Summary
Roman Gruntovich is a Lead Frontend Engineer with nine years of professional experience crafting high-quality web systems using JavaScript/TypeScript and React, currently building advanced data visualization tools for a US hedge fund at EPAM Systems. He combines hands-on implementation of complex frontends (and select backend work in Scala/Rust) with responsibility for technical design, test coverage, and code security. Previously he led frontend strategy and people operations at Tutu.ru, growing and retaining teams through the pandemic, creating career and salary frameworks, and driving a transition from a monolith to microservices. Roman is comfortable operating at both tactical and strategic levels—conducting interviews, mentoring engineers, setting engineering processes, and shipping production-grade UI components and IDE extensions. Based in Malaga and educated in mathematics at MSU, he brings a data-oriented mindset to UI problems and a track record of improving team ownership and operational resilience. An underrated strength is his blend of engineering craft and practical people leadership, evident in hiring, training, and embedding processes that sustained productivity during disruptive periods.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English, Spanish