
Stanislav Korolenko
Verified Expert in Engineering
CSS Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since March 24, 2020
Stan is passionate about his work and loves to polish each piece of code to perfection, starting with prototyping and up to multiple testing until he's satisfied that it's a solid, stable part of the project. With over 20 years of hands-on development experience, he's well-versed with various tech stacks. Stan is extremely aware that the tech world is relentlessly evolving and that he must keep up. Luckily, he has an insatiable fascination with cutting-edge technology.
Portfolio
Experience
- CSS - 20 years
- Front-end - 15 years
- PHP - 15 years
- Styling - 15 years
- React - 10 years
- SCSS - 10 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- Tailwind CSS - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Claude Code, Cursor AI
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is an operational digital twin: a graph-based model of how the physical world runs across space and time for both humans and AI.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack Developer and CSS Wizard
Athena Intel, Inc.
- Worked in a very active and forward-thinking AI-native startup team, helping them to mature the project and grow to success.
- Developed project-wide reference system, adding the ability to mention, open, and highlight various types of documents and their content.
- Created and maintained various ProseMirror and Tiptap extensions, enabling seamless human and agentic workflows.
- Ensured live collaboration across various document types and types of interactions.
Lead Full-stack Developer (via Toptal)
Spacehall
- Developed a social platform for blockchain communities from scratch using Next.js.
- Created a flexible rule system connected with blockchain accounts to restrict users' interactions with communities.
- Worked closely with the designer to create a rich and user-friendly interface.
Lead Developer
Selira Pte. Ltd.
- Created a fast, functional prototype to manage MRO processes in React and Node.js connected by a GraphQL interface.
- Developed a template-powered service to export work orders for aircraft maintenance as printable forms.
- Built multiple user-friendly dashboards for managers and engineers to overhaul the maintenance processes and aircraft statuses in React.
Full-stack React (TypeScript) and Elixir Developer
HACERA
- Created a web-based code editor for blockchain developers. The editor included multiple resizable panes, a file explorer, and the ability to execute code and leave inline code comments.
- Created a React application for developers to collaborate on blockchain-related projects. Users could edit code simultaneously, publish changes to Git, manage team permissions, and log in using their Wallet.
- Worked on an Elixir project for the Jupyter Notebooks.
- Led the development of multiple projects' shared styles using different tech stacks. Worked with designers to define the united naming conventions, configured project styling frameworks, and created shared components libraries.
- Worked on a wallet application inside React Native Expo ecosystem.
Lead Full-stack Developer
Langulex
- Designed and created a responsive web application using React with my Material UI-based styles.
- Developed Python-based HTML and plain-text markup and lexical structure extractors using Celery queues.
- Created a reading-session tracker Flask app with statistics along with word definitions.
- Developed a self-repetition learning system for tracking skill-level approximations across different skills.
- Made a data aggregator for multiple external dictionary APIs to provide an application with data.
- Connected components together using an OAuth server acting like a reversed proxy based on Laravel.
Full-stack Developer
Self-employed
- Developed a desktop application for calculating medical parameters using a given patient's analysis results (Adobe Air).
- Created and maintained multiple online stores and catalogs based on my own PHP-based CMS.
- Delivered multiple promotional websites and Facebook apps.
- Added improvements or fixes to many side projects.
- Used various technologies in work, starting with Flash in the early days and ending with Angular, React, and Laravel.
Lead Front-end Developer
Bamboo Labs
- Created two web React-based applications for teachers and students.
- Developed a tool with multiple steps for creating teacher assignments, including a quiz generation assistant, allowing teachers to prioritize words and manually select, modify, and add questions of different types within the React application.
- Designed and developed multiple statistical graphs using D3.js.
- Created a tokenized text reader for students that enabled students to get word definitions, translations, visuals, and audio within the React application.
Full-stack Developer
Noviy Disk
- Created a Moodle-based educational website for high school/college students, giving them information about future career opportunities.
- Added multiple custom plugins with responsive designs that were configurable within Moodle admin panel, including custom question types and courses.
- Integrated the ability for students to create their own portfolio and publish it on an external platform using their APIs.
- Created a new user role and control panel for employers, so they can publish vacancies on the website and students can apply for the openings.
- Improved a Moodle notifications system by implementing the ability to unsubscribe from emails.
- Developed an aggregating JavaScript-powered visual statistic.
Experience
Genomics Platform
What Would You Pay for This?
Medicover
FitLocker
The application had four major parts:
• Front-end welcome pages on Laravel using classic Blade templates
• Back-end API powered by Laravel
• AngularJS application for trainers
• AngularJS application for other users
From the start, I handled the prototyping and development with only vague customer ideas to guide me. The Laravel website and AngularJS application had custom adaptive styles based on the Bootstrap framework. Grunt was used as the primary building tool.
Interactive Education Catalog and Database
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED:
• Unified the authorization between applications using OAuth 2, so materials created within the database could be used within the educational catalog after accounts have been linked. It also allowed the future expansion of the database to other projects.
• Implemented a new functionality for both applications (question types and calendar events).
• Developed a learning system, allowing users to register in the catalog as students and subscribe to courses provided by teachers (originally provided by the database), including a grading system, reviews, and statistics.
• Added new user roles and updated the existing ones so that a user could have different roles within the custom admin panel.
Career4me
http://career4me.ru/TASKS ACCOMPLISHED:
• Created a custom theme for the project.
• Added a lot of new plugins, including integration with an external API and new functionality to create/search resumes and vacancies.
• Developed a motivational learning module with an interactive image-based progression, allowing students to build up their "village of knowledge," where each building changed depending on the student's progress.
CrossPromo
Kover-vertolet | Online Shop Specializing in Carpets
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED:
• Handled both front-end and back-end development using a provided single-resolution design.
• Implemented an admin panel that allows the complete customization of the website content, including related SEO tags, and an XLS parser to automatically update prices and availability of items.
Education
Master's Degree in Telecommunications
Technical University of Communications and Informatics - Moscow, Russia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, jQuery, Emotion Library
Tools
Moodle, GitHub, Webpack, Adobe Photoshop, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm, Celery, Grunt, Jenkins, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Figma, Expo, Auth0, Sentry, Claude Code
Languages
PHP, TypeScript, SCSS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, GraphQL, Python, Elixir
Frameworks
Laravel, Redux, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, LangGraph, AngularJS, Flask, Symfony, Phoenix, React Native, Express.js, Jest
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL
Paradigms
UI Design, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Agile Software Development
Platforms
Docker, Blockchain, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WordPress
Industry Expertise
Web Design
Other
User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Front-end, Full-stack, APIs, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Architecture, Full-stack Development, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Tailwind UI, Styling, AI Agents, Tiptap, ProseMirror, Software Architecture, Solution Architecture, WebSockets, CI/CD Pipelines, Server-side Rendering (SSR), Web3, Data Structures, OAuth, Artificial Intelligence (AI), LLM Integration, Multitenancy, Leadership, Monaco, Web 3.0, IP Networks, Mobile Networks, Apollo, Collaboration, Graphic Design, PDF, Storybook, Social Media Platforms, Payment APIs, Online Bidding, OpenAI, Cursor AI, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
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