Olivier Colas

Parts list

Experience

1. Indiehacker · Self-employed

   Apr 2023 – Jul 2026 · Remote

   Designed, built and shipped my own products end to end.

   • Built rentfinder.chat, quicktweet.io and codebasecleaners.com.

   StackTypeScript / Svelte / Next.js / SwiftUI / Docker

2. Senior Frontend Engineer · Codility

   Oct 2021 – Apr 2023 · London, UK

   Enterprise-scale features for a platform serving 1,500+ customers.

   • Led frontend for the Integrations/Workflows team, owning architecture and code quality.
   • Shipped React and TypeScript features that improved UX and performance at scale.
   • Shared learnings with the Frontend Guild.

   StackReact / TypeScript / Redux / Storybook / Django

3. Frontend Engineer · Nationwide Building Society

   Aug 2020 – Sep 2021 · London, UK

   Greenfield financial web app with a focus on performance and accessibility.

   • Led a team of 3 frontend developers through sprint planning, mentoring and code review.
   • Introduced robust testing with Jest and Storybook.

   StackReact / TypeScript / Styled Components / Jest / GraphQL / Apollo / Auth0

4. Frontend Engineer · Ubisoft Entertainment

   Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · Montreal, Canada

   SEO-focused static landing pages for game launches under tight deadlines.

   • Automated deployment, making it 120x faster.
   • Built a reusable internal UI component library.
   • One of two devs behind merch.ubisoft.com.
   • Ran A/B tests with Qubit and AB Tasty.

   StackReact / TypeScript / Salesforce Commerce Cloud / Vanilla JS / BigCommerce

5. Co-Founder & Lead Programmer · Kanvse

   Apr 2015 – Apr 2019 · Calgary, Canada

   B2B task-management SaaS, iterated on customer feedback for four years.

   • Built the component library in JavaScript and SCSS.
   • Created an admin panel with app statistics and activity tracking.

   StackMeteorJS / VueJS / MongoDB

Projects

• Rentfinder.chat

  2026 – present

  Scrapes public Facebook rental posts, enriches them with an AI pipeline and serves them through a Telegram bot.

  StackTypeScript / Docker / PostgreSQL / Svelte / shadcn

• Quicktweet.io

  2023 – 2025

  macOS app for beautiful tweet screenshots. Automated build, notarisation and publishing, from 10m30s down to 2m30s.

  StackSwiftUI / Next.js / PayloadCMS / Stripe / Docker

• Codebasecleaners.com

  2023 – 2026

  Helping vibe coders clean up their codebases on a subscription.

  StackTypeScript

• @diysoftware on YouTube

  2023 – present

  2k-subscriber channel on self-hosting applications and personal projects.

  StackSelf-hosting / Docker

Open source

• Powerups.dev · Package author

  2026 – present

  A framework of reusable, modular code that AI agents can consume for faster, more accurate results.

• Primate.run · Contributor

  2025 – present

  A universal web framework. I test launches rigorously and open PRs for issues and feature requests.