Summary
Leonard Kinday is a senior T-shaped software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in frontend development and React, while regularly operating across backend, DevOps and cloud-native domains. He has driven measurable impact at companies like Hero Gaming—improving time-to-interactive fourfold, introducing SSR, CI/CD and preview deployments, and establishing private npm packages—and now contributes at Neo4j. Comfortable building projects from scratch or evolving living systems, he blends hands-on coding (JS/TS, Node, GraphQL) with server management, Kubernetes/Docker, and CI pipelines to ship reliable, performant products. He prioritizes business goals and mentorship as much as technical craftsmanship, advocating transparency and fair, trust-based teams. An engineer who dislikes the “full-stack” label, he instead focuses on clear outcomes: shipping faster, reducing friction, and mentoring others to do the same.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian