Hey, I'm Lasha!

Welcome to my verdant oasis of ideas 🏝️

I'm a seasoned React developer with over 5 years of experience and a Top Rated Plus freelancer on Upwork. I specialize in creating open-source projects and write about life, code, and dinosaurs.

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Experience

Nov 2021 - Present
  • Recognized as a Top Rated Plus Freelancer, representing the top 3% of talent on Upwork.
  • Developed and maintained highly scalable websites using Next.js, SSR, TypeScript, styledcomponents, and Cypress.
  • Spearheaded the implementation of new features while optimizing the existing codebase for better performance and maintainability.
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
  • Developed new functionality to support existing web applications
  • Participated in the code review sessions
  • Actively participated in daily standups, project breakdown, estimation, and retrospective meetings
  • Monitored and improved front-end performance

React developer @Falconix

Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
  • Built web applications using React, Gatsby, Redux, styled-components, and Material-UI
  • Made isolated UI components using Storybook
  • Used WebSocket API to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server
  • Increased main public-facing web app's performance by 30%
  • Added internalization using the i18next framework

Front-end developer @Circle

Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
  • Made various UI components and bug fixes on existing websites
  • Developed interactive and responsive Google Map components on several projects with Geolocation, Marker Clustering, Data Visualization, etc...
  • Wrote Frontend for Schoolprojects – online grants platform. Using React Hooks, styled-components and Ant Design, while keeping components small and function-specific