Alex Ivanov

Creative Frontend Developer · GSAP, WebGL, Webflow

Bar, Montenegro · Remote, CET · work.intredd@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/intredd · github.com/intredd

Summary

I turn finished designs into fast, animated websites, usually as the only developer on the project: GSAP motion, WebGL and shaders, 3D, in Webflow, Shopify or custom code. My latest project, Noho, won Awwwards Site of the Day and the Developer Award. Available for project work, part-time or full-time.

Awards and press

Noho: Awwwards Site of the Day + Developer Award (Sep 2026) · FWA of the Day (Jul 2026) · CSSDA Website of the Day (Jul 2026)

Press: Noho case study on Codrops (Oct 2026); I wrote the development section.

Skills

Experience

Creative Frontend Developer — Freelance

Oct 2024 – present

Remote

Noho — interactive concept site

Apr – Jul 2026

design: Eugene Morev · noho.ink

  • Built the whole frontend alone in Webflow, with GSAP animation and a custom GLSL effect; the site won Awwwards Site of the Day and the Developer Award, FWA of the Day and CSSDA Website of the Day.
  • Moved the site from Webflow hosting to Cloudflare Pages and reworked the CSS and load order: Lighthouse Performance (desktop) went from about 71 to 97, and the site passes Core Web Vitals on desktop for real users (LCP 0.9 s).
  • Cut the 3D assets by 80% (two 5 MB models down to one 2 MB file) by merging the models and compressing them with Draco.
  • Cut the CPU use of the fullscreen idle screensaver from 4–10% to 0.3–1.5%, and kept the shader effect at about 100 FPS under 14.7× CPU throttling.

ActivForce — Shopify product site

Jan 2025 – Apr 2026

subcontracted frontend, via an independent designer

  • Delivered a 14-page Shopify theme as the only developer, with GSAP motion, CMS-driven sections and a custom GLSL gradient background, through nine months of development and repeated design changes.
  • Turned the engineering team's CAD model into a 600-frame scroll animation drawn through WebGL, with a video fallback for low-end devices: cleaned the mesh and built materials, lighting and animation in Blender.
  • Designed staged loading for the frame sequence (every tenth frame first, then the gaps) and ran repeated optimization rounds across the site: LCP went from 4.5–7 s to 1.3–2 s, and memory on the heaviest page from 600–700 MB to 300–350 MB.
  • Joined the design work from the concept stage and flagged ideas that would be hard to build, so the design stayed realistic to develop.

ActivBody — brand site

Nov – Dec 2024

subcontracted frontend, via an independent designer · activbody.com

  • Built a one-page Webflow site with CMS and custom animation throughout (an animated data-dashboard hero in anime.js, morphing SVG gradient blobs) as the only developer, absorbing design changes made mid-project.

Feature Lead, Frontend — ProCharity (Yandex Practicum team project)

Apr – Aug 2024

Remote

  • Led five developers through four one-week sprints on two services of a CRM for nonprofits: set the architecture, broke down and assigned tasks, reviewed code.
  • Delivered the registration and account-management flows for nonprofit organisations, fully implemented on mocked data. TypeScript, React, Moleculer, MongoDB, Storybook.

System Administrator — Etalon Management

Sep 2022 – Mar 2024

Moscow

  • One of four administrators for about 300 users and 4 on-site servers. Set up Zabbix monitoring on my own initiative, replacing calls about printer problems with a morning alert check (later extended to other equipment), and made bulk installation of digital-signature certificates possible.

Personal projects

Peel Gallery

vanilla WebGL + GSAP · infinite-scroll gallery where the cards bend as one surface and the text stays selectable · live · code

Letters on Skin

React Three Fiber + GSAP · typed letters fall onto a 3D mesh and settle on its surface · live · code

Auragen

React, TypeScript, WebGL2 · open-source animated gradient tool with PNG and video export, first built for a client project · live · code

Tiles Gallery

React + CSS 3D · 3D photo gallery built without canvas · live · code

Education

Yandex Practicum · Web Developer · 2024 · Certificate (PDF)

Languages

Russian: native · English: B2