Irina Balanel
Irina Balanel

Full-stack Web Developer

Full-stack Web Developer with 3 years of software development experience, skilled in React,JavaScript, MERN stack, and API integrations, currently building FramerCommerce, an SDK-like SaaS plugin that integrates Shopify with Framer to power customizable, high-performance e-commerce storefronts

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Skills & Tools
React
JavaScript
Node.js
Express
HTML
CSS
jQuery
Cypress
Jasmine
C#
PHP
Laravel
MongoDB
Mongoose
MySQL
Firebase
VS Code
Github
Postman
Figma
Framer
Jira
Notion
Slack

Experience

  1. Web Developer

    Framer Commerce

    Responsibilities include:

    • Enhanced Shopify – Framer integration by contributing to a plugin adopted by 4,000+ merchants, recognized in 2025 as a leading e-commerce storefront solution
    • Expanded the component library from 27 to 44 customizable React components, adding region-aware, multi-currency, and localized checkout features that enabled seamless global shopping experiences
    • Migrated backend to Shopify Storefront GraphQL API and refactored plugin script architecture, adding versioning and backwards compatibility, which improved stability and reduced load times by 20%
    • Expanded a Firebase Firestore-backed settings service by extending data models, CRUD helpers, and validation, and enhancing real-time sync to the UI, ensuring consistent experiences across sessions
    • Implemented event tracking for Meta Pixel, Google Analytics, and UTMs in React components, providing merchants with deeper conversion analytics and actionable marketing insights
    • Assisted premium customers in configuring Shopify stores for compliance, setting up Framer components, and troubleshooting site issues, ensuring smooth integration and functionality in production environments
    • Collaborated in an Agile/Scrum team, contributing to sprint planning, QA testing, Git workflows, to deliver high-quality features aligned with roadmap priorities
    • Contributed to product documentation that improved onboarding and helped clients launch faster
  2. Product Manager

    BK Olimp

    Responsibilities include:

    • Oversaw the full SDLC of web and mobile applications, managing two cross-functional Scrum teams
    • Conducted design reviews for UI/UX best practices, achieving pixel-perfect, user-friendly Android and iOS interfaces, leading to the app’s nomination for “Best Mobile Application 2021”
    • Owned multiple CMS launches by creating specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring high- quality product standards through code reviews, HTML and CSS adjustments in WordPress
    • Maintained product quality by performing QA testing, troubleshooting issues with Chrome DevTools, and validating code with online validators for cross-browser compatibility and error-free functionality
    • Led task grooming in Jira, using Planning Poker to prioritize features and streamline UI/UX implementation
    • Managed version control and product releases on GitHub, tracking code changes and overseeing deployment
    • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and promoted Agile practices to improve team collaboration, project delivery
  3. Freelance Designer

    DongBei Information Technology

    Responsibilities include:

    • Designed a fully responsive landing page and self-service admin panel for the software development agency
    • Collected business requirements and prepared lo-fi and hi-fi interactive prototypes of user interface in Figma

Education

  1. Web Development, Ontario Graduate Certificate with Honours

    Humber Polytechnic, Toronto, Canada
    GPA: 4.0/4.0 (94.4/100). Completed a large-scale Graduation Project (GitHub). It is a production-ready MERN stack appointment booking app with a client site, a provider dashboard, and an admin panel, executing the entire SDLC from requirements to deployment. It includes API design, Calendly API, authentication, authorization, and a responsive React UI. Check out more projects here.
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  2. Education Sciences, Master’s Degree with Honours

    Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne, France
    GPA: 3.8/4.0 (16.15/20)
Languages
100%
English
90%
French
100%
Russian
30%
Romanian