Senior Full-Stack Engineer · product systems

Currently at Tolstoy

Victor Follet, senior full-stack engineer

I build dependable product systems, from interface to infrastructure.

For more than 15 years, I have worked on SaaS, fintech, and AI‑enabled products. I combine React and TypeScript product development with APIs, data, cloud infrastructure, and delivery systems.

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Selected work

Product work spanning AI, platform performance, payments, and commerce.

  1. Tolstoy · AI integrations

    Building 30+ AI integrations

    Building a connector catalogue for AI Studio across customer workflows, access, testing, and operations.

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • AI integrations
  2. Personal project · Election data

    Israel Election Results Explorer

    Official Knesset results for elections 21–25, mapped by locality and comparable across elections.

    • SolidJS
    • TypeScript
    • Leaflet

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Experience

More than a decade building product teams and systems across varied domains.

  1. Tolstoy

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

    • Build full-stack features for Tolstoy's AI commerce platform using React, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and PostgreSQL.
    • Design and develop AI Studio infrastructure supporting the creation and maintenance of 30+ third-party integrations.
    • Build reusable design-system components and shared UI foundations for AI-assisted React and TypeScript product workflows.

    — Present

  2. Bright Data

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Netanya, Israel

    • Led development of Toolip.io, a React and TypeScript SaaS platform for managing proxy infrastructure.
    • Reduced page-load time by 25% through frontend performance improvements.
    • Built payment workflows integrating Stripe, PayPal, and BlueSnap across React and Node.js services.

  3. Tenengroup

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

    • Built and optimized React shopping-cart and checkout experiences for the MYKA and Oak & Luna international e-commerce brands, reducing cart abandonment by 20%.
    • Architected a reusable Next.js data-access and API layer for a high-traffic e-commerce platform.
    • Partnered with .NET teams on API contracts, integration patterns, and end-to-end delivery.

  4. Luxoft

    Chief Frontend Developer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Led a microfrontend migration using Webpack Module Federation, enabling independent deployment of product modules and faster delivery.
    • Built financial-reporting interfaces for VTB Bank using React, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, and Redux Saga, improving UI consistency and reporting accuracy.

  5. Mail.ru Group (now VK)

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Built a GitLab CI, Docker, and Traefik pipeline that created branch-specific payment environments, shortening cross-functional feedback cycles by 30%.
    • Developed payment interfaces for My.com and VK Pay using Preact, Redux, and TypeScript.
    • Improved payment-processing performance by 20%, strengthening responsiveness across customer-facing payment flows.

  6. Yandex

    Interface Developer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Modernized the Yandex Disk frontend architecture using React, Redux, and ES6, reducing page-load time by 20%.
    • Built a React Native embedding module for the Global Notification Center, enabling real-time alerts across five platforms.
    • Expanded Jest test coverage and reduced production regressions across Yandex Disk.

  7. Idea Platform

    Senior Frontend Developer (JavaScript)

    Moscow, Russia

    • Designed and built the company's AngularJS product frontend, contributing to three new client engagements.
    • Built mobile and backend functionality using NativeScript, Angular, Java EE, and JAX-RS.
    • Hired and mentored two developers while establishing automated frontend testing practices with Karma and Protractor.

  8. Earlier Financial Technology Experience

    Development Consultant and Financial Engineer

    Moscow, Russia

    • Development Consultant at Systematica Business Software; Financial Engineer at Allied Testing.
    • Built financial integrations, reporting, option-pricing functionality, and QA workflows for banking and market-data systems, including Renaissance Capital back-office software and Thomson Reuters Eikon.

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Capabilities

Product judgment and engineering depth from interface to infrastructure.

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How I work

Product systems work when interface and infrastructure decisions work together.

As a senior full-stack engineer, I specialize in the product-facing details that make software clear, fast, and maintainable. I connect React and TypeScript interfaces with APIs, data, cloud infrastructure, and delivery systems into engineering foundations teams can rely on.

  • 01Start with the user and the constraint
  • 02Make tradeoffs explicit
  • 03Build systems teams can extend

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