Frontend Engineering
Component architecture, design systems, accessibility, and 60fps interactions. React, TypeScript, and whatever renders pixels fastest.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind
Available for select projects
I'm Maksim Zaytsev — I design and engineer fast, immersive web products from first pixel to last deploy. Seven years of shipping things people actually use.
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00 / Manifesto
0Years of experience
0Projects shipped
0Production systems maintained
02 / Skills
Backend & APIs
Resilient services, clean domain models, and APIs people enjoy integrating against. Node, Postgres, queues, caching — boring tech, exciting uptime.
Node.jsPostgreSQLRedisGraphQL
Creative Development
WebGL scenes, scroll choreography, shaders, and micro-interactions that make products feel hand-made. Performance budgets included.
Three.jsGSAPGLSLWebGL
DevOps & Cloud
CI/CD pipelines, containers, observability, and infrastructure as code. Ship on Friday, sleep on Saturday.
DockerAWSTerraformGitHub Actions
01 / Selected work
2025
→Vltava Analytics
Real-time analytics platform processing 2M events/min for a fintech scale-up. Event-sourced backend, WebSocket dashboards.
TypeScriptNode.jsClickHouseReact
2024
→Atelier 3D Configurator
WebGL product configurator for a furniture brand — real-time materials, lighting, and AR export. 4× conversion uplift.
Three.jsGLSLNext.jsStripe
2024
→Metro API Platform
Public transit API serving 50K developers — GraphQL gateway, rate limiting, 99.99% uptime over 18 months.
GraphQLPostgreSQLRedisKubernetes
2023
→Bohemia Festival
Award-nominated immersive site for a music festival — scroll-driven WebGL narrative, 120K visitors on launch weekend.
Three.jsGSAPViteVercel
03 / Experience
2022 — Now
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Productboard · PragueLeading frontend platform work and shipping customer-facing features across a React + Node monorepo used by thousands of teams.
2020 — 2022
Full-Stack Developer
STRV · PragueBuilt products for US startups — from MVPs to scale — across React Native, Next.js, and Node services.
2019 — 2020
Creative Developer
Freelance · EuropeWebGL experiences and marketing sites for agencies in Prague, Berlin, and Amsterdam.
2018 — 2019
Junior Developer
Seznam.cz · PragueCut my teeth on high-traffic Czech web services and learned what production really means.
Tech stack
TypeScript·React·Next.js·Node.js·PostgreSQL·GraphQL·TypeScript·React·Next.js·Node.js·PostgreSQL·GraphQL·
Three.js·GSAP·Docker·AWS·Redis·Terraform·Three.js·GSAP·Docker·AWS·Redis·Terraform·
Based in
Coordinates50.0755° N, 14.4378° E
TimezoneCET (UTC+1) — overlap with US & EU
Works withRemote-first teams worldwide