Summary
Valerii Bashtovoi is a Head of Web Engineering with over 17 years in IT and nine years in leadership roles, currently scaling front-end organizations and delivery at ICONIC21. He builds and mentors cross-functional teams—front-end, UI, and QA automation—bringing hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, InversifyJs, MobX, RxJS and automated testing with WebdriverIO. Known for turning legacy Flash-based game engineering into modern, testable web platforms, he pairs deep technical craft with process rigor (one-week Scrum cadences, CI pipelines). Valerii excels at hiring, architecture decisions, and rapid prototyping of proofs-of-concept, ensuring teams are staffed and productive under pressure. Based in Ukraine, he combines a developer-first mindset with long experience shipping live casino UIs and complex client-side architectures.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Economics, Specialist Economics at Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding
Associate's degree Accounting, Associate's degree Accounting at Tokmak Mechanical College of Zaporizhzhya National Technical University
Ukrainian, English, Russian, German