Nir Tamir

Experience

1. 

   Independent · Frontend / Product Engineer

   Jan 2024 – Present

   Remote engagements with AI startups in the US, Europe and Israel.

   

   Genie Labs · AI image generation for creative studios

   Mar – Apr 2026

   • Started from zero: no repo, no infrastructure. Delivered a working MVP in 6 weeks as the only frontend engineer.
   • Built a Figma-like canvas for arranging and editing AI-generated images, with an integrated AI chat that streams reasoning and tool calls to generate and edit images.
   • Mocked the AI backend with its real recorded streams, so frontend work never waited on the backend. Onboarded the developers who took over the codebase.

   React · TypeScript · Konva · TanStack AI · TanStack Query · MSW

   

   Peaklight · AI that adds context to online content

   Jan 2024 – Feb 2026

   • Owned the frontend for 2+ years on a four-person founding team (founder, product designer, backend engineer, me), distributed across the US and Europe.
   • Adopted Next.js App Router, React Server Components and Server Actions in early 2024. Diagnosed and fixed RSC first-load performance limits, and published the lessons as an article.
   • Designed a type-safe API client shared across the frontend, and implemented WorkOS authentication. Both are published as articles.

   Next.js · RSC · Server Actions · TypeScript · WorkOS

   

   Mixtiles · Photo tiles for your walls

   Jul 2024

   • Improved 3D rendering performance in the product experience (2-week engagement).

   Three.js · React Three Fiber

2. 

   Youleap · Founding Frontend Engineer · Remote

   May 2022 – Dec 2023

   • Fourth team member, after the two founders and the VP R&D. Owned the entire frontend.
   • Built an AI app generator: an Airtable-like data grid, plus a fine-tuned model that wrote React components bound to the user's data and rendered them live in Sandpack. This was 2023, before AI app builders became a category.

   Next.js · TypeScript · Radix UI · TanStack Query · Tailwind · Sandpack · Turborepo

3. 

   Cycode · Senior Frontend Developer · Seed to Series B

   Sep 2020 – May 2022

   • Joined as employee ~12 and the only frontend engineer. Drove the frontend architecture and technical decisions as the frontend team grew to 8 and the company to ~70 people.
   • Built many product features from scratch end to end, from the UI to the Node.js and GraphQL API.
   • Rebuilt the design system and built the shared table and data-fetching infrastructure the product runs on.
   • Migrated the build from webpack to Vite, which made the development server 50× faster.

   React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Node.js · TanStack Query · Vite

4. 

   CME Group · Senior Frontend Developer

   May 2019 – Jan 2020

   • Built the documentation service for the new platform.

   React · Redux · Node.js

5. 

   Any.do · Frontend Developer

   Aug 2018 – May 2019

   • Built the new onboarding experience, the notification center and the referral flow for a productivity app with 10M+ users.
   • Contributed to the Electron macOS app, including a native calendar integration (Objective-C++ Node addon).

   React · TypeScript · Redux · Electron

6. 

   Israeli Air Force, Ofek Unit · Software Developer

   Oct 2014 – Mar 2018

   Java