Evgenii Podivilov

Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead with 9+ years of experience across fintech, enterprise platforms, and developer tools. Currently leading a team at GitKraken building AI-powered merge conflict resolution tool โ€” from hackathon prototype to public preview in 5 months. TypeScript, React, Svelte, Node.js, Bun.

Experience

Engineering Lead

GitKraken

September 2025 - Present
Key Achievements
  • Lead engineering team of 3 building AI merge conflict resolution tool โ€” preparing for public preview to 120+ organizations
  • Built the product from hackathon prototype to closed alpha in 5 months, shipped as GitHub Action and CLI
  • Designed agent system on Vercel AI SDK: orchestrator delegates conflict resolution to specialized sub-agents
  • Created UI Kit (~30 components) for GitKraken Desktop โ€” used in production, team actively migrates legacy interfaces
  • Share AI-assisted development practices across the organization through demos, code reviews, and daily standups
Technologies Used
TypeScript React Vercel AI SDK OpenRouter Bun Turbo GitHub Actions pnpm Vite Vanilla Extract Storybook

Senior Frontend Developer

Loqus.ai

May 2024 - September 2024
Key Achievements
  • Sole frontend developer on AI messenger with ~500 registered users, supporting any LLM provider via OpenRouter
  • Built Electron desktop app and responsive web version with shared codebase
  • Set up monorepo of 7+ packages (desktop, web, landing, design system, shared libraries) with CI/CD pipeline
  • Developed corporate landing and blog on Astro + Tailwind CSS
  • Implemented design system with automated Figma token extraction โ€” later evolved into GitKraken's UI Kit
Technologies Used
Electron React TypeScript gRPC Astro Tailwind CSS

Senior Frontend Developer

Vivid Money

November 2023 - May 2024
Key Achievements
  • Developed financial platform for SME and freelancers (Next.js, TypeScript) in a team of 2 frontend developers
  • Built multi-accounting, corporate card management and deposit account features
  • Designed Protobuf schemas covering dozens of services โ€” all frontend-backend communication went through gRPC
  • Integrated Interest Account feature in collaboration with external team
Technologies Used
Next.js TypeScript gRPC Protobuf

Senior Software Developer

BNP Paribas

August 2023 - November 2023
Key Achievements
  • Developed UI for CortexFX โ€” electronic trading platform for forex (spot, forwards, swaps, options, NDF)
  • Implemented features on internal framework built on Angular 1.5 and lit-html
  • Maintained code quality through unit testing with Jasmine and Karma
Technologies Used
Angular 1.5 lit-html TypeScript Jasmine Karma

Staff Software Engineer

Reltio

March 2022 - August 2023
Key Achievements
  • Led technical modernization of enterprise MDM platform โ€” migrated legacy applications to TypeScript
  • Built meta-framework for browser testing โ€” demo achieved 100% coverage of login page (all flows incl. SSO, password recovery) vs minimal coverage in existing e2e tests
  • Developed internal Electron tools for customer support โ€” used daily by dozens of engineers, still in production
  • Introduced task decomposition, small PRs, and structured code review processes
Technologies Used
React TypeScript Angular Electron Jasmine Karma CI/CD

Senior Developer

Tinkoff

September 2020 - February 2022
Key Achievements
  • Developed Tinkoff Entertainment section on Tramvai framework (React SSR)
  • Led cross-platform seating chart project (Android, iOS, Web) โ€” designed to handle large venues (10K+ seats) without performance issues
  • Reduced CI/CD build time from 40 to 20 minutes
  • Mentored 4 developers (1 joined the team), interviewed ~20 candidates, taught at Tinkoff School
Technologies Used
Tramvai (React SSR) TypeScript Android/iOS/Web CI/CD

Software Engineer

Applied Technologies

May 2017 - March 2020
Key Achievements
  • Built 3 data-driven applications from scratch on React/Redux + Express โ€” full cycle from API contract to production
  • Created dashboards with interactive charts for large dataset visualization
  • Improved Web Vitals by 35%, raised test coverage from 50% to 90%
Technologies Used
React Redux Express Node.js Webpack

Game Developer

Happy Games Studio

August 2016 - March 2017
Key Achievements
  • Developed game modules for Ranch Adventures (match-3 + farm) on PixiJS โ€” animation system, farm rendering, game UI
  • Created modular UI component system: modals, forms, scrollable lists
  • Rewrote admin panel from jQuery to React โ€” added user rights, level stats, drag-and-drop for game designers
Technologies Used
PixiJS React jQuery JavaScript

Contacts

Telegram

@epodivilov

Location

Carcavelos, Portugal

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