Summary
Ara Pehlivanian is a senior front-end developer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, user-centric web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and GraphQL. Having led front-end teams at organizations from startups to Shopify and now The Nmbr Company, he combines deep component architecture and design system expertise with a pragmatic, test-driven approach. He has driven product and technology decisions in cloud and large consumer products—transitioning legacy server-rendered flows to modern client-side architectures. A published co-author of three JavaScript books, Ara excels at translating complex concepts into actionable engineering practices and mentoring teams. Based in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, he brings both hands-on implementation skill and a history of shaping front-end practices and developer communities.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Armenian