Pavel Rapoport
@pavelrapoport
Principal engineer & architect. Spec-driven AI platforms: TypeScript, Next.js, Cloudflare, Postgres, Claude API.
What I'm looking for
I'm a founder and hands-on architect based in Moldova, working European hours (UTC+3, near-full overlap with the EU, morning overlap with US East).
What I do: turn a vague business problem into a written specification, then into shipped software. My work is spec-driven — every change starts as a proposal, a design and a task list in the client's repo, so the system and its documentation stay with them and keep working without me.
I build daily in TypeScript, React 19, Next.js 16, Tailwind 4, Postgres/Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, and the Anthropic Claude API for agent orchestration. I run one monorepo end-to-end: architecture, database, infrastructure, CI, design system, trilingual i18n (EN/RO/RU) and deployment — plus a multi-agent CLI that plans and executes changes against a living specification corpus, an internal workspace app, and the public platform.
Beyond application code I handle EU and Moldovan data-protection compliance (GDPR, Law 195/2024) as an engineering problem rather than paperwork, and technical bid work for public-sector procurement.
I'm open to senior remote engagements — AI and agent architecture, AI-layer design for an existing product, or a full platform build — as a contractor through my own company, or as a direct hire where the role is open to Moldova.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founded and run Rapoport Studio — an AI-orchestrated product studio building digital platforms for founders and companies.
Rather than large fixed teams, each engagement is staffed with a curated group of specialists and run on an AI-first workflow: written specs drive the build — spec → context → generate → validate → ship — keeping complex projects legible and shippable.
Focus: frontend & de
Senior Frontend Engineer · Technical Lead Company
Mar 2022 - May 2026 (4 years 2 months)
Lead contributor (1,498 commits, 34% of total) on the Zerto micro-application for HPE GreenLake Storage Console — an iframe-based micro-frontend serving enterprise disaster recovery capabilities to HPE cloud customers.
Key contributions:
• Architected cross-origin ShellAPI bridge for auth tokens, feature flags, locale, and base URL injection between host shell and micro-app
• Drove design system
Led the incremental migration from AngularJS 1.5 to React for the enterprise Disaster Recovery Management Console — a monorepo with 38,490 commits, 215 contributors, and 5 sub-projects.
Key contributions:
• Created @zerto/shared-fe — enterprise design system with 56+ components organized using Atomic Design, published as dual-format npm package (CJS + ESM) to JFrog Artifactory, consumed by 4 prod
Co-founded a hiring platform for blue-collar workers (cleaning, moving, hospitality).
• Designed the product architecture, entity relationships, and full technical stack from scratch
• Built React + Node.js platform with real-time matching, scheduling, and payment systems
• Delivered investor presentations that secured funding for platform development
• Managed a small cross-functional team (desi
brand DNA is a theme manager for digital brands, provides a space to create and maintain a shared visual language between designers and developers.
• Creation and implementation of the product idea based on work experience with design systems.
• Designed infrastructure and RESTful API.
• Managed a team of 4 people.
Built the entire design system from scratch in under a year for a cloud VPN & network security platform — delivered 2 weeks before product release, serving 3 platforms: Web App, CRM, and Landing Portals.
Key contributions:
• Designed security entities for the cloud VPN platform: network connections, device management, access policies, and endpoint-to-gateway relationships
• Synchronized Figma des
Led the frontend team for a cloud-based ETL platform with drag-and-drop data pipeline designer.
• Created and implemented an SVG-based ETL pipeline visual editor — a core product feature handling complex node-graph rendering and user interactions
• Managed migration from Backbone.js to Angular
• Led a team of frontend developers
Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
• Was responsible for the HTML5 Video Player and website of the company.
• Built an animation platform based on CreateJS framework.
• Created animated scenes of various types using HTML5 Canvas technology.
Built the frontend for a security & endpoint protection product fully integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Worked with Azure, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server
• Participated in product team sessions defining security entities, threat models, and protection flows
• One of the first Israeli startups to scale heavily on Microsoft Azure
Responsible for creating web e-commerce platform for reverse online auction Bidsarena.com. Created a database in SQL Server with ADO.NET Entity Framework and REST/HTTP APIs, including JSON data formats. Also coded front-end and CMS.
Designed and developed front-end of BbjLinen.com and GoForex.co.il web sites. Created design center in Flash (ActionScript 3) and rendered 3D models for designing event table online.
Developed front-end code and implemented in CMS. Lead the development of a multi-language content. The main project was BabyTv.com website includes more than 40 modules and CMS.
Designed and maintained e-commerce website of company (distributor of Asus, ZALMAN). Created and sent emails to customers.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Elevation
Product Management
2018 - 2019
Elevation Academy gave me a deeper understanding of product lifecycle, data analysis, and product operations, which lead me to find my next job. Studying with a great group of guys with different experience about product development helped to enrich the experience.
Elevation
Growth Hacking
2016 - 2017
John Bryce
John Bryce, Project Management
2009 - 2010
John Bryce
MCPD, Microsoft Certified Developer
2006 - 2007
Two to three years of experience developing solutions by using Visual Studio, the Microsoft .NET Framework, and other Microsoft development technologies.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Xplenty
D3.js
Microsoft Azure
ESLint
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Jenkins
Node.js
Next.js
NestJS
.NET
Tailwind CSS
Material-UI
Google Analytics
Figma
Visual Studio
JFrog Artifactory
Backbone.js
React
AngularJS
React Query
axios
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS 3
ASP.NET
JSON
ActionScript
jFrog
TypeScript
React Testing Library
Keycloak
sso
Docker
NGINX
Toolkit
SQL
npm
Chromatic
Cloudflare Workers
Playwright
Trivy
TanStack Query
Vitest
Chi
AG Grid
React Hook Form
Column
Recharts
Bridge
HPE GreenLake
Redux Toolkit
ASP.NET MVC
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
rapoport.studioPortfolio
rapoport.studio/en/workSalary expectations
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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