Nadia Makarevich — CEO
Software engineer with 20+ years of experience, specializing in frontend development (React, Typescript) and web performance engineering. Proven record of technical leadership, guiding cross-functional teams, setting architectural direction, and delivering scalable solutions across complex codebases. At Atlassian, served as Staff Engineer / Frontend Architect on the Jira Frontend Platform (2M+ lines of code, 300+ contributing engineers). Led initiatives in dependency modernization, bundle-size optimization, performance monitoring, and platform consistency, directly improving product reliability and developer productivity across multiple business units. Beyond industry roles, recognized as a thought leader in performance engineering as the author of two books (Advanced React and Web Performance Fundamentals) and creator of the Developer Way blog, with 500k+ yearly readers. Regular speaker at international conferences on frontend scalability, performance fundamentals, and architectural best practices. KEY SKILLS **Full-Stack Development**: End-to-end experience across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure. **Web Performance**: Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, flamegraphs, profiling, advanced caching strategies, bundle optimization. **Software Design & Architecture**: Large-scale frontend systems, monorepos, dependency management, cross-org modernization, code quality enforcement. **Algorithms & Data Structures**: Applied knowledge of core data structures and algorithms, with hands-on experience in AST traversal and code transformations. **Testing & Reliability**: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks (Cypress, Jest), monitoring and error tracking (Sentry, DataDog), performance monitoring. **Leadership & Collaboration**: Cross-org projects, stakeholder alignment, technical strategy, distributed team leadership, coaching/mentoring, thought leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Full-Stack Engineer with a strong emphasis on frontend performance.
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Experience: 18 yrs
Skills
- Full-stack Development
- Software Design & Architecture
- Frontend Development
- Web Performance
Career Highlights
- 20+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Authored two books on React and web performance.
- Led major initiatives at Atlassian for Jira Frontend Platform.
Work Experience
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Education
Executive Master of Business Administration at Technische Universität Wien
Engineer's degree at Tula State University