Portrait of Hessam Khoobkar, senior frontend engineer

Hessam Khoobkar — Senior Frontend Engineer · 9 years

13 seconds to 3. On the homepage that pays your bills.

One homepage’s LCP, cut 77%. Before that, 35% at a betting platform and 30% at a trading company. Nine years, four stacks, three continents. Places where a slow page is a lost customer, The numbers always improved.

Discuss a project
Ship fast. Scale clean. Stay ahead.

Expensive
frontend
problems
Solved.

POMECHAIN / Server-Driven UI

Days → minutes

Campaign changes · Zero app releases

The Marketing Unblocker

When marketing moves at the speed of engineering, everyone wins.

Every campaign change meant an engineering ticket and days of waiting.

The move

Implemented Server-Driven UI — layouts and content controlled from the backend, rendered natively on the client.

The impact

Marketing changes went from days to minutes, with zero app releases. Engineering stopped being the bottleneck.

Built to feel right.
Engineered to last.

The numbers above are symptoms. This is the cause: fast pages, live interfaces, and systems that help other people ship.

Performance · Architecture01

Speed has three scores.
I move all three.

Load, response, stability. Rebuilt from the causes: a shorter critical path, less main-thread work, and layout that stays put.

Loading speedLower is better ↘
Your page8s
Rebuild target2s
Good ≤ 2.5s75% lower

Illustrative target · actual results depend on the page.

A shorter critical path. A faster first impression.

Server-driven UI02

Marketing ships pages.
Engineering doesn’t have to.

A campaign change takes minutes and zero releases. Content teams compose the page; native components take care of the rest.

your-site / campaign

Campaign layout. Four shared components. No deploy needed.

Choose a page. Same components. No deploy.

Real-time interfaces03

A stale price
is a wrong trade.

Trading interfaces over WebSockets, with i18n and RTL built in. Complexity handled in the component, never handed to the user.

Paused Last price held
BTC / EURSimulated feed
64,352.0 EUR
0.0 Last tick · EUR
000 updates receivedUpdates paused

Feed paused at 64,352.0 euros.

A frozen price. Go live to see every update.

Design systems04

Components that
can’t be misused.

Accessibility, RTL, and theming live in the library. Every screen inherits the same care, so a team of seven can keep the bar.

<PriceCard />Shared
Trade
Balance€42.00Details
Wallet
Balance€42.00Details
Checkout
Balance€42.00Details
✓ Accessibility✓ RTL✓ Theme

One shared component. Consistent styling, accessibility, RTL and theming across Trade, Wallet and Checkout.

One source of truth. Every screen, right by default.

The tools follow the problem.

  • TypeScript
  • React / Next.js
  • Vue / Nuxt
  • Svelte / SvelteKit

An engineer’s mind.
A designer’s eye.

I’m Hessam. I started at the intersection of UI design and frontend development. Nine years later, I still care about both sides of the screen.

Based in Istanbul, I’ve worked with remote product teams in Dubai, Istanbul, and Berlin. My work has grown from crafting interfaces to shaping architecture and helping other engineers do their best work.

Design → Engineering → Leadership

9+

Years of building for people.

BSc, Software Engineering

Payame Noor University
Tehran · 2016

  1. 01

    POMECHAIN

    Jul 2024 — Jul 2026

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Dubai · Remote

    Custom UI infrastructure and server-driven page composition. Giving product and marketing teams more independence.

  2. 02

    Coinhaven

    Dec 2021 — Jan 2024

    Lead Frontend Developer

    Berlin · Remote

    A trading platform’s evolution from React to SvelteKit. Real-time systems, architecture standards, and a team of seven mentees.

  3. 03

    Piller Iddaa

    Nov 2019 — Dec 2021

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Istanbul · Remote

    Complex Vue interfaces for thousands of concurrent users. Performance and consistency across critical journeys.

  4. 04

    Shabakeh Gostar Kayer

    Aug 2017 — Sep 2019

    Frontend Developer & UI Designer

    Tehran

    Where design and development came together. Modular interfaces for enterprise software and multiple client deployments.

Good work.
Better together.

The people behind the work.
And a few words from them.

Five perspectives. Shared on LinkedIn.

Craft & care
“I had the pleasure of collaborating with Hessam in the front-end team, where his work consistently stood out for its artistic approach, precision, and meticulous attention to detail.…”

Ali Mousavi

Senior Backend Engineer · Laravel, SaaS Platforms & APIs

Leadership & delivery
“Hessam is a very talented, experienced and knowledgable front end developer. He can handle very complex and challenging tasks under deadlines, his enthusiasm really shines through.…”

Ksenia Berezina

Product Manager · FinTech & FX

An eye for design
“Hessam is an exceptional Front End Lead with impressive technical skills and an eye for design.…”

Yasaman Heydarzadeh

Product Designer · Design Engineer · Mentor

Engineering with empathy
“Hessam is above all, an engineer that has empathy and is a great leader. He’s profound expertise, vast knowledge base of software engineering and his wit, makes him the firehouse he is. I strongly recommend”

Emmanuel Sunday

Staff Engineer at Heartbeat Medical

Calm in the complexity
“Hessam is one of the most valuable people I have ever met. Both smart and professional. Experienced, deadline-oriented, and intelligent person. He is well versed with the technologies and has the hunger to learn on the go.…”

Vidhi Gupta

Senior Product Manager · E-commerce, Fintech & B2B SaaS