Ashkan Tofangdar

Lead front-end development and maintain the codebase for Angular applications.

Work with AI coding tools day to day to ship features and releases faster.

Keep the apps healthy over time through refactoring, performance work and regular maintenance.

Rebuilt the whole web app from new UI/UX designs, making navigation simpler and the product easier to use.

Worked closely with the backend team on API contracts and real-time data.

Cut API calls with TanStack Query and better state management; with lazy loading and heavy caching, load times for assets, components and API calls dropped by 75%.

Used TanStack Table and Router for complex routing and data-heavy tables, and built an internal tool for dynamic forms with large field sets and validation on TanStack Form.

Led development of web apps in Angular, React and Next.js, with performance work that improved the experience by 60%, from developer experience to end-user experience.

Partnered with UX/UI designers on accessible interfaces and integrated REST APIs across front end and back end.

Reviewed code, coached teammates, and wrote unit and end-to-end tests to make releases safer.

Built AI automations that took repetitive work off the team, plus AI-driven features for user-facing products.

Co-founded the company and led development of a mobile app that grew to 80,000+ users.

Built and ran the custom REST and GraphQL APIs behind the app.

Introduced Agile practices that cut time-to-market by 20%, and refactored for maintainability.

Mentored 50+ junior developers and interns on coding standards, debugging and best practices.

Worked with designers and product managers to ship regular updates based on user feedback and analytics.

Designed the multi-tier architecture of a large-scale web application and a shared architecture across a suite of products.

Set coding standards, wrote architecture documentation, and mentored junior engineers.

Evaluated and integrated third-party tools to improve efficiency and performance.

Advised several software projects on technical decisions and helped troubleshoot problems.

Helped migrate legacy systems to modern platforms and handled server and network configuration.

Designed and built a modern interface for a large enterprise product.

Developed REST APIs and web apps with Node.js and React, and helped debug existing applications.

Built several iOS and Android apps in Flutter, lifting user engagement by 45%.

Took a feature-rich app from concept to release, working closely with design and product.

Built web apps in Angular, React, SailsJS and NestJS, with Node.js back ends on MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Built REST and GraphQL APIs and real-time features over WebSockets, with UIs in Bulma, Ant Design and Material UI.

Helped migrate legacy systems to modern architectures, and ran code reviews and testing.

Built an embedded ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) blood-test machine of the kind used in hospitals and labs, on ESP32 and Raspberry Pi.

Created a custom operating system for medical compliance, and used image processing to improve measurement accuracy.

Built an AR web app in plain JavaScript and AR.js: scan a QR code on a visit card to open an AR view of a company's profile.

Used at international events, including conferences in Dubai.