Senior Frontend Architect

Nicolò Zanetti

Angular, React, TypeScript, architecture, performance, maintainability, and delivery.

I help product and enterprise teams design, modernize, and ship complex frontend applications on solid technical foundations.

Remote-only from Conegliano, Italy, for senior frontend, frontend architecture, and product engineering work with European and international teams.

Remote work setup in the Prosecco hills near Conegliano
Remote only Based in Conegliano, Italy: vineyards, the castle on the hills, and cats inspecting the keyboard between calls.
19+years building web applications
8+years with Angular
100+frontend developers mentored

Selected work

Featured projects

Nimlat

The strongest personal project here: a local-first desktop application for managing an anime library with local data, external ingestion, and a polished product interface.

Purpose
Organize, track, and complete a personal anime library without depending on a central backend.
Technical approach
Electron, React, TypeScript, and SQLite, with typed IPC boundaries, local image/data caching, background ingestion, and external tracking sync.
What it demonstrates
Desktop architecture, local-first data, operational UX, performance work, and technical ambition in a real personal product.
  • Electron
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • SQLite
  • Data Pipeline
Open project

Tarot

An in-progress product case study for a tarot learning game with modular lessons, card interpretation, and AI-assisted readings.

Purpose
Explore a learning product where content, interpretation, and gameplay need to support each other without becoming noise.
Technical approach
Angular for the app shell, progressive lesson modules, AI-assisted reading flows, and Phaser.js gameplay prototypes.
What it demonstrates
Product design, modular frontend architecture, AI experimentation, and the discipline to present unfinished work honestly.
  • Angular
  • Phaser.js
  • AI
  • Product Design
  • Game UI
Case study coming soon

What I do

Frontend architecture that ships

Frontend architecture that ships

I structure Angular, React, and TypeScript applications with clear boundaries, sustainable state management, performance, and reusable component systems.

Complex and data-intensive UI

I build interfaces for large datasets, operational workflows, virtual tables, dashboards, and enterprise products where UX and architecture have to hold together.

Technical leadership and mentoring

I help distributed teams through reviews, coding standards, mentoring, pragmatic architecture decisions, and clear communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Refactoring and modernization

I reduce technical debt, duplication, and architectural anti-patterns without freezing delivery, especially in monorepos, micro frontends, and enterprise codebases.

From product idea to production

I move ambiguous product needs toward released software: UX, backend integration, testing, accessibility, CI/CD, and performance optimization.

Experience

Selected experience, not the full CV

Two recent roles as a preview. The CV page keeps the full timeline, skills, and role details.

Senior Front-end Developer

ITX - Zürich, Switzerland - May 2025 - Sep 2025

Rapidly refactored four React micro-frontends, reduced critical architectural debt and delivered all user stories one sprint early.

Senior Front-end Developer

SCOR - Zürich, Switzerland - Apr 2023 - Jun 2024

Designed and built a large Angular 17 + NgRx risk exposure analysis app handling millions of data points as sole frontend specialist.

Field Notes

Technical notes, product observations, and a little satire

Short technical notes, product observations, and satire about software engineering, AI, hiring, and enterprise theatre.

Read Field Notes

Stack

  • Angular 2-22
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Micro Frontends
  • Nx Monorepos
  • NgRx / Redux
  • RxJS
  • SSR / Hydration
  • Performance Architecture
  • Data-intensive UI
  • WCAG AA
  • Electron
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • CI/CD Architecture
  • Cloudflare Pages

Contact

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