Summary
Meryem Yanar is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Portugal with nine years of hands-on experience building user-centric web applications using React, Redux, Vue, Next.js and Node.js. She designs and maintains scalable component libraries and design systems while optimizing for performance, accessibility and cross-browser consistency. A pragmatic full-stack JavaScript developer, she pairs feature work with test-driven practices and end-to-end reliability, and actively mentors junior engineers to raise team standards. Her background includes startups, product teams and freelance problem-solving—everything from real-time chat systems to migrations and hosting fixes—so she’s comfortable shipping both greenfield features and pragmatic operational fixes. Open to new roles since September 2023, she brings a blend of product empathy and technical discipline that accelerates delivery without sacrificing maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at Thinkful
English, Turkish, German, Portuguese