Hovsep Lalikian
Lead Front End Engineer at Disqus
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHovsep Lalikian is a Lead Front End Engineer with eight years of experience building elegant, user-focused interfaces using JavaScript, React, Backbone, Redux, HTML/CSS, and Python. Rising from intern to lead at Disqus, he blends hands-on implementation with product-facing responsibilities—scoping projects with stakeholders, mapping engineering plans, and ensuring robust testing before launch. He’s known for clear, open communication that translates complex technical concepts for non-technical partners and for mentoring peers to raise the team’s collective skills. Comfortable stepping outside his comfort zone, Hovsep pairs technical craftsmanship with pragmatic collaboration to drive projects to completion. Based in New York, he also has early-stage startup experience implementing core algorithms and AWS integrations, giving him both product and infrastructure perspective.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Minor in Mathematics at San José State University
Armenian
Github Skills (11)
react-component9
disqus8
discord8
discord-bot8
typescript7
react6
web-components4
gitlab3
wordpress-plugin2
php2
wordpress2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Hovspian/disqus-install-examples
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
Installation Examples for Disqus
Contributions:8 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
typescriptdisqusinstallation
Hovspian/keystones
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
A Discord bot to track mythic keystones in World of Warcraft
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
discord-jswarcraftdiscordworld-of-warcraftbot
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