Ted Simonian · remote

Full-stack engineer, AI agent wrangler, and professional casual gamer.

For two years I acted as technical lead for LottieFiles' plugins team. I build board games when nobody's watching.

open to senior / staff roles

What that looked like

I owned roadmap, architecture, code review and every production release across 10+ plugin surfaces, from Figma and After Effects to Canva, Framer, Webflow and VS Code. That came to 200+ releases, and Figma plugin installs passed 1M+ during my tenure.

I built the agent infrastructure the team worked inside: instruction architecture, which is the project written down so an agent can read it, a custom skills library, autonomous issue-driven development loops that take a ticket and work it alone, and AI-in-the-loop render verification wired into the definition of done, so nothing ships until something has checked what it draws. Designers adopted it too, not just engineers.

The After Effects render error rate fell from ~4% to ~0.3% once I isolated the failure classes. On the Figma side, export failures stopped being dead ends and started explaining themselves.

Recent roles

Full timeline
  • Senior Full Stack Engineer - Plugins Team · LottieFiles

    Nov 2024 – Aug 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Relocation · Career break · Seoul, South Korea

    Nov 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer Lead · CargoSprout

    Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Full Stack Developer / Consultant · Self-employed

    Mar 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Tech Lead · Wildbunch Software

    Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs