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oto lolua

@otololua

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Front-End Technical Lead with 10+ years building scalable Angular and React applications.

Georgia

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical leadership roles building performant, scalable front-end systems where I can mentor engineers, drive architecture, and ship product-focused results.

I am a Front-End Technical Lead and Senior Engineer with over a decade of web development experience and five-plus years in leadership. I specialize in Angular, React, TypeScript, scalable front-end architectures, performance optimization, and cross-functional product delivery, and I have led teams to ship high-performance web and hybrid mobile apps.

I have a proven track record mentoring engineers, implementing CI/CD and performance monitoring, and delivering fast MVPs at startups and enterprise teams. I am an active community organizer and conference speaker, co-organizing JS Georgia and running developer-focused initiatives to grow engineering talent.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Frontend Developer

Jemmedia

Jan 2023 - Sep 2025 (2 years 8 months)

Designed and implemented advanced media browsing with infinite scroll and faceted search, integrated Firebase, Algolia and Shopify Storefront API, and built a membership and role-based subscription system with feature gating.

Angular Ionic Capacitor Firebase Algolia Shopify Storefront API TypeScript REST APIs

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Wrapstocks

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Led a team of 4 engineers and 1 DevOps to deliver an MVP stock listing and analytics platform in 4 months, building a React (Next.js) + NestJS platform with Dockerized microservices deployed on AWS ECS and S3.

React Next.js NestJS Docker AWS ECS S3 Microservices CI CD

Technical Lead

Singular

Mar 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Mentored and managed 10+ engineers, implemented Jenkins + Bitbucket CI/CD to improve release reliability, automated performance monitoring with Lighthouse CI, and launched an internship program.

Leadership CI CD Jenkins Bitbucket Lighthouse CI Performance Monitoring Mentoring Agile

Front-End Team Lead

Singular

Dec 2017 - Mar 2021 (3 years 3 months)

Led rewrite of Sportsbook platform to Angular, TypeScript and NgRx, consolidated five apps into a monorepo and built a component-based CSS architecture with multi-theming to drastically reduce client launch time.

Angular TypeScript NgRX Performance Optimization

Senior Front-End Developer

Singular

Feb 2017 - Nov 2017 (9 months)

Maintained and fixed Sportsbook web applications, refactored Cashier and Retail apps to TypeScript, reducing subsequent bug reports and improving stability.

JavaScript TypeScript Debugging Refactoring Web Applications

Front-End Team Lead

Spribe

Jun 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Managed a team of 4 engineers to migrate a betting platform from AngularJS to Angular with TypeScript, built a custom build system and a reusable event-driven socket communication library, and automated deployments with GitLab CI.