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Isen Beqiri

Senior UX/UI & Fullstack Lead

Senior frontend lead specialising in scalable React and Next.js architectures. Twenty-plus years building products, from startup MVPs to enterprise platforms.

Portrait of Isen Beqiri
  • 20+years building products, from startup MVPs to enterprise platforms
  • 4teams held to one design, performance and security standard at Vattenfall
  • 259projects in the Nx monorepo whose schema I modularised at Legora

Experience

Twenty years of taking the ice first.

  1. 2024 – presentVrapidaOwn product · Tagisen AB

    Founder · Vrapida

    • Built a full-stack running training platform on my own, from concept to production.
    • Scalable Next.js and TypeScript monorepo on Turborepo, with type-safe schemas end to end.
    • Containerised REST API with Hono and Node.js on Railway, backed by a Turso edge database.
    • AI-generated workouts through the OpenAI API, adapting to each runner.
    • Complete Stripe payments: subscriptions and webhooks.
    • End-to-end tests with Playwright and CI/CD on Vercel and Railway.
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Node.js
    • Hono
    • Docker
    • Vercel
    • Railway
    • Turso
    • OpenAI
    • Stripe
    • Tailwind
    • shadcn/ui
  2. Feb – Apr 2026LegoraStockholm

    Developer Experience Consultant · Legora

    • Modularised the Drizzle ORM schema into twelve-plus domain exports across a 259-project Nx monorepo.
    • Migrated database queries with full test coverage.
    • Built automated tooling that stops architectural regressions.
    • Advised on Nx Cloud remote caching and self-healing cache optimisation.
    • Improved React and Next.js frontend performance.
    • TypeScript
    • Nx
    • Drizzle ORM
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Nx Cloud
  3. Mar 2025 – Feb 2026Creator Studio

    Frontend & UX Developer · Creator Studio

    • Developed a full-stack Next.js, React and TypeScript application for product creation and order management.
    • Designed one Material UI design system shared across teams.
    • Built and maintained the Python backend services behind the frontend.
    • Introduced a backend-for-frontend layer that made the APIs faster.
    • Kept API integrations type-safe with OpenAPI-generated TypeScript clients.
    • Optimised CircleCI pipelines with automated testing.
    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Kubernetes
    • MUI
    • Cypress
    • CircleCI
  4. Aug 2019 – Jun 2024VattenfallStockholm

    Frontend Lead Developer · Vattenfall

    • Led the web self-service initiative that reduced calls to customer service.
    • Designed one Angular framework and design system used across departments.
    • Introduced code versioning that sped up deployments, and removed downtime from hot-fix releases.
    • Built and optimised the Azure CI/CD pipelines.
    • Held four teams to shared design, performance and security standards.
    • Angular
    • Azure
    • Google Dialogflow
    • Optimizely
    • C# .NET
    • Figma
    • Piwik PRO
  5. Sep 2017 – Sep 2018Vattenfall InChargeStockholm

    Tech Lead · Vattenfall InCharge

    • Led the technical setup and development of the first InCharge website.
    • Chose cost-effective CMS solutions that shortened implementation time.
    • Delivered on time and under budget.
    • JavaScript
    • Umbraco
    • Sass
    • Jenkins
    • .NET
  6. Jun 2016 – Aug 2017Qbrick

    Frontend Lead · Qbrick

    • Led development of a web-based video editor in AngularJS.
    • Built advanced video and audio editing: frame-level manipulation and captioning.
    • AngularJS
    • Jenkins
    • REST APIs
  7. 2011 – 2014Anthill AgencyCopenhagen

    Senior Frontend Developer · Anthill Agency

    • Built the slideshow management framework that made creating presentations faster.
    • JavaScript
    • Ember.js
    • Sass
    • Node.js
    • MongoDB
  8. 2011TILF AB

    Full Stack Developer · TILF AB

    • Built website features that increased user engagement.
    • Automated licence-key generation, removing a manual process.
    • PHP
    • jQuery
    • CSS

Skills

One person, the whole stack.

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Angular
  • AngularJS
  • Ember.js
  • Material UI
  • Tailwind
  • shadcn/ui
  • Sass

Backend & data

  • Node.js
  • Hono
  • Python
  • C# .NET
  • PHP
  • REST
  • OpenAPI
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Turso
  • MongoDB

Platform & tooling

  • Nx
  • Nx Cloud
  • Turborepo
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Vercel
  • Railway
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • CircleCI
  • Jenkins
  • Playwright
  • Cypress

Design & product

  • UX/UI
  • design systems
  • Figma
  • Optimizely
  • Piwik PRO
  • OpenAI
  • Stripe

Education

  • 2007 – 2011

    Master in Computer Science

    Lund University, Sweden

  • 2002 – 2006

    Bachelor in Computer Science and Linguistics

    South East European University, North Macedonia

Languages

  • Albanian

    Native

  • English

    Fluent

  • Swedish

    Fluent

  • Macedonian

    Fluent

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