Anuar Zhuken #

Experience #

September 2021 - March 2025

Architected and led development of a core Full Stack application with focus on UIs at scale
Designed, Built, and Led multiple FrontEnd features for an Enterprise Application named Beacon
Provided technical insights and evaluated alternative technologies
Effectively communicated complex technical issues
Built several FullStack features, including Role Based Access Control
Built an MVP of a RAG virtual assistant that facilitates faster ideation-to-code workflow
Onboarded, mentored, and led six engineers
Continuously collaborated with stakeholders, including End Users, Project Managers, Software Engineers, and Designers, to ensure that features fit requirements, provide intuitive UI/UX, and allow for long-term strategy
Redesigned FrontEnd state layer with State/Observer/Mediator patterns, which led to:
- Improved visibility into the app's states
- Confidence in developing new features
- Improved developer experience
- Increased dev velocity
Rebuilt internal reusable Calendar component which powers 4 distinct pages with pure HTML Canvas to gain the following benefits:
- Virtualized infinite scroll
- Detailed control of elements' positions
- Fast rendering performance
- Control of states
Improved app Web Performance by code-splitting, compression (init bundle from 8 MB to 400KB), cache busting, etc
Made a series of dev improvements, including:
- Company-wide Bazel build rules
- DB migration automation
- Visualization of the FrontEnd app's module dependencies

December 2020 - September 2021

Designed a FullStack feature to collect post-pilot surveys, which increased the conversion of pilots by 300%
Built a BackEnd feature to provide corporate admins with visibility in the program for employee family members
Enabled local development to improve developers' velocity substantially

July 2018 - June 2020

Project - new FusionJS (Node/React) microservice with several thousand concurrent heavy users
Features - authoring of emails, search and filtering

November 2017 - February 2018

Provided code reviews and taught best practices for debugging software to 60+ students
Conducted dozens of mock algorithm interviews for graduates

July - October 2017

Full Scholarship recipient as a member of an underrepresented group in software engineering
Member of Telegraph Track, an organization that supports underrepresented communities in Tech

2005 - 2007