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NovaKováč

Senior Frontend & Platform Engineer

Eleven years shipping pixels for people who print money and stories.

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Act IBy the numbers
12years shipping
15,240commits
6clients
113repositories

73%of this work lives in private repos. GitHub only shows the tip.

Public 4,170
Private 11,070
Act IIWho trusted me with production
Act IIIThe road
  1. 2023–now

    Freelance Platform Engineer @ Indie

    Design systems and frontend platforms for media brands.

    Clients: The Weekly Ledger · Orbit Mobile

    AstroTypeScriptCloudflarePostgres
  2. 2019–2023

    Lead Frontend Engineer @ Bright Lantern Agency

    Led a team of 7 that built streaming and editorial platforms for global clients.

    Clients: Northwind Pictures · The Weekly Ledger · Kestrel Air

    ReactNext.jsGraphQLGitLab CI
  3. 2016–2019

    Frontend Engineer @ Halcyon Bank

    Rebuilt online banking UI used by 1.2M customers.

    Clients: Halcyon Bank

    AngularRxJSJava
  4. 2014–2016

    Junior Developer @ Pale Fox Games

    Tools, launchers and a lot of WebGL.

    Clients: Pale Fox Games

    JavaScriptthree.jsPHP
Act IVFeatured work
012021Under NDA

Premiere Night Streaming Hub

for Northwind Pictures · Frontend lead

Global launch platform for a blockbuster franchise — live premieres, trailers, 40 locales.

source code internal repo url architecture diagram

  • 18M visits launch week
  • 99.98% uptime
  • 40 locales
Next.jsGraphQLAkamai
022022Under NDA

Paywall & Reader Platform

for The Weekly Ledger · Senior engineer

Metered paywall, article renderer and A/B framework for a 180-year-old publication.

source code internal repo url architecture diagram

  • +23% conversion
  • 400ms faster LCP
ReactEdge workersKafka
032024Open source

orbit-ui

for Orbit Mobile · Author

Open-source design system with 60 components and a token pipeline.

  • 2.1k stars
  • 90 contributors
Web ComponentsLitStyle Dictionary
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042015Private repo

Foxlauncher

for Pale Fox Games · Developer

Game launcher and patcher shipped to 600k players.

  • 600k installs
ElectronNode
Act VEvery commit counts

2025 / 2,100 contributions

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Act VITraining montage
  • 2009–2014

    Slovak University of Technology

    MSc Applied Informatics

  • 2005–2009

    Gymnázium Jura Hronca

    Mathematics track

Frontend

TypeScript / React / Astro / Web Components / WebGL

Platform

Node / Edge / GraphQL / Postgres / Kafka

Delivery

GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Docker / Kubernetes

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