ahiipsa

Senior Frontend Engineer

Senior Frontend Engineer focused on Web3 products. Five years building DeFi and cross-chain dApps end-to-end — productscoping, architecture, on-chain integration, and production delivery.

Built the full SingularityFinance frontend as the leading contributor and the cross-chain bridge UIs at Harmony. 
Comfortable owning a product surface autonomously.

19 years in web overall.

Author of
ethers-rpc-pool https://github.com/ahiipsa/ethers-rpc-pool and zerg https://github.com/ahiipsa/zerg.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $130,000

Hourly rate: $75

Nationality: 🇧🇾 Belarus

Residency: 🇦🇲 Armenia


Experience

Senior Front end Engineer
SingularityFinance
2023 - 2026
Owned the product frontend — an Nx monorepo of multiple Next.js / React / TypeScript apps and shared libraries. Top contributor: ~40% of all commits across 2.5 years, ~230 tickets closed. - Built https://singularityfinance.ai/staking end-to-end — multiple staking pools, stake / unstake / claim transactions on mainnet and testnet with on-chain faucet, points dashboard, Zealy-based leaderboard, integrated bridge and DEX modules. - Built https://singularityfinance.ai/capital_manager end-to-end on the product vision led by the blockchain engineer / PO — multi-asset, multi-chain UI with risk visualization, unified token actions (stake / migrate / deposit / withdraw), and CoinGecko price feed integration. - Built https://singularitydao.ai/launchpad — full DeFi participation flow with a 5-tier membership system tied to SREP staking (1×–10× allocation multipliers), mandatory KYC, snapshot logic, on-chain deposit / claim, and partner-protocol integrations. Powered 5+ launched projects. - Cut **build time from 45 min to ~12 min** (3.7× speedup) and reduced production bundle size by **~50%** through code splitting, dependency cleanup, and Nx toolchain tuning. - Led migrations: **Pages → App Router (Next.js 15)**, **wagmi v1 → v2**, **@tanstack/react-query v4 → v5**, including SSR / hydration and transaction-flow stabilization. Enabled **TypeScript strict mode** across the codebase (resolved type errors in 176 files).
Frontend Engineer (Web3)
Harmony
2021 - 2023
Built and maintained product frontends for cross-chain bridges and ecosystem dApps. - Ethereum ↔ Harmony Bridge https://github.com/harmony-one/ethhmy-bridge.frontend — primary frontend for the cross-chain bridge between Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Harmony. - LayerZero Bridge UI https://github.com/harmony-one/layerzero-bridge.frontend — frontend for the LayerZero-based cross-chain bridge. - Harmony Web3 SDK — contributed to and integrated SDK used by internal and ecosystem dApps. - Bitcoin bridge — frontend for cross-chain BTC transfers into the Harmony ecosystem.
Frontend Team Lead
Science Guide
2019 - 2021
Led a team of 5 frontend engineers; owned hiring, code review, sprint planning, and delivery for the main product.
Frontend Team Lead
SuperJob
2014 - 2019
Frontend lead on a product serving **1M+ daily active users**. Owned performance, refactoring, and delivery cadence across major rewrites.
Earlier roles
Others
2007 - 2014
JavaScript / Frontend engineering at MEGAVISOR and several Russian web companies.

Skills

defi
nextjs
react
smart-contract
solidity
tailwind
typescript
web3js
front-end
english
russian