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.
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