Vladimir Rusacov

Working independently as a frontend/web development consultant for European businesses. Built and shipped several products end-to-end — HorecaJob.md (trilingual job platform), Planero (project management SaaS), Lumière Estate (real estate platform), and Recruiter Watch (AI-powered resume analyser) — using React, Next.js, and TypeScript. Launched Nordbüro, a studio offering fixed-price web development with AI-assisted workflows, to take on freelance and contract projects across the DACH region and wider Europe.

Sole frontend engineer for rabota.md and lucru.md — among Moldova's largest job platforms (~1M monthly visits) — owning the entire frontend alongside a backend team of 5–8; defined team-wide frontend standards and mentored a junior developer.

rabota.md job

• • Led a full responsive redesign that retired the separate m.rabota.md mobile site, unifying the platform into a single responsive codebase and cutting maintenance overhead.

• • Improved homepage and search-results load times by 2–3x by optimizing static assets and refactoring legacy jQuery, lifting Lighthouse from ~50 to 90–95 and strengthening Core Web Vitals —

a direct SEO factor on this content-heavy, ~1M-visit platform. Next.js)

• • Built lucru.md from the ground up on React and Next.js (App Router, SSR, TypeScript), leading the platform's migration to a modern stack with a clean, maintainable architecture.

• • Implemented multilingual (i18n) support and API-driven data fetching with cached, server-rendered workflows for fast first loads and SEO-friendly pages.

• • Integrated Google Maps with marker clustering and debounced location search for fast, scalable job location browsing.

• • Owned end-to-end frontend architecture — modular components, a Tailwind CSS design system, and a reusable pattern library.

High-traffic fintech platform — 5M+ monthly visits across 12 localizations including RTL support.

• • Improved main-page load times by 35–40% through systematic optimization and refactoring.

• • Led the rollout of a fully responsive UI, eliminating a separate mobile subdomain and unifying the codebase.

• • Built complex dashboards, high-load data tables, and transactional UI flows for financial products.

• • Standardized UI architecture with UIKit and advised product and design teams across 12 localized markets.