Armin Varshokar
Sr Front End Engineer @ Formstack
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Overview
Work Experience
Sr Front End Engineer
2024 - Current
Formstack is a workplace productivity platform helps organizations digitize, automate workflows, and fix processes—all without code.
Raised $425,000,000.00 from PSG Equity and Silversmith Capital Partners.
Sr Front End Engineer
2023 - 2024
• Engineered user-facing features using React, TypeScript, Zustand, React Query, Styled Components, ensuring a robust and dynamic user experience. • Collaborated cross-functionally to align development efforts with product goals, leading to the successful launch of a new product line. • Contributed to the development of a new library of custom UI components • Led the initiative to establish a new end-to-end (E2E) test suite using Playwright, setting up best practices and writing comprehensive technical documentation. • Developed a serverless service using Puppeteer, AWS Lambda, and Terraform to dynamically generate PDF reports for clients, enhancing report delivery efficiency and scalability.
Sr Front End Engineer
2023 - 2023
• Led the design and implementation of a design system in Figma and a custom UI components library in Next.js, enhancing design consistency and development efficiency. • Established coding best practices and patterns across the tech stack, improving code quality, maintainability, and team productivity. • Created and maintained a private NPM library with automated deployment capabilities using GitHub Workflows, isolating parts of the application to enhance modularity and ease of maintenance. • Developed a Zapier integration to expose the company's publicAPI, enabling seamless connectivity and automation for external applications.
Front End Engineer II
2021 - 2023
• Implemented new features (using Lit, TypeScript, and Redux) while working closely with Product Owners and Designers. • Added unit tests to increase overall code coverage and help achieve team and departmental OKRs. • Refactored and optimized multiple product features as the only FE engineer on the Scrum team. • Maintained legacy code written in AngularJS and Mithril.js. • Authored technical and non-technical documentation (internal wiki) to explain new features. • Participated in Design and Analysis (D&A) meetings to brainstorm, provide estimates on new epics and their feasibility, and help T-shirt size future work. • Showcased Scrum team’s work to the whole company during demos.
Front End Engineer I
2021 - 2021
Full Stack Developer / Technical Product Manager
2019 - 2021
• Fixed bugs and improved overall user experience (B2B SaaS application – tech stack: React, Redux, Redux-Saga, Node, Feathers JS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL). • Collaborated with both internal and external software teams to launch features on time and within budget. • Performed software testing to uncover bugs and troubleshoot issues prior to application launch. • Developed product documentation to communicate key components of upcoming features to software teams. • Collaborated on all stages of development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases. • Translated technical concepts and information into terms all parties could easily comprehend.
Financial Analyst
2019 - 2019
• Commercial real estate underwriting. • Originated, reviewed, processed, closed and administered customer loan proposals. • Optimized the capital structure of various projects (construction, land, equity). • Assisted clients with securing $20MM in commercial real estate funds.
Associate
2018 - 2019
• Developed and maintained client relationships.