AMSTERDAM, NL

Front-End Engineer / Amsterdam, Netherlands

I build interfaces for systems that matter.

Front-End Engineer with 6+ years of experience shaping high-traffic products, banking platforms and accessible design systems.

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NAME
Saim Akın Ankaralı
FOCUS
Architecture / Performance / A11y
STATUS
Open to meaningful product conversations
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Selected work

Complex systems, clear interfaces.

A selection of work across financial platforms, high-traffic products and founder-led software.

ING Hubs Türkiye · ING Italy

Frontend architecture for production banking journeys

Frontend architecture and reusable Web Components for customer-facing financial journeys in ING Italy's Affluent domain.

  • Multiple applications designed and built from the ground up
  • Reusable Lit components aligned with the ING design system
  • Accessibility-led delivery following WCAG standards
TypeScriptWeb ComponentsLitStorybookMicro FrontendsJavaAzure DevOps
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Kariyer.net · High-traffic platform

Performance at scale for thousands of job seekers

Five years improving and rebuilding candidate-facing experiences used by approximately 13K to 25K people per day.

  • 30%+ performance improvement across critical journeys
  • Approximately 20% page-speed improvement
  • Reusable components, mentoring and frontend knowledge sharing
TypeScriptVue.jsNuxt.jsSSRStorybookJestLighthouse
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Founder project · App Store

NUMA: from an idea to an international product

An emotional intelligence app that uses AI-assisted voice and text analysis to help people understand what they feel.

  • Launched to production on the App Store
  • 60+ active users across international markets
  • Seven-language localization and subscription infrastructure
FlutterDartNode.jsPostgreSQLFirebaseRevenueCatGoogle Cloud APIs
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Six years in production.

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01ING Hubs TürkiyeFront-End EngineerFeb 2025 / Present

Building production banking applications for ING Italy's Affluent team.

  • Own frontend structure and component architecture for multiple micro-frontends.
  • Create reusable, accessible Web Components with Lit and Storybook.
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute through technical presentations and code reviews.

TypeScript · Lit · Micro Frontends · WCAG

02Kariyer.netFront-End DeveloperFeb 2020 / Feb 2025

Developed high-traffic candidate products and led performance-focused refactors.

  • Worked across core journeys serving approximately 13K to 25K daily users.
  • Improved performance through Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse and INP analysis.
  • Mentored engineers, facilitated knowledge sharing and served as Scrum Master.

Vue.js · Nuxt.js · SSR · Storybook · Jest

03Fibabanka & ÖdealFreelance Software EngineerNov 2023 / Nov 2024

Delivered production banking features and designed a product architecture from scratch.

  • Developed and maintained React and React Native banking features for Fibabanka.
  • Designed Ödeal's frontend architecture with Next.js and TypeScript.
  • Implemented supporting backend services in Go.

React · React Native · Next.js · TypeScript · Go

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Liner notes

Built on dial-up dreams and distorted guitars.

Born in 1996, I grew up in the sweet spot between Windows desktops, Winamp playlists and the sound of alternative rock. That era taught me to explore software by clicking everything, breaking things and putting them back together.

Today I bring the same curiosity to production software: designing frontend architecture, improving performance, mentoring engineers and turning complex requirements into interfaces that feel simple.

I am currently based in Amsterdam and build banking micro-frontends for ING Italy. Away from enterprise systems, I build products of my own, including NUMA, an emotional intelligence app released on the App Store.

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Let's build something people can feel.

saimakinankarali@gmail.com