Summary
Artem Smirnov is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 14 years of experience and a decade focused on product-facing interfaces, currently building payroll solutions at Deel from Madrid. He has led frontend efforts across startups and agencies, shipping multiple projects from scratch at Scale and developing reusable design systems and component libraries with TypeScript, React/Next.js, and GraphQL. Artem’s background spans interactive design work to complex banking systems and university portal ecosystems, giving him a strong mix of polish and production-grade engineering. He progressed from junior developer to team lead early in his career and continues to bridge design and engineering with practical, maintainable code. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often gravitates toward projects that combine UX complexity with robust frontend architecture.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Saint Petersburg State University
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel