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Aleksandr Shchilkin

Product-minded Software Engineer

shchilkin@gmail.com Hämeenlinna, Finland

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Profile

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building production web applications with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend infrastructure. Strong ownership background across micro frontends, testing, CI/CD, product delivery, and user-facing flows used by Nordic marketplaces at scale. Frontend-heavy full-stack engineer with hands-on experience in PostgreSQL, Redis, background jobs, and AI embeddings. Comfortable working closely with product, design, backend engineers, and stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable production features.

Role
Product-minded Software Engineer
Location
Hämeenlinna, Finland
Experience
5+ years

Experience

  1. Frontend Developer

    Schibsted Suomi Oy / Vend Marketplaces Oy

    September 2023 - February 2026 · Helsinki, Finland

    Project
    Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces (Recommerce)
    Stack
    Micro frontends with Podium, Docker, Node.js (Express.js), React, Lingui and Crowdin, Storybook, Vitest, Playwright, Vite, GitHub Actions, JavaScript, TypeScript, Figma.
    • Sole frontend developer owning 7 production applications across item creation and statistics flows for 4 Nordic marketplace brands, supporting 160k+ monthly users in creation flows and 40k+ users in statistics pages.
    • Released and maintained production-ready frontend applications on a new platform for four Nordic marketplaces, supporting launch readiness, critical fixes under tight deadlines, post-launch monitoring, and product feedback iterations.
    • Owned frontend delivery end-to-end: clarified requirements with product and design, aligned API contracts with backend engineers, implemented features and A/B tests, released to production, and iterated based on feedback.
    • Took ownership of frontend architecture, automated testing, and CI workflows using GitHub Actions and containerized environments.
    • Documented frontend architecture, monorepo workflows, and edge-case handling patterns to improve onboarding, cross-team alignment, and long-term maintainability.
    • Mentored an iOS-background Engineering Manager on frontend tooling and workflows, enabling them to resolve small frontend issues and ship minor features.

  2. Software Engineer

    Dream Broker Oy

    December 2021 - August 2023 · Helsinki, Finland

    Project
    Dream Broker #One, Dream Broker Studio, NDA project
    • Implemented features and resolved bugs across 3 web apps and 1 Android application, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and performance for products supporting over 1,000 business customers.
    • Took ownership of the production Android app after the sole developer left, fixing bugs, shipping small features, exploring platform APIs, and onboarding two new Android engineers.
    • Collaborated with the design team to identify and improve application UX by suggesting, and then implementing UX and UI improvements.

  3. UI Designer and Frontend Developer / Thesis Worker

    Mindhive Oy

    April 2021 - June 2021 · Mikkeli, Finland

    Project
    Job search application concept
    Stack
    Next.js, React, TypeScript, Material UI, Figma, Lucidchart, custom JavaScript application.
    • Reduced client-designer feedback cycles from weeks to days through an interactive mood board, palette, and design-system workflow.
    • Built a Next.js/React prototype and design-system tooling for a job-matching product concept, including user flows, UI kit, Figma prototype, and custom colour-palette generator.

  4. Software Developer Intern

    Mindhive Oy

    November 2020 - April 2021 · Mikkeli, Finland

    Project
    Online delivery platform for a local restaurant
    Stack
    Next.js, React, TypeScript, Material UI, Redux, Git, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform, shell scripting, Figma.
    • Built PWA features for a local restaurant delivery platform in collaboration with design and development teams.

Skills

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Storybook, Vite, Astro

Backend and data

Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, BullMQ, background jobs, Zod, REST APIs

AI and product engineering

OpenAI APIs, Gemini APIs, embeddings, recommendation systems, prompt engineering

Testing

Playwright, Vitest, Jest, MSW, component testing, end-to-end testing

DevOps and infrastructure

Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP, VPS, Coolify, Railway, Linux/Unix, shell scripting

Design and product

Figma, UX Design, Blender, Miro, Unleash, Amplitude

Selected projects

  1. Full-stack AI movie recommendation engine

    PopChoice

    Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, BullMQ, OpenAI Embeddings API, TMDB API.

    • Built a full-stack AI recommendation app using OpenAI embeddings, PostgreSQL/pgvector semantic search, Redis, and BullMQ background jobs.
    • Implemented account movie memory, async recommendation processing, progress polling, TMDB integration, and Bull Board monitoring.

  2. Creative editor for generative cover art

    Artifact

    React Router, TypeScript, Vite, Canvas 2D, PixiJS/WebGL, Three.js, React Flow, XState, IndexedDB.

    • Built a browser-based creative editor with layer-stack and node-graph composition, procedural effects, 3D primitives, image/text layers, local project persistence, and high-resolution export.
    • Designed a rendering architecture combining Canvas 2D, PixiJS GPU shader effects, and Three.js offscreen primitive rendering.

Education

South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK)

Information Technology, 2017 - 2021, Mikkeli, Finland