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Senior frontend engineer · product systems

Currently at Tolstoy

Victor Follet, senior frontend engineer

I build dependable product interfaces and frontend systems that scale with the product.

For more than 15 years, I have worked on SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and AI-enabled products. I focus on React and TypeScript frontend architecture, while working across the stack when delivery needs it.

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01

Selected work

Product work spanning AI, platform performance, payments, and commerce.

02

Experience

More than a decade building product teams and systems across varied domains.

  1. Tolstoy

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

    • Build full-stack features for Tolstoy's AI commerce platform using React, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and PostgreSQL.
    • Design and develop AI Studio infrastructure supporting the creation and maintenance of 30+ third-party integrations.
    • Build reusable design-system components and shared UI foundations for AI-assisted React and TypeScript product workflows.

    — Present

  2. Bright Data

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Netanya, Israel

    • Led development of Toolip.io, a React and TypeScript SaaS platform for managing proxy infrastructure.
    • Reduced page-load time by 25% through frontend performance improvements.
    • Built payment workflows integrating Stripe, PayPal, and BlueSnap across React and Node.js services.

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  3. Tenengroup

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

    • Built and optimized React shopping-cart and checkout experiences for the MYKA and Oak & Luna international e-commerce brands, reducing cart abandonment by 20%.
    • Architected a reusable Next.js data-access and API layer for a high-traffic e-commerce platform.
    • Partnered with .NET teams on API contracts, integration patterns, and end-to-end delivery.

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  4. Luxoft

    Chief Frontend Developer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Led a microfrontend migration using Webpack Module Federation, enabling independent deployment of product modules and faster delivery.
    • Built financial-reporting interfaces for VTB Bank using React, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, and Redux Saga, improving UI consistency and reporting accuracy.

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  5. Mail.ru Group (now VK)

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Built a GitLab CI, Docker, and Traefik pipeline that created branch-specific payment environments, shortening cross-functional feedback cycles by 30%.
    • Developed payment interfaces for My.com and VK Pay using Preact, Redux, and TypeScript.
    • Improved payment-processing performance by 20%, strengthening responsiveness across customer-facing payment flows.

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  6. Yandex

    Interface Developer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Modernized the Yandex Disk frontend architecture using React, Redux, and ES6, reducing page-load time by 20%.
    • Built a React Native embedding module for the Global Notification Center, enabling real-time alerts across five platforms.
    • Expanded Jest test coverage and reduced production regressions across Yandex Disk.

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  7. Idea Platform

    Senior Frontend Developer (JavaScript)

    Moscow, Russia

    • Designed and built the company's AngularJS product frontend, contributing to three new client engagements.
    • Built mobile and backend functionality using NativeScript, Angular, Java EE, and JAX-RS.
    • Hired and mentored two developers while establishing automated frontend testing practices with Karma and Protractor.

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  8. Earlier Financial Technology Experience

    Development Consultant and Financial Engineer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Development Consultant at Systematica Business Software; Financial Engineer at Allied Testing.
    • Built financial integrations, reporting, option-pricing functionality, and QA workflows for banking and market-data systems, including Renaissance Capital back-office software and Thomson Reuters Eikon.

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03

Capabilities

Product judgment and engineering depth from interface to infrastructure.

04

How I work

Clear interfaces come from clear engineering decisions.

I specialize in the product-facing details that make software clear, fast, and maintainable. I am comfortable working across the stack while keeping the user experience and the engineering foundations aligned.

  • 01Start with the user and the constraint
  • 02Make tradeoffs explicit
  • 03Build systems teams can extend

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