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          <h1 class="name">George Looshch</h1>

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            <ul>
              <li>Bucharest, Romania</li>

              <li class="tel">
                <a href="tel:+37253154092" class="underline">+372 5315 4092</a>
              </li>

              <li class="email">
                <a href="mailto:looshch@loosh.ch">
                  <span class="underline">looshch</span>@<span class="underline"
                    >loosh.ch</span
                  >
                </a>
              </li>

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                <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/looshch">
                  <span class="underline">linkedin.com/in/looshch</span>
                </a>
              </li>

              <li>
                <a href="https://github.com/looshch">
                  g<span class="underline">ithub.com/looshch</span>
                </a>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </address>

          <section class="skills">
            <ul>
              <li>JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow, Bash, Lua, Go.</li>

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              <li>
                Angular, Next.js, Remix, React, Fastify, NgRx, Redux/Toolkit,
                TanStack Query, React Hook Form, Zod, Valibot, React Router,
                use-query-params, RxJS, Lodash, dnd kit, Axios, Ky, PixiJS,
                Jest, Vitest, Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, Puppeteer,
                Playwright, SCSS, Sass, Less, Emotion, styled-components, MUI,
                Storybook.
              </li>

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              <li>
                ESLint, Biome, webpack, gulp, Husky, Lerna, Node.js, Linux,
                Docker.
              </li>

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              <li>
                CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Sentry, OpenTelemetry,
                Datadog, LaunchDarkly, MongoDB; AWS: S3, CodePipeline, Lambda.
              </li>

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              <li>
                Agentic & AI-assisted development, i18n/l10n, micro-front-end,
                design systems, REST API.
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            Full-stack engineer with
            <span class="highlight">over 7 years of experience</span> building
            customer-facing and internal products. UI/UX enthusiast with a
            strong focus on testing, reliability, and observability. Track
            record of reducing tooling costs, shortening debugging cycles, and
            improving user flows.
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                <h4>
                  Senior Software Engineer @ DeepRiver Soft (contract)
                </h4>

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                  <address>Tbilisi, Georgia</address>
                  | <time datetime="2026-07-17">Jul ’26</time>–<time
                    >present</time
                  >
                </div>
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                  <li>
                    Supported the launch of an online casino.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    Improved the PageSpeed Insights performance score
                    <span class="highlight"
                      >by 50%, from 65 to 98 out of 100.</span
                    >
                    <ul>
                      <li>
                        Reduced First Contentful Paint by 73%, from 4.2 s to 1.1
                        s.
                      </li>

                      <li>
                        Reduced Largest Contentful Paint by 70%, from 7.7 s to
                        2.3 s.
                      </li>

                      <li>Reduced Speed Index by 52%, from 4.2 s to 2 s.</li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    Led the development of a custom feature flag system,
                    <span class="highlight"
                      >increasing release frequency from once every two weeks to
                      daily</span
                    >.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                Remix, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Valibot, React Router, Ky,
                Vitest, Testing Library, Biome, webpack, Husky, GitLab CI,
                OpenTelemetry, Agentic & AI-assisted development, i18n, design
                systems, REST API.
              </div>
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                <h4>Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Wolt</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <address>Tallinn, Estonia</address>
                  | <time datetime="2025-11-03">Nov ’25</time>–<time
                    datetime="2026-03-13"
                    >Mar ’26</time
                  >
                  · 4 mos
                </div>
              </header>

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                <ul>
                  <li>
                    Built internal support tooling used by 10,000+ agents across
                    dozens of regions.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                Next.js, Fastify, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, TanStack Query,
                React Hook Form, Zod, React Router, use-query-params, Lodash,
                Axios, Jest, Vitest, Testing Library, Mock Service Worker,
                Playwright, styled-components, Storybook, ESLint, webpack,
                Husky, GitHub Actions, Sentry, Datadog, MongoDB, Agentic &
                AI-assisted development, i18n, micro-front-end, design systems,
                REST API.
              </div>
            </div>

            <div class="position">
              <header>
                <h4>Front-End Software Engineer @ Kitman Labs</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <address>Dublin, Ireland</address>
                  | <time datetime="2023-04-04">Apr ’23</time>–<time
                    datetime="2025-10-03"
                    >Oct ’25</time
                  >
                  · 2 yrs 7 mos
                </div>
              </header>

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                <ul>
                  <li>
                    Led the development of a key feature for a customer-facing
                    health and performance intelligence platform.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <span class="highlight"
                      >Reduced Sentry spending by 29%</span
                    >
                    by triaging the main source of noise and tuning filters to
                    cut false positives.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    Reworked proxying to allow direct local connections to
                    staging and production,
                    <span class="highlight">cutting CircleCI spend by 17%</span>
                    and
                    <span class="highlight"
                      >shortening the average debug cycle from 3 hours to 20
                      minutes</span
                    >.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    Designed per-tab, per-user session restoration for a hybrid
                    SPA/MPA setup,
                    <span class="highlight">helping retain 45 key clients</span
                    >.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                JavaScript, Flow, Bash, React, Redux/Toolkit, React Router,
                Lodash, dnd kit, Axios, PixiJS, Jest, Testing Library, Mock
                Service Worker, Playwright, SCSS, Emotion, MUI, Storybook,
                ESLint, webpack, gulp, Husky, Lerna, Node.js, Docker, CircleCI,
                Sentry, Datadog, LaunchDarkly, AWS S3, AI-assisted development,
                i18n, design systems, REST API.
              </div>
            </div>

            <div class="position">
              <header>
                <h4>Front-End Software Engineer @ Ryanair</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <address>Dublin, Ireland</address>
                  | <time datetime="2022-06-28">Jun ’22</time>–<time
                    datetime="2023-03-31"
                    >Mar ’23</time
                  >
                  · 10 mos
                </div>
              </header>

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                <ul>
                  <li>Enhanced the core functionality of the website.</li>

                  <li>
                    <span class="highlight"
                      >Reduced the number of clicks in
                      <a
                        href="https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en/lp/timetable?originIata=DUB&destinationIata=AMS"
                        class="underline"
                        >the flight timetable</a
                      >
                      by 12%</span
                    >
                    by prefetching data for adjacent months.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, NgRx, RxJS, Lodash, Jest,
                Playwright, SCSS, Storybook, ESLint, webpack, Husky, Lerna,
                Node.js, LaunchDarkly; AWS: Lambda, CodePipeline; i18n/l10n,
                micro-front-end, REST API.
              </div>
            </div>

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              <header>
                <h4>Mid-Level Front-End Engineer @ Capgemini Engineering</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <address>Odessa, Ukraine</address>
                  | <time datetime="2020-11-01">Nov ’20</time>–<time
                    datetime="2022-06-24"
                    >Jun ’22</time
                  >
                  · 1 yr 8 mos
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              </header>

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                <ul>
                  <li>
                    Developed a blockchain-based acceptance system for a major
                    telecom provider.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <span class="highlight">Mentored 3 junior developers</span>.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, Go, Angular, React, NgRx, RxJS,
                Lodash, SCSS, Sass, Less, Storybook, ESLint, webpack, Node.js,
                LaunchDarkly; AWS: S3, Lambda; REST API.
              </div>
            </div>

            <div class="position">
              <header>
                <h4>Open-Source Projects</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <time datetime="2020-04-06">Apr ’20</time>–<time
                    datetime="2026-03-17"
                    >Mar ’26</time
                  >
                  · 5 yrs 11 mos
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              </header>

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                <ul>
                  <li>
                    Created
                    <a href="https://github.com/looshch/gouse"
                      >g<span class="underline">ouse</span></a
                    >, a tiny developer tool, and a companion
                    <a href="https://open-vsx.org/extension/looshch/gouse">
                      <span class="underline">extension</span>
                    </a>
                    <span class="highlight">with over 1,000 downloads</span>.
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </div>

              <div class="skills">
                JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Angular, Node.js, VS Code extension
                development, REST API.
              </div>
            </div>

            <div class="position">
              <header>
                <h4>Junior Front-End Engineer @ Teradek</h4>

                <div class="meta">
                  <address>Odessa, Ukraine</address>
                  | <time datetime="2019-08-01">Aug ’19</time>–<time
                    datetime="2020-11-01"
                    >Nov ’20</time
                  >
                  · 1 yr 4 mos
                </div>
              </header>

              <div class="skills">
                JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, Angular, RxJS, Lodash, PixiJS,
                Puppeteer, SCSS, Node.js, Linux, AWS S3, design systems.
              </div>
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