Shant Issa

• Lead engineering for Koreez, Armenia's national school competition platform (300,000+ students, 1,000+ schools); own architecture across the web platform, teacher portal, admin tooling, mobile app, and NestJS API.
• Built the AI content pipeline behind a 150,000+ question bank: an n8n agent drafts questions in four languages from existing content, with Slack review before publishing.
• Shipped the teacher portal (assignment builder, progress tracking, gamified teacher profiles) and the student app on iOS and Android, with real-time 1v1 quiz battles across 40+ subjects.
• Led delivery of Umolyot, a gamified learning app for the Russian market (React Native, NestJS), now at 120,000+ players and a 4.9-star rating.
• Raised team throughput to 204% of baseline by rebuilding the Jira workflow and linking it to version control, adding Slack automation that routes work and surfaces blockers, introducing AI-assisted development, and running dailies, demos, and retrospectives.

• Built the AI food-recognition features at the core of a nutrition app, turning a camera capture into structured nutrition data on iOS and Android.
• Implemented RevenueCat subscriptions, Mixpanel funnels, and CI/CD with over-the-air updates, making releases routine and low-risk.

Front-End Engineer, 2020 – 2022 · Front-End Intern, 2019 – 2020

• Grew from intern to Team Lead over six years; owned front-end architecture and the shared TypeScript packages every client product was built from.
• Led the React Native (Expo) and React web clients of a members-only platform for a private investor community for four years: shared core package across web and native, SSO, search, and video, with a distributed team.
• Delivered apps for a restaurant group, a sports analytics dashboard, and a high-traffic online gaming platform, including native iOS/Android modules and WebView wrapper apps.
• Introduced unit, integration, and end-to-end testing plus Sentry monitoring; mentored engineers, ran code review, and assessed candidates' take-home assignments.