Avi Charlop

Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Team Lead

Hungary · Remote (CET)avicharlop@gmail.comaviously.melinkedin.com/in/acharlopgithub.com/acharlop

10

years shipping

full-stack, 2016 to now

4

engineers hired and led

Vionlabs portal rebuild

10M+

catalog tags searchable

1.5M titles · millisecond results

1 day ▸ 12 min

platform provisioning

Closer automation

I build and mentor teams that own what they ship.

Together, we carry greenfield products into customers’ hands, with the tooling, infrastructure, and working habits to keep them there.

Experience

Vionlabs

Team Lead

Feb 2025 – Feb 2026

  • ▸ Hired and led a 4-engineer team that rebuilt an enterprise customer portal while the legacy product stayed live; mentored newer developers into owning features end to end.
  • ▸ Shipped new portal functionality for each of 4 trade shows, prioritizing each release around the enterprise customers the team planned to meet.
  • ▸ Unified several upstream catalogs into 1.5M customer-facing titles with 10M+ tags, searchable in milliseconds.

TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind, Storybook, tRPC, Fastify, Drizzle, PostgreSQL, WorkOS SSO, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Turborepo, GCP - Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM

Collect.AI

Senior Frontend Engineer

Aug 2023 – Sep 2024

  • ▸ Built a config-driven form system that powered 25 forms on the core screens.
  • ▸ Migrated internal packages and publishing CI from NPM to GitHub Packages.
  • ▸ Introduced RTK Query and reworked the portal’s state and data layer, removing 2,500+ LOC.

TypeScript, React, React Hook Form, MUI, Storybook, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Packages

Net2Phone

Engineering Lead / Full-Stack Engineer

Feb 2017 – Dec 2022

  • ▸ Refactored the core messaging services and introduced unit testing across the engine and microservices.
  • ▸ Built a browser dialer for the Unite communications platform serving 200K+ business customers; contributed in-band DTMF support upstream to JsSIP.
  • ▸ Led the shared component library and Angular 2-to-7 upgrade as lead front-end engineer and scrum master, cutting initial load time in half.

Go, TypeScript, Angular, React, Redux, React Native, WebRTC, JsSIP, Docker, Jenkins CI

Takt Digital

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Feb 2017

  • ▸ Led engineering on a fintech analytics dashboard, hired the team, and owned API and front-end delivery.
  • ▸ Built a serverless video-streaming pipeline independently.

JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, AWS Lambda, Bitmovin

Freelance and projects

Closer

Freelance Full-Stack Engineer

May 2026 – Present

  • ▸ Built a one-click provisioning system deploying a complete community platform from one typed configuration, cutting setup from a day to 12 minutes.
  • ▸ Designed an idempotent, resumable workflow engine over durable state, with teardown and end-to-end tests against live providers.

TypeScript, Bun, Next.js, Ink, Elysia, Node.js, Drizzle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Stripe Connect, Mailgun, Firebase, DigitalOcean, Vercel, GitHub Actions

WhoCards

Co-founder, sole engineer

Jan 2021 – Present

  • ▸ Built and run whocards.cc end to end, including webhook driven checkout and automated fulfillment across 2 providers; ~600 orders shipped.
  • ▸ Built a shared headless play engine, API, and design system for the web store and iOS app, with automated mobile releases.

TypeScript, Astro, React, React Native, Expo, NativeWind, tRPC, Stripe, Netlify, EAS, pnpm, Turborepo

AI-assisted engineering Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · T3 Code · Agent Skills

Skills

Build and adapt reusable Agent Skills that carry a repository’s architecture, conventions, and guardrails through research, planning, implementation, review, and handoff.

Workflows

Create custom workflows for PRDs, tracer-bullet issue breakdowns, and refactor plans, with clear scope, approval boundaries, project-specific checks, and verification built in.

OSS and education

Open source

Maintainer of prism-rails, 250K+ downloads. Contributor to tailwind-config-viewer, bidi-js, JsSIP, create-t3-app.

Education

Ironhack, Miami: full-stack immersive, 2016. City College of New York: computer science coursework, 2013