Senior Product Frontend Engineer

Complex web products, made faster and ready for more users.

I help product teams modernize mature frontends, improve accessibility and performance, support international markets, and ship complex production features.

Hessam Khoobkar at work
Engineering with care, clarity and momentum

9 years building production web products

International remote-team experience

Performance, accessibility and i18n expertise

Real-time and data-intensive interfaces

When to bring me in

When the frontend becomes the constraint.

  • 01Your frontend is slow, fragile or difficult to extend.
  • 02Accessibility issues are creating product or delivery risk.
  • 03Internationalization or RTL support was added too late.
  • 04A migration or design-system initiative needs senior ownership.
  • 05The team needs a complex API, real-time or AI-enabled feature.

Focused engagements

Two ways to move important work forward.

Senior ownership for a defined product problem, with a practical scope and a clear handoff.

01

Global Frontend Modernization Sprint

Help an existing product become faster, more accessible, maintainable and ready for international markets.

Possible deliverables

  • Architecture and performance assessment
  • Accessibility audit and prioritized remediation
  • i18n and RTL architecture review
  • Implementation of agreed high-impact improvements
  • Before-and-after evidence
  • Documentation and modernization roadmap
Discuss this sprint

02

Complex Product Integration Sprint

Design and ship one complex customer-facing workflow, such as a real-time dashboard, model-powered feature or third-party integration.

Possible deliverables

  • Production frontend implementation
  • REST, GraphQL, WebSocket or model-API integration
  • Streaming, loading, empty, error and recovery states
  • Accessibility and localization support
  • Tests, analytics, documentation and handoff
Discuss this sprint

Capabilities

The product details that deserve senior attention.

01

Performance & architecture

Clear technical direction for fast, maintainable interfaces.

02

Inclusive interaction

Accessibility considered in the product, not added at the end.

03

Global product readiness

i18n and RTL foundations that scale with your markets.

04

Complex integrations

Reliable real-time, data-heavy and model-powered workflows.

Selected outcomes

Work rooted in real product challenges.

Migration and real-time product

React to SvelteKit migration

Challenge
A mature React product needed a more maintainable path forward while live product workflows continued.
Action
Guided a SvelteKit migration and supported WebSocket-powered real-time functionality.
Outcome
Reported improvements in performance and delivery; quantitative figures require source verification.

Component system

Vue and Nuxt interface foundation

Challenge
Repeated interface decisions were making product work harder to extend consistently.
Action
Developed shared Vue and Nuxt component-system patterns for a growing product.
Outcome
A more reusable interface foundation for ongoing product delivery.

High-traffic application

Performance work for demanding journeys

Challenge
A high-traffic application had performance pressure across complex user flows.
Action
Focused on application performance optimization across the customer experience.
Outcome
A faster, more resilient product experience; quantitative figures require source verification.

Placeholder — accessibility

Strongest accessibility project

Challenge
Project details to be confirmed.
Action
Accessibility approach and remediation scope to be confirmed.
Outcome
Verified outcome to be added.

Placeholder — internationalization

Strongest internationalization or RTL project

Challenge
Project details to be confirmed.
Action
Internationalization or RTL approach to be confirmed.
Outcome
Verified outcome to be added.

Placeholder — recent work

Most recent achievement

Challenge
Achievement from the last two years to be confirmed.
Action
Scope to be confirmed.
Outcome
Verified outcome to be added.

A deliberate process

Clarity first. Momentum next.

  1. 01

    Fit and discovery

    Align on the product problem, constraints and whether the work is a good fit.

  2. 02

    Written scope and success measures

    Set a focused plan, decision boundaries and evidence for progress.

  3. 03

    Focused implementation

    Build the agreed work with attention to product quality and maintainability.

  4. 04

    Measurement, documentation and handoff

    Leave evidence, context and a clear path for the team that owns what is next.

About Hessam

A technical partner with a design sensibility.

For nine years, I’ve built web products with international remote teams. My software engineering education informs a practical approach to architecture, while technical leadership and a close eye for interaction keep the work grounded in the people using it.

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Hessam Khoobkar
Building thoughtful interfaces for ambitious teams.

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