CURRICULUM VITAE · UPDATED OCTOBER 2026

Michael Malakhov

Fullstack Developer (Vue.js / React / TypeScript)
— Programmer, developer

Telegram: @kotaroSWQ
Email: swdevstudio@gmail.com
Personal: Male, 27 years old, born 28 April 1999
Citizenship: Russia, work permit: Russia
Relocation: Willing to relocate, willing to travel for work

01 — SUMMARY

Summary

Frontend developer and team lead with 7+ years of commercial experience building product web applications on Vue.js/Nuxt and React/Next.js (SPA + SSR).

Core experience: e-commerce platforms, high-load interfaces, modernization of legacy systems (MPA + Blade) and performance optimization of client applications.

Experienced in designing frontend architecture, integrating SPAs into existing MPA applications, code review and mentoring developers in cross-functional teams. In my current role I lead a frontend team of 4: sprint planning, task estimation, workload distribution and architectural decisions for two key company products.

I prefer working on consumer and commercial digital products (services, e-commerce, SaaS) in teams focused on results and development efficiency.

Alongside work projects, I independently develop a desktop tool for working with ESP32 IoT devices (Tauri, Rust + Vue/TS).

02 — SKILLS

Technical Skills

Frontend: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Vue.js (Vue 2/Vue 3, Composition API), Nuxt 3/4, React, React 19, Next.js, Vue Router, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, SPA, SSR, MPA, SEO, Chrome DevTools
Backend & DevOps: Node.js, NestJS, Laravel, Rust, PostgreSQL, SQL, MongoDB, Redis, REST API, JSON, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Nginx, CI/CD, GitHub Actions
Lead & soft skills: Team management, Team leadership, Leadership, Teamleading, Task assignment for developers, Workload balancing, Task decomposition and estimation, Team workload analytics, Tracking sprint progress and risks, Technical and architectural decisions, Confluence, Code Review, Development management, Organizational skills, Analytical thinking, Process management, Planning, Training and development, Business communication, Management skills, Agile, Scrum
Additional: Vite, Webpack, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Figma, Sass, Redux, Vitest, Jest, Tauri, Prometheus, Storybook, Jira, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, MCP, Atlassian Rovo, Zustand, SWR, TanStack Query, Pinia, Vuex, React Hook Form, Zod, Capacitor, Nuxt 2/3/4, SSR/ISR, REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Clinic.js, autocannon, Lighthouse, GitHub Copilot, LLM

03 — PROJECTS

Selected Projects

01 Qwixit

qwixit.com

ONLINE STORE · DELIVERY FROM THE US

An online store of genuine US products with prices in rubles and delivery across Russia.

Fullstack Developer in a team of three developers and a PM: design of the storefront and the admin panel, frontend architecture and the client side in Vue 3, storefront API in Laravel.
A few months after launch the store reached the client's goal of 300+ orders a month. By handover the catalog held about a million products.

E-commerce
Full-Stack
Payments
SEO

02 Brendmart

brendmart.com

ONLINE STORE · DELIVERY FROM EUROPE

An online store of clothing, shoes and accessories by global brands from European stores, with delivery to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Fullstack Developer, one of two on a team with a junior frontend developer: design and UI kit, a Nuxt storefront with server-side rendering, the client side of the admin panel, storefront API in Laravel and code review for the junior developer.
By handover the store was taking more than 600 orders a month, and the catalog held more than 2 million products.

E-commerce
Full-Stack
SEO

03 Taobao.at

taobao.at

PURCHASE SERVICE · DELIVERY FROM CHINA AND HONG KONG

A service for ordering products from China and Hong Kong with delivery to Russia. Prices in rubles already include duties, the service fee and delivery.

Fullstack Developer in a team of three developers: site design and the UI kit, the storefront in Nuxt, the client side of the admin panel, storefront API in Laravel.
By handover the service was taking 600+ orders a month, and the catalog held more than 2 million products.

E-commerce
Full-Stack

04 Pochtoy & Prostobox

pochtoy.com

DELIVERY FROM THE US · SUPPORT AND SPEED

A service that delivers purchases from US stores: a warehouse in tax-free Delaware, buying items on the customer's behalf, shipping to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and other countries.

Fullstack Developer in a team of three developers and a PM: the storefront frontend, its database queries and faster page loading.
The storefront got pagination, lazy-loaded images, separate scripts and styles for every page and speed tracking for real users. The Review Cashback module is mine: frontend and queries.

Full-Stack

05 CDEK.Shopping

cdek.shopping

SHOPPING FROM ABROAD · CUSTOMER ACCOUNT

A CDEK group agent service for ordering products of foreign brands from 14 countries, paid with a Russian card at prices in rubles.

Middle Frontend Developer in a team of 15: the entire frontend of the customer account in Vue 2 and Vuex inside Laravel + Blade, refactoring of the jQuery legacy code, Laravel tasks.
The new service launched straight away with an interactive account that never reloads the page. After the legacy refactoring, regression bugs dropped by 37% according to QA reports.

E-commerce
Accounts

06 Fly Post

[link]

PIGGYBACK DELIVERY · INTERNAL SERVICE

An internal service where flight crews pick up mail for their own flight and get paid for delivering it.

Led the project as a contractor: design and the UI kit, architecture, the NestJS backend, the Vue 3 frontend together with two developers and reviews of their code.
The client accepted the MVP built in about 5 weeks: the frontend and the backend went in parallel against a Swagger API contract.

Full-Stack
Accounts

07 Tamriel Codex

[link]

OFFLINE HANDBOOK · LARP

A handbook and player's notebook for a live-action role-playing game set in The Elder Scrolls world: rules, lore and news with fast search, personal notes and sharing them by QR without internet.

Sole developer, end to end: the interface, the local database, the Android and Windows builds, exporting the game data from the VK group and sharing notes by QR.
At the game the Aldmeri Dominion faction used the app, and players shared notes by QR without internet. Anything in the rules and lore took seconds to find instead of digging through a stack of paper.

Mobile first

08 Someday

[link]

DRIVER LIBRARIES · ELECTRONICS FOR A ROLE-PLAYING GAME

C++ driver libraries for ESP32 that game devices are built from, for a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. field role-playing game in the Urals.

All the software in the three-person KB Someday team. In this case, the author of 11 someday-* driver libraries in C++ for ESP32 and FreeRTOS.
Devices built on these libraries worked through the 2026 game: about 30 players went through the location's quests, and a device runs 18–20 hours on two 18650 batteries with no power optimizations.

04 — EXPERIENCE

Work Experience

Total experience: 7 years 6 months

Freedom International Group — IT Team Lead (Frontend) March 2026 — present · Moscow

Financial sector, investment company (development of the group's portfolio products) · freedomgroupint.com

Team: 4 frontend (direct reports), 5 backend, 3 designers, 2 QA, 1 product

Projects

dobro.ru: web platform on React 19 + Next.js.
Hector: mobile application on Capacitor + Vue 3.

Responsibilities

Leading a frontend team of 4 developers: task assignment and workload balancing.
Running code review and maintaining shared code quality standards across the team.
Designing the frontend architecture of the company's key products (web and mobile).
Organizing planning and estimation in Jira: decomposition, cross-estimation of effort, tracking sprint progress and risks.
Team workload analytics in Jira with Atlassian Rovo: regular reports on task and effort distribution for sprint planning.
Technical decisions on the stack, application structure and build setup.
Profiling the Node SSR layer (Clinic.js) while working on the performance of key products.
Working with backend, product and design on requirements and API design.

Achievements

Eliminated systematic deadline slips: the cause was large undecomposed tasks and gut-feel estimates from a single person. Introduced decomposition down to 1-2 day tasks and shifted cross-estimation: developers' task sets partially overlap, so every sprint task gets two independent time estimates while nobody estimates the whole sprint. Planning in Jira became predictable and the chronic release postponements stopped.
Set up developer workload reporting through Rovo in Jira. Task distribution started relying on actual data instead of subjective judgement, which helped avoid overloading individual team members.
Established the code review and workload distribution process inside the frontend team.
Designed the frontend architecture of two key company products: the web and the mobile application.
Unified development approaches across both products, so developers switch between web and mobile without relearning.

Stack and technologies

React 19, Next.js, Vue 3, Capacitor, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Node.js, Clinic.js, REST API, Git, Jira, Atlassian Rovo, Claude Code, Codex, MCP

Brendmart — Senior Frontend Developer January 2025 — March 2026 · Bishkek

Retail, online store · brendmart.com

Team: 3 frontend, 2 backend, 1 product, 1 project

Responsibilities

Designing and evolving the frontend architecture of an e-commerce platform (SSR + SPA, component architecture) with an audience of ~160k unique users per month.
Technical mentoring and support of 2 frontend developers, reviewing the quality of their solutions and code.
Running code review and introducing shared code quality standards in the frontend team.
Optimizing performance and rendering of high-load interfaces (catalog, product page).
Working with backend developers and analysts on API and business logic design.
Technical decisions on SPA/SSR structure and interface scalability.
Using AI development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) in the workflow: generating and maintaining unit tests, code analysis and debugging, speeding up routine tasks.

Achievements

Worked out the architectural decisions of the client application: separation of layer responsibilities, shared rules for state and data handling. New modules started to be added without edits in adjacent parts of the application.
Reduced load time of the main pages (catalog, product page) by ~37% according to Lighthouse measurements: lazy loading, code splitting and optimization of async components.
Cut redundant component re-renders in the catalog: rebuilt the rendering dependency graph and removed excessive tracking of large data collections.
Reworked REST API usage: added caching of repeated requests, debounce on user input and shared error handling instead of scattered handling.
Profiled the Node SSR layer with Clinic.js: found and removed server-side rendering bottlenecks that are invisible in client-side Lighthouse measurements.
Introduced mandatory code review and Vitest unit tests for critical user scenarios, after which regressions stopped reaching production.
Introduced AI tools into the team's development process: set up custom skills and MCP server connections for the project's needs, which sped up writing tests and investigating defects.

Stack and technologies

Nuxt 3/4, Vue.js (Vue 3 + Composition API), JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Vitest, SPA, SSR, Node.js, Clinic.js, REST API, Git, GitLab, Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, MCP, GitHub Copilot

Pochtoy.com LLC — Senior Frontend Developer October 2023 — January 2025 · Moscow

Transportation, logistics, warehousing, foreign trade. Courier and postal delivery · pochtoy.com

Team: 4 frontend, 8 backend, 1 QA, 2 product, 1 project

Responsibilities

Maintaining and evolving a large MPA application (Laravel + Blade + jQuery) within a legacy architecture.
Gradual modernization of the frontend part without a full system rewrite.
Targeted introduction of component widgets and interactive modules into existing Blade templates.
Refactoring legacy frontend code and reducing technical debt.
Integrating interfaces with REST and Web APIs under an unstable server response format.
Optimizing performance of interfaces with a large number of API requests and dynamic data.
Running code review and controlling the quality of changes in the legacy codebase.
Working with backend developers, the architect and analysts on product development.

Achievements

Delivered gradual modernization of the frontend by introducing isolated component widgets into Blade templates without breaking the legacy MPA.
Moved adaptation and normalization of server responses into a separate layer, after which backend logic changes stopped breaking the interfaces.
Carried out a systematic refactoring of legacy code (Laravel + jQuery): untangled the mix of jQuery handlers and server templates, isolating UI logic from markup.
Reduced code duplication and increased UI reusability through a component approach and logic isolation.
Increased page rendering speed by ~30% according to Lighthouse measurements, finding bottlenecks with Chrome DevTools.
Brought interfaces to consistent behaviour in Chrome, Firefox and Safari, removing differences in layout and script behaviour.

Stack and technologies

Vue.js (Vue 3), React, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, jQuery, Laravel (Blade), Webpack, REST API, DevTools, data adaptation and normalization, legacy refactoring

CDEK.Market — Frontend Developer October 2021 — October 2023 · Novosibirsk

Team: 6 frontend, 10 backend, 2 QA, 3 product, 1 project

Responsibilities

Designing and building the SPA of the personal account embedded into the existing MPA architecture.
Integrating the SPA into the MPA through a single Blade template with client-side routing (Vue Router) and state management (Vuex).
Team work on large products, participation in design discussions and close collaboration with designers.
Developing new client modules and UI components.

Achievements

Built the personal account SPA on Vue from scratch and embedded it into the existing MPA architecture through Blade.
Implemented client-side routing and isolated the SPA logic from server templates, improving scalability and maintainability.
Developed a set of UI components for the e-commerce SPA (Vue 2), which new sections of the personal account were assembled from without writing markup from scratch.
Reduced page load time by ~27% according to Lighthouse measurements: bundle, image and async module loading optimization.
Ran cross-browser testing and bug fixing (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), bringing the UI to identical behaviour across devices.
Integrated the frontend with REST API and internal services, setting up shared error handling and data loading states.
Took part in team development of product features and UI discussions with designers and analysts.

Stack and technologies

Vue.js (Vue 2), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), SPA, MPA, REST API, Git, SPA into MPA integration (Blade), client-side routing, performance optimization, UI components

To The Moon Mobile Ltd — Frontend Developer April 2021 — October 2021 · Moscow

Telecommunications. Mobile communications

Team: 2 frontend, 2 backend, 1 project

Responsibilities

Developing corporate web applications, internal dashboards, services and business tools with scalable interfaces.

Achievements

Built the company's internal dashboards and business tools from scratch, including work with large data tables and user filters.
Implemented a modular SPA architecture, improving scalability and maintainability of the project.
Integrated the frontend with the company's internal APIs and business services.
Increased interface resilience by adding handling of edge cases and API errors instead of failing on unexpected server responses.

Stack and technologies

JavaScript (ES6+), SPA, REST API, Web API, Git, corporate web applications, modular SPA architecture

Amigoweb — Junior Frontend Developer April 2019 — April 2021 · Magnitogorsk

IT, system integration, internet. Software development

Team: 2 frontend, 1 backend, 1 QA, 1 project

Responsibilities

Maintaining user interfaces, developing new client modules and UI components.

Achievements

Maintained and developed user interfaces of commercial web projects on Vue/Nuxt.
Assembled reusable UI components instead of duplicated markup, so new pages started to be built from ready-made blocks.
Reworked the component structure so that a single edit no longer required changes in several places across the project.
Optimized responsive interfaces and cross-browser compatibility.
Took part in developing SPA applications and REST API integration.

Stack and technologies

JavaScript (ES6+), Vue.js (Vue 2), Nuxt.js 2, SPA, Git, UI components, component libraries, responsive interfaces

05 — EDUCATION

Education

Higher education: RSSU, 2023 Faculty of Political and Social Technologies, degree in Information Systems and Technologies in Economics
Secondary: Mayskaya School, 2017

06 — ADDITIONAL

Additional Information

Languages: Russian: native. English: A2 (spoken). Read technical documentation, specifications and English-language sources fluently.
Employment type: full-time, part-time, project work / one-off assignment.
Work format: remote, hybrid, on-site.
Preferred commute time: does not matter.
Driving: Own car. Category B licence.

07 — AI TOOLS

AI Tools in Development

Since 2025 I have been using AI assistants systematically in commercial development: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini. Beyond code generation: writing unit tests, analysis and debugging, working through legacy code. I develop my own skills and rule sets for AI agents to match project standards, and set up MCP server connections in the working environment. As a lead I use Atlassian Rovo for team workload analytics and sprint reporting.

I also developed my own set of architectural rules and patterns for ESP32 projects, which I use as context for AI agents so that generated code matches the approaches adopted in the project from the start.

08 — PERSONAL

Personal Projects

Desktop application for working with ESP32 devices

Tauri (Rust + Vue/TypeScript)

I develop it entirely on my own: interface, application logic and the native layer. The application works as an admin panel for a device fleet: ESP32 flashing, map creation and offline map generation for use in the field without network access. Tauri was chosen because of the need for direct access to devices and the file system, which a web application does not have.

09 — REFERENCES

References

FIX PRICE: Roman Khadzhaev (Senior Frontend Developer)
CDEK.Market: Roman Olennikov (team lead)