Summary
Gjorge Karakabakov is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building complex web and mobile applications across startups, agencies, and enterprises. He specializes in modern JavaScript ecosystems—React, Next.js, React Native—and has a strong track record creating design systems, writing tests (Vitest, RTL, Cypress), and shipping performance-optimized features like video playback components. He has led teams and guilds, established company-wide standards and UI libraries, and driven cost-saving internal tooling that replaced third-party solutions. Comfortable across client and server-side stacks (Node.js, Nest/Express), he blends hands-on implementation with mentorship and hiring influence. Based in Skopje, he currently contributes frontend leadership at Deel after recent senior roles at uLesson and Yoco. A practical educator at heart, he’s run internal workshops and consistently raises team quality through tooling, documentation, and testing practices.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at European University Skopje
English, Serbian, Macedonian