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Profile
Frontend developer with 3+ years in enterprise teams, with backend experience enabling me to contribute across the stack. Core stack: React, Angular and TypeScript. Experienced in complex data interfaces, design systems, web accessibility (WCAG) and third-party SaaS customization. Next.js and backend skills in Python and FastAPI built through personal projects. Currently exploring agentic engineering and AI-assisted development. I clarify what a feature really needs, work closely with designers and other developers, and follow it from design through to implementation.
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Skills
Frontend
React, Next.js, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS/LESS, Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query, Zustand, Yup, RxJS, Storybook
Backend
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy
Web & APIs
REST APIs, WebSockets, API Integration, Axios
Architecture & Quality
Reusable UI Components, Design Systems, Web Accessibility (WCAG), Jest, Pytest
Tools & Practices
Git, Docker, Vite, Webpack, Jira, Figma, Copilot, Claude Code
Soft skills
Agile/Scrum, cross-functional teamwork, mentoring, technical leadership
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Languages
- English Upper-intermediate
- Norwegian Intermediate
- Ukrainian Native
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Work experience
Software Engineer (Consultant)
EPAM Systems · Global digital engineering company, 60,000+ employees in 55+ countries
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SaaS Customization
For a global B2B software leader (Fortune Global 500): rebranded and extended third-party RainFocus portals for registration (in-person and virtual), live broadcasts and in-session chat across an international conference series. Extended platform behaviour through client-side scripting and deep style overrides, fixed vendor defects, enforced brand guidelines. Independently shaped the design and implementation of selected non-customer-facing pages.
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Enterprise Event Microsite Platform
Built reusable, accessible React components and design-system tokens inside Adobe Experience Manager for the same conference series (hybrid events in multiple cities; flagship event: 28,000+ attendees in person and online). One of four frontend developers in a cross-functional team of nineteen.
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Data-Intensive Defense Analytics
Built search and interactive mapping modules with advanced query-filtering over Elasticsearch APIs, network nodes visualised on maps.
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Internal Assessment Platform
Developed and maintained EPAM University’s long-running student assessment platform (new features, testing, bug fixing, code improvement); conducted demos and served as Scrum Master for one sprint.
Applied technologies
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EPAM IT Marathons (2023 – 2025)
Progressed from Angular Developer to Angular Team Lead and Technical Expert, building MVPs from scratch; led three frontend developers supporting a public development programme with ~2,000 participants, and gave a technical session on EPAM’s YouTube channel.
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University Mentorship
Designed and taught a React fundamentals course for ~40 third-year CS students at Alfred Nobel University (10 lectures and 10 workshops per group, final exam).
Agency Group Manager / Insurance Specialist
Universalna Insurance Company (Fairfax Financial Holdings) · Ukraine
Led an agency group for the full eleven years and grew personal sales 20×.
Trained agents and network partners including a leading fuel retailer and the national postal operator (coaching and group sessions for up to 100 people); expanded the partner network across banks and car dealerships; led tender bids and B2B/B2C client relations.
Moved into software engineering in 2021 through full-time retraining.
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Personal projects
Backend practice alongside frontend work
Async Contacts REST API FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker
Production-ready async backend service: JWT authentication, email verification, rate limiting (SlowAPI), layered Repository/Service architecture on SQLAlchemy 2.x with Alembic migrations and Pydantic v2 validation, containerized via Docker Compose.
github.com/Ponomaleks/fastapi-contacts-api (opens in a new tab)06
Education
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2025 – online
MSc in Computer Science: Software Engineering and AI
Woolf University, Malta
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2004 – 2009 Ukraine
Master’s Degree in Process Automation and Control
Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology
Recognized in Norway as equivalent to a Norwegian short master’s degree (HK-dir)
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Courses
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Feb 2026 –
Norwegian
Nittedal voksenopplæring
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2022 – 2023
Frontend Developer (Angular)
EPAM University, Ukraine, online
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2021 – 2022
Full-Stack Development (React, Node.js), certificate
GoIT, Ukraine, online
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Community & volunteering
- Elected member of a local municipal council; ran regional youth and community programmes.
- Organised English courses for displaced children.
- Animal fostering and welfare initiatives.
