Zana SalimiSenior Software EngineerSenior software engineer, building AI products end to end.
Relocating to Yerevan, Armenia · Remote (GMT+4)
Senior software engineer with eight years of production web work, mostly in TypeScript, React and Next.js, with backend services in Node.js (NestJS), Go and PostgreSQL. Since 2025, independent contractor for several clients in parallel. Most recently the main engineer on an AI-visibility audit SaaS, where the work was making LLM-based scoring accurate, deterministic and covered by tests. Background in product design, which helps on projects where the screens and flows are not designed yet.
Experience
2018 to now
ConnectMyTechContract
Software Engineer, AI Systems & Full-Stack
Mar 2026 – Present8 moRemote
- Main engineer on the product. Shipped the paid offering: a $97 automated audit, a $250 consultation flow with Stripe checkout, and a public agency API. 332 audits run so far, 220 of them paid.
- Designed and built 2 of the engine's 10 scoring modules, which query real ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overview answers and write answer copy grounded in the client's own site, at about $0.07 per audit.
- Checked 6 client reports claim by claim against the live sites, found about 130 false or contradictory claims, fixed the causes in every module, and pinned each rule with a regression test.
- Made scoring deterministic (one site moved between 80 and 85 on back-to-back runs) and failure-aware, so checks that fail to fetch are left out of the score instead of counted as zero. A per-run engine version fingerprint stopped a false "+23 points" jump from being reported to a client as their own improvement.
- Built the agency API, now used by 3 agencies: hashed keys, rate limits, a monthly cap enforced atomically in Postgres (the old design let 60 parallel requests pass a cap of 10), HMAC-signed webhooks and OpenAPI 3.1 docs.
- Grew the test suite to 128 test files and about 1,150 tests.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Trigger.dev
- OpenRouter
- DataForSEO
- Stripe
- Vercel
Leveraged MiningContract
Full-Stack Engineer
Sep 2025 – Oct 20261 yr 2 moRemote
- Joined on the frontend and moved to full-stack when the backend developer left. Stabilized the half-built Go API and shipped v1 in three months.
- Built the client portal for about 200 clients, the admin console, and a partner platform that calculates commissions from CRM deals. Put all calls to the mining pool behind timeouts, retries and a circuit breaker, and moved admin rights out of the web app so a stolen browser session cannot grant them.
- Led v2 work: desktop layouts, logging templates, an earnings page and CSV exports for accountants.
- Go
- Fiber
- GORM
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
TrellionContract
Lead Engineer (Full-Stack)
Nov 2025 – May 20267 moRemote
- Built an AI interview platform as its only engineer in six months, from the Next.js app to the NestJS/GraphQL API, PostgreSQL and Redis. Delivered the MVP with 48 screens in production; 10 companies ran more than 37 interviews on it during the pilot.
- Modeled interviews as editable graphs that an AI video agent runs, and stored each AI score with the prompt version and model that produced it, so scores stay comparable when prompts or models change.
- Built the recruiter copilot, job description and application generators, interview scoring and AI usage metering.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Clerk
- LLM APIs
PlanIt · product studio building VC-backed Web3 projects
Frontend Lead
Aug 2023 – May 20251 yr 10 moRemote
- Promoted from frontend developer to lead of a three-person frontend team. Handled code review and one-to-ones, worked directly with founders and clients on scope, and kept writing code.
- Ran hiring for the studio: interviewed more than 100 candidates and helped grow the team from 3 to about 25 people across game development, design, frontend and backend.
- Shipped in three months the frontend of a VC-backed Web3 product whose smart contract held $1M in funds and reached more than 150 users, including wallet and smart contract integration.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- wagmi
- viem
- ethers.js
Abroadin · study-abroad platform
Frontend Developer
Nov 2020 – Jul 20232 yr 9 moRemote
- Led the migration from Vue to React and Next.js in two months, including a student panel of more than 25 pages for applications and admission estimates.
- Rebuilt the frontend through a full product redesign. Key user flows became about twice as fast, measured with Lighthouse and tracking data.
- Built the frontend of an AI university matching feature. Created a design system of about 20 components with the designers and set up the CI/CD pipelines.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- CI/CD
Ava Cinema
Frontend Engineer
Mar 2019 – Oct 20201 yr 8 moRemote
- Sole frontend engineer in a two-person team. Built a streaming platform's frontend from scratch to production, including the component library.
- Built a custom HLS video player for licensed content: streaming-only playback to protect copyright, quality switching, subtitles, playback speed and ad breaks at set points in the video.
- React
- JavaScript
- hls.js
Freelance
Frontend Developer
Mar 2018 – Feb 20191 yrRemote
- Built web interfaces for a range of clients, including the music player, user panel and subscription packages for a music website with about one million daily visits.
- React
- JavaScript
Projects
4 built outside the contracts
Wisp
Co-founder, with a partner · Jul 2026 – Present
Frontend lead and backend contributor on a USDC payment gateway with public on-chain settlement and a private zero-knowledge payment mode. Phase one complete on testnet. Three independent idempotency layers before money moves, and no floating-point math near amounts. Next.js, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC.
sift
AI research agent for crypto markets that keeps score of its own accuracy. Each call is stored with the price at the time and graded against the real price three days later, with a public track record. About $0.003 per analysis.
embertoast
github.com/zanasalimi/ember-toast
Headless-first, accessible React toast library with no runtime dependencies and RTL support. Published on npm, about 180 downloads a month. 65 tests.
Cofield
Real-time collaborative whiteboard built on Yjs (CRDT) that keeps working offline. The server only relays edits and never resolves conflicts. 63 tests.
Skills
9 areas
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Go
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- shadcn/ui
- Design systems
- Accessibility
- Web performance
Backend
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Express
- REST APIs
- OpenAPI
- GraphQL
- WebSockets
- Webhooks
- Go (Fiber, GORM)
Data
- PostgreSQL (incl. row-level security)
- Supabase
- Redis
- Prisma
AI
- LLM integration
- OpenRouter
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Gemini
- Vercel AI SDK
- Structured output (Zod)
- LLM evaluation
- AEO
Web3
- wagmi
- viem
- ethers.js
Quality and delivery
- Vitest
- Playwright
- Regression testing
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Vercel
- Sentry
- Stripe
Product and design
- Product design
- Figma
- UX flows
Auth
- Clerk
Education & Languages
2022 to 2026
BSc, Computer Software Engineering
2022 – 2026Technical and Vocational University
English: IELTS 7.5