Erald
From Albania (UTC+2)
Erald – Next.js, Typescript, React
Erald is a senior full-stack engineer with strong expertise in React, Next.js, and Node.js, demonstrated through end-to-end delivery of AI product features and mature backend ownership. He has led frontend teams, contributed to system design, and integrates AI thoughtfully into workflows. Communication is clear and product-focused, though AWS infrastructure experience is limited.
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Full-Stack Engineer
Multiple client projects, including SaaS products built from scratch, a size-recommendation widget, and a character-AI platform.
- Built and maintained SaaS products, e-commerce platforms, landing pages, and PSD-to-HTML implementations for clients worldwide.
- Led frontend delivery for small teams and independently owned the UI of a social network for book lovers, including messaging, friendships, posts, groups, and recommendation features.
- Developed a two-sided field-service platform connecting electricians and customers through site assessments, quotes, approvals, shared timelines, and technician scheduling.
- Maintained a 100% Job Success Score across 24 contracts and more than 1,500 hours.
- Delivered AI-native production services, including a multi-tenant FastAPI system on Cloud Run with idempotent ingestion and reconciliation.
- Built a React and PostgreSQL CRM module with row-level tenancy.
Full-Stack Engineer
A consumer character-AI chat platform.







- Owned the end-to-end design and delivery of a character-creation feature, translating mockups into complete UX flows and edge-case handling.
- Built a performant tag-input experience with debounced search, pagination, caching, infinite scroll, result limits, and runaway-request protection.
- Delivered a four-step AI image-generation workflow with prompt and style selection, progress tracking, image selection, cropping, and custom uploads.
- Implemented reliable state persistence across page refreshes, avoiding stale data and unnecessary re-render cycles.
- Developed moderation and lifecycle features, including approval workflows, visibility controls, reporting, profiles, and banned-character handling.
- Improved performance by reducing page load time from roughly three seconds to 1.5 seconds and cutting component renders from about 300 to 10.
- Led rollout and product decisions through A/B testing, SEO improvements, bug elimination, beta-user research, and release ownership.
Front-end Team Lead
An AI size recommendation widget for fashion e-commerce.












- Led a three-person frontend team, providing technical direction, code reviews, architecture, and shared foundations.
- Re-architected a white-label widget with Builder and Factory patterns, enabling brand-specific themes, components, flows, placement, and configuration.
- Simplified third-party integration to a single HTML selector while supporting SPA navigation, redesign resilience, stale recommendations, and native size controls.
- Replaced static body-shape illustrations with a performant interactive Three.js and Blender-based 3D avatar system.
- Diagnosed and fixed a memory leak exceeding 2.2 GB by preventing repeated avatar loading during SPA navigation.
- Rebuilt the analytics platform in Next.js with drill-down charts, dynamic Storybook tables, custom rendering, and product-improvement markers.
- Expanded the platform into Size Nudge and Size Chart products, mentored a junior frontend developer, and collaborated with leadership on complex interaction design.
Full-stack Engineer
A no-code platform for building interactive marketing experiences, quizzes, surveys, and lead forms, used by brands like L'Oréal, AutoZone, and the NFL to capture first-party declared data.







- Built the campaign builder’s visual flow map in Ember and SVG, including draggable screen nodes, edge routing, custom pan and zoom, and interaction hit targets.
- Delivered full-stack features across Ember, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PostgreSQL, vanilla JavaScript, and Webpack.
- Owned features end-to-end, from product discovery and technical trade-offs through specification, cross-repository implementation, and release.
- Enabled questionnaire-by-email flows using email-safe interactions with deep links into the hosted experience and preserved initial responses.
- Co-led a four-month styling-system migration from layered database overrides to a consolidated JSON schema with backward-compatible fallback support.
- Participated in twice-weekly production releases and the on-call rotation.
Full-Stack Engineer
Two products for Albanian businesses: an electronic invoicing and fiscalization platform and an event and stadium ticketing system for online purchases and physical ticket offices.




- Built the complete frontend for a national e-invoicing and fiscalization platform using React, SCSS, and Bootstrap with a Java Spring and PostgreSQL backend.
- Designed the discount data model for product-, category-, and customer-specific pricing, helping simplify redundant database structures.
- Delivered invoice dashboards, analytics, creation workflows, subscription tiers, and calculation-heavy financial screens.
- Implemented JWT authentication and payment processing through a local Albanian bank and PayPal, including currency conversion.
- Developed seat-allocation logic for group bookings and added ticket sales and event-series functionality.
- Led frontend direction for a small team through architecture decisions, code reviews, and technical guidance.
- Maintained legacy PHP systems alongside the newer platform.