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I am Anton. I write frontend for a living and I am trying to change that.

Nine years in. React since hooks were a proposal. Next.js across half a dozen apps — pages router, app router, the awkward in-between. I have shipped construction-tech web + mobile, ed-tech platforms, internal kanban boards, design-system UI kits, i18n for fifty countries, and a React Native MVP I am still oddly fond of. I lead more than I IC these days, but the IC reflex never went away.

The pivot is not a panic move. The best frontend engineers I know are all quietly learning LLMs on the side. I want to do it loudly, on a clock, with something to show at the end.

I live in Buenos Aires. I speak Russian, English, and enough Spanish to argue about coffee. I run in the morning, read in the afternoon, ship at night.

timeline
2026 — nowAI engineering pivot (90 days, public)
2024 — nowSenior frontend @ Dats.Team (Nicosia, remote)
2022 — 2024Senior / lead frontend, Moscow startups (Formind, Etalon)
2019 — 2022Lead frontend @ Samolet — Moscow, prop-tech
2016 — 2019Frontend, Nizhny Novgorod (Olprime, Yaat, The Best App)