Vadym Zaporozhets
@vadymzaporozhets
I build scalable React products, design systems, and frontend architecture from startup prototype to enterprise scale.
UkraineWhat I'm looking for
Senior frontend engineer with 10+ years of experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Design systems and component architecture are where I do my best work. Lately, I've spent a lot of time working out where AI tools actually help and where they cost more time than they save.
🚀 Some of what I've shipped
I led frontend at Traceloop, an AI observability startup, from the founding team through the acquisition by ServiceNow. I was the only frontend-focused engineer there while the team grew from 5 to 8.
📈 At Fiverr, I was one of seven people on the Logo Maker team. We took it from $10K to $100K MRR in a year.
🇺🇦 I built the frontend for spivdiia.org.ua in 14 days. It's a crisis-response platform that now serves more than 2 million displaced Ukrainians.
🔮 Orakle is my side project, an AI tarot app with a 3D interface that I design and build in the evenings and on weekends. It's a place to try ideas that don't fit into a working day, not a company I'm trying to grow.
🛠️ Stack
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Zustand, tRPC. I use Claude and Cursor every day, and I have opinions about them. They're fast on the parts that are already decided and unreliable on the parts that aren't.
🎯 What I'm after
I'm looking for a senior or lead frontend role where the architecture is hard, and I own it. If that's what you're hiring for, message me.
🔗 Portfolio: vadym-zaporozhets.com
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & Full-Stack Engineer
Orakle
Mar 2026 - Present (6 months)
Solo venture building an AI-powered tarot reading web app, currently in final pre-launch preparation. Conceived, designed, and built the product end-to-end as sole founder, designer, and engineer.
Solo venture — orakle.space, an AI-powered tarot reading web app, currently in final pre-launch preparation.
• Conceived, designed, and built Orakle end-to-end as sole founder, designer, and engineer — market research, product definition, UI/UX, architecture, and implementation.
• Built the stack on Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind v4, with Zustand and tRPC/TanStack Query for st
Early-stage AI observability startup behind OpenLLMetry, an open-source framework for monitoring LLM applications with 500K+ monthly installs; acquired by ServiceNow in March 2026 to power its enterprise AI Control Tower platform.
• Led all frontend engineering from founding through acquisition, as the only frontend-focused engineer on an otherwise all-backend founding team (CEO, CTO, Product D
Vetted marketplace matching startups with senior remote developers, helping 500+ companies scale their engineering teams. Worked with Vecteezy (a Canva-competing creative marketplace with 20M+ monthly users) and Hive (a German e-commerce/warehouse operations platform with €1B+ in sales across 500+ brands).
• Integrated AI-powered background-removal and text-to-image tools into Vecteezy's web-ba
Independent frontend work delivered through Qream, a Kyiv-based brand and web-design studio.
• Architected and shipped the frontend for spivdiia.org.ua, a crisis-response platform launched in the opening days of the war, in 14 days — including a fully animated design — now serving 2M+ displaced Ukrainians. Led the frontend alongside one other developer, working with a 3-person backend team.
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Global freelance-services marketplace serving millions across 160+ countries. Core engineer on Fiverr's in-house Logo Maker (fiverr.com/logo-maker), an internally incubated product for generating SVG/PNG logos from creator-built templates.
• Built core editor features for customizing colors/fonts across dozens of templates and exporting production-ready SVG/PNG assets.
• Helped grow MRR from
NYSE-listed global IT services and digital-engineering company, 60,000+ employees across 35+ countries.
• Built and maintained frontend features for World-Check One, Thomson Reuters' global KYC/anti-money-laundering screening platform, in the legacy Dojo Toolkit framework.
• Diagnosed and fixed a timezone bug in the date library that caused pre-1970 birthdates to display incorrectly in Chrome
Outsourced software development company with R&D teams across Eastern Europe, serving international clients, including Swagbucks (10M+ users).
• Built and maintained frontend features for Swagbucks.com using vanilla JavaScript and jQuery, before React/Angular were the default choices for production work.
• Sole Kyiv-based frontend engineer on a distributed team with a US-based lead, QA, and b
Kyiv-based company behind Zillya! Antivirus, Ukraine's only home-grown antivirus lab, serving 1.5M+ customers across 15+ countries.
• Built the frontend for Zillya!'s direct-sales website and its white-label partner program, using Drupal with custom HTML/CSS templates.
• Implemented Chinese-language localization for the affiliate partnership site.
Small Kyiv-based web-development studio building OpenCart-based online stores across retail categories from jewelry to plumbing supplies. My first frontend role.
• Built the frontend for multiple OpenCart-based stores, planning and executing each project end-to-end alongside one backend developer.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
Master’s Degree, Air navigation
2011 - 2017
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
UkraineAuthorized to work in
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