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Nikita Chernov

Tbilisi, Georgia

Summary

Frontend engineer with 5 years of professional experience using JavaScript / TypeScript, React, CSS, Node.js, and many other web technologies to solve business problems and deliver results. Specializing in creating user-friendly, performant, and accessible web solutions.

Experience

  • Social Discovery Group

    Frontend Developer

    Cyprus | Remote
    - (5 months)

    Social Discovery Group is a global tech company building social discovery and virtual intimacy products for over 500M users across 150+ countries.

    • Owned implementation of 9 A/B tests within the Payments team, delivering robust features on time and improving conversion rates and user trust.
    • Suggested multiple development workflow and UX improvements, streamlining processes and enhancing overall product usability.
  • TrueLab Game Studios

    Frontend Developer

    Malta | Remote
    - (4 years 9 months)

    TrueLab Game Studios is an iGaming studio creating online games for global operators.

    • Prototyped, designed, and built a unified React.js / Redux Toolkit / Tailwind CSS UI and business logic application for games, reducing development costs by over 35%, streamlining support, and doubling the feature-release speed.
    • Led 11 projects through planning, full-stack development and support stages. Owned technical implementation, sticking to deadlines and cross-functional team coordination; shipped every project on time.
    • Created an internal localization tool that cut translation effort and enabled launches in 15+ new language markets.
    • Mentored 7 engineers – guiding 5 juniors to mid-level and 2 mids to senior-ready.
    • Shipped a Docusaurus documentation website, cutting duplicate chat questions by 75% and freeing 15+ developer hours per week.
    • Introduced and implemented unit and integration tests for the most critical parts and user stories across the company’s key projects, reducing the new-bug count by around 70% in these modules.
    • Authored documentation and style guides that shortened onboarding by 20% and reduced repetitive bugs across modules.
    • Implemented modern graphics formats and other optimizations, reducing average load time by about 40% and significantly boosting user experience.
  • LocoTech Service

    Service Engineer

    Russia | On Site
    - (1 year 9 months)

    LocoTech Service is a large railway engineering company providing maintenance, repair, and modernization services for locomotives.

    Collected and analyzed key revenue-related depot indicators, coordinated data validation with Russian Railways, and led a 5-month ACS integration, automating a large part of Service Engineer tasks and cutting daily operational time from 6 to 2 hours.

Education

Bachelor’s degree (2019*) | International Academy of Business and New Technologies (Yaroslavl) | Applied Computer Science in Economics, (*Incomplete higher education)

Skills & Languages

Technologies: TypeScript / JavaScript • React • Redux Toolkit • React Router • Vite / Webpack • Tailwind CSS • SCSS / SASS • Socket.IO • Astro • Next.js

Testing: Jest • Storybook (visual/interaction tests) • Playwright (E2E) • React Testing Library

Code Quality: ESLint • Prettier • Stylelint • Husky + lint-staged

Performance and accessibility: WCAG • Web Vitals • ARIA roles • semantic HTML

Language Skills: English – Upper-Intermediate (B2) • Russian – Native

Other: Figma • Agile Scrum • Gitflow

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