Mikayel Ghukasyan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
Yerevan, Armenia
Toptal member since September 5, 2022
Mikayel is a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production web products end-to-end, including work with Reddit and Picsart. Expert in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, with hands-on experience building LLM-powered features, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows. He takes full ownership of the project lifecycle, from architecture to deployment, combining rapid AI-augmented delivery with rigorous senior-level review and code quality.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 10 years
- TypeScript - 6 years
- React - 6 years
- React Redux - 6 years
- MySQL - 5 years
- PHP - 5 years
- Node.js - 4 years
- Next.js - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Jira, GitHub, Claude Code, Cursor AI
The most amazing...
...projects I've contributed to include new features at Reddit and Picsart, used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Reddit, Inc.
- Contributed as a front-end engineering contractor for Reddit's Top of Funnel team. I've primarily worked on building and optimizing user-facing sign-up upsells and implementing SEO improvements on the web platform.
- Set up analytics and A/B tests to validate features and support data-driven decisions. The main technologies used are TypeScript and Lit web components.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality implementations, wrote unit tests to maintain code reliability, and contributed to increased conversion rates and improved SEO visibility.
Senior Software Engineer
PicsArt
- Contributed to the web version of the largest all-in-one creative platform of design, video editing, and photo tools, with more than 150 million monthly active users across multiple platforms.
- Developed new web editor features using React, Canvas, and TypeScript, including adding new object types, effects, and tools, which improved conversion metrics.
- Improved the application's performance and reliability by continuously refactoring old code and significantly reducing technical debt and high test coverage for the new code.
- Conducted technical interviews and code reviews, and provided assistance and mentorship to interns and junior-level engineers.
Senior Front-end Developer
EU company
- Worked as a front-end developer on a large-scale reporting dashboard used in one of the EU countries. The project is under an NDA.
- Developed new front-facing features and improved performance, tracked and fixed bugs using Jira as a reporting tool.
- Worked with back-end developers to find the best way to implement features and integrate all APIs properly.
Senior Full-stack Developer
US-based Marketing Agency
- Created a custom full-stack analytics and customer support dashboard with various API integrations—Google Analytics, Google My Business, CRM—and automated emails.
- Managed a small remote team of developers and designers to develop new websites and provide support to current clients.
- Developed and supervised the development of 25+ React, Next.js, and WordPress websites for agency clients, including landing pages and eCommerce projects. Implemented custom third-party integrations.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Freelance Clients
- Developed websites using MERN stack like Next.js and WordPress for a wide array of clients from the U.S., Australia, Russia, and Armenia. The projects included landing pages, small business websites, online stores, and other eCommerce sites.
- Built a new front end and optimized the code on the back end for an eCommerce store, resulting in a 60% drop in abandonment rate and drastically improved rankings on search engines for relevant keywords.
- Developed marketing JavaScript HTML 5 games with Facebook login, custom analytics, leaderboards, anti-cheating systems, and back-end admin panels.
- Created custom advertisement formats such as in-page and pre-roll and developed an admin panel with detailed advertisement analytics, custom report creation, and automatic email reporting for a large advertising agency.
- Developed various personal projects, including a free Armenian font website that ranks first on Google for related keywords.
Front-end Developer
Advertising Agency
- Developed 10+ small JavaScript marketing apps with Facebook integration.
- Created custom interactive HTML5/CSS3 banners with advanced tracking.
- Optimized and added new features to managed WordPress websites.
Experience
Marketing Dashboard
Education
Master's Degree in Mathematical Modeling of Economics
Yerevan State University - Yerevan, Armenia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, React Redux, Node.js, REST APIs, jQuery, Konva, Google APIs, Facebook API, Stripe, Stripe API, Chart.js, Fabric.js, Polymer, Lit
Tools
Slack, Git, JSX, GitHub, NPM, Canvas, Jira, Figma, Claude, Stripe Checkout, Webpack, Zapier, Claude Code
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, ECMAScript (ES6), CSS3, PHP, SQL, GraphQL, Sass, Semantic HTML, Python, Kotlin
Frameworks
Next.js, Redux, Vanilla JS, Express.js, AngularJS, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Flux, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Jest, Material UI, Angular
Paradigms
REST, Agile Software Development, REST API Architecture, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Component-based Development, UI Design, UX Design, Scrum
Storage
MySQL, JSON, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Platforms
WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Firebase, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, Vercel
Other
Responsive Web Apps, Front-end, Full-stack, Front-end Development, Full-stack Development, Responsive Design, Web Development, APIs, Leadership, SaaS, Google SEO, Gatsby, Web Applications, Styled-components, CI/CD Pipelines, SEO Tools, CRM APIs, Integration, Storybook, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chakra UI, CSS Animations, Cursor AI, Web Components, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, OAuth, OpenAI, Prompt Engineering, AI Chatbots, Chatbots, Data Engineering
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