Technical Lead at SoftServe
Texas, United States
Yurii Bezhentsev
Council Member
Yurii Bezhentsev is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with eight years of experience building and maintaining complex web applications across enterprise environments including SaaS, e-commerce, finance, and healthcare. He specializes in designing secure, data-intensive user interfaces for regulated and mission-critical domains, with demonstrated expertise in frontend architecture, TypeScript, React, testing, performance optimization, and accessibility.
Currently, Yurii works as a Software Engineer focused on professional development since November 2024. During this period, he created official documentation for the Zustand ecosystem—a state management library with approximately 17 million weekly downloads on npm and over 56,000 GitHub stars. His contribution consisted of developing a comprehensive "Beginner TypeScript Guide" that was integrated into Zustand's official documentation. This structured guide addresses the onboarding challenges faced by engineers integrating Zustand into TypeScript codebases by providing clear, reproducible patterns for type-safe implementation. The guide was formally accepted through the project's review process and merged into the official documentation repository, as evidenced by the commit "docs: created the new TypeScript Beginner Guide (#3246)." This work directly impacts millions of developers worldwide who rely on Zustand for state management in production applications across finance, healthcare, and e-commerce sectors. During this period, he also completed structured training in AI prompting and modern LLM workflows, exploring patterns for integrating AI assistants into web products, and solved over 500 algorithmic problems covering advanced data structures, algorithms, and system design scenarios to maintain high-level problem-solving capabilities.
From September 2018 to August 2024, Yurii served at SoftServe, one of the largest global IT consulting firms, progressing from Frontend Developer to Technical Lead. In his leadership role from February 2022 to August 2024, he directed a cross-functional team of 10 engineers working on a digital asset management platform—a SaaS solution enabling companies to store, organize, search, and distribute digital content. He architected the frontend infrastructure including feature modules, shared UI libraries, API integration layers, error handling mechanisms, and permission systems tailored for regulated domains. Under his technical direction, the team implemented a comprehensive testing ecosystem encompassing unit, integration, and Cypress end-to-end tests fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines, achieving 90% unit test coverage on core modules and establishing a stable regression suite for critical user journeys. Through systematic optimization including code splitting, lazy loading, script optimization, caching strategies, and render overhead reduction, he increased the application's Lighthouse performance score to 95 points. He also strengthened accessibility compliance through WCAG-compliant components and keyboard navigation while enhancing security through proper authentication flows, headers, and secure storage practices. He built a reusable React UI component library with Storybook, which reduced UI bugs by 27% across releases. His improvements to release management and backlog workflows decreased production issues and increased stakeholder Net Promoter Score by 15 points. He regularly delivered demonstration sessions to stakeholders and facilitated knowledge transfer across distributed teams, while participating in the company's global Mentorship Program to provide technical guidance on React architecture and best practices.
In his earlier Frontend Developer role at SoftServe from September 2018 to February 2022, Yurii worked on an e-commerce analytics platform providing insights into digital consumer behavior across major retailers. He facilitated requirement gathering and analysis sessions with clients, designed the project structure, and implemented core UI flows for analytics and reporting. He refactored legacy code to improve stability and maintainability, conducted code reviews to track quality standards, and delivered regular demonstrations of completed functionality to stakeholders.
Prior to SoftServe, Yurii worked at Andersen from October 2017 to September 2018, where he contributed to multiple international projects. He built and maintained a telemedicine platform for the US market using TypeScript and Angular, implementing architectural patterns that improved UI stability and reduced critical defects by 23%. He also worked on an e-commerce analytics application, implementing features and refactoring code that improved load times and heavy-page performance by 30%. During this period, he executed a large-scale migration of a web application from AngularJS to Angular 2+ and React, introducing modern architectural patterns that accelerated build times by 43% and reduced bundle size by 56%. He ensured consistent code quality through systematic reviews and followed Scrum processes using Git, Bitbucket, and JIRA.
Currently, Yurii works as a Software Engineer focused on professional development since November 2024. During this period, he created official documentation for the Zustand ecosystem—a state management library with approximately 17 million weekly downloads on npm and over 56,000 GitHub stars. His contribution consisted of developing a comprehensive "Beginner TypeScript Guide" that was integrated into Zustand's official documentation. This structured guide addresses the onboarding challenges faced by engineers integrating Zustand into TypeScript codebases by providing clear, reproducible patterns for type-safe implementation. The guide was formally accepted through the project's review process and merged into the official documentation repository, as evidenced by the commit "docs: created the new TypeScript Beginner Guide (#3246)." This work directly impacts millions of developers worldwide who rely on Zustand for state management in production applications across finance, healthcare, and e-commerce sectors. During this period, he also completed structured training in AI prompting and modern LLM workflows, exploring patterns for integrating AI assistants into web products, and solved over 500 algorithmic problems covering advanced data structures, algorithms, and system design scenarios to maintain high-level problem-solving capabilities.
From September 2018 to August 2024, Yurii served at SoftServe, one of the largest global IT consulting firms, progressing from Frontend Developer to Technical Lead. In his leadership role from February 2022 to August 2024, he directed a cross-functional team of 10 engineers working on a digital asset management platform—a SaaS solution enabling companies to store, organize, search, and distribute digital content. He architected the frontend infrastructure including feature modules, shared UI libraries, API integration layers, error handling mechanisms, and permission systems tailored for regulated domains. Under his technical direction, the team implemented a comprehensive testing ecosystem encompassing unit, integration, and Cypress end-to-end tests fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines, achieving 90% unit test coverage on core modules and establishing a stable regression suite for critical user journeys. Through systematic optimization including code splitting, lazy loading, script optimization, caching strategies, and render overhead reduction, he increased the application's Lighthouse performance score to 95 points. He also strengthened accessibility compliance through WCAG-compliant components and keyboard navigation while enhancing security through proper authentication flows, headers, and secure storage practices. He built a reusable React UI component library with Storybook, which reduced UI bugs by 27% across releases. His improvements to release management and backlog workflows decreased production issues and increased stakeholder Net Promoter Score by 15 points. He regularly delivered demonstration sessions to stakeholders and facilitated knowledge transfer across distributed teams, while participating in the company's global Mentorship Program to provide technical guidance on React architecture and best practices.
In his earlier Frontend Developer role at SoftServe from September 2018 to February 2022, Yurii worked on an e-commerce analytics platform providing insights into digital consumer behavior across major retailers. He facilitated requirement gathering and analysis sessions with clients, designed the project structure, and implemented core UI flows for analytics and reporting. He refactored legacy code to improve stability and maintainability, conducted code reviews to track quality standards, and delivered regular demonstrations of completed functionality to stakeholders.
Prior to SoftServe, Yurii worked at Andersen from October 2017 to September 2018, where he contributed to multiple international projects. He built and maintained a telemedicine platform for the US market using TypeScript and Angular, implementing architectural patterns that improved UI stability and reduced critical defects by 23%. He also worked on an e-commerce analytics application, implementing features and refactoring code that improved load times and heavy-page performance by 30%. During this period, he executed a large-scale migration of a web application from AngularJS to Angular 2+ and React, introducing modern architectural patterns that accelerated build times by 43% and reduced bundle size by 56%. He ensured consistent code quality through systematic reviews and followed Scrum processes using Git, Bitbucket, and JIRA.
Earlier in his career, from May 2017 to October 2017, Yurii worked as a Node.js Developer at BroSystem on a trading platform for computer game items. He implemented and maintained core trading flows, integrated external platform APIs, fixed issues, and contributed to refactoring efforts that improved performance and maintainability. From August 2016 to April 2017, he served as a Node.js Developer at XELENTEC LLC, working on a ridesharing and travel booking platform that included mobile applications, a web application, and Telegram bots. He developed REST APIs for mobile applications covering user profiles, trip management, bookings, and notifications; built the frontend web application implementing core user flows and backend integrations; and integrated the platform with Telegram bots enabling users to search trips, create bookings, and receive updates directly through Telegram.
Yurii holds professional certifications including Google AI Prompting from Google obtained in October 2025, Grokking the System Design Core and Grokking the System Design Fundamentals from Design Gurus completed in July 2024, and Microsoft's Exam 480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 earned in March 2019. He earned his Master of Science degree in Automotive Engineering from Donetsk National Technical University in Ukraine, completing his studies in January 2013, and previously obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Automotive Engineering from the same institution.
His technical expertise encompasses frontend development with JavaScript, TypeScript, React with Hooks and Router, Redux and its ecosystem including Toolkit, Saga, and Thunk, Zustand, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js, HTML5, CSS3 with SCSS, Styled Components, Material UI, responsive and adaptive layouts, RxJS, internationalization with i18next, Storybook, SVG, Chart.js, and accessibility tools. He practices frontend architecture, including modular and layered design separating presentation, domain, and data concerns, design systems, reusable UI libraries, micro frontends, performance optimization, WCAG accessibility standards, secure client-side flows, domain-driven design, and UML diagrams.
Yurii holds professional certifications including Google AI Prompting from Google obtained in October 2025, Grokking the System Design Core and Grokking the System Design Fundamentals from Design Gurus completed in July 2024, and Microsoft's Exam 480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 earned in March 2019. He earned his Master of Science degree in Automotive Engineering from Donetsk National Technical University in Ukraine, completing his studies in January 2013, and previously obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Automotive Engineering from the same institution.
His technical expertise encompasses frontend development with JavaScript, TypeScript, React with Hooks and Router, Redux and its ecosystem including Toolkit, Saga, and Thunk, Zustand, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js, HTML5, CSS3 with SCSS, Styled Components, Material UI, responsive and adaptive layouts, RxJS, internationalization with i18next, Storybook, SVG, Chart.js, and accessibility tools. He practices frontend architecture, including modular and layered design separating presentation, domain, and data concerns, design systems, reusable UI libraries, micro frontends, performance optimization, WCAG accessibility standards, secure client-side flows, domain-driven design, and UML diagrams.