Ilia Korol

Lead Frontend Engineer & AI Researcher

Minsk, Belarus
7+ Years Experience
Team Leader
AI ResearchFrontend LeadershipAIRUN Benchmark

About Me

Leadership Experience

With over 7 years in frontend development, I've successfully led teams of up to 15 developers, driving innovation in e-commerce and insurance domains while maintaining high code quality and delivery standards.

AI Innovation

Currently pioneering AI research at EPAM, focusing on LLM benchmarks and AI agent development. Author of the AIRUN Engineering Benchmark, bridging traditional frontend excellence with cutting-edge AI.

Key Achievement

Led a legacy application migration that reduced feature delivery time by 40%, demonstrating expertise in both technical architecture and team coordination.

Professional Experience

May 2024 - Present
Minsk

Lead Software Engineer

EPAM Systems Inc (Belarus)

Current

Research and analysis of modern large language models, development of AI agents, interaction with leading AI company APIs and writing LLM Benchmark for evaluating LLMs work with application code (technology migration, writing tests and documentation). Development was carried out in Python, JS code was used for testing.

LLM Research & AnalysisAI Agent DevelopmentLLM Benchmark CreationPython & JavaScriptOpenAI & Anthropic APIs
April 2022 - April 2024
Global

Lead Software Engineer

EPAM Systems

Management and support of frontend team of 7 developers, working in a large cross-functional team of FE and BE developers as well as QA and BA. Project relates to e-commerce section. Responsibilities included task evaluation and analysis, discussion and decomposition with BE leads, risk assessment, FE team support, code review and consultations, as well as improvement and maintenance of the project.

Team Leadership (7 developers)E-commerce DomainCross-functional CollaborationRisk AssessmentCode Review & Mentoring
January 2020 - April 2022
Moscow

Senior Software Engineer / Development Team Lead

EPAM Systems Inc. (Russia)

Control and development of functionality in the insurance sector. From January to August 2020: Development Team Lead, also partially performed the role of Scrum Master and Project Manager. Managed a team of 8 people (2 BE, 3 FE, BA, 2 QA). From August 2020 to June 2022: Performed the role of lead and scrum master for FE direction with team of 15 developers, 5 testers, 3 analysts and designer.

Insurance DomainScrum MasterTeam Management (8-23 people)Architecture DesignReact, Redux, TypeScript
September 2018 - January 2020
Moscow

Frontend Developer

EPAM Systems Inc. (Russia)

Development of DBO platform project. Leading FE team of 5 people, storybook development, participation in code review, consulting new developers on the project, task delegation and prioritization.

Banking Platform (DBO)Team Lead (5 developers)Storybook DevelopmentReact, Redux, FlowMentoring & Code Review
March 2018 - September 2018
Moscow

Frontend Developer

Infosystems Jet

Development of DBO for one of the banks in the Russian Federation. Technology stack: React, Redux, TypeScript, Nginx.

Banking ApplicationReact & ReduxTypeScriptFirst Professional Role

Career Progression

7+
Years Experience
23
Max Team Size
3
Industry Domains
5
Leadership Roles

Technical Skills

React & Next.js

Frontend

95%

TypeScript

Frontend

90%

Team Leadership

Management

88%

AI/LLM Integration

AI

85%

Python

AI

80%

Redux & State Management

Frontend

92%

Technologies & Tools

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptReduxPythonOpenAI APIAnthropicGoogle DeepMindJestReact Testing Libraryn8nGitHub CopilotClaude Code

Let's Connect

Available for Lead Frontend roles and AI collaboration opportunities. Let's discuss how we can build the future together.