Aleksandr Smyshliaev

Channels (ChannelTech) · Tbilisi, Georgia

• Sole frontend engineer on a 3-person product team (one backend, one mobile), owning the entire web front end in React, Next.js, and TypeScript from design handoff to production on continuous deployment.
• Worked with the product designer from wireframes and mockups onward, prototyped new interactions, and iterated on their feedback before release.
• Maintained the shared component set and visual guidelines so styling stayed consistent as the app grew.
• Refactored legacy modules incrementally while shipping new features, improving readability, test coverage, and maintainability.
• Built an SEO landing page with structured data and Core Web Vitals telemetry, reaching Lighthouse scores of 95 performance, 96 accessibility, 100 best practices, and 100 SEO.
• Built responsive, mobile-first layouts for phone, tablet, and desktop.
• Added integration and unit tests (Playwright, Jest) to previously untested modules.

SiliconMint · Tbilisi, Georgia

• Built a reusable React hook for caching CDN image URLs, reducing network requests and improving page load times product-wide.
• Enabled gzip compression on backend API calls, roughly doubling throughput with a single configuration change.
• Shipped "Find My Meds" from scratch for SmithRx (pharmacy benefits platform): search with filters, results list, and Google Maps integration, fully tested.
• Built a custom select component test-first with Cypress component testing, reused as a design-system primitive.
• Developed a reusable URL-based UI state hook and rolled it out across 12+ pages for consistent state handling.
• Tracked down and fixed flaky Cypress tests in CI/CD, stabilizing the pipeline.
• Owned a legacy refactor: scoped the plan in Jira and led cross-functional execution.
• Mentored peers through code review and pairing on complex modules; cleaned up Webpack, ESLint, and CI/CD configuration.

Omise Co., Ltd. · Bangkok, Thailand

• Architected and maintained the production merchant dashboard for Omise's payments platform, built in React, GraphQL, and styled-components.
• Prototyped a JavaScript SDK bridging a native mobile wrapper to JS mini-apps.
• Built an internal analytics dashboard with D3.js for telemetry visualization.
• Partnered with backend engineers to define API contracts upfront, reducing rework.
• Drove a major UI architecture refactor and reviewed code across the team.

Ongrad

• Maintained two React, Redux, and SSR sites, shipped new features, and fixed responsive markup across screen sizes.

Aevrika

• Built features in Vue.js and data visualizations with D3.js and Highcharts; fixed bugs and performance issues.

• System Administrator / IT Support - Cisco/VLAN networking, backups, scripting, and IT operations.

Open-source React library

• Horizontal scrolling menu component for React, built for interaction polish and performance; 788 GitHub stars, ~84k weekly npm downloads, 20k+ dependent repositories; shipped by Our World in Data, Precious Plastic, erxes, and Reapit. github.com/asmyshlyaev177/react-horizontal-scrolling-menu

Open-source Next.js library

• Type-safe, zero-dependency UI-to-URL state synchronization library for Next.js; 417 GitHub stars, ~3.9k weekly npm downloads. github.com/asmyshlyaev177/state-in-url

Open-source Playwright testing tool

• VCR-style record and replay testing for Playwright; captures real API traffic once across Next.js SSR, browser, and WebSocket, then replays it deterministically on CI without a backend; 96 GitHub stars, ~170 weekly npm downloads. test-proxy-recorder.dev | github.com/asmyshlyaev177/test-proxy-recorder

Open-source LLM infrastructure

• Single-worker priority queue for local LLMs (Ollama), exposed as an OpenAI-compatible HTTP service so cron jobs, browser extensions, and OpenAI clients share one serialized queue against one model. Published on npm with a CLI. github.com/asmyshlyaev177/llm-queue

Krasnogorsk State College