Summary
Nikolay Talanov is a frontend engineer with 10 years of experience building performant, user-focused web apps across web3, edutech, travel and marketplaces. Currently based in Singapore, he develops DEX AMM and liquid staking experiences on Monad and has recently led major refactors and UX stability improvements for a bitcoin ordinals marketplace. He excels in React/Next.js, React Query, and Web3 stacks (EthersJS, Web3JS, 0x/opensea SDKs), often joining early-stage teams to ship product pivots rapidly. Nikolay combines hands-on coding with mentoring and design ownership, having driven architecture changes that improved caching, performance and developer experience. He also creates frontend tutorials on front-kek.com, sharing practical solutions to common UI problems. A former early hire at several startups, he thrives in ambiguous, high-velocity environments and often surfaces pragmatic fixes that aren’t obvious from product specs alone.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Informatics at Northern State Medical University
English, Russian