Portrait of Elyas Popal

Product Engineering · Automation · TypeScript

Hi, I'm Elyas. I build reliable frontend systems and automation for complex products.

My work centers on high-volume SaaS frontends, Playwright-based testing architecture, and workflows that reduce risk and improve delivery predictability.

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Core Capabilities

How I approach frontend systems in production

Frontend Systems

Building React and TypeScript frontends for complex SaaS products where large amounts of data, multiple user roles, and long-lived codebases are the norm. The goal is software that behaves predictably today and remains understandable a year from now.

Test Architecture & Automation

Designing automated tests around real user behavior rather than isolated components, so teams can trust releases and catch regressions before users do. The focus is confidence, not test volume.

Delivery & CI/CD

Setting up delivery pipelines that remove manual steps and make failures visible early, allowing teams to ship changes frequently without turning releases into stressful times.

Platform & Scale

Working on shared frontend platforms where multiple products or brands evolve in parallel, using clear boundaries and shared contracts to reduce coordination overhead and accidental breakage.

Observability & Quality

Using monitoring and error tracking to understand how software behaves in production, and feeding those insights back into engineering priorities and technical decisions.

Accessibility

Treating accessibility as a fundamental quality attribute, built into components and workflows from the start, rather than addressed late as a compliance task.

Selected works 19-26

Energy-tech platforms

Currently working on real-time energy platforms: designing reliable UI flows for live grid data, leading accessibility improvements (WCAG/EAA), and maintaining a Playwright-based test setup that keeps multi-brand releases predictable.

FP&A SaaS

At Abacum, owned core dashboard and workflow systems in a data-intensive financial SaaS. Guided the migration to Playwright, cutting CI runtime and stabilizing releases. Also worked across the stack to introduce rate limiting and monitoring for critical public endpoints.

Client platforms

At valantic / DGTLS, delivered production React frontends for European enterprise clients. Introduced Storybook-driven workflows to improve design–engineering alignment and reduce UI inconsistencies across projects.

2026 · Elyas Popal