FACEIT | Next.js | TypeScript | Tailwind CSS

Konrad Nowak

Project: FACEIT

Overview As a Senior Frontend Engineer, I played a key role in designing the UI, enhancing the user experience and optimizing the performance of the site, a competitive gaming platform. The project aimed to refine the platform’s UI, improve scalability, and ensure fast, seamless interactions for gamers, while maintaining real-time updates and competitive gaming features.
Tech Stack Next.js, Redux, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, WebSockets, Docker, AWS
Key Contributions
UI/UX Enhancements:
Led the development of dynamic, real-time user interfaces for features like match updates, player stats, and in-game notifications.
Worked closely with UI/UX designers to implement a polished and intuitive design, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for users across desktop and mobile platforms.
Created reusable UI components and design patterns to ensure consistency across various pages and modules of the platform.
Real-Time Data Handling:
Integrated WebSocket connections to provide real-time updates for users, including match statuses, player stats, and live scores.
Leveraged Redux for state management to handle complex interactions, ensuring smooth data flow throughout the application and improving performance.
Implemented GraphQL for efficient data fetching, reducing unnecessary API calls and improving the overall speed of the application.
Performance Optimization:
Focused on optimizing performance by reducing the initial load time and ensuring smooth user interactions with features like lazy loading, code splitting, and image optimization.
Ensured that the platform was highly responsive and fast, even with high traffic during peak gaming hours.
Integrated SSR and SSG strategies using Next.js, improving SEO performance and ensuring fast initial page loads.
Scalability & Maintainability:
Contributed to the design and implementation of a scalable frontend architecture, ensuring the platform could handle increasing numbers of users and real-time events.
Implemented TypeScript throughout the codebase to provide type safety, improve developer productivity, and reduce potential runtime errors.
Collaborated with backend teams to ensure the frontend was tightly integrated with the backend infrastructure, ensuring smooth and efficient data handling.
Testing & Code Quality:
Set up a comprehensive testing strategy using Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress to ensure high test coverage and catch regressions before deployment.
Configured ESLint and Prettier to enforce coding standards and maintain a clean, readable codebase.
Worked with CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, ensuring quick and reliable delivery of new features and fixes.
Community Engagement & Gamification:
Developed features to enhance player interaction and community engagement, including leaderboards, player profiles, and social sharing capabilities.
Implemented gamification elements, allowing players to track their progress, achievements, and improve overall retention on the platform.
Results & Impact 🚀 Delivered a fast, responsive, and engaging user experience that handled millions of concurrent users during peak gaming times. ⚡ Optimized the platform for real-time performance, reducing delays and ensuring immediate match updates and player feedback. 🔍 Enhanced user interaction with real-time stats, leaderboards, and social features, improving community engagement and retention. 💡 Enabled smooth integration with back-end systems, ensuring a scalable, reliable platform ready for future growth.
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Posted Sep 17, 2025

As Frontend Engineer at Faceit.com, optimized real-time UI, performance, and enhancing user engagement and ensuring fast, responsive gameplay experience.

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Feb 13, 2023 - Sep 15, 2023

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