Personal portfolio

Ruslan Baranov

Senior software engineer in Zürich, building product-focused UI systems and full-stack interfaces for complex technical products.

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Career story

Engineering judgment with a product surface.

Ruslan's public professional footprint points to a senior engineer who works close to the user-facing edge of complex systems: product UI, full-stack integration, technical workflows, and delivery quality.

Recommendations from LzLabs describe a developer who integrated UI work with a complex mainframe system, moved quickly across new technologies, and raised the quality of the product experience without losing the maintainability of the code underneath.

Selected impact

Work themes with substance, not a wall of badges.

Complex product workflows need interfaces that reveal structure without slowing teams down.

Enterprise UI modernization

Public recommendations describe Ruslan's work at LzLabs as full-stack UI integration with a complex mainframe system, including modern, user-friendly, high-performance interfaces.

UI systems, integration, maintainability

The best interfaces are not decorative layers. They clarify the product model underneath.

Product-minded implementation

His profile and recommendations point to hands-on engineering ownership, clean code, rapid technical adaptation, and a strong concern for the user experience of technical products.

Frontend, full-stack delivery, UX quality

Civica Swiss connects civic preparation, precise content, and mobile-first product design.

Independent product delivery

This project shows the same preference for careful product boundaries: independent preparation for the Grundkenntnistest, starting with Canton Zürich, without official-government positioning.

Next.js, React, TypeScript, SCSS Modules

Career timeline

Verified public markers.

Current public profile affiliation

Software Engineer

EPAM SystemsZürich, Switzerland

Public LinkedIn profile identifies EPAM Systems as the current visible organization.
Professional context is Zürich, with software engineering experience presented through LinkedIn.
Role dates and detailed project scope are not visible from the accessible public source.

Public recommendation context

Full-stack developer on LzLabs UI work

LzLabsSwitzerland

Recommendations describe integrating UI work with a complex mainframe system.
Peers highlight modern, user-friendly, high-performance interface work and maintainable code.
Publicly accessible data does not expose exact employment dates for this role.

Education

Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation

Degree period visible on public LinkedIn indexSaint Petersburg

Public LinkedIn index lists education from 1996 to 2002.
The same source notes a passed Ph.D. exam in English.

Engineering strengths

A technical profile organized by how work gets done.

Product UI / Frontend Engineering

Interfaces for complex technical systems, with attention to interaction quality, performance, and maintainability.

Full-stack / Integration Work

Hands-on implementation across UI and system boundaries, including mainframe-adjacent enterprise workflows referenced by recommendations.

Developer Experience / Tooling

Comfort with source-code workflows and engineering tools, including visible activity around a Maven plugin contribution.

Quality / Delivery

Clean, maintainable code, adaptability, and team collaboration are repeated themes in public recommendations.

Product mindset

The interface is where technical work becomes usable.

Ruslan's strongest signal is not just the stack. It is the bridge between implementation and product experience: turning intricate workflows into tools people can understand, operate, and maintain.

Current independent project

Civica Swiss

Civica Swiss is an independent preparation app for the Swiss Grundkenntnistest, starting with Canton Zürich. It reflects the same interest in precise product boundaries, civic-minded UX, and careful implementation.

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