Volodymyr Forfutdinov
@volodymyrforfutdinov
Lead Frontend & Product Engineer delivering fast, accessible web products and enterprise systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a lead frontend and product engineer with 20+ years delivering both large enterprise systems and greenfield products across React, Angular, and Node.js. I lead teams end-to-end—owning product roadmaps, scoping requirements, and shipping features—while specializing in untangling build tooling and slow workflows (ESbuild migrations, Webpack rescues, and AI-assisted Angular upgrades).
I focus on making teams faster and products sharper: I’ve migrated major codebases to ESbuild, improved build speed and hot-reload responsiveness, and increased unit test coverage from single digits to ~35% by testing core components. I also build privacy-first, accessibility-minded user experiences—favoring WCAG-aligned approaches—and bring full-stack breadth through GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services. Whether it’s tightening release quality as a frontend technical lead/product owner or resolving migration blockers under real deadlines, I bring structured execution, clear collaboration, and a bias toward measurable performance gains.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Creator - ReLayout
Relayout.forfutdinov.com
Jun 2026 - Present (1 month)
Built a keyboard-layout fixer for macOS (Windows port in progress) that instantaneously remaps typed text by mapping physical key positions from the source to the target layout. Implemented modifier-layer handling (e.g., Option/AltGr) and shipped a privacy-first design with the full release pipeline.
Founder / Full-Stack Engineer
TravelSafety
Mar 2026 - Present (4 months)
Founded and built a full-stack monorepo with a Next.js admin dashboard, a React Native (Expo) mobile app, an LLM-driven data pipeline, and a Supabase backend. Implemented an LLM provider fallback chain with caching and shipped the mobile app via EAS to TestFlight.
Frontend Technical Lead/Product
Develux
Sep 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 7 months)
Led a team of 5 as tech lead and product owner for a back-office platform with multiple core workflows serving 5,000+ end users. Improved delivery and performance by migrating the project to ESbuild, accelerating Angular 17→19 migration, increasing unit test coverage, and reducing monorepo/codebase size.
Led a frontend team of 5 across an administration tools platform handling peak loads under a 99.9% uptime SLA. Fixed a broken Webpack migration that caused long hot-reload delays, optimized bundling with ESbuild, reworked CSS Modules, and implemented timezone-aware date-picker logic.
Built React components integrated with GraphQL and Salesforce Interaction Studio, and managed CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps. Developed a GraphQL API layer for an AWS AppSync-based ML risk-scoring service using Cognito auth, and contributed to an e-commerce migration to React with Adobe AEM and Magento GraphQL.
Led a frontend team of 5 with ownership of hiring, performance reviews, mentoring, and quarterly roadmap planning. Ran a PoC for a React + Apollo GraphQL transformation with customer-aligned technical requirements and managed deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
Built a React + Redux-Saga shopping locator with Redux-forms and Google Maps API integration, and implemented Node.js backend services deployed via Docker Swarm. Developed Node.js server-side components and a jQuery client UI for aircraft deck layout planning, including Mocha/Should tests, also deployed via Docker Swarm.
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Freelance
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 (3 months)
Built a blockchain-based payment service with a payment gateway integration and designed the architecture with permission checks, a transaction queue, and Redis caching. Implemented the solution using Vue and TypeScript with a Node.js backend and deployed with Docker Swarm.
DevOps Engineer
Freelance
May 2017 - Jan 2018 (8 months)
Owned CI/CD infrastructure for a user-support service, including Jenkins 2 pipelines in Groovy, AWS deployments via CloudFormation, and Kubernetes orchestration with Docker. Enforced code quality with SonarQube while working with TypeScript, AngularJS, and Node.js.
Head of Training
W3 Ukraine
Served as Head of Training at W3 Ukraine, designing the curriculum, running candidate selection, and mentoring 50+ junior developers through a structured program.
Markup Team Lead
W3 Ukraine
Progressed to Markup Team Lead at W3 Ukraine, leading front-end markup work as part of a broader career track toward training leadership.
Web Developer
W3 Ukraine
Started work as a web developer at W3 Ukraine and progressed into leadership and training roles.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute, completed in 2007.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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Website
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