Shant Issa

Tech Lead & Senior Product Engineer

Yerevan, Armenia

I lead engineering on education products used by hundreds of thousands of students: the web platforms, the mobile apps, the APIs, and the AI pipelines that fill them with content. Seven years in, from intern to tech lead, mostly on teams small enough that the person who designs the system also ships it.

Resume

Selected work

All projects

  • Koreez

    Armenia's national school competition platform: the Next.js student web app, the iOS and Android student app with real-time 1v1 quiz battles across 40+ subjects, and the NestJS API behind them, alongside the legacy PHP platform still in service. 300,000+ students across 1,000+ schools.

    Tech Lead · Next.js, React Native, NestJS, TypeScript, MySQL

  • Umolyot

    Learning-style quiz app with 1v1 duels, timed missions, and leaderboards, plus a prerendered web site with app deep links. 120,000+ players at a 4.9-star average.

    Led delivery · React Native, NestJS, React, TypeScript

  • Lookify

    AI wardrobe app on the App Store: clothing extraction and outfit generation (YOLO, Gemini, Python/FastAPI). Built the React Native app, Next.js site, and Supabase admin panel; lead backend and ML.

    Co-founder, leading a team of 3 · React Native, Next.js, Supabase, Python

  • Nutreva

    Point the camera at a meal and get structured nutrition data back. Built the recognition features, the subscription layer, and the release pipeline.

    Senior Full Stack Engineer · React Native, RevenueCat, Mixpanel

Experience

  • KoreezTech Lead

    Jan 2026 – Present

    Leading engineering on Armenia's national school competition platform.

  • Trionfo DevelopmentSenior Full Stack Engineer

    Jun 2025 – Dec 2025

    AI food recognition and subscriptions for Nutreva, a nutrition app.

  • ShellLogixSenior Front-End Engineer & Team Lead

    May 2019 – Dec 2025

    Intern to Team Lead on React and React Native products for agency clients.

Writing

October 17, 2025

Authentication Token Management: Handling Token Refresh and State Reset in React Native

October 12, 2025

Application State Management: Balancing Global and Local State in React Native

October 5, 2025

Building Scalable React Native Apps: A Guide to Clean Architecture

September 20, 2025

Object-Oriented API Services: Building Maintainable Frontend Architecture