and backend services, improving consistency across integration boundaries. Reduced key merchant workflow page load time from 8–11 seconds to ~3 seconds, and improved production reliability with structured error handling, logging, and monitoring; also stepped into Engineering Manager duties during paternity leave to keep
Senior Front-end/Fullstack Dev
Yolo Group
Aug 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented scalable frontend architecture for internal platforms using React and Angular, supporting multiple business-critical workflows. Defined and consumed API contracts, built a universal history service UI, and extended internal back-office systems for game configuration and live operations.
Co-Founding Engineer
Futpal
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 2 months)
Designed and built a full-stack booking application from scratch using the MERN stack, including frontend, backend services, and database architecture. Integrated Stripe and Acuity for payments and scheduling, supporting 1500+ transactions and appointments, and implemented end-to-end booking, payment, and scheduling user flows.
Front-end Developer
PetrelAI
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years)
Developed a management tool for a luxury shopping mall loyalty system with ReactJS, TypeScript, Redux, Redux-Saga, and RamdaJS. Built a reconciliation tool that cut financial report preparation time by half and developed an educational portal with 100+ hours of videos and 20+ students per watch cycle.
Front-end Developer
Decisionmapper
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 (8 months)
Created a user management tool for a client enterprise application using React and Node.js within a custom full-stack framework.
Full Stack Developer
Prime Source
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 2 months)
Developed an equipment storage and distribution system with a Vue/Vuex frontend and a Node.js/Express backend using MSSQL. Implemented route and state tracking via a state management system with Node.js and an FSM approach.
Front-end Developer
JSC Alfa Bank Kazakhstan
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019 (7 months)
Developed a new documents library for internal banking documents within an EDM system based on IBM BPM, using ReactJS, Redux, and Material UI. Identified and fixed a critical bug that previously caused 4 days of complete document management system outage.
Lead Developer
Prime Source
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 (1 year)
Led delivery of a business process management system on the Outsystems platform, managing separation from 1 system/1 codebase/1 team into 5 systems/5 teams, and leading two teams subsequently. Created a new online consumer credits process and delivered integrations using ESB and Java-based REST/SOAP web services, while conducting 30+ interviews for new hires.
Full Stack Developer
JSC House Construction Savings Bank Of Kazakhstan
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018 (1 year 9 months)
Developed and improved loan, deposit, and post-loan operations using C# ASP.NET, Infopath, BizTalk, MSSQL, Oracle, HTML5, and CSS. Increased real estate distribution portal applications by 3000/month and built electronic customer dossier functionality including dossier creation and automated sending for manager review and approval.
System Administrator
JSC Halyk Bank
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016 (8 months)
Administered and maintained database, server, and web application components for a CRM banking system, including Oracle database performance normalization and improvements. Migrated data across Oracle databases, troubleshot ASP.NET MVC web application errors, and maintained the application server (IIS service).
Junior Software Developer
JSC Centercredit Bank
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 5 months)
Performed software design and development for a mobile banking system and ATM system, integrating card transactional services via Oracle database procedures. Created and improved card/account/deposit operations with Oracle and HTML/CSS/jQuery client-side components.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Warwick
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Computer Science degree at the University of Warwick from 2011 to 2014.
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