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Omid Farhang

Frontend Architect & Engineering Lead

Summary

Frontend Architect and engineering leader with 10+ years building and scaling complex web platforms. Led teams of up to 15 engineers and delivered measurable outcomes: 40% faster delivery via an Angular-based framework and design system, 50% faster CI/CD builds after consolidating to an Nx monorepo, and 15→4 minute deployments through pipeline optimization. Deep expertise in Angular and TypeScript, with strong focus on performance, testing, and platform governance.

Skills

Experience

Lead Frontend Engineer & Team Lead Aug 2019 - Present
JIBit

Jibit is a leading B2B FinTech providing payment infrastructure and enterprise financial services, processing millions of transactions for 500+ corporate clients.

  • Led migration of legacy React applications to Angular, delivering 100% feature parity with zero downtime.
  • Improved application performance by 30% through modernization and optimization.
  • Consolidated fragmented repositories and Git Submodules into an Nx monorepo; reduced CI/CD build times by 50%.
  • Improved developer productivity by 25% by standardizing tooling and workflows in the monorepo.
  • Built an internal Angular-based framework and design system, reducing delivery time by 40% and enforcing 100% UI/UX consistency.
  • Implemented Jira-based Agile delivery, increasing sprint velocity by 35% and reducing bug report volume by 20%.
  • Migrated unit testing from Jest to Vitest, cutting unit test runtime by 70%.
  • Increased Playwright E2E coverage to 85%.
  • Optimized Docker-based deployment pipelines with DevOps, reducing deployment time from 15 minutes to under 4 minutes and enabling daily production releases.
  • Scaled the frontend organization from 1 to 4 engineers while maintaining a 100% retention rate.
Skills: Engineering Leadership, Mentorship, Angular, TypeScript, Nx, RxJS, Vitest, Playwright, Storybook, Docker, CI/CD, Agile
Technical Consultant / Tech Lead Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Raymandan Taly Parseh

Raymandan Taly Parseh is a business management consultancy.

  • Delivered landing pages and client portals, increasing user conversion rates by 25%.
  • Maintained 99.9% service availability for client-facing platforms.
  • Operated Ubuntu/Nginx/MariaDB infrastructure for web and mail services supporting 10,000+ monthly active users.
  • Maintained a strong security posture with no reported security breaches.
  • Implemented RTSP/FFmpeg-based web streaming for internal camera broadcasting, reducing stream latency by 40%.
  • Scaled streaming to support up to 50 concurrent high-definition feeds.
  • Reduced incident recovery time by 60% during network attacks and ISP downtimes as a technical advisor.
Skills: Technical Consulting, Infrastructure Management, Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, RTSP, FFmpeg, Ubuntu
Lead Frontend Developer Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Poolito

Poolito was a FinTech startup providing innovative payment solutions.

  • Led the frontend team delivering admin and client dashboards for 50,000+ users with sub-second page load times.
  • Designed Angular + gRPC communication layers, reducing data payload sizes by 60%.
  • Improved real-time update efficiency by 45% through optimized data handling.
  • Delivered responsive landing pages, achieving a 95+ Lighthouse performance score and increasing mobile user engagement by 30%.
Skills: Team Leadership, Angular, gRPC, TypeScript, CSS, RxJS
Lead Frontend Developer (Promoted from Junior) Oct 2015 - Nov 2018
ModernPal
  • Promoted from Junior to Lead Frontend Developer, setting technical direction for 3 major platforms and mentoring 5 junior developers.
  • Migrated AngularJS to Angular 2+, improving application runtime performance by 40%.
  • Reduced bundle size by 25% through modernization and optimization.
  • Built full-stack features for a money exchange platform using Angular and Laravel, processing over $1M in transactions monthly.
  • Led backend transition from PHP Laravel to Java Spring Boot, improving API response times by 50% and increasing system throughput by 3x.
  • Partnered with the CTO to align frontend strategy with business goals and technical roadmaps.
Skills: Technical Direction, Angular, AngularJS, Laravel, PHP, Java, Spring Boot, Gradle
System Administrator & Web Developer Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
Haseb System Consultancy Co

Haseb System is a business management consultancy.

  • Overhauled the corporate IT infrastructure for 30+ workstations, resolving critical Domain Controller and DNS issues and reducing network downtime by 90%.
  • Administered Windows Server environments and TFS (Team Foundation Server), maintaining 99.9% uptime for critical development services.
  • Created a comprehensive internal PHP/MySQL portal for personnel timesheet tracking and payroll, automating processes for 50+ employees and reducing overhead by 30%.
  • Launched a multi-functional health platform featuring a medical directory and community forum, reaching 5,000+ registered users within 6 months.
Skills: System Administration, IT Infrastructure, PHP, MySQL, Windows Server, TFS, DNS, Networking
Early Career (IT Support) Sep 2007 - Jun 2008
IRIB

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

  • Designed web-based internal tools and provided IT support for Windows-based environments.

Certifications

German Language (B1) - Goethe-Institut
German Language Institute (DSIT) (2013)
CCNA Routing and Switching 200-120 - Cisco
Kahkeshan (2016)
MCSA 2012 - Microsoft
Kahkeshan (2015)
Network+ - CompTIA
CyberTech (2014)