Nima Habibkhoda
Engineering Technical Leader | Engineering Manager
Professional Summary
Software engineer and Technical Lead with 10+ years of experience leading frontend strategy, scalable architecture, and delivery systems across product teams. Builds developer productivity through CI/CD optimization, platform standards, and pragmatic engineering practices. Leads high-performing cross-functional teams, mentors engineers, improves execution, and aligns technical direction with business priorities to create reliable products and scalable engineering organizations.
Core Competencies
Leadership: Engineering leadership, Mentoring, Hiring, Technical strategy, Cross-functional alignment, Stakeholder communication
Architecture: Frontend architecture, System design, Microfrontends, Design systems, Domain-driven design
Delivery: CI/CD, Testing strategy, Feature flags, Developer experience, Release engineering, Quality gates
Technology: React, Next.js, TypeScript, CI/CD, Frontend architecture, Testing strategy, NodeJS, Postgresql, Micro-Frontend, Linux, Strategic Thinking, AWS Lambda, Clean Coding, NestJS (CQRS)
Professional Experience
Frontend Technical Leader · Celebratix
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Full-time · Hybrid
Dec 2025 - Present
Frontend technical leadership across four products, owning strategy, roadmap work, quality gates, release infrastructure, AI agent workflows, testing standards, and cross-team engineering leadership.
- Owned frontend strategy across four products, leading roadmap work for a React dashboard, Svelte widget, and two React Native apps.
- Reviewed 470+ pull requests from 18+ engineers while personally shipping 290+ merged PRs across frontend and backend repositories.
- Led a Dashboard migration from Next.js to Vite and React Router using a 26-step plan, 460-file cutover, and reversible deployment.
- Built a frontend release platform with semantic-release, changelogs, Slack notifications, and release visibility.
- Proposed and shipped $0-cost per-PR preview environments, improving review confidence without adding infrastructure cost.
- Designed and shipped a cross-repository AI agent platform while preserving engineering review standards.
- Reduced frontend hotfix rate from approximately 9% to 3% across four codebases by shifting quality checks before merge.
- Drove cross-team engineering guilds, staffing recommendations, retrospectives, and demo coaching after the organization split into product teams.
Technical Lead · Resumedia
Amsterdam-Zuid, North Holland, Netherlands · Full-time · Hybrid
Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
Technical leadership across reliability, delivery process, hiring, mentorship, feature flags, AI-driven product solutions, and cross-functional engineering execution.
- Established a scalable On-Call process to proactively manage critical incidents, ensuring rapid response times and maintaining platform reliability, which empowered engineers to take ownership of system stability while reinforcing continuous delivery standards.
- Designed and implemented a freelance developer integration model, aligning external contributors with internal team rituals, technical standards, and product vision.
- Launched personalized growth plans for engineers, enabling structured career development through mentorship, goal alignment, and competency mapping.
- Spearheaded the redesign of the CI/CD process, ensuring streamlined software delivery practices in alignment with adaptive and agile methodologies.
- Conducted technical interviews, contributing to the growth of a high-performing engineering workforce and refining hiring strategies for top tech talent.
- Revamped team workflows by integrating modern agile frameworks, boosting development efficiency and fostering collaboration.
- Enhanced cross-functional synergy by bridging engineering, product, and design teams, ensuring cohesive efforts towards business objectives.
- Introduced feature flags to facilitate safe, incremental rollouts, minimizing risks associated with large-scale deployments.
- Conceptualized and implemented AI-driven solutions to enhance customer satisfaction, showcasing a product-led approach to innovation.
- Championed best practices in code quality through detailed reviews, promoting technical excellence across the engineering domain.
- Led cross-functional collaboration, bridging gaps between design, engineering, and product teams to ensure timely and successful project delivery.
- Represented the engineering team in strategic discussions, articulating technical insights to stakeholders and aligning organizational objectives.
Senior Software Engineer · Trengo
Netherlands · Full-time · Hybrid
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Senior frontend engineering across monorepo architecture, feature flags, microfrontends, CI/CD optimization, TypeScript migration, Cypress E2E testing, design systems, mobile performance, and mentoring.
- Implemented high-performance microfrontend architecture while modernizing frontend/backend boundaries.
- Implemented a monorepo feature-flagging system to support safer controlled rollout practices.
- Made the Webpack build and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline 8 times faster while adding coverage and security checks.
- Improved mobile performance on large data 5 times faster through benchmarking on older Android devices and BrowserStack.
- Led frontend delivery for Workload Balancing, one of Trengo's most recognized product features.
Selected Leadership Scope
- Cross-team technical direction across frontend repositories, backend-adjacent review, release workflows, and engineering standards.
- People leadership through mentoring, growth planning, technical interviewing, retrospectives, staffing input, and team storytelling.
- Delivery leadership across CI/CD, feature flags, preview environments, testing strategy, release engineering, and developer experience.
- Architecture leadership spanning monorepos, microfrontends, design systems, TypeScript migrations, and modern frontend platform practices.
Technical Environment
Frontend: React, Next.js, Vite, React Router, Vue, Svelte, React Native
Architecture: Microfrontends, Monorepos, Design systems, Domain-driven design, Frontend platform
Delivery: GitHub Actions, CI/CD, semantic-release, Feature flags, Preview environments
Quality: Cypress, E2E testing, Testing strategy, Code review, Dependency stability
Leadership Practices
- Translate technical direction into clear roadmap decisions, delivery standards, and team operating habits.
- Coach engineers through demos, storytelling, retrospectives, growth planning, and technical decision-making.
- Represent engineering in product and business discussions while keeping teams focused on reliable execution.