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Ten years into frontend, AI made me faster. It also taught me that understanding code and owning it are not the same thing.
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Senior Frontend Engineer building fast, scalable web apps with React and Next.js.
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I'm a senior frontend engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-traffic web applications with React, Next.js and TypeScript, most of it in fintech: payments, digital banking and financial markets. I care about web performance, micro-frontend architecture and design systems, and I've shipped products used by 800,000+ daily users.
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Ten years into frontend, AI made me faster. It also taught me that understanding code and owning it are not the same thing.

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