alex zeynalov

skycell ag · zürich, remote from prague

• lead a team of 4–6 frontend engineers on the core shipment visibility platform, with regular 1:1s, mentoring, and technical coaching.
• beyond my own team, set up guidelines, delivery flows, and processes for the other teams in the department and review their work: around 13 engineers and 4 manual testers in all, without managing them directly.
• run hiring for my team and other teams in the department. redesigned the hiring flow for a changing market with testgorilla skills tests and 15-minute developer screenings.
• own org-wide engineering standards, including repository maintenance rules and commit conventions.
• built skycell's knowledge base from scratch to production, with an ai assistant that answers from the articles: pgvector retrieval filtered by each reader's permissions, cited answers from a self-hosted llm, and a grounding check that returns "no answer" instead of guessing. it is embedded as a help widget in another skycell product.
• shipped an mcp server for the knowledge base so ai agents can search and edit articles under oauth, with ai-authored edits tagged for human review.
• introduced ai guardrails and agent instructions across our repositories, so coding agents follow the same standards and reviews as the engineers.
• led compliance work for gdpr and gamp 5, and prepared the platform for pharma customer audits and traceability requirements.
• evaluated the codebase of a product before we bought it, then planned how to integrate it with ours.
• led react native and expo development of two production apps, an android iot gateway and a cross-platform qr and barcode asset scanner, including ci/cd and app store and google play releases.
• hands-on across the stack: java and hibernate microservices behind the node and graphql layer, observed through logz.io.
• defined the frontend architecture across multiple teams, reducing duplicated platform work, and partner with product and design leadership on the roadmap.

skycell ag · zürich, switzerland

• built the react and typescript shipment visibility platform from scratch to enterprise adoption, now sold to a major european airline cargo group; ~30% better perceived ui performance through targeted architecture work.
• cut regression bugs from about 25% of releases to under 10%.

topaz / etopaz · baku, azerbaijan

• built and maintained ui for a licensed real-time sports-betting platform whose traffic spikes on event days.

idrak technology transfer · baku, azerbaijan

• built ui for identity-verification and surveillance systems in a regulated, security-sensitive domain.
• wrote c++ and javascript services that exchanged binary data with remote secure server sites and reported their state: temperature, humidity, door, and safety checks.

independent

• clients included baku city circuit (formula 1) and the european games committee.
• end-to-end web apps for other clients across frontend and backend, from rest apis and data flows to deployment, owning scope and timelines solo.
• php work, including the ganjamall.az website for a shopping centre in ganja.

step it academy · baku, almaty and tashkent

• taught and mentored beginners into working junior developers: early proof that growing people is the part of the job i like most.